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Our Mission. At Hostess Brands, LLC, we inspire moments of joy, every day. For more than a century, Hostess ® has been delighting consumers and retail customers with continuous innovation, strategic advancement through partnerships, and profitable growth as a competitive category leader. Our Brands. Our purpose is to build and cultivate a portfolio of brands that resonate with consumers and embody the heart of Hostess, emanating from our five North America bakeries. Some of the iconic brands that Hostess Brands produces are Hostess® Twinkies®, CupCakes, Donettes®, Ding Dongs®, Zingers®, Danishes, Honey Buns, and Coffee Cakes as well as Voortman® cookies and wafers. Our Future. We are working to define the future of snacking through growth strategies that include fortifying our core Hostess brand, expanding into adjacent categories and executing strategic acquisitions. Our Culture. The foundation of our enduring history is our winning growth culture and our people, whose roll-up-your-sleeves spirit is truly inspiring and has kept us on a path of serving as an indelible symbol of American ingenuity.
Del Monte Foods is one of the country’s largest and most well-known producers, distributors and marketers of premium quality, branded food products for the U.S. retail market, generating approximately $1.77 billion in net sales in fiscal 2016. With a powerful portfolio of brands, Del Monte products are found in six out of ten U.S. households. Brands include Del Monte®, Contadina®, S&W®, College Inn®, and other brand names. The Company also produces and distributes private label food products.
What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Or better yet, what if you weren`t afraid to know where the meat in your hot dog came from? These questions were the inspiration behind Applegate. I grew up in the meat and potatoes era of the 1950s, when a meal wasn`t a meal without meat. However, when I went away to college in the `70`s, my ideas about food expanded. There, I was exposed to vegetarianism, macrobiotics, and food gurus. In the co-op I belonged to, we bought granola, yogurt, and grains in bulk, and ate them with local fruits and vegetables. While I appreciated the quality and health benefits of these foods, I still craved meat. While shopping one day, I saw nitrite-free bacon and had an epiphany: I could feel good about eating meat if it didn`t contain ingredients I knew were bad for me. Meat and I were reunited. In my 20s I tried my hand at a number of different jobs, none of which satisfied my desire to build something from the ground up. I started looking for a business to grow and stumbled upon Jugtown Smokehouse through a combination of intuition and serendipity. At the time, Jugtown was a family owned business specializing in nitrite-free bacon (de ja-vu!). While it bore no resemblance to what Applegate is today, I could see its potential. I also knew there had to be more people out there who would appreciate healthy meat products, and decided to buy the business. As it turns out, countless people have a love/hate relationship with meat and are thrilled to find products they can finally feel good about eating. People like you have helped build Applegate over the last 25 years. With that support, you`ve helped preserve the nearly 1,000 farms that supply us with humanely raised meat that is free from antibiotics or hormones. So…What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Like me, you`d feel better about eating them, and serving them to your family. That simple idea has always been, and will continue to be, what drives Applegate. From our table to yours, thank you for joining the movement.
With the goal to inspire and educate people about the healing powers of whole, plant-based foods, aha Pure Foods is here to be your `aha` health moment.