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Key people
  
Website
  
kochfoods.com

Type of business
  
Private

Products
  
Poultry

Founded
  
1973

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Industry
  
Food processing and distribution

Headquarters
  
Flowood, Mississippi, United States

Subsidiaries
  
Sylvest Farms Inc., Koch Foods of Mississippi LLC, JCG Foods LLC

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Koch Foods is a food processor and distributor in Park Ridge, Illinois that is listed by Forbes Magazine as number 163 on the list of the largest private companies in the US. As of October 2014, the company had a revenue of $3 billion, and approximately 14,000 employees. The company is owned by Joseph Grendys.

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History

Founded in 1973. Until 1985, was a "one-room" chicken processing outfit with 13 employees, primarily conducting de-boning and cutting. The company began growing via acquisitions with the addition of feed mills and slaughterhouses. Now Koch Foods is an international poultry processor that deals in fresh and frozen offerings. The company does business under the Koch Foods, Antioch Farms, Preferred Foods, and Rogers Royal brands. It also has private labels products.

Locations

The company has facilities in the following cities: Chicago; Ashland, Alabama; Gadsden, Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama; Sylacauga, Alabama; Forest, Mississippi; McComb, Mississippi; Morton, Mississippi; Morristown, Tennessee.

References

Koch Foods Wikipedia