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Industry
  
Farm Products

Revenue
  
2010 US$1 billion

Founded
  
1959

Products
  
Pet food

Headquarters
  
Siloam Springs

Parent organization
  
Simmons Foods, Inc.

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Key people
  
Mitch Newton, M.H. Bill Simmons, Todd Simmons, Mike Czuba

Website
  
simmonspetfood.simmonsglobal.com

Simmons Pet Food Inc was founded in 1959. It has operations in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; Emporia, Kansas; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Streetsville, Canada. It manufacturers wet pet food for different brands.

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In August 2010 it bought out Menu Foods for $239 million.

Simmons pet food warehouse


Manufacturing

Production facilities inherited from Menu Foods are located in Emporia, Kansas; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Streetsville, Ontario. The plants produce wet pet food in aluminum and steel cans at a rate of 1,000 cans per minute, or 1,110 85-gram pouches per minute. Jointly, the plants are able to produce over one billion containers a year.

In April 2014, plans were announced to expand product at the Emporia site.

References

Simmons Pet Food Wikipedia