Industry Private Label Number of employees 72 (2012) | Key people Ron King, CEO Type of business Private | |
Headquarters Tigard, Oregon, United States | ||
Dear western family foods inc a complaint
Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores with store brands. It is based in Tigard, Oregon. It distributes the Western Family, Shurfine, Shursaving, MarketChoice and Better Buy brands which are used in many independently owned supermarkets. On June 13, 2016 Western Family Foods announced that they had been acquired by Topco and plans to close their Tigard office by the end of 2016.
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On October 11, 2007, food manufacturer ConAgra asked stores to pull its Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies because of 150 cases of salmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption, with 20 people hospitalized. By October 12, a full recall was announced, affecting all varieties of frozen pot pies sold under the brands Banquet, Albertsons, Food Lion, Great Value, Hill Country Fare, Kirkwood, Kroger, Meijer, and Western Family.