Keystone Foods
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | 1966 |
| Seat | West Conshohocken , Pennsylvania |
| management | Frank Ravndal |
| Number of employees | 11,000 (2014) |
| sales | 2.5 billion US dollars (2014) |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.keystonefoods.com |
Keystone Foods LLC is one of the world's largest manufacturers and was also one of the world's largest distributors of food until 2012. The company is one of the 100 largest private companies in the USA and was a sales partner for the food industry in 14 countries around the world until 2012. Its headquarters are in West Conshohocken in Montgomery County , Pennsylvania, USA .
Companies
Keystone Foods has 20 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Up to 2 billion kilograms of poultry products and 300 million kilograms of beef products are produced annually. In addition, various non-food items are sold to customers. Customers are more than 24,500 fast food restaurants worldwide, mainly from McDonald’s , as well as supermarkets. In sales, Keystone is a partner in the worldwide STI Global Network , a group of several logistics companies in the freight management and transport sector founded in 1983.
history
The company was founded in the early 1960s as a beef boning company. Soon it was converted into a mass production and freezing facility for hamburger patties. Equity Meat Corporation was founded in 1970 due to rapid growth . In 1970 it was 680,000 kilograms a year; just two years later, 23 million kilograms of hamburgers were being produced in the USA. In 1974 M&M Restaurant Supply was taken over and Keystone developed the concept of full delivery from a single source; This means that the earlier multiple deliveries of different products for the same customer have been combined into one delivery.
In the late 1970s, Keystone set up its own research and development department and produced the first bone-free chicken nuggets . The first branches in other continents were established (the hamburger production company McKey Food Services near Orléans , France, for the French, Belgian and Moroccan markets, as well as MacFood Services near Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia, for processing beef, poultry and fish for the Asian markets of Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong).
In the 1990s, the company continued to expand, establishing production facilities in China, Thailand and Australia, as well as additional sales offices. In 1995, under the name of LD Foods, a factory for the production of portioned fish products for fast food restaurants in the east of the USA was built in Wisconsin . In the late 1990s and around the turn of the millennium, two new fully integrated poultry processors were added in Georgia and Kentucky . The sales area was extended to Mexico. Production of protein products started in Korea.
In 2004 another fully integrated poultry production facility was acquired in Alabama . In 2005 Keystone Foods acquired six distribution centers in Australia.
In 2010, Keystone Foods was taken over by the Brazilian food company Marfrig (Marfrig Group). In the spring of 2012, Marfrig sold the sales and logistics activities of Keystone Foods in North America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region to The Martin-Brower Company , a subsidiary of Reyes Holdings . Martin-Brower, by then the largest supplier to McDonald's branches in North and Latin America as well as Ireland, became the largest supplier to McDonald's worldwide.
Web links
- Website Keystone Foods LLC (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Our Company - Facts & Figures , at www.keystonefoods.com , accessed October 9, 2015
- ↑ Marfrig 2014 Annual Report , at www.ir.marfrig.com.br , accessed on October 9, 2015
- ↑ Acquisition of Keystone Foods LLC ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 111 kB), press release from June 14, 2010
- ↑ Marfrig closes deal with Martin-Brower for sale of Keystone Foods distribution business ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 174 kB), press release v6 May 2nd, 2012
- ^ The Martin-Brower Company, LLC Acquires Keystone Foods Distribution and Logistics Businesses
