Company type | Private |
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Industry | Food processing |
Founded | 1945 |
Founder | Ralph F. Stayer Alice Stayer |
Headquarters | Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Products | Sausage |
Number of employees | 2,000 |
Website | johnsonville |
Johnsonville is a sausage company headquartered in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.[1] Founded in 1945, by Ralph and Alice Stayer, when they opened a butcher shop and named it after their hometown community of Johnsonville, Wisconsin, it is one of the largest sausage producers in the United States and the largest sausage brand by revenue in the United States.[2] Johnsonville sausage is available in more than 45 countries. Privately owned, the company has approximately 2,000 employees and it is run by CEO Michael Stayer-Suprick.[3][1]