Hormel Foods

Hormel Foods Corporation
Hormel Foods
FormerlyGeorge A. Hormel & Company (1891–1993)
Company typePublic
IndustryFood processing
Founded1891; 133 years ago (1891)
FounderGeorge A. Hormel
Headquarters,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
James Snee[1] (Chairman, President and CEO)
ProductsDeli meat, ethnic foods, pantry foods, Spam
Brands
RevenueDecrease US$9.497 billion (2019)[2]
Decrease US$1.2 billion (2019)[3]
999,987,000 United States dollar (2022) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assetsDecrease US$8.10 billion (2019)[2]
Number of employees
20,000 (2019)[4]
DivisionsGrocery products
Refrigerated foods
Jennie-O turkey store
Specialty foods
International
SubsidiariesApplegate Farms, LLC
Beijing Hormel Co. Ltd.
Bruke Marketing Corporation
Cidade do Sol
Columbus Manufacturing Inc.
Dan's Prize Inc.
Fontanini Foods
Hormel Foods Australia Pty. Ltd.
Hormel Foods Canada
Jennie-O
Justin's, LLC
Megamex Foods, LLC[a]
Okinawa Hormel Ltd.
The Purefoods-Hormel Company Inc.[b]
Sadler's Smokehouse
Websitehormelfoods.com

Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A. Hormel & Company. The company originally focused on the packaging and selling of ham, sausage and other pork, chicken, beef and lamb products to consumers, adding Spam in 1937. By the 1980s, Hormel began offering a wider range of packaged and refrigerated foods. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation in 1993 and uses the Hormel brand on many of its products; the company's other brands include Planters, Columbus Craft Meats, Dinty Moore, Jennie-O, and Skippy. The company's products are available in over 80 countries worldwide.

  1. ^ Wall St, Simply (January 26, 2020). "Here's What We Think About Hormel Foods Corporation's (NYSE:HRL) CEO Pay". Simply Wall Street. Simply Wall Street Pty Ltd. Archived from the original on January 29, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2020. Jim Snee became the CEO of Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) in 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934" (PDF). December 28, 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 28, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
  3. ^ Hormel Foods Corporation. "Hormel Foods Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2019 Earnings; Provides Fiscal 2020 Outlook". www.prnewswire.com (Press release).
  4. ^ "How many people work for Hormel Foods?". Hormel Foods. Archived from the original on December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2019.


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