McKee Foods

McKee Foods Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryFood processing
FoundedChattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. (1934; 90 years ago (1934))[1]
FoundersO.D. McKee,[2]
Ruth McKee
HeadquartersCollegedale, Tennessee, U.S.
Key people
Mike McKee, Rusty McKee, Angie McKee, Ellsworth McKee, Jack McKee, Cole Smith, Debbie McKee-Fowler[3]
Products
  • Snacks
  • cereal
  • granola bars
BrandsDrake's Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery, Little Debbie, Sunbelt Bakery
RevenueIncrease $836 million (2021)
Number of employees
6,800 (As of September 2021)[4]
Websitewww.mckeefoods.com

McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family-owned American snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee.[5] The corporation is the maker of Drake's Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery snacks and cereal, Little Debbie snacks, and Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal.[6] The company also formerly operated Heartland Brands.

  1. ^ "Company History". mckeefoods.com. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  2. ^ "McKee Foods Corporation - About our Company". McKeeFoods.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-20. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  3. ^ "Who We Are".
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ooltewah was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Corporate Fact Sheet Archived 2012-11-20 at the Wayback Machine." McKee Foods. Retrieved on November 17, 2012. "Street address: 10260 McKee Road Collegedale, TN 37315"
  6. ^ Biggs, Jennifer (March 25, 2018). "What 'Pick Tennessee' really means". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. D1. Retrieved June 26, 2022 – via newspapers.com.