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Peer Foods is on the cutting edge of mass customization. It manufactures and distributes a variety of meat products, including bacon, beef, ham, other pork, poultry and sausage to the food service industry. Employee-owned Peer Foods uses traditional natural hickory and hardwood cooking methods to prepare its smoked and roasted meats. Peer also has a culinary center that develops restaurant menus. Along with its 95,000 square foot facility in Chicago, Peer also has a plant in Columbus, Ind., with 130,000 square feet of operation space. Peer has been in continuous operation since 1922. Its beginnings date back to 1867, when Christian Buehler Sr. entered the meatpacking industry with his own pork-packing and general butchering operation in Peoria, Ill.

One of every three toaster pastries consumed in the United States was produced by Schulze & Birch. The company creates a line of fruit-based baked snacks marketed under the Toast em Pop-ups and Snackin Fruits brands. Schulze & Birch has also been selected by a group of Fortune 500 companies to manufacture their proprietary and branded products. The products it manufactures include fruit filled snacks, multi-cereal bars, granola bars crackers, cereal and ingredients. Along with its corporate headquarters, the company has a research and development pilot plant and repackaging facility in Chicago. Paul Schulze Sr. established the company in 1896 as a major commercial bread bakery.