Supreme Great Lakes

Founded in 1977, Pearson Foods Corporation is one of the largest fresh-cut food processing companies in the Midwest. It specializes in value-added fruits and vegetables for retail and food service distribution. The company employs approximately 200 people and operates a state-of-the-art 80,000-square foot facility with an in-house quality assurance laboratory. It offers over 200 fresh-cut fruits, vegetables and wholesale products to leading retail and food service customers across the Midwest under a variety of well-known names, such as Cooking Classics, Fresh Fiesta, Fresh Snax, Onion Ease and more. Pearson Foods Corporation also packages and distributes nationally branded products, including Brassica Protection Products, Green Giant Fresh, Lifeforce, Shoreline Fruit and Sun Yun Foods.

Superior Foods has been servicing the food industry for more than 50 years. Over time, the company has grown from a small retail fish market in Grand Rapids, Mich., to a supplier of seafood and meat products to more than 2,000 foodservice and retail customers throughout the Midwest. Its products include salmon, catfish, halibut, mahi-mahi, tuna, swordfish, walleye, clams, frog legs, caviar, shrimp, scallops, beef, pastrami, chicken, veal and frozen appetizers and desserts. Superior operates a fleet of more than 30 trucks that deliver its products to the company s customers.

BLiS is the result of one chef’s passion to handcraft unique, sustainable, naturally sourced gourmet food ingredients that inspire chefs and discerning home cooks around the world.