Pinnacle Foods Group

Founded in 1949, Seneca Foods Corporation is an independent, publicly traded, food processing company. It develops crop seeds and cans. The company provides products under the READ, Libby s, Aunt Nellie s and Stokely s brands. It offers sweet potato chips, canned vegetables and fruits. Seneca Foods Corporation also provides a variety of frozen products, such as sweet corn and broccoli. The company is a manufacturer of canned and glass vegetables in North America. It manages a wholly owned subsidiary, Seneca Snack Company, which offers apple chips. In addition, the company provides natural coloring agents and tomato-based sauces. It offers bulk containers, bags and glass bottles. Seneca Foods Corporation provides online shopping options.

Birds Eye Foods founder, Clarence Birdseye, became known as the father of frozen food. He used his unique gifts to develop a freezing process that not only preserved food safely, but also preserved its taste and appearance. Although the practice of preserving food by freezing has been traced back to as early as 1626, and the first commercial venture in producing frozen food to 1875, Birdseye is credited with developing, refining, and making the quick freezing process workable. The company brands include Berstein s, Bird Eye, Brooks, Comstock, C & W, Freshlike, Greenwood, Husman s, Mariners Cove, McKenzie s, Nalley, Rivera, Snyder of Berlin, Tim s Cascade Snacks and Wilderness. It items consist of frozen, canned and bottled foods as well as dressings, potato chips and pastas. Birds Eye Foods has locations in Rochester, Oakfield, Brockport, and Fulton, N.Y., Green Bay and Darien, Wis., as well as Watsonville, Calif., and Montezuma, Ga.