Saco Foods

Bay Valley Foods is an aseptic producer of shelf-stable cheese sauces and pudding products for food service and food manufacturing customers. It is a supplier of food service products and industrial ingredients. Bay Valley Foods is a supplier of pickles, peppers, relishes, aseptic sauces, powdered products and other specialty food products to major retail, food service, bulk and ingredient and international customers. Bay Valley Foods is a supplier to the retail market with both store-brand and retail brands. It also supplies products to food service operators, bulk foods suppliers and produces a variety of ingredients for food processors. It provides private-label retail and food service pickle sales services in the United States.

Founded in 1862 and headquartered in Braintree, Mass., Richelieu Foods specializes in the preparation of a wide range of organic food products under its private-label brands. The company has a staff of professional chefs and offers food products to retail clients and contract food service companies. It operates three manufacturing facilities in Washington Court House, Ohio, Beaver Dam, Wis., and Grundy Center, Iowa. Richelieu Foods offers a wide range of food products, such as pizzas, deli salads, desserts, dips, bagel spreads, salsa, sauces, marinades, and canned fruits and vegetables. Additionally, its manufacturing facility in Beaver Dam, Wis., is certified by the Department of Agriculture. Richelieu Foods also provides online tips for the preparation of assorted salads, salad bases, appetizers and desserts and offers food preservation solutions.

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.