Quality rules in the growing “take and bake” pizza market, where Great Kitchens, a private label manufacturer of frozen pizzas, takes great care to produce only the best.
Citing a need to trim costs, Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield, Ill., said it soon expects to eliminate 400 jobs, or about 1 percent of its 46,000-employee North American workforce.
Approximately 25 percent of Marshall, Minn.-based Schwan Food Co.’s 2006 revenues (totaling about $4 billion) came from the company’s hearty foodservice business.
At Home Run Inn Pizza Inc.’s recently expanded 68,000-square-foot pizza processing facility, state-of-the-art machines meet old world flavors and ingredients.
“When life gives you lemons … make lemonade.” But what about, “When the economy gives you rising food costs … make … pizza?” OK, so it doesn’t have the same ring to it, but this could be the motto for executives at Kraft Pizza Co.’s Glenview, Ill., headquarters.
“It” is the family pride and tradition that are as much a part of Home Run Inn Pizza Inc., Woodridge, Ill., as the all-natural ingredients the 60-year-old company uses to make its award-winning frozen pizzas.