The Wilson Family and Their Snack Factory

The Wilson family jumpstarted their happy path towards the heights of the food and beverage industry by selling funnel cakes, a traditional Dutch pastry, at food fairs and other big events. With a fervent desire to bring their tasty product to a wider range of people, they opened Pennsylvania Dutch Treats in 1974 at Parasmus, New Jersey, and needless to say, enjoyed countless rave reviews. Later on, the family officially launched the Funnel Cake Factory and expanded their operations to include distribution of their products to several supermarkets and theme parks in the state.

The success of their first product inspired the Wilson family to whip up more baked goodies. During the early 1980’s, they launched a new line of products, this time, inspired by European delights. Nearly all of the items were a massive hit and soon enough, the company took off like wildfire, distributing to countless stores all over the country. The success of their product line propelled the company to the summits of the industry, placing 50^th on Inc. Magazine’s 500 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies in 1990.

In the early 1990s, people from all over the country began to take notice of the Wilson’s classic success story and their outstanding products. The family was deemed to be a quintessential entrepreneurial team made up of confident, creative and hardworking individuals who labored night and day – a work ethic that is ingrained in their core of the company up to this very day.

A few years and a number of strategic business moves later, the Wilsons found themselves with a new, innovative brand called the Snack Factory, this time with a flat, pretzel cracker for a product. It immediately attracted a cult-like following and soon took off in every sense, securing a new, comfy place at the snack food industry. The company is flying high thus far, with an 86% growth in a span of three years and a whopping $81.4 million in annual revenue as of 2011. The Wilson’s family has also enjoyed countless accolades including the prestigious Ernst and Young Master Entrepreneur of the Year 2012.

Reliant Foods: Putting the Client’s Needs First Before Anything Else

Integrity, quality and service are the foundation, but solid relationships are the keystone for the outstanding success of Reliant Foods in the foods and beverage industry. A one-stop shop food distributor specializing in specialty coffee, frozen desserts, and juice and smoothies, Reliant makes sure that every single customer it caters to is well taken care of. The company sees its clients as business partners and recognizes the fact that its success depends largely on the success of its customers, which is why Reliant firmly commits its operations to providing only premium quality products coupled with highest standards of customer service.

Serving the South California region for more than ten years, the company offers some of the most excellent products there is in the industry. With a heavy emphasis on personalized service, Reliant also keeps a keen eye on the latest market trends and constantly updates its product lines that will meet such drifts. With its state-of-the-art warehouse facilities and massive fleet of trucks, the company is able to deliver food products that cannot be found anywhere else in the entire foodservice industry.

National Food Group: Delivering Creative Food Solutions Since 1990

Founded in 1990 by Sean and Bud Zecman, National Food Group is a wholesale supplier of food merchandises for the institutional food service industry. It started out as an ingenious idea of providing food service operators with creative food and beverage solutions that served as an alternative to those rigid and impractical ones being offered by traditional food distributors.

One of the things that Sean and Bud find very important even up to this very day is the establishment of long-lasting relationships among clients and business partners. Through this, the duo was able to recognize a need for superior quality food products that are inexpensive and a demand for private label products and commodity processing guide for schools and other institutions. Hence, the National Food Group created Opportunity Buys, a concept that paved the way for massive company growth and tremendous annual revenues in just a short amount of time.

National Food Group’s rapid rise to the summits of the food and beverage industry enabled the company to create one segment company that will handle the food needs of America’s correctional facilities, educational institutions and health care facilities, and another that will provide innovative food solutions to K-12 schools. These two divisions were eventually merged to better support the growing needs of the company’s expansive client base.

Through the years, owing to the company’s unparalleled hard work, dedication and honesty, it has become one of the most successful USDA commodity food manufacturers and distributors and the largest provider of Opportunity Buys in the United States. National Food Group then saw the need to expand further to better serve its customers all around the country and opened another location at the West Coast. Yet in spite of the numerous changes, the company still remains true to its corporate culture, that is, investing unparalleled care to its team and clients with a family-like mindset and spirit.

A Vintage Brand Named Jordache

Mention Jordache to those who grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s, and they’ll probably remember the name right away. A clothing company established by brothers Ralph, Joe and Avi Nakash in 1969, Jordache is New York City-based and is known mostly for the designer jeans the company used to produce.

Aside from jeans, Jordache made it big selling shirts and other kinds of outerwear and active wear, expanding to open a total of four retail shops in the late 1960’s. When a fire destroyed one of their shops in 1977, the brothers used their insurance to make it big in the denim department. An aggressive, racy ad campaign shot their sales through the roof, and Jordache began expanding into children’s outerwear, women’s garments, luggage and even umbrellas. Today, while the company’s popularity has seen a marked decrease, Jordache still maintains a presence in the niche of vintage clothing and the company also manufactures jeans for bigger brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s and the Gap. 

Adecco: Providing Professional Services and Solutions to the World

Dubbed as the “world’s leading provider of HR solutions”, Adecco S.A. offers numerous professional services every day, such as employment agencies, human resources, recruitments, outsourcing and consulting. Based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland, Adecco has some 5,500 branches in 60 countries worldwide, serving more than a hundred thousand clients. The company works with some 700,000 associates daily, and it has a core staff of 33,000 employees in all of their locations.

Adecco began as a merger between professional consulting companies Ecco and Adia Interim. The combination of the two in 1996 led to an initial network of 2,500 branches and 250,000 employees under different companies that the two were working with. This merger eventually led to several acquisitions, including the buyout of Olsen Staffing in 2000, which accounted for Adecco’s rise to become the biggest recruitment company in the United States at that time. Revenues began shooting, especially as Adecco saw the profits in the rising niche of outsourcing.

Throughout the early 2000’s, Adecco began expanding its clientele to include more occupational fields, and began annexing its operations in countries where the economy had become largely supplemented by the outsourcing industry. Adecco acquired several more recruitment companies, their latest project being a partnership with Fesco, a Chinese HR company based in Shanghai. To date, Adecco has become one of the most recognizable names in its field, having built a profile of marketability and reliability since its inception. Led by Rolf Dorig, Chairman and Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO, Adecco continues to provide employment solutions, specialized skills and professional assignments to clients everywhere, in whatever area of specialization they may be. As of 2011, the company’s revenue was recorded at a total of 20.5 billion euros, with a profit at 519 million euros, which just goes to show how far this company has come in this modern age.