Company Profile
Seneca Foods Corporation
Company Overview
Seneca Foods is the largest canned fruit and vegetable processor in the world with branded, private label, food service, and export customers buying Seneca quality products in over 60 countries. We also sell frozen fruit and vegetables and snack products to many of the same customers.
We continue to develop new and exciting products to meet the needs of today's consumers, such as Seneca® Apple Chips, Seneca® Sweet Potato Chips, and Libby's® Jumbo Can Vegetables.
Seneca has two can manufacturing plants located in Baraboo, Wisconsin and Marion, New York. These plants make cans for use in our processing plants and for sale to external customers. In addition to can making, we also have large farming and seed milling operations to support our business.
The goal of Seneca Foods Corporation is to continue to have a national presence in the U.S. food processing industry. This is a major challenge and our success will depend upon our ability to maintain our reputation by producing quality products efficiently. Further, we must develop new and unique products that win a special place in the market. This means staying close to consumers, understanding their needs, and anticipating changing trends.
Seneca's website: www.senecafoods.com
Company History
In 1949, Arthur S. Wolcott (Chairman of the Board) was a student at Cornell University, in need of a typewriter to complete his graduate studies. He read about a liquidation sale at the Dundee Grape Juice Company, located in a small village not far from the Cornell campus. Office equipment was being offered and he went to buy a typewriter. He ended up taking advantage of an opportunity.
His instincts told him the Company’s assets were worth far more than the liquidators were asking. So, with $5,000 cash from the sale of his coin operated laundry business and a bank loan cosigned by his father, he bought the Company.
The former Dundee Grape Juice Company grew into Seneca Foods Corporation, a company built on an entrepreneurial tradition. We have completed more than 60 acquisitions throughout our history. Today, Seneca Foods sells more than 115 million cases of food products, produced at over 20 locations.
We market several well known canned fruit and vegetable brands including Libby's®, Stokely's®, Aunt Nellie's®, Read®, and other regional brands such as Blue Boy®, Walla Walla®, Diamond A®, Tendersweet,® and Festal®. In addition, through an important Alliance with General Mills, Inc., we process all of the Green Giant® vegetables sold in the U.S. and Asia. Through acquisitions we have been able to add shelf stable fruit products; including peaches, pears, apricots, fruit cocktail, mixed fruit, and nectars and concentrates to our product offerings.
Notable Products / Brands
Libby's, Aunt Nellies