TOP QUALITY FOOD MANUFACTURERS
Excel Foodservice Marketing provides representation for top quality
food manufacturers in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. This
site has been set up to help us provide the best possible service
to our customers. Please utilize it in choosing the best products
for your needs.
We are proud to represent the following brands. To find out more
about a particular manufacturer, simply click on that company’s
logo. (Please note: if the company does not have a web site, there
will not be a link.)
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Carla’s Pasta
Pasta & Pesto created with tradition, quality and innovation in mind. Carla’s Pasta, a privately-held woman-owned and operated company, offers you the best products by using top quality ingredients. |
Hope’s Cookies
Hope’s Cookies uses ingredients that are 100% natural … no chemicals, no artificial colors or flavors, no preservatives. Only the richest, freshest and best ingredients. That’s why they’re 100% delicious, too! |
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Smokewood Foods
Smokewood Foods’ innovative foodservice products include Tostada Crowns®, Taco Tubs and Churro Chips. Our brands produce outstanding flavor and authenticity, and feature no trans fat, no cholesterol, low calories and long shelf life. |
Deli International
Deli International is a certified Gluten Free facility which means that all of our people are fully trained in the Good Manufacturing Practices of producing gluten free products. Gluten free Pizza, Chicken, Cookies and Lunch Kits are available. |
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Wawona Frozen Foods
Wawona Frozen Foods specializes in the growing and freezing of fresh fruits. Beginning as a small farm over fifty years ago, we continue today as a grower, processor and major supplier of fruit and fruit products. Pioneering the frozen fruit industry, this family owned company is a result of one farmer's commitment to deliver the very best fresh frozen fruit products to the market place. |
Taste It Presents
Taste It Presents is a manufacturer of high quality international desserts. Most of our products are all natural and contain no artificial preservatives. We have a wide range of Italian desserts, including tiramisu, toasted almond cream cake, and cannoli shells and cream. |
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Brookwood Farms
Brookwood Farms makes America’s best real pit-cooked BBQ. Unlike most prepared BBQ meats that are cooked using electric or gas ovens and artificial smoke, Brookwood Farms’ are slow-cooked with real charcoal inside oven pits, the way BBQ was meant to be prepared. |
Coffee Tea & Me Inc.
Founded in 1987, Coffee Tea & Me specializes in producing great-tasting soy-enriched vegan and vegetarian desserts. Our products are baked with the finest ingredients. Most are egg-free, cholesterol-free, sugar-free, preservative-free and low in carbohydrates. |
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Ralston Foods
Ralston Foods has been making cereal for more than 100 years. They currently supply over 50 ready-to-eat and hot cereals, including some of the most popular varieties on the market today. |
New French Bakery
When the New French Bakery opened in 1995, it didn’t take long for their bread to become popular. So, they used European technology to come up with a savvy way to meet the rising demand without sacrificing our quality and taste. |
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SunOpta Grains and Foods Group
Sunrich Naturals offers a great selection of delicious roasted snacks, available in sunflower, corn, soy and pepitas in a wide variety of flavors. These snacks are prepackaged and a healthy protein alternative for students, as they are an NSLP approved 1 oz protein alternate. We also specialize in soymilk, and our Sunrich Naturals soymilk is a great-tasting dairy substitute for students. Available in Original and Vanilla, our single-serve 8 oz soymilks are NSLP approved, and each serving contains 8 grams of soy protein. |
Albie's
For over 20 years, Albie's Foods, Inc. has been providing home-made quality foods to the Foodservice and Retail Industries. From our classic comfort foods such as our pasty and pot pie, to our ever-popular school lunch items such as our Pizza sticks and Soybutter & Jelly sandwiches, all of our products are fully prepared and ready to serve! Discover the quality that leads many establishments to serve our products as their own "home-made." |
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Butter Buds
Butter Buds is a no fat, no cholesterol butter sauce made from real butter. Alfredo Buds and Cheddar Buds both have only one gram of fat per serving. Buttermist and Garlic Buttermist are food/pan release sprays with a burn rate of 450°. |
Athens Foods
The world's largest producer
of fillo dough and fillo products. We have over 40 years of experience
in perfecting fillo, and are committed to continually creating new
recipes, high-quality hors d'oeuvres, handmade desserts and a full
array of fillo delicacies. |
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Talenti
We are dedicated to the strict principle of authenticity by committing ourselves to the 500 year old tradition of handcrafted gelato e sorbetto created with unparalleled artisanship. We make everything from scratch using the finest ingredients available, in small batches using classical Italian gelato making equipment. The end result is an amazingly tasty treat to be enjoyed as one of life's greatest "simple pleasures.
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Country Pure Foods
As one of the top
independent juice processors in the country, it is our mission to deliver
a fresh assortment of healthy, refreshing beverages to juice-lovers
everywhere.
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Cuisine Innovations
Each ingredient is approved by our Research and Development chefs, and each supplier is accepted by our QA department. This selective process guarantees our customers that only safe, wholesome ingredients are used in the manufacturing of the finest hors d’oeuvres.
www.cuisineinnovations.com www.newwavecuisine.com
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The Original Cakerie
Started in 1979, Doug McFetridge and Kent Norris produced dessert in a small bakery
and sold to local customers on southern Vancouver Island in British
Columbia. The company has grown from a small 400 square food bakery
to a 45,000 square foot semi-automated plant, which now sells its product
across North America. Today, one of the leading dessert manufacturers
and suppliers to the Canadian market and growing rapidly in the United
States. The Original Cakerie is known for their Super Sized Sheet Cakes
with all natural ingredients.
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Honey Smoked Fish
Move over beef. Beat it pork and chicken. Scram seafood. We’re the new pink meat!
Fresh Honey Smoked Salmon comes in four flavors -
Original, Lemon Pepper, Cracked Peppers and Chipotle & Lime.
We use only the highest quality of fresh salmon.
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Dinex
The "System Solutions" company, with state-of-the-art
technology in retherm, induction heating and room service. Dinex
is your complete resource for high quality insulated serving ware,
trayline production equipment products and meal delivery systems
for any size facility.
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Hormel HealthLabs
Offers a full line of specialized food products for the healthcare industry. We are committed
to providing great tasting, innovative foods for individuals with special
dietary needs.
Check out our new web site: www.homecarenutrition.com
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Moody Dunbar, Inc.
Moody Dunbar, Inc. is a family owned processor of bell peppers, pimientos and sweet potatoes. Our mission is to provide our customers the highest quality and most dependable year-round supply of pepper, pimiento and sweet potato products. Our products are sold in every state and in several countries worldwide.
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BelGioioso Cheese
BelGioioso Cheese has been specializing in all-natural, award-winning
Italian cheeses for over 20 years. All BelGioioso cheeses are crafted
using only the freshest Wisconsin cow's milk. The cheeses are manufactured,
aged, finished, packaged and shipped solely from our facilities, giving
us full quality control of the products from start to finish.
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Mrs. T's Pierogies
Creamy whipped potatoes folded into a delicious pasta shell.
Easy to make; Pierogies can be sautéed, boiled, deep fried,
steamed, and baked. Just heat pierogies using your preferred method
for a great main meal, side dish, snack, or appetizer.
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Maid-Rite
Manufacturers and suppliers of fine quality, portion
controlled meat products, including quick frozen beef, ground beef,
pork, veal, and lamb products. |
Bake Crafters
Bake Crafters is a wholesale baking company servicing the continental
United States with fully baked, par baked, and frozen dough products.
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National Pasteurized
Eggs, LLC
National Pasteurized Eggs, LLC, is a privately
owned Illinois-based Company. We pasteurize farm-fresh
shell eggs of the highest quality on a large commercial scale,
using a patented, all-natural process that completely destroys
Salmonella and is approved by the FDA, USDA, and backed by the
Good Housekeeping seal of Approval.
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Bright
Harvest Sweet Potato Company
Bright Harvest Sweet Potato Company is the largest processor
of frozen sweet potato products in the United States. Our
plant developed, perfected, produced, and sold the first Sweet
Potato Patty. And what does that mean to you? It
means we are the experts; it means when you have a
question, it only takes one phone call to Clarksville, Arkansas
to connect you with the most experienced individuals in the
business. It also means consistency and stability. Our plant has
been producing quality sweet potato products in the same location
for almost 40 years.
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Neil Jones
As food industry competition increases, the need
for manufacturers, distributors and operators to provide VALUE has
never been greater. With that in mind, we continue to invest and
innovate in our production facilities, information technology, raw
product sourcing, and our most important asset, our people. Our
family's commitment to SERVICE and QUALITY is unparalleled in the
industry and now continues into the next generation. Nothing is more
important than family, and so long as the Jones name is on the package,
you can rest assured, Jones quality is contained within.
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Nick's Sausage Company
Founded more than 30 years ago, Nick Ferrante discovered the best way to supply
his family's supermarkets with fresh, flavorful sausage - he made it
himself. From a modest beginning in Hyattsville, MD; Ferrante Brothers
has grown to become one of the country's premier manufacturers of high
quality pure pork sausages. Now operating from a state-of-the-art facility
in Maryland, Ferrante Brothers is a leading supplier to the food service
industry. Ferrante Brothers is still a family-owned business committed
to a single purpose: producing the highest quality sausage using only
the finest raw ingredients, including fresh, lean pork and carefully
blended spices.
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Medtrition, Inc.
The first company to offer a full range of products to address the specific diet needs
of end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Our easily prepared or ready to use products help to bring variety,
great taste and familiarity to these patients. |
Kozy Shack® Inc.
A family owned company that has been producing quality
desserts since 1967. We have grown from a neighborhood delicatessen
serving homemade rice pudding to a major dessert manufacturer with
international distribution.
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For additional information or samples contact:
Excel Foodservice Marketing
952-926-3699 Twin Cities | 800-541-2310
Greater Minnesota, North & South Dakota
Margene Reno, Ext #1 | Twin Cities & Southern Minnesota
Bea Peterson, Ext #4 | Northern Minnesota & North Dakota
David Staubus, Ext #2 | Twin Cities, West-Central Minnesota,
South Dakota
Jane Gillespie, Ext #7 | Schools/Colleges
Beth Holtz, Ext #3 | Equipment/Smallwares Sales
Nikki Verdoorn, Ext #8 | Metro Twin Cities Area
Ann Kisch, Ext #5 | Marketing/Bids/Sales Support
Kaleen Mikulski, Ext #6 | Customer Service
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