Case Study
Grand Prairie Foods
Grand Prairie Foods Grand Prairie Foods: Making Dough and Wrapping up Business with TRAVERSE What is the best way to get a pig in a blanket? Ask Grand Prairie Foods. Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Grand Prairie Foods specializes in ready to “heat and eat” products for the retail, hospitality, convenience, vending, and school foodservice channels. The company was founded in September 2003 when Kurt & Valerie Loudenback purchased the assets of a longtime producer of barbecued ribs, shredded pork and beef, and other fully cooked, ready to eat meat items. Today, Grand Prairie Foods is a 65-employee operation with a family-owned atmosphere. They have shifted their focus to master a process that is critical to the convenience food industry: supplying tasty, high-quality, easy-to-prepare foo