Hormel Foods

Hormel Foods Corporation

Logo used since 1993
Headquarters in Austin, Minnesota
Trade name	Hormel Foods
Formerly	George A. Hormel & Company (1891–1993)
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: HRL S&P 500 component
Industry	Food processing
Founded	1891; 134 years ago (1891)
Founder	George A. Hormel
Headquarters	Austin, Minnesota , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	James Snee (chairman, president and CEO)
Products	Deli meat, ethnic foods, pantry foods, Spam
Brands	Applegate Arriba Chi-Chi's Columbus Craft Meats  • Corn Nuts Dinty Moore Don Miguel Dona Maria El Torito Evolve Fontanini Happy Little Plants Herbox Herdez Hormel House of Tsang Jennie-O Justin's La Victoria Lloyd's Mary Kitchen Planters Skippy Spam Stagg Chili Wholly Guacamole
Revenue	US$11.92 billion (2024)
Operating income	US$1.068 billion (2024)
Net income	US$805 million (2024)
Total assets	US$13.43 billion (2024)
Total equity	US$7.993 billion (2024)
Number of employees	20,000 (2024)
Divisions	Grocery products Refrigerated foods Jennie-O turkey store Specialty foods International
Subsidiaries	Applegate Farms, LLC Beijing Hormel Co. Ltd. Bruke Marketing Corporation Cidade do Sol Columbus Manufacturing Inc. Dan's Prize Inc. Fontanini Foods Hormel Foods Australia Pty. Ltd. Hormel Foods Canada Jennie-O Justin's, LLC Megamex Foods, LLC[a] Okinawa Hormel Ltd. The Purefoods-Hormel Company Inc.[b] Sadler's Smokehouse
Website	hormelfoods.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of October 27, 2024[update].[1]

Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A. Hormel & Company. The company originally focused on the packaging and selling of ham, sausage and other pork, chicken, beef and lamb products to consumers, adding Spam in 1937. By the 1980s, Hormel began offering a wider range of packaged and refrigerated foods. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation in 1993 and uses the Hormel brand on many of its products; the company's other brands include Planters, Columbus Craft Meats, Dinty Moore, Jennie-O, and Skippy. The company's products are available in over 80 countries worldwide.

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