Food wholesalers in Springfield, MA

Agri-Mark is a provider of dairy products for commercial and residential customers. The company offers a variety of condensed skim and nonfat dry milk powder and butter products. It processes milk from farms located in New England and New York. Agri-Mark s laboratory is certified by the Interstate Milk Shippers, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Milk Market Administrator and the USDA Resident Grading Program. The company conducts product testing services. It offers a range of dairy products, such as raw milk cheese, yogurt, ice cream and dry powder. The company s laboratory offers general microbiology, chemistry and pathogen analysis services. Agri-Mark maintains a laboratory in West Springfield, Mass.

HP Hood is a branded dairy operator that processes and distributes a portfolio of national and regional brands of milk, creams, ice cream, cottage cheese and sour cream. The company distributes brands that include Carb Countdown, LACTAID, Nesquik, Coffee-mate, Stonyfield Farm Organic Milk and Southern Comfort Eggnog. In 2004, the company acquired New York-based Crowley Foods, and also purchased Minnesota-based Kemps. HP Hood utilizes its own research and development operation, which has enabled to company to maintain a more than 150-year-old history of product innovation. In 2004, the company reached annual sales of nearly $2.2 billion and was named Processor of the Year by Dairy Foods magazine. In 2006, Forbes listed HP Hood as the 145th-largest private company. HP Hood, an employer of more than 5,000, is headquartered in Chelsea, Mass., with a location in Agawam, Mass.

Created from two separate companies, Frito-Lay has become a household name and one of the largest snack food manufactures in North America. In 1932, two young entrepreneurs independently started two separate companies that were thousands of miles apart. The Frito Company had its start in Texas, and The H.W. Lay Company was formed in Tennessee. After both companies had success, Lay - which had been a potato chip manufacturer - accepted a franchise agreement to sell Frito products in Lay s territory. In September 1961 (29 years after the founding of both companies), the Frito Company and H.W. Lay Company merged to become Frito-Lay, one of the largest snack selling companies in the United States. Besides Fritos Corn Chips and Lay's Potato Chips, the company produces, markets and distributes products to grocers and a wide assortment of venders. Cracker Jack, Funyuns, Grandma s, Cheetos, Sun Chips and Doritos are produced by Frito-Lay. The location in Chicopee, Mass., is a production plant and distribution center for the company s products.