Hormel Foods

Hormel Foods Corporation, commonly known as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American 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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Hormel Foods Corporation
Trade name
Hormel Foods
FormerlyGeorge A. Hormel & Company (1891–1993)
Company typePublic
Traded as
  • NYSE: HRL
  • S&P 500 component
IndustryFood processing
Founded1891 (1891)
FounderGeorge A. Hormel
Headquarters
Austin, Minnesota
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
James Snee (Chairman, President and CEO)
ProductsDeli meat, ethnic foods, pantry foods, Spam
Brands
Revenue US$9.497 billion (2019)
US$1.2 billion (2019)
Net income
999,987,000 United States dollar (2022) 
Total assets US$8.10 billion (2019)
Number of employees
20,000 (2019)
DivisionsGrocery products
Refrigerated foods
Jennie-O turkey store
Specialty foods
International
SubsidiariesApplegate Farms, LLC
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
Okinawa Hormel Ltd.
The Purefoods-Hormel Company Inc. (joint venture with San Miguel Food and Beverage)
Sadler's Smokehouse
Websitehormelfoods.com
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