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Article: Lakeside Foods is one of the state's best-kept secrets; Manitowoc firm to be honored as part of Wisconsin 75
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2006
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If you aren't from Manitowoc or don't work in the food industry,
chances are you haven't heard of Lakeside Foods Inc.
But it's very likely you've eaten something picked and packaged by
the company.
Lakeside, a $300 million-a-year company based in Manitowoc, hires
Wisconsin and Minnesota farmers to plant and grow products such as
peas, corn and green beans, then harvests those crops and cans or
freezes them. They eventually end up on store shelves or in frozen
foods cases at local supermarkets under store-brand names such as
Roundy's, Food Club and IGA, or in restaurants and cafeterias.
"We produce all of our food products for other people's labels,"
said David Yanda, a senior vice president ...