Cash-strapped consumers are looking for value, and many food producers’ bottom lines prove they are finding ways to deliver.

Take a couple of minutes to fill out The National Provisioner’s 2024 Top 100 questionnaire.

Ongoing food price inflation has the beleaguered American consumer generally feeling a little stressed out, tired, and less than secure about their economic status and outlook. Yet despite all that, “people gotta eat,” as they say.

The annual Top 100 survey of meat and poultry companies depends on input from industry stakeholders like you.

Most Top 100 survey respondents expect 2022 to surpass 2021 for company growth. 

“2020 was the year that no one saw coming,” said Jonathan Amidei, chief operating officer of Swaggerty Sausage Co. Inc.

The Greatest Gains chart is designed to showcase the companies that have shown the strongest growth over the past year. These are not necessarily the largest companies in the country; several of them did not make the cutoff for the Top 100 Report. However, their successful years deserve to be mentioned as well.

Typically, the Top 100 serves as a good indicator of how the industry has performed, and what the expectations were for the coming year. If the industry is going through strong periods, we will see record sales, acquisitions, expansions and other initiatives.