Top 150 Frozen Food Processors Report - Meals and Entrees

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Rank Company Name HQs Top Executive 2014-15 Sales Fiscal Yr Ended Product No. of
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1 Tyson Foods Inc.* Springdale, AR Donnie Smith, President, CEO $37.6B 9/30/2015 Meals, entrees, dinners, breakfast and hand held sandwiches 62
2 The Kraft Heinz Co.* Pittsburgh, PA Bernardo Hees, CEO $28B* 12/31/2015 Meals, entrees, pizza, breakfast items, pasta dinners 3
3 General Mills, Inc Minneapolis, MN Kendall Powell, chairman, CEO $18.7B** 5/30/2015 Pizza, entrees, sandwiches, meal kits, pasta meals N.A.
4 ConAgra Foods Inc. Omaha, NE Sean Connolly, CEO $15.8B** 5/31/2015 Meals, entrees, pot pies, pasta dishes, meal kits, breakfast items, handheld sandwiches 19
5 Kellogg Co. Battle Creek, MI John Bryant, chairman, CEO $13.5B** 12/31/2015 Meals, entrées, pizza, sandwiches, pasta dinners, breakfast items 6
6 Nestlé USA(1)* Glendale, CA Paul Grimwood, Chairman, CEO $9.7B** 12/31/2015 Meals, pizza, pasta dishes, hand-held sandwiches, breakfast items 6
7 Rich Products Corp. Buffalo, NY Bill Gisel, president, CEO $3.3B** 12/21/2016 Meals, entrées, pizza, sandwiches, breakfast items, pasta dinners 34
8 Koch Foods Park Ridge, IL Joseph Grendys, president, CEO $3B** 12/31/2016 Chicken Meals 18
9 The Schwan Food Co. Marshall, MN Dimitrios Smyrnios, CEO $3B** 12/31/2015 Pizza, entrees, sandwiches, breakfast items 12
10 Pinnacle Foods, Inc. Parsippany, NJ Bob Gambort, CEO $2.5B** 12/28/2015 Entrees, breakfast items, pizza, past meals, seafood meals 5
11 AYRZTA, LLC (2) Los Angeles, CA John Yamin, CEO $2.1B* 7/31/2015 Pizza, breakfast items 1
12 AdvancePierre Foods (3) Cincinnati, OH John Simons, Jr., president, CEO $1.6B** 1/1/2015 Entrees, sandwiches 10
13 BEF Foods, Inc.* New Albany, OH Saed Mohseni, President $1.3B** 4/30/2015 Meals, entrees, sandwiches 1
14 High Liner Foods Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada Keith Decker, President, CEO $1.1B** 1/2/2016 Seafood entrees 4
15 Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc. (4)* Ontario, CA Bernard Kreilmann, President, CEO $850M** 3/31/2015 Ethnic entrees, pasta meals, meal kits, handheld sandwiches, breakfast items 8
16 Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc.* Siloam Springs, AR Gary Murphy, President $610M* 12/31/2015 Entrees 6
17 Ruiz Food Products Inc. Dinuba, CA Rachel Cullen, president, CEO $610M 9/30/2015 Mexican entrees, sandwiches, breakfast items 4
18 Bellisio Foods Inc. Minneapolis, MN Joel Conner, chairman, CEO $588M** 1/3/2016 Meals, entrees, pizza, sandwiches, pasta dishes, meal kits, breakfast items 4
19 Nation Pizza & Foods Schaumburg, IL Marshall Bauer & Jay Bauer, co-CEOs $500M* N.A. Pizza, sandwiches 2
20 Amy's Kitchen Inc. Santa Rosa, CA Andy Berliner, CEO $430M* N.A. Entrees, pizza, burritos, wraps, ethnic meals 2
21 Request Foods, Inc. Holland, MI Jack DeWitt, president $344M** 9/30/2015 Meals, entrees, breakfast items, pasta dishes, meal kits, potato specialties 2
22 Palermo Villa Inc. Milwaukee, WI Giacomo Fallucca, president, CEO $200M* 12/31/2015 Pizza 1
23 On-Cor Frozen Foods, LLC Aurora, IL Kevin Scott, president, CEO $200M** 12/31/2015 Entrees 2
24 Little Lady Foods Elk Grove Village, IL Rick Anderson, president, CEO $180M 12/31/2015 Pizza, gourmet sandwiches 3
25 P.F.Chang's China Bistro, Inc.(6)* Scottsdale, AZ Michael Osanloo, CEO $133M* 11/2/2015 Ethnic entrees N.A.

* Company declined to confirm
** Company Wide
(1) Unit of Nestle S.A.
(2) Unit of Aryzta AG
(3) Unit of Oaktree Capital Management
(4) Unit of H.J. Heinz Co.
(5) Unit of Ajinomoto North America, Inc. 
(a) Reflects FY sales through 9/2014, prior to Hillshire merger