St. Louis-based Louisa Foods—our 2021 Frozen Foods Processor of the Year—can trace its roots back almost 60 years, not to a food processing plant, but a single family-owned restaurant in the Gateway City.

Editor-in-Chief Michael Costa details how the pandemic transformed this year’s Frozen Foods Processor of the Year award, plus why the ability to shift business on short notice will be key to succeeding in 2021.

Find out how Devanco Foods pivoted early in the pandemic and made an impact on the frozen food aisle in 2020, and also with readers of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods.

Take a look inside Devanco Foods' new-build 105,000-square-foot plant in Carol Stream, Illinois, where 20 million pounds of products for multiple brands are produced annually. 

Here’s how B&G Foods’ ability to continuously innovate and develop new products enabled it to make a giant-size footprint in the frozen foods market, and receive Refrigerated & Frozen Foods’ 2019 Frozen Foods Processor of the Year.

B&G Foods, owner of the Green Giant brand, was named this year’s Frozen Foods Processor of the Year. Find out how this frozen vegetable processor continues to be at the forefront of innovation with on-trend, better-for-you frozen vegetable-based products.

Take a tour of Sweet Earth’s 38,000-square-foot Moss Landing, Calif., manufacturing facility, which went from an abandoned warehouse to producing plant-based frozen food items in just three months.

Discover how co-founders Brian and Kelly Swette went from selling and marketing meat to changing the way consumers view plant-based frozen foods.