Beatrice is a unique company that takes an old fashioned method in doing business with its employees and customers. Firstly, Beatrice encourages company employees to be innovative and our company philosophy also has an open door policy with management.
Originally founded as Haskell and Bosworth in 1894 by George Everett Haskell and William W. Bosworth in Beatrice, Nebraska, and later incorporated in Lincoln, Nebraska as The Beatrice Creamery Company in 1898, the company changed its name to Beatrice Foods Company in 1946 to reflect the change from primarily dairy foods to grocery products.
Secondly, Beatrice takes quality seriously. Quality control procedures enable Beatrice to ensure that each and every product that comes out of their production facilities is of the highest standard, and Beatrice continually monitors and tests its products to maintain the highest levels of quality for their customers.
Beatrice's Foods segment manufactures and markets branded products to retail and foodservice customers in the United States. Beatrice Distribution is engaged in the sale and distribution of food and consumer products, like Colgate-Palmolive, ConAgra Foods, Kerry Ingredients, Fisherman's Friend, PEZ Candy, Jhirmack, Playtex, and Taylor Freezer, with the emphasis on wholesalers, institutions, and other bulk retail channels. Beatrice Distribution is also directly responsible for Beatrice Food Service, which distributes Beatrice Foods products in bulk to institutional facilities, government, warehouse stores, restaurants, and sporting arenas.
Beatrice International is their business unit that is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Beatrice International and their team are responsible for the sale and distribution of Beatrice products and services outside of U.S. and North American markets, with experts in international import/export control and local customs.
Beatrice Mercantile purchases raw ingredients for use in Beatrice food products, and then also works in unison with their subsidiary company, Beatrice Distribution to sell what cannot be used internally.
Beatrice Direct, part of Beatrice Consumer, is their company on-line web site store, featuring products directly from their warehouse to your business. Beatrice Direct is unique, where they cater to your needs when it comes to what customer needs and when customer needs it. If customer needs a pallet of product shipped to their business location in either Oklahoma, or in Asia, they can handle these requests for them. Gleaning from their inventory of products, Beatrice Direct is your clear choice to do business with.
Beatrice meets the specific needs of all customers by offering completely individualized service. Whatever the needs of a retail customer, Beatrice responds quickly through its sales representatives. Orders are processed on a single delivery, single invoice basis. This eliminates costly paper work and follow-up inquiries.
Beatrice's business has been a solid forward-looking program, one which puts quality and innovation at the forefront. Each of Beatrice's businesses is aligned according to the markets they serve and the products that they manufacture, to better serve our institutional, retail and direct consumers.
Beatrice, which is the Latin name meaning: (she that makes happy, she that blesses); is appropriate for the the way we do business. Whether Beatrice company is producing or distributing food products, or performing complex technological installations and maintenance for their customers, one can rest assured that they are in good hands with them here at Beatrice.