industry food processing food distribution founded 2004 headquarters boulder colorado usa key people justin havlick president & ceo products snack food website www.thanasifoods.com thanasi foods is a small manufacturer and distributor of packaged snack foods . products distributed by thanasi foods are available in convenience stores grocery stores and drug stores in the united states and canada . history edit thanasi foods was founded in 2003 by justin havlick who had the idea of combining established brand names to products in the snack food category . thanasi foods has secured licenses from jim beam and frank s redhot to create snack foods using the licensed brands as the flavor component . thanasi foods first product created was jim beam sunflower seeds in 2004 followed quickly by jim beam beef jerky . in 2005 thanasi foods won the csp award for retailer choice best new product for its jim beam beef jerky product . 1 frank s redhot jerky was released in 2007 . references edit reference for csp url last accessed october 1 2006 . external links edit thanasi foods bigs duke s smoked meats retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thanasi foods & oldid 725665920 categories companies based in boulder coloradocompanies established in 2003food manufacturers of the united statessnack food manufacturers of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 june 2016 at 03 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view