package goods founded 1977 headquarters irving texas usa key people joel suarez president number of employees more than 5 700 citation needed parent gruma website www.missionmenus.com mission foods a subsidiary of gruma corporation is an american manufacturer of tortillas and tortilla related products based in irving texas . contents 1 history 2 sponsorships 3 product lines 4 references 5 external links history edit mission foods was originally founded as a subsidiary of grupo maseca now gruma in california in 1977 as a brand name to sell the company s tortillas in the american marketplace . a tortilla manufacturing plant was opened in dallas in 1982 . it is now one of the world s largest producers of flatbread tortilla and corn flour products with factories in north and central america europe asia and australia . 1 mission foods launched the mission brand in australia in 2009 with a plant located in epping victoria . sponsorships edit in january 2009 australian media reported mission foods had agreed on a sponsorship deal with australian rules football club the western bulldogs . the deal is worth 4.5 million over 3 years . 2 mission sponsored a tortilla factory attraction between 2001 and 2011 in the then named disney california adventure park theme park . citation needed the factory demonstrated tortilla production on a miniaturized low speed automated production line provided samples of tortillas and demonstrated recipes to park guests . mission foods is the major sponsor of the queensland firebirds netball team and singapore netball netball singapore since 2011 . three championships had been held in singapore under sponsorship of mission foods mission foods world netball championships in july 2011 mission foods asian netball championships in 2014 and mission foods nation s cup in 2015 . product lines edit mission foods has a range of tortilla products ranging from the traditional corn and flour tortillas to whole wheat and flavored varieties . most of mission foods products are classified as kosher . citation needed mission also sells various types of tortilla chips . references edit http www.missionfoods.com.au en about.aspx http www.afl.com.au news newsarticle tabid 208 default.aspx newsid 71333 external links edit missionmenus.com missionfoods.com missionfoodservice.com mission foods australia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mission foods & oldid 740075811 categories food and drink companies of the united statesamerican companies established in 1977hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2009articles with unsourced statements from march 2013articles with unsourced statements from january 2009 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 18 september 2016 at 22 43 . 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