industry foodservice founded ames iowa 1974 headquarters nevada iowa u.s. key people david weber president number of employees 350 1 parent hormel foods 2007 present website burkecorp.com burke corporation is a manufacturer of pizza toppings and other fully cooked meat products for use in the restaurant foodservice and prepared foods industries . burke is headquartered in nevada iowa . the company specializes in custom product formulation for supply to private foodservice labels serving more than 1 600 commercial customers . 1 history edit the business began in ames iowa in 1957 as a frozen pizza producer under the name pronto foods . bill burke sr. joined the company as operations manager in 1964 and purchased the company in 1967 . in 1974 the frozen pizza arm was sold and the company began producing and marketing meat pizza toppings under the new name of burke marketing corporation . 1 in 1984 the major production line was moved from ames to its current location in nevada iowa . in 1991 bill burke sr. handed presidency of the company to his son bill burke jr. 2 expansions in 2002 and 2004 include the addition of an automatic cleanroom and expansions to production and freezing capacity . in august 2007 hormel foods based in austin minnesota purchased burke corporation . in 2011 the ames facility closed moving its assets and production to the nevada plant . bill burke jr continued to run the company until he retired in 2012 . as a result of his retirement david f. weber has been named as his replacement . 3 products edit burke corporation s range of fully cooked meat products include various meat pizza toppings as well as a range of cured meats meatballs and sausage products . the company also manufactures custom meat products for manufacture of prepared food clients . burke meats are sold throughout the u.s. under the burke and swiss american labels and private labels and are carried by broad line and specialty distributors . formulations include standard recipes or custom blends requested by customers . burke fully cooked meats are also exported to canada and other worldwide markets . burke products are represented in canada by chase global foods . references edit a b c burke corporation fact sheet pdf . retrieved 2009 06 03 . burke history . retrieved 2009 06 03 . http www.hormelfoods.com newsroom press releases 2012 04 20120416 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title burke corporation & oldid 724754585 categories food manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in iowacompanies established in 1974hormelsausage companies 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 11 june 2016 at 07 45 . 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