label foods founded 1862 1 headquarters braintree massachusetts u.s. 1 key people robbie jamieson president products food owner centerview partners number of employees 675 2012 website richelieu foods richelieu foods is a private label food manufacturing company founded in 1862 headquartered in randolph massachusetts previously owned by investment group brynwood partners and owned since 2010 by investment group centerview partners llc . the company which produces frozen pizza salad dressing sauces marinades condiments and deli salads to be marketed by other companies as their store brand or white label brand manufactures over 50 million frozen pizzas 2 and more than 20 million finished crusts annually 3 reporting more than 200 million in yearly sales . 2 odds are good most people have tasted products made at richelieu foods ... few people know the products ... were made by the company . waterloo cedar falls courier wcfcourier.com august 2006 companies with private label items from richelieu include hy vee aldi save a lot sam s club 4 hannaford brothers co. 2 bj s wholesale club earth s pride brand and shaw s supermarkets culinary circle brand . 2 the company s own brands have included chef antonio raveena s pizza presto grocer s garden caterer s collection oak park and willow farms . 5 with approximately 675 employees 2 richelieu foods operates four manufacturing facilities in beaver dam wisconsin deli staples e.g. potato salad coleslaw topping of pizza crusts washington court house ohio cold press pizza crusts 4 grundy center iowa and elk grove village illinois sauces and dressings . according to hoover s richelieu foods average annual revenue per worker is about 900 000 . 5 primary competitors include frozen specialties inc. ralcorp holdings inc. and seneca foods corporation . 5 the company saw steady growth during the 2008 2010 recession having a 40 million or nearly 30 percent increase in 2008 sales . 2 history edit the company was founded in 1862 . by 1956 the company operated as western dressing inc. 4 and made only salad dressing until 1988 4 when it was sold to an investment group brynwood partners of greenwich connecticut which was itself founded in 1984 6 and owns such other brands as stella d oro turtles 7 and balance bar . 8 in 1994 richelieu focused on the contract packing and private label areas . 4 the western dressing brand was sold and eventually acquired by unilever with richelieu foods packing the dressing until unilever took it in house eight years later marketing it under the wish bone brand . 4 in 2006 the company was named pizza manufacturer of the year by snack food and wholesale bakery magazine . 3 in 2008 the company acquired the sauces and dressings division of sara lee along with the sara lee manufacturing facility located in elk grove village illinois . 6 the division manufactures salad dressing mayonnaise and barbecue sauce for national restaurant and foodservice distribution customers . in 2010 the company was purchased from brynwood partners by centerview partners llc . see also edit list of food companies list of frozen food brands frozen and ready to bake pizzas references edit a b 1 a b c d e f there s new appetite for peddlers of cheap eats . boston business journal feb 23 2009 lisa van der pool . 23 february 2009 . a b it takes two working in tandem richelieu foods pizza plants in ohio and wisconsin are a productivity powerhouse . . refrigeratedfrozenfood.com . a b c d e f richelieu experiences hiring boom starts expansion . wcfcourier.com rc balaban august 27 2006 . a b c richelieu foods inc. . hoovers inc. a b richelieu foods acquires sara lee s sauces and dressings foodservice business . richelieu foods press release september 2 2008 . brynwood partners v l.p. acquires turtles r brand from nestle . prnewswire 24 may 2007 . private equity firm buys balance bar brand from kraft foods . soyatech.com connecticut post december 6 2009 . food portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title richelieu foods & oldid 732156608 categories american pizzacompanies based in massachusettsfood and drink companies of the united statesfood manufacturers of the united statesfrozen pizza brandsrandolph massachusettssalad dressings1862 establishments in massachusetts 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 30 july 2016 at 00 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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