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Top 25 Food processing plants based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 736 food processing plants headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 165,234 professional contacts across them, including 48,955 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers food processing plants headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest food processing plants based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57,955 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cargill is a family company committed to nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 23,157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We exist to make food the world loves.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 22,651 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 11,113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe every consumer should have access to their favorite snack, everywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 6,281 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Conagra has the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 100 years, Shamrock Foods Company has worked to ensure people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,052 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Manufacturing the world’s most iconic foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,039 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A pioneer in circularity, Darling Ingredients Inc.(NYSE: DAR) takes materials from the animal agriculture and food industries, and transforms them into valuable ingredients that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,645 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 140 years, the Del Monte® brand has lived in kitchens around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,574 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Golden State Foods, we’re proud to be one of the largest diversified suppliers in the foodservice industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,489 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seneca Foods is one of North America’s leading providers of packaged fruits and vegetables with facilities located throughout the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “National Beef Packing Company, LLC, is America’s Premier Beef Company® Since National Beef® opened the doors to our first processing plant in 1992, we have forged alliances and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 974 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “West Liberty Foods, headquartered in West Liberty, Iowa is a recognized leader in the food industry and one of North America’s top protein processors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 927 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OSI is the premier global supplier of custom value-added food products to the world’s leading foodservice and retail food brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 910 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SunOpta Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “This page is managed by Sigma in the USA.* Bar-S Foods is part of Sigma, a leading multinational food company that produces, markets and distributes quality branded foods…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 748 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a global manufacturer of private label and branded foods for retail and co-pack customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 706 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Celebrating 60 years of success in the food manufacturing industry, SugarCreek is Headquartered in Blue Ash, Ohio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “After a century of building careers and brands under the radar, Roskam Foods is no longer the industry's best-kept secret.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 598 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Products, packaging and process technology have evolved substantially since Lyons Magnus was founded in 1852.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 566 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, CTI is a culinary-driven company that offers a diverse range of custom food solutions to the food service, retail, industrial, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Provisur’s legacy of industry-leading brands has manufactured innovative industrial food processing equipment for more than 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 429 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Reiser is the food industry's leading supplier of processing and packaging knowledge, equipment and solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BALDWIN RICHARDSON FOODS (BRF) is a leading custom ingredients manufacturer for the food and beverage industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: food processing plants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names food processing plants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food processing plants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name food processing plants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Food processing plants based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 736 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among food processing plants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “food processing plants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names food processing plants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among food processing plants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 48,955 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names food processing plants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many food processing plants are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 736 food processing plants headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Cargill, headquartered in Wayzata, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most food processing plants?
Chicago leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (14) and Miami (14).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 48,955 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 736 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.