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Missouri Co-Packers to Make and Package Your Food Product: Jams, Salsa, Sauces, Pickles, Cookies, Pies, cakes, whatever!
Missouri Co-Packers: Want to Sell Your Salsa, Preserves,
Jams, Etc.? Learn About Using A CoPacker to Prepare It!
If you want to make and sell your home-made preserves, salsa,
spaghetti sauce, applesauce, apple butter, jams, jellies, or whatever,
you will need a licensed kitchen to prepare and can the food. That's fine for relatively small quantities, and if there is a licensed kitchen to rent
nearby at a good cost. See this page for shared use kitchens in Missouri. But it may be less expensive (and less risky)
for your new business to use a CoPacker to prepare their food, according
to you recipe and process.
What is a Co-Packer?
Co-packers manufacture and package foods for other companies to sell.
These products range from nationally-known brands to private labels.
Entrepreneurs choose to use the services of copackers for many reasons.
Copackers can provide entrepreneurs with a variety of services in
addition to manufacturing and packaging products. They can often
help in the formulation of the product. The copacker may function
only as a packer of other people's products or may be in business with
his own product line. They may be, in fact, manufacturing several
competing products. The range of services available from a
copacker will vary depending on the size and experience of the copacker
and the type of facilities and the capacity of their plant.
Choosing a Co-Packer
You will want to choose a co-packer who has experience making the type of product and packaging that you
need. You may also want to choose a co-packer that is located close to you or your source materials and/or
market or distribution centers to reduce costs.
See this page for much, much more about co-packers, like advantages,
disadvantages and how to choose a copacker.
The following list consists of companies in Missouri that have co-packing
capabilities. This list is neither all-inclusive, nor is it meant to
serve as an endorsement.
If you are a co-packer wishing to be added to this list,
add your information here.
Missouri Co-Packers
- The Chocolate Lady - Yelp says they have closed down
860 Louisiana, St. Louis, MO 63118. Phone: 800-242-5283.
Description of services or product specialties: chocolate snack food, candy, popcorn.
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Favazza Specialty Foods - Copacker, Refrigerated
storage, Freezer storage, Dry shelf storage, Cold packing,
Plastic, Paper, We can source (find) ingredients, We can source
(find) packaging, Private labeling
141 Millwell Drive, Saint
Louis, MO 63043. Phone: (314) 962-5000. Email:
dylan@favazzafoods.com. Open: Call or email for hours and
availability. Directions:
Click here for a map and directions.. We manufacture high
quality specialty foods including frozen pizzas, appetizers, and
jalapeno poppers. We're a family run company that values quality,
consistency and building strong relationships with our partners.
Our 30,000 sq. ft. USDA inspected facility is centrally located
in St. Louis Missouri for the most affordable distribution
throughout the US. We make pizza's both by hand and machine with
the capacity to make several million pizzas a year...and growing.
We're also one of the worlds largest manufactures of cheese
stuffed Jalapeno poppers. (ADDED: October 06, 2020)
- Lasco Foods - Copacker, - NOTE - they may have stopped doing copacking, there's nothing about it on their website in 2022
4553 Gustine, St. Louis, MO 63116. Phone: 314.832.1906. Fax:
314.832.7566. Email:
customerservice@lascofoods.com. Lasco Foods is a packaging food company
of premium quality food products that specializes in providing finished goods for customers in the foodservice, consumer or industrial
foodservice business. Lasco Foods also offers a unique specialization in customized finished goods products. We work closely with you on
proprietary formulas as well as old family recipes that may become the next trendsetter. We complete our work efficiently and confidentially and
are only satisfied when you are! Lasco Foods also offers the all inclusive ability to assist in marketing and sales of your items to all classes
of trade, including Mass Merchandise, Club, Military, Export, and Retail.
- Red Monkey
Foods - Full-line Spices, Herbs, Other Sauces, Seasonings and Cooking Enhancers and Rubs.
1206 East Industrial Park Drive,
Mount Vernon, MO 65712. Phone:
417-466-9109: Fax: 314-754-9755. Email:
jbrinkhofft@redmonkeyfoods.com.
Contact: Jeff Brinkhoff.
- Select Brands LLC - Contract Manufacturing, Private Labeling, Food
Service, Retort Packaging
638 West Division, Springfield, MO 65803. Phone: 417-863-0404. Email:
Sales@Select-Brands.net. Selects Brands provides a ONE STOP shop solution for companies that outsource their manufacturing. Whether you are
looking for a third party contractor or private label packaging partner, Select Brands is your ideal choice if you are interested in taking
advantage of the latest retort technology available. We produce retorted Ready to Eat meals and side dishes in plastic, flexible stand up or
pillow pouches. As well as both dry and dry blended products in re-sealable stand up or pillow pouches. Our processing facility is FDA, USDA,
ORGANIC, NON-GMO and SQF level 3 certified and operates an in-depth HACCP with the highest principles and guidelines for thermally processing
commercially sterile products.
Where can I find more information about canning?
For more than 250 specific, simple
recipes with
step-by-step directions and photos; and general information on
canning and food preservation, see this page.