Richelieu Foods

Richelieu Foods
Company type	Private
Industry	Private Label foods
Founded	1862
Headquarters	Wheeling, Illinois, U.S.
Key people	Brian Fox, CEO
Products	Food
Number of employees	1000 (2022)
Parent	Freiberger USA, Inc.; (Südzucker AG)
Website	www.richelieufoods.com

Richelieu Foods is a private label food manufacturing company founded in 1862, headquartered in Wheeling, IL. It was previously owned by investment group Brynwood Partners and owned from 2010 by investment group Centerview Partners LLC and sold December 2017 to Freiberger USA Inc., Parsippany, New Jersey, USA, a subsidiary of the German Südzucker AG

The company—which produces frozen pizza, salad dressing, sauces, marinades, condiments to be marketed by other companies as their store brand or white label brand—manufactures over 100 million frozen pizzas^[1] and more than 25 million finished crusts annually,^[2] reporting more than $500 million in yearly sales.^[1]

"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,^[3] Hannaford Brothers Co.,^[1] BJ's Wholesale Club (Earth's Pride brand) and Shaw's Supermarkets (Culinary Circle brand).^[1] The company's own brands have included Chef Antonio, Raveena's, Pizza Presto!, Grocer's Garden, Caterer's Collection, Oak Park, and Willow Farms.^[4]

With approximately 1,000 employees,^[1] Richelieu Foods operates four manufacturing facilities in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin (pizza), Wheeling, IL (Pizza)Washington Court House, Ohio (cold press pizza crusts),^[3] 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.^[4]

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[bbj1-1] "There's new appetite for peddlers of cheap eats". Boston Business Journal, Feb 23, 2009, Lisa van der Pool. 23 February 2009.

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