Jennie-O Turkey Store is a brand name of turkey products. It is a subsidiary of the Hormel Foods Corporation in Willmar, Minnesota .
5-481: The company was founded by Earl B. Olson in 1940, when he began raising turkeys. In 1949, he bought the former Farmers Produce Company of Willmar and its turkey processing plant. In 1953, it was renamed to Jennie-O after his daughter, Jennifer Olson. Wallace Jerome also played a role in the formation of the current Jennie-O organization. In 1941 Jerome founded the Turkey Store Company. The company
10-464: A USDA-inspected eviscerated turkey plant and developed the brand name Jennie-O—after Earl and Dorothy Olson's daughter, Jennifer, and the 'O' in Olson. He served as president and chief executive officer until 1974, when he became chairman of the board. He was chairman emeritus at the time of his death. He was a mainstay of the turkey industry, and a pioneer in developing new turkey products and expanding
15-590: Is found in Barron . Earl B. Olson Earl B. Olson (May 8, 1915 – December 11, 2006) was a businessman who founded the Jennie-O Turkey company (now part of Hormel ). Earl B. Olson was born on a farm north of Murdock, Minnesota , the son of Olof and Anna (Anderson) Olson. Both his father and mother were immigrants from Sweden . After eight grades of school in Murdock, Olson enrolled in
20-598: The West Central School of Agriculture, Morris, MN , (now the University of Minnesota Morris ) graduating in 1932. Olson first ran a small creamery in Swift Falls, Minnesota , which processed turkeys on the side. In 1940, Earl Olson began raising turkeys. In 1949 he bought the former Farmers Produce Company of Willmar and its turkey processing plant. By 1953, Mr. Olson converted Farmer's Produce to
25-602: Was privately owned by the Olson family until 1986, when it was sold to Hormel Foods, of Austin, Minnesota . In February 2001, Jennie-O Foods, Inc., and The Turkey Store Company, consolidated under Hormel to create the brand Jennie-O Turkey Store. Jennie-O has a total of six company locations, five of which are in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin . The Minnesota locations include Willmar/Spicer , Faribault , Montevideo , Pelican Rapids , and Melrose . The only Wisconsin plant
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