Our Business Is About Creating Solutions

Before you look at a company's future, you have to look at their past, because success and a quality reputation don't happen overnight. It takes years of experience. It takes listening to the demands of your customers. It takes an intuitiveness about the market to know what your customers want, even before they want it.

Willow Brook is a company with an impressive past, and an even more impressive future. Our turkey operation was opened in the 1920's as part of an MFA farmers' market. Our Schweigert Foods operation was opened in 1937. After having several different owners through the 40's 50's and 60's, the turkey operation was purchased in 1979 by a young company named Hudson Foods, who expanded the operation significantly, adding additional grow-out facilities and a further processed turkey plant. In 1989, the Schweigert facility also became part of Hudson Foods. Then in January of 1998, two poultry giants, Tyson Foods and Hudson Foods, merged. Willow Brook Foods was formed shortly thereafter as Tyson concentrated on its core business of chicken. MCMI Foods, along with Willow Brook Foods managers, acquired the Springfield and Albert Lea operations from Tyson Foods in 1999. In 2002, Willow Brook Management, along with an investment group comprised of McClain Enterprises, Powell & Powell Milling, and Springfield Underground, Inc., purchased Willow Brook Foods from MCMI Foods.

Bottom line, growth takes change and people who can bring about that change. At Willow Brook, we will continue to grow with the goal to exceed the expectations of our customers.