Hormel Foods Corp. recently awarded 87 suppliers with a 2015 Spirit of Excellence Award for their roles in the company’s continuous improvement process throughout the last year. These suppliers are from a variety of areas including contractors, pork procurement, provisions, ingredients, packaging and transportation.

“The Hormel Foods Spirit of Excellence Award program recognizes the suppliers that truly go above and beyond in helping us continually improve our products and services,” said Tyler L. Hulsebus, director of purchasing at Hormel Foods. “We’re honored to partner with these outstanding suppliers.”

Suppliers that qualified for the Spirit of Excellence Award maintained a minimum supplier rating index score of 92 throughout a 12-month period. This score is determined by a universal measurement system that began in 1990 to ensure each supplier is held to the same standards. Award criteria include meeting performance requirements, making on-time deliveries and providing high-level customer support.

In addition to the Spirit of Excellence Award, suppliers compete for the Hormel No. 1 Award every five years. This spring, the company will announce the Hormel No. 1 Award recipients. The award honors suppliers that have provided long-term, consistent, superior performance during the five-year period from 2011 to 2015. One of the criteria for the award requires recipients to have received a Spirit of Excellence Award during four out of five years. A special event will be held this summer to honor the Hormel No. 1 Award recipients.

Contractors

A.J. Lysne Contracting Corporation

Allweather Roof

Avure Technologies Inc.

Busch LLC

Cybertrol Engineering LLC

East Penn Manufacturing

Environmental Land Management LLC

Evapco Inc.

Fehr Solutions LLC

Fox Electric

Gleeson Constructors & Engineers LLC

Hybrid Mechanical LLC

Hyster Company

Jasper Engineering

Kestner Electric

KOFAB

Lou Rich Inc.

Multivac Inc.

Rockwell Automation

The Dupps Company

The Joseph Company Inc.

Weber Inc.

Werner Electric

Wolf-Tec Inc.

Procurement

Country Pork LLP

Darren Schweiger

Daryl Muilenburg

David Schultz

Donley Farms Inc.

Gary Anderson

H&K Livestock

Haverkamp Bros

Honeysuckle Farms LLC

HUFCO LLC

Hufford Brothers

Jerlyn Spronk

Josie’s Pork Farm Inc.

K & B Farms LLC

KBQ INC

Lake Country Pork LLC

LB Pork Marketing LLC

Lizard Creek Acres

Lorraine and Josh Pinkelman

Lynn Thate

Lynn’s Farm Inc.

New Fashion Pork LLP

Proline Protein Inc.

Rebco Pork Inc.

Roe Farms Inc.

Sperr Brothers

Spring Valley Farms LLP

Spronk Brothers III LLP

Stan Schaefer

Wayne Maloney

Provisions

Fieldale Farms Corpn

Koch Foods

Kustom Pak Foods

Purchasing

Airlite Plastics Co.

Ball Metal Food Container LLC.

Bemis North America

Birdsong Peanuts

Bunzl Processor Division

Crown Cork & Seal USA Inc.

Dickson Industries Inc.

DXP Enterprises Inc

Flatout Inc.

Gamer Packaging Inc.

Hydrite Chemical Co.

Menasha Packaging Company LLC

Meyers

Minnesota Corrugated Box Inc.

Multisorb Technologies

Newly Weds Foods

ProAmpac

Progressive Packaging Inc.

Red Arrow

Sargento Foods Inc

Sealed Air – Food Care Div.

Silgan Containers LLC

Silgan Plastic Food Containers

Smyth Companies LLC

Veritiv

Walter G. Anderson Inc.

Winpack Ltd.

Transportation

Dickey Transport Inc.

Holiday Express Corporation

K & B Transportation Inc.