Author: Alicia Stednitz

Source: Food Engineering

Stampede Meat, Inc. has rebranded as Stampede Culinary Partners, Inc. to reflect its mission to provide culinary solutions through partnerships. 

The name change aims to reflect the company’s mission and capabilities, leading to tailored customer experiences. The company’s new website supports the name change by emphasizing Stampede’s growth and highlighting Stampede’s culinary leadership, strategic approach to partnerships, sous vide expansion and other approaches to manufacturing and distributing products.

Though the early years of the company were centered on delivering high quality cuts of meat, Stampede, having just turned 29, has grown beyond its original vision. Today, Stampede manufactures ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook poultry, pork and beef products. Stampede’s processing capabilities go beyond slicing and dicing to sous vide cooking, natural smoking, 360-degree searing and include products such as prepared meals, gourmet sous vide pet food, alternative proteins and vegan options for restaurants, top retailers, club stores, food service distributors, airlines, convenience stores, military channels, home delivery customers and other emerging segments.

Source: Food Chain Magazine

America’s number one pre-portioned protein supplier, Stampede is an innovative protein solutions company founded in 1995. Focused on custom protein development and processing, the business offers a truly unique experience for its customers, which span leading restaurants, retailers, club stores, food service distributors, home delivery, and military channels.

As its name suggests, Stampede creates seasoned, prepared, value-added meats, portion cuts, and fully cooked meats including beef, chicken, turkey, and pork. But its product portfolio does not stop at meat. The business has diversified to meet all foodservice and retail needs, offering a range of prepared meals, soups, vegetables, and even vegan protein alternatives.

Source: Meatingplace

Responsible for leading the Stampede teams on food safety and quality assurance, Ann Clarton shares how consistent communication, keeping team members challenged and reinforcing the importance of these efforts has led to accolades from the world’s leading food safety and certification auditing company, Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard (BRCGS). She also outlines how programs with meat science institutions offer opportunities to expose the next generation of food safety and QA managers to real-world situations through internships. 

Source: PR Newswire

Stampede, North America’s leader in value-added, sous vide culinary solutions, today announces its latest remarkable safety achievement after three of its plants received AA+ ratings from Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard (BRCGS), the world leader in food safety and quality certification.

Stampede’s plants in Bridgeview, Illinois, Oak Lawn, Illinois, and Sunland Park, New Mexico were selected for unannounced audits from the BRCGS in 2023. The AA rating earned by Stampede is the highest possible score from the certification program, while the plus sign indicates a bonus for the unannounced audit. These three facilities have earned the AA rating every year since 2020, and each has scored at least an A for the past 10 years. The Stampede North facility also achieved an AA+ with its first unannounced audit last year. Stampede’s new Georgia location spent this year transitioning over to the BRCGS system and received an A rating on their first-ever BRCGS audit, which is a tremendous accomplishment. All Stampede facilities will be audited to identical high standards. BRCGS standards are important because they are either accepted or required by 70% of the top 10 global retailers, 50% of the top 25 global manufacturers, and 60% of the top 10 global Quick Service Restaurants.

Source: Meat + Poultry

Sous vide culinary solutions and meat processing company Stampede announced today the expansion of its proprietary Butcher Certification Program at the Sunland Park, NM, location. In partnership with New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) facilities and educators the expanded certification program offers training opportunities to every Stampede employee, regardless of role or experience.

The program at Stampede was founded at its Bridgeview, Ill.-based headquarters in 2013 and is still offered there today. As the only program of its kind in North America, Stampede said its investment in this expansion signals a commitment to the career development of its employees, customers and consumers by providing the highest-caliber product and experience in the culinary solutions market.