Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best North Carolina based Food Processing companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food Processing industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top North Carolina Food Processing Startups
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5Metis
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5Metis is a new pure-play discovery company for crop health.
Seal the Seasons
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Seal the Seasons is a premium national local frozen food brand that makes locally grown and produced food available 365 days a year.
The Mushroom Meat Co.
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B2B food tech company that transforms gourmet mushrooms and upcycled plant proteins into mushroom-based meats.
Kepley BioSystems
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Kepley BioSystems offers ocean restorative technology to help stem the continued depletion of wild fish.
Good Kitchen
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Delivers clean, sustainable, chef-driven meals to the doorsteps of active individuals with hectic schedules.
Integra Foods
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Integra Foods is part of the Poultry Product Manufacturing Industry.
Trinity Frozen Foods
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Trinity Frozen Foods grows over 50% of the sweet potatoes and is the acknowledged lead supplier of the type of sweet potato.
Tribucha
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Tribucha is the largest kombucha brewery in the triangle of NC.
Devil’s Foot Beverage
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Devil’s Foot Beverage is a new craft beverage company.
Simple Kneads
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Simple Kneads makes artisan, gluten-free bread, made with whole food ingredients a clean label, no GMOs, and no eggs or dairy.
Alrgn Bio
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Alrgn Bio is a Food Bioprocessing company providing hypoallergenic peanuts.
Milkful
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Milkful lactation bars help support breast milk production for breastfeeding moms.
BearWaters Brewing
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BearWaters Brewing Company was born from the passion of home brewing.
Watauga Butchery
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Watauga Butchery is a custom meat processor that offers ground beef packaging.
RiceWrap Foods
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RiceWrap Foods is a food manufacturer that provides sushi rice.
Epiphany Craft Malt
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Epiphany Craft Malt is converts raw barley and other cereals into malt for local brewers and distillers.
Foodbuy
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Foodbuy is a largest foodservice procurement organization in North America.
Verdesian Life Sciences
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Nutritional Catalysts, Seed Inoculants/Treatments and Plant Health Technologies
Alamance Foods
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Alamance Foods manufactures private label water, flavored drinks, freeze pops, and aerosol whipped cream.
Hissho Sushi
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Hissho Sushi’s mission is to provide the highest quality sushi and unparalleled customer service to consumers.
Elior North America
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Elior North America enhances the lives of the people we serve through culinary innovation and a commitment to providing exemplary service.
Atlantic Natural Foods
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Atlantic Natural Foods manufacture and distribute sustainable vegetarian foods and beverages with a focus on taste, nutrition, convenience.
TriEst Ag Group
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Triest Ag Group offers unsurpassed service, innovative products, and expertise to distributors and applicators of soil fumigation products.
House of Raeford Farms
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House of Raeford Farms is a poultry company.
Villari
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Villari offers products such as fresh pork, sausages, smoked meat, and seasoning meat and provides food delivery and export services.
TW Garner Food Company
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TW Garner Food Company manufactures a wide variety of gluten-free sauces, jams, salsa, and chips.
Bone Suckin’ Sauce
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Bone Suckin’ Sauce is an online store that supplies sauces, food products, mustards, and seasonings.
American Sprinkle
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American Sprinkle is a manufacturing company that produces and delivers sprinkles, confetti, colored sugar, and nonpareils products.
The Ingredient House
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The Ingredient House is a quality-focused supplier of ingredients to the global food and beverage industry.
Nitta Gelatin USA
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Nitta Gelatin is a food and beverage company located in Morrisville.
La Farm Bakery
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La Farm Bakery is an e-commerce platform and training company for baking industry.
Royal Cake Company
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Royal Cake Company produces cookies, cereal bars and creme-filled cakes.
Macro Snacks
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Macro Snacks is a snack company that provides protein snacks that are also balanced with other key macronutrients.
3 Fish
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3 Fish is a seafood company that provides fresh, frozen, and made-to-order seafood meals.
Harmony House Foods
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Harmony House Foods is a dehydrated and freeze-dried foods company.
UniFresh
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UniFresh is a grocer and product merchant wholesale industry, supplying discriminating restaurants with a line of produce that is unique.
Air Control
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Air Control, is a leading manufacturer of polypropylene casework and equipment for laboratories.
Atlantic Fish Company
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Atlantic Fish Company focuses on developing cultivated seafood via cellular agriculture.
Sycamore Brewing
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Sycamore Brewing is a manufacturer and seller of beers.
White Street Brewing
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White Street Brewing is a beverage manufacturing company that offers a wide range of craft beers and taproom services.
Delight Soy
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Delight Soy is a food and beverage company that offers a variety of meat substitutes with the option of soy.
Ruth’s Salads
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Ruth’s Salads produces and distributes salads and spreads.
Old School Brand
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Old School Brand extends an online store offering a wide array of food products focusing on baking mixes, jar goods, and cornmeal.
Memore
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Memore offers whole Mediterranean Diet inspired functional beverages.
Brookwood Farms
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Brookwood Farms is a manufacturer of smoked meats and barbeque food products.
Bass Farm Sausage
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Bass Farm Sausage is a food processing company that offers sausages, patties, souse, and meat products.
Roots Hummus
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Roots Hummus is a supplier of food products.
Kay Chemical Company
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Kay Chemical is a specializes in delivering customized programs to meet the unique food safety & sanitation of the QSR/Food Retail markets.
Big Spoon Roasters
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Big Spoon Roasters is a food processing company that specialises in producing handcrafted nut butters and wholesome snack bars.
Stockton Graham & Co
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Stockton Graham & Co is a specialty coffee roaster and wholesale beverage, equipment and accessory distributor located in Raleigh.
Southern Pines Brewing Company
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Southern Pines Brewing Company is a beverage manufacturing company that specializes in the production of crafted beers and refreshments.
Vanguard Culinary Group
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Vanguard Culinary Group markets protein products for the retail and foodservice marketplace.
Milkco
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Milkco processes and co-packs fluid milk, dairy product, buttermilk, fruit juice, drinks and water bottles.
MicroThermics
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MicroThermics is an information technology and biotechnology company.
Quality Restaurant Group
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Quality Restaurant Group is a restaurant group that supplies food.
The Peanut Roaster
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The Peanut Roaster has been providing gourmet roasted happiness and gourmet roasted nuts.
Case Farms Chicken
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Case Farms is now a fully integrated poultry farming and processing group and one of the nation’s leading poultry producers.
Renwood Mills
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Renwood Mills is a consumer goods company that sells flour and other baking products.
Purple Crow
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Purple Crow is a food product manufacturer that provides flour tortilla, cheese dip, and rice pudding.
So Good Pupusas
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So Good Pupusas is a food and beverage manufacturing company that offers pupusas, bebidas, drinks, and tortillas.
Videri Chocolate Factory
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Videri Chocolate Factory provides an online store offering a variety of factory-processed chocolate food and drink products and gift items.
Fuji Foods
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Fuji Foods is a manufacturer of flavors and flavor enhancers.
Gilbert Foodservice
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Gilbert Foodservice is an outsource sales and marketing agency that represents top manufacturers in the foodservice industry.
Union Street Bistro
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Union Street Bistro is a restaurant that offers catering and event services.
Hickory Nut Gap
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Hickory Nut Gap is a producer of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats in the Southeast.
Panaderia Artesanal
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Panaderia Artesanal is a bakery that provides cakes and baked foods.
The 5th Quarter
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The mission of the company known as “Chalmers&Company LLC” is to provide prime southern hospitality accompanied
Coker Feed Mill
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Coker Feed Mill is a food manufacturing company that produces livestock feed and essential minerals.
Boston Gear
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Boston Gear is a supplier of power transmission products.
Carolina Packers
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Carolina Packers produces sausages, bologna, chili, red hots, and bright leaf red hot dogs.
K&W Cafeterias
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K&W Cafeteria provides online food ordering and delivery services.
James Foods
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James Foods is a manufacturer of frozen gourmet starters and desserts.
Carroll’s Foods
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Carroll’s Foods Inc was founded in 1939 with totally integrated pork and poultry agribusinesses in the world.
Tropical Foods
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Tropical Foods provides dry fruits, snack mixes, nuts, and seeds in large commercial quantities.
Farm Further
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Making better food for a better future. High quality food and sustainable growing practices is the bedrock of a healthy planet and society.
Stefano’s
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Stefano’s specializes in producing cook-and-eat products that include appetizers, snacks, calzones, rip-and-dip sauces.
Don Pancho Authentic Mexican Foods
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Don Pancho Authentic Mexican Foods provides food services.
Piedmont Candy Company
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Piedmont Candy Company manufactures red bird peppermint and assorted candy puffs.
Dressler’s Restaurant
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Dressler’s Restaurant provides appetizers, soups, salads, and wines.
Your Perfect Cake
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Your Perfect Cake is a cake manufacturer that offers wedding cakes and cup cakes.
Perkins Management Services
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Perkins Management Service engaged in catering, contract foodservice, cleaning and facility management services to its clients.
Signature Seasonings
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Signature Seasonings produces gravy mixes, flavors, custom spice blends, and seasoning blends.
Napasol
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Napasol is a machinery manufacturing company for food processing.
Custom Confections
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Custom Confections is a bakery and cake shop.
Bean Traders Coffee
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Bean Traders Coffee is a coffee shop that sells cold-brew coffee and roasted beans.
Shipley Farms Beef
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Shipley Farms Beef is involved in the livestock business that provides beef meat.
Beach Bagels
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Beach Bagels is a restaurant that provides baked bagels, espresso drinks, and breakfast.
The Good Dog Company
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The Good Dog Company creates and sells a line of long-lasting, eco-friendly pet products to the general public.
Granite Falls Brewing Company
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Granite Falls Brewing Company is a brewery that provides handcrafted food and beverages.
Cardinal Foods
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Cardinal Foods is a food processing company that supplies fruits and vegetables purees.
Green Planet Catering
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Green Planet Catering is a locally owned and operated business that is unique not only to the Triangle area but the entire country.
Barber Foods
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Barber Foods manufactures and distributes chicken products & also offers frozen products including stuffed chicken breasts, nuggets, etc.
Dillsboro Chocolate Factory
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Dillsboro Chocolate Factory produces and sells chocolate, candy, coffee beans, and gifts.
Freirich Foods
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Freirich Foods provides corned beef and meat products.
