SAN ANTONIO – Two historic Texas food
companies are being brought together with the announcement today that C.H.
Guenther & Son, Inc., has acquired the Morrison Milling Company of Denton,
Texas, one of the state’s oldest flour and corn milling companies. The
announcement was made by C.H. Guenther & Son President & CEO Dale W.
Tremblay.
Morrison Milling Company was founded
in 1886 in Denton as the Alliance Milling Company by local farmers as a
cooperative flour mill. In 1936, the Morrison family bought Alliance Milling
and renamed it the Morrison Milling Company. In addition to its traditional
milling of wheat and corn, Morrison Milling today has a wide variety of flour-
and corn-based dry mix and frozen products. The company’s production facilities
are in Denton and Waco.
San Antonio-headquartered C.H.
Guenther & Son is America’s oldest family-owned flour mill, founded in
Texas in 1851 by German immigrant Carl Hilmar Guenther. The company produces a
variety of dry and frozen grain-based food products for both retail and the
food service industry. It has four production facilities in the United States
(San Antonio and Duncanville in Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Prosperity,
South Carolina), as well as operations in the United Kingdom and Belgium.
“This is a great fit for us,”
Tremblay said. “Morrison Milling has a long and wonderful history of producing
quality products. Like C.H. Guenther & Son, Morrison not only produces its
own branded products but also makes customized and private label products for
food retailers and major food service operators alike.”
“The Morrison name is well-known and
respected, and we intend to keep the name and brand identity for Morrison
products wherever appropriate,” he said. “We also look forward to continuing
Morrison’s tradition of good corporate citizenship and fully expect that after
some limited restructuring to eliminate business duplication, the great
majority of Morrison’s employees will remain in place producing those wonderful
products.”
Harry Crumpacker, Morrison CEO, said,
“Morrison has a long and proud history of making products that, as we say,
‘make mealtimes better.’ Combining with C.H. Guenther & Son will give the
company greater strength and expanded capability to grow the Morrison brand.
Details of the transaction were not
disclosed.
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