FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wisconsin Meat Show Yields Big Winners!
April 8, 2000, Middleton, WI, USA -- Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors product competition awards announced
The Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors held its annual convention this week. In conjunction with the meeting and tradeshow, there is a meat product competition. This year there were over 900 entries in 33 classes, which yielded a total of 133 awards. Fifty-one plants entered in the competition which ranged from boneless hams, cooked summer sausage, bacons, new pork products, cooked and jellied loaves, and whole muscle and extruded jerky. The wide variety of Wisconsin style sausages included ring bologna, four styles of bratwurst, cooked and smoked luncheon loaves, ring liver sausage, and braunschweiger.
Judges came from around the breadbasket of the American
mid-west with discriminating palates. They scored each product on external
appearance, internal characteristics, and flavor profile.
Meat Handler® management software users in WAMP took home over 30% of the prizes. Congratulations to these Meat Handler winners on continuously producing high quality delicious products:
| Karl's Country Market, Menomonee Falls, WI | Cooked Summer Sausage, Uncooked Summer Sausage, Natural Casing Wieners, Boneless Poultry |
| The Butcher Shop, Fennimore, WI | Cooked Summer Sausage, Uncooked Summer Sausage, Bacon, Heavy Weight Bone-in Ham, Boneless Ham, Semi-boneless Ham, Traditional Snack Sticks |
| Lodi Sausage, Lodi, WI | Cooked Summer Sausage |
| Maplewood Meats, Green Bay, WI | Fine Cut Ring Bologna, Boneless Ham, Pre-cooked Bratwurst, Smoked Bratwurst, Cured/Smoked General Product (Smoked chicken and ham delight), Cured/Smoked Large Diameter (Krakowska), Innovative Prepared Meals (Shredded BBQ beef), Sectioned and Formed Ham |
| Kewaskum Frozen Foods, Kewaskum, WI | Fine Cut Ring Bologna, Pre-cooked Bratwurst |
| Lake Geneva Country Meats, Lake Geneva, WI | Coarse Cut Ring Bologna, Natural Casing Wieners, Skinless Wieners, Fresh Specialty Bratwurst, Pre-cooked Bratwurst, Cured/Smoked General Product (Paprika coated salami w/ cheese), Jerky-Restructured, Braunschweiger |
| Nolechek's Meats, Thorp, WI | Skinless Wieners, Fresh Traditional Bratwurst, Cured/Smoked Large Diameter (Mustard seed salami), Cured and Smoked Poultry, Jerky-Whole Muscle, Smoked Kielbasa or Polish |
| Glenn's Market and Catering, Watertown, WI | Jerky-Restructured |
| Hoesly Meats, New Glarus, WI | Braunschweiger |
Meat Handler users have many
advantages. They have the benefit of producing consistent products by
using the recipe section to assist with designing new products, and they
automatically resize the starting ingredients based on the end weight of the
desired product. They also know their costs, enabling them to better
achieve the sales margins they require.
Lillian Hoesly, of Hoesly Meats smiled as she related
“winning re-affirms our customers' good decisions to buy our products”.
A "local" meat processor in Sheboygan Wisconsin received a stunning 1000 out of 1000 points on their popular summer sausage product. Miesfield's Triangle Market, Inc. had recently moved to a new manufacturing site only 10 miles from Cleveland to accommodate their growing business. Bob Prigge exclaimed "we are very pleased with this honor".
Fulfill your dining desires with the fine products from these manufacturers!
For More Information Contact:
The Meat Handler Company
1030 Beech Street
Cleveland, WI 53015
Tel: 920.693.3141
FAX: 920.693.8772
Internet: kpear@meathandler.com