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Elena Vásquez
Founder & CEO — Meridian Foods
Elena founded Meridian Foods in 1997 to put her grandmother’s recipes into grocery aisles without changing them. Three decades on, Meridian runs two plants and supplies more than three hundred independent grocers. Hooligans Holdings partnered in 2018.
- 1997
- Founded
- 640
- Employees
- 300+
- Grocers served
The story, in their own words.
“We started with one recipe and one commercial mixer in a rented kitchen. The recipe has not changed. Nearly everything else has.”
“Growth is easy to buy and hard to keep. We only opened a second plant once the first one could run a week without me in it.”
- Sector
- Specialty food manufacturing
- Holding
- Significant minority
- Headquarters
- San Antonio, Texas