Top 29 Food & Beverage Companies in Michigan 2026

Advanced Food Technologies

Grand Rapids, Michigan2400 employees

Advanced Food Technologies, operating as Roskam Foods, is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1923 as a single-product operation, the company has grown into one of the largest multi-category external food manufacturers in the United States.

Carnico Foods LLC

Litchfield, Michigan

Carnico Foods LLC operates a USDA-inspected meat processing facility in Litchfield, Michigan. The company was created at the beginning of 2022 by the owners of Ferry Farms, a local farming operation, who expanded into wholesale distribution through Ferry Farms Wholesale.

Kalsec

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalsec was founded in 1958 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, by Paul H. Todd, Jr., who declared, "We hold nature in awesome respect." The company remains family-owned and began as Vegetone Color Systems, pioneering custom natural color combinations and early use of gas-liquid chromatography for spice extraction.

Michigan Freeze Pack Co

Hart, Michigan

Michigan Freeze Pack operates from Hart, Michigan, in the heart of the state's prime vegetable-growing region. The company was established in 1988 as a grower-owned cooperative and remains a multi-generational family enterprise.

Michigan Milk Producers Association

Remus, Michigan

Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) is a dairy cooperative founded in 1916 and headquartered in Novi, Michigan. The cooperative runs five dairy processing plants.

S&F Foods, Inc.

Romulus, Michigan

S&F Foods, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Romulus, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

Athena Foods is a family-owned food manufacturer based in Southfield, Michigan, that has served the Metro-Detroit restaurant industry since 1989. The company was founded as a family operation and remains under family ownership today.

Burnette Foods, Inc.

New Era, Michigan

Burnette Foods, Inc. is a third-generation, family-owned food manufacturer headquartered in New Era, Michigan.

Natural Northern Foods operates from Traverse City, Michigan, where Lori founded the company in 2005. The business is woman-owned and operated, beginning with a fresh salsa recipe inspired by local farmer’s markets and expanding into a line of hand-made, all-natural foods.

Pearson Foods Corporation

Grand Rapids, Michigan200+ employees

Pearson Foods Corporation operates from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today the business runs a 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility with 15 production lines and a fleet of more than 30 refrigerated trucks and trailers.