Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods Corporation (originally founded as Geo. A. Hormel & Company), a meatpacking and food-processing corporation begun in Austin in 1891, is the economic mainstay, supplemented by other food-processing concerns and the manufacture of cardboard cartons. The Hormel Institute (1942), affiliated with the University of…

…brother was an executive at Hormel Foods, the manufacturer. Daigneau later remarked that he had conceived of the name before there was a product to attach it to, thinking it was memorable. In whatever case, the product was quickly patented and trademarked, with pork shoulder, a cut not much in…