Born from a love of eating well, our team creates premium-quality foods crafted with a blend of tradition and innovation.  We collaboratively create our many products with enthusiasm and integrity.  Our offering will always evolve and continually improve by listening to consumers, by building collaborative relationships, by being an inspiring workplace, and by taking action to help sustain our communities and our planet.

We are firmly committed to food quality and safety and make good on this commitment by using advanced production processes managed by highly responsible people. 

What matters when it comes to making and eating good food:

• Meeting the dietary needs, wants and tastes of many kinds of people, including the health-conscious and those who follow specialized eating patterns (such as gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian, etc.).
• Providing delicious choices that span health-conscious recipes to indulgent favorites – always using the simplest and highest-quality ingredients possible.
• Constantly improving our track record for environmental and social responsibility and sustainability. How we put our principles into action We ensure premium quality in our products by employing best practices – some of the most important are listed here.

Basics: We make good recipe and ingredient choices Our culinary team is passionate about creating a diverse menu of quality foods using the most wholesome ingredients available, and reducing ingredients to only those that are authentic and essential to the recipe. Health-conscious consumers will appreciate the numerous Blount recipes that fit their lifestyles and food preferences, whether organic, gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, sodium-conscious or other options. People like to indulge occasionally too. When they do, they should know that we apply the same high standards for unadulterated quality and freshness to our traditional, more sumptuous choices (for example, Lobster Bisque).

We buy from trusted sources: All of our ingredients come from appropriate and responsible sources. For example, our organic produce and meat come from suppliers who have earned recognized organic certifications, and our seafood ingredients come from responsible fisheries and farms that work to sustain fish/shellfish populations and ecosystems. We also seek to buy as local as is practical.

Keeping it simple: All of Blount’s premium-quality foods start with the most simple (and most pronounceable) ingredient list possible. Using real ingredients and rapid, minimal processing retains natural flavors, freshness and nutrition. Artificial preservatives, colors or flavors, hydrogenated oils, monosodium glutamate or other unnecessary ingredients simply have no place in Blount foods.

We support the betterment of the communities in which we do business by donating approximately two percent of our profits each year in the form of products and funds to a diverse group of local non-profits.  In addition our ‘Blount Cares” program sends dozens of volunteers into the community to serve food and ‘give-back’ in a wide variety of ways.

We support education through a robust intern and scholarship program. Our team is highly involved in university advisory boards and research collaboration.  We also offer tuition reimbursement, school loan reimbursement and employee offspring scholarships.

We have long understood our role as stewards of a planet that also belongs to future generations. That’s our view in working with suppliers who employ sustainable land-use and ecosystem management practices. We reduce our energy usage throughout operations by running our own solar energy system (annual output approximately 100,000 kWh) and using high-efficiency refrigeration units. Our Reduce, Reuse and Recycle program is another example of the ways in which we lessen environmental impact. We perform combustion gas analysis to optimize, and reduce emissions from, our process steam boilers systems. We employ predictive maintenance technologies, including infrared thermal imaging, oil spectral analysis and equipment vibration monitoring to ensure peak equipment performance. We have installed biological reactors to naturally remove biological oxygen demand (BOD) from our wastewater effluent streams, and use “food-to-energy” technology for our food waste (www.foodwaste.com).  Also, we have a policy of sharing the technology of our proven successes with our customers, vendors and our other food industry partners, to maximize our collective benefit to the environment.

Blount’s culture values each individual contributor on the team.  We champion diversity by building a workforce as diverse as the America we feed.  We believe attracting, retaining and developing talented, diverse individuals, drives growth, promotes innovation and creates the best environment to achieve our goals and achieve superior business results.

This is rooted in our family-owned professionally-managed organization; and has kept us nimble for over a century.   While we have high standards and expectations for each other; we also appreciate that any person can talk and work together on any issue or opportunity on a first name, personal, basis.  This culture leverages our competitive and entrepreneurial nature to want to be the leading prepared foods company, leaving behind competitors who lack this personal touch, and the inability to invest long-term in the business and each other.   These investments in the long term include infrastructure and capital to grow, as well as personal development for each team member to reach their potential; instilling confidence in the company and the team.   Professional development ranks high at Blount. We provide thousands of hours of training yearly and help employees further their education, from GEDs to Master's degrees. What’s more, we help employees and their families manage personal issues through our Employee Assistance Program and provide paid time off to employees for community service work.

From our vendors through to our customers and all the stakeholders in between; we value trust, respect and the relationships that result in performance and success.  Our value of “A Championship Team” states that in the end we’ll win and have fun doing so! 

Like our personal priorities; people and relationships are core to who we are.

Protecting the people for whom we have been entrusted with; the customers who eat our foods, and the people who work within the organization, are our top priority!

Some important thoughts to keep in mind:

Food Safety

The people who buy our products take food safety for granted. We uphold their trust and take pride in earning the Quality Food certification because of the care we take in doing our jobs well.

Employee Safety

Safety is no accident. The effort we put into creating modern facilities and following best work practices enables all of us to be safer and freer to focus on contributing our skills and talents.

Performance

“Firing on all cylinders” is invigorating. When each member of the Blount team is focused on and taking responsibility to perform at his or her personal best, our company succeeds – which enables each of us to succeed. We are proud of our talents and how we put those talents to use. Together, we are a dynamic source for great ideas, creativity and progress. Performing at our personal best is the essence of creating expanded opportunities for all of us. 

The Blount Values define who we are; and at the core of each value are people! The Blount culture encourages team members to take initiative, contributing ideas to improve any aspect of the Blount operation.  We have respect for all and value their individual talents and contributions. We know that good relationships inside and outside our company have mutual respect at their foundation. We value the well-being of our employees, and strive to maintain a safe and healthy work environment.  In the big picture, being helpful and collaborative and creating foods that people love to eat is inherently fun and satisfying. Fun is healthy, and having fun in our work is an unofficial part of Blount job descriptions.