OSI Group

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OSI Group
Company typePrivate
Industry meat processing
Founded Chicago, United States (1909 (1909))
FounderOtto Kolschowsky
Headquarters
Aurora, Illinois
,
United States
Key people
Steve Lavin, CEO
ProductsFood
Number of employees
20,000 (2016) [1]
Website osigroup.com

OSI Group is an American privately owned holding company of meat processors that service the retail and food service industries with international headquarters in Aurora, Illinois. It operates over 65 facilities in 17 countries. Sheldon Lavin was the owner, CEO and chairman until his death in May 2023. [2]

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History

Early history

In 1909, German immigrant Otto Kolschowsky opened a family meat market in Oak Park, Illinois [3] two years after his arrival in the United States. In 1917, he expanded into the wholesale meat trade and relocated the business to nearby Maywood, another Chicago suburb. The company became known as Otto & Sons in 1928. Over several decades, Otto & Sons established a local reputation for offering quality meats. [4] Harold and Jerry Kolschowsky, along with Sheldon Lavin, were influential in expanding the company to what it is today.

In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois with Otto & Sons as the supplier of fresh ground beef patties. [5] [6] When cryogenic food processing, a method of preserving fresh food through liquid nitrogen freezing, emerged in the late 1960s, Otto & Sons accepted Kroc's offer to become one of McDonald's four meat suppliers. Later, a fifth supplier was added. [4]

In 1973, Otto & Sons opened its first high-volume meat plant in West Chicago with specially developed patty-forming machines and liquid nitrogen freezing tunnels. At the same time, it formed a separate unit called Glenmark, for all non-McDonald's business. In 1975, the company changed its name to OSI Industries. Glenmark was later acquired by Best Chicago Meat Co. in 2011. [7]

Expansion

Since 1990, OSI has made the following acquisitions and expansions:

In 2011, Forbes listed OSI as America's 136th largest private company, based on annual revenues of $3 billion. [23] In 2016, it was #58 on the Forbes list of largest private companies, at $6.1 billion. [1] The company's rank slipped slightly to #63 on the Forbes list in 2018. [24] For 2019, its rank came in at #66. [25] Refrigerated & Frozen Foods magazine listed OSI Group as the sixth largest Meat/Poultry/Seafood processor in its Top 150 Frozen Foods Processors Report in March 2019. [26]

Operations

OSI Group operates its U.S. plants under the name OSI Industries, LLC. The U.S. plants are located in Chicago (Racine and Ashland facilities), Geneva and West Chicago in Illinois, as well as Oakland, Iowa, West Jordan, Utah, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and Riverside, California. The company produces many private-label brand foods and co-packs major brand name items for its various food service and retail customers. OSI Group has more than 65 facilities in 17 countries around the world, located in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. [27]

OSI's products include meat patties, bacon, hot dogs, pork, poultry, fish, pizza, vegetable and dough products.

It has also been a meat supplier to other western fast food chains in China, such as Subway, Starbucks, Papa John's Pizza, and Pizza Hut (July 2014). [28]

Impossible Foods announced a co-manufacturing collaboration with OSI to produce the Impossible Burger in July 2019, providing IF with capacity to quadruple its production by the end of 2019. [29] [30]

Recognition and controversy

OSI Group facilities have received awards over the years, including awards for management of health and safety risks as well as environmental management. [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] Whole Foods Market presented OSI with an award for Outstanding Innovation at the company's annual Supplier Awards ceremony in April 2019. [37]

In July 2014, a factory of OSI Group in Shanghai, China was ordered to shut down production by local government for selling expired meat to international fast food chains including McDonald's and KFC. [38] In February 2016, following the return of an unfavorable verdict in the case against the company in the Jiading District People's Court in Shanghai, OSI said in a statement that "the court of jurisdiction has reached an unjust verdict" and claimed that "general media clearly influenced the verdict." [39]

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