 Hugh Bridgford, center, and sons Allan (left)
and Bill (right) at the Anaheim plant in 1962.
 Hugh Bridgford, center, and sons Allan (left) and Bill (right) celebrate the 60th anniversary of the company at the 1992 annual shareholders' meeting.
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Foods Corporation traces its roots back seventy-eight
years to February 1932. Hugh H. Bridgford (1908-1992) opened a retail
meat market in San Diego, California. The business evolved first into
several retail meat markets, then meat wholesaling to hotels and
restaurants, frozen food distribution, meat packing and processing and
frozen food manufacturing. The Company is now headquartered in
Anaheim, California about four miles from Disneyland. In addition to
meat processing and bakery operations in Anaheim the Company has four
additional factories, two in Dallas, Texas, one in Chicago, Illinois and
one in Statesville, North Carolina.
Bridgford Foods pioneered the
manufacture and sale of frozen bread dough to supermarkets starting in
1962. The first efforts were made at the Anaheim meat-processing
factory. Additional frozen bread plants were added in Dallas in 1968, a
second plant in Dallas in 1985 and Statesville, North Carolina in
1996. Meat processing, with heavy emphasis on dry and semi-dry
sausage, is also done in Chicago, Illinois in a plant acquired in
1975. traces its roots back seventy-eight
years to February 1932. Hugh H. Bridgford (1908-1992) opened a retail
meat market in San Diego, California. The business evolved first into
several retail meat markets, then meat wholesaling to hotels and
restaurants, frozen food distribution, meat packing and processing and
frozen food manufacturing. The Company is now headquartered in
Anaheim, California about four miles from Disneyland. In addition to
meat processing and bakery operations in Anaheim the Company has four
additional factories, two in Dallas, Texas, one in Chicago, Illinois and
one in Statesville, North Carolina. Please visit our our corporate website for more information. For customer service please call us toll-free at 1-800-621-4241.
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