When and How to Select a Custom Processor

What are the benefits of custom (contract) processing and packaging, and how should food companies go about selecting a custom processor/packager? To answer these questions, I spoke with representatives of several custom processing companies.

Jim Kelleher (800-369-1022), Director of Sales & Marketing, Maple Island, North St. Paul, Minn., said that the benefits to a food company of using a custom processor are not having a plant or the overhead that goes with it, personnel issues in staffing p…