Bridgford Foods Corp. BRID

What this company does

Bridgford Foods Corporation manufactures, markets, and distributes an extensive line of frozen and snack food products throughout the United States. As of October 31, 2025, it had 668 employees, of whom 649 were full-time, and approximately 44% of those employment relationships were governed by collective bargaining agreements. It operates in two business segments, the processing and distribution of frozen food products and the processing and distribution of snack food products. In its frozen food segment, it sells approximately 130 unique frozen food products through approximately 820 wholesalers, cooperatives, and distributors. During fiscal year 2025, its snack food products division sold approximately 180 different items through customer-owned distribution centers and a direct-store-delivery network serving approximately 19,000 supermarkets, mass merchandise, and convenience retail stores located in all 50 states. Bridgford Foods Corporation, a California corporation, was organized in 1952. It originally began operations in 1932 as a retail meat market in San Diego, California, and evolved into a meat wholesaler for hotels and restaurants, a distributor of frozen food products, a processor and packer of meat, and a manufacturer and distributor of frozen food products for sale on a retail and wholesale basis.

Written from the business description in BRIDGFORD FOODS CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 28 January 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.