About Mission Foods

History

To fully understand Mission Foods - our products, our business philosophies - it's important to understand a bit of our history. The company we know as Mission Foods today had its beginnings in 1949 when Don Roberto Gonzalez and his father formed the company GRUMA S.A. in Monterrey, Mexico, and revolutionized the corn flour and tortilla industries.

Prior to that time, corn flour - corn masa - was produced in essentially the same labor-intensive way originated by the Aztecs hundreds of years earlier. Don Roberto Gonzalez envisioned a better way and replaced the old Nixtamal stone grinding process with a radically more efficient hammer milling process. This new process resulted in a superior corn flour - Maseca corn flour with a more controllable, more uniform particle size. It also resulted in higher yield with less labor and waste than the old-fashioned method. Most importantly, it produced superior quality tortillas.

Today, GRUMA S.A. is the world's largest producer of Maseca corn flour and tortilla products, with production facilities across the Americas, Australia, the UK, Holland, Italy and Asia. Its operations and sales extend to the US, Canada, throughout Central America (through Gruma Centro America), and into England, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. With the backing of Gruma's global technology and resources, Mission Foods has grown to become the largest producer of tortilla products in the US.

To learn more about how Mission Foods guarantees the quality of its products, take our From the Field to your Table tour.

Our Quality

Mission Foods is committed to product quality and innovation. Each of our production facilities is Kosher certified, HACCP certified and independently audited by the American Institute of Baking. We maintain rigorous Quality Control programs at every facility and each has its own QC lab for onsite testing.

Our commitment to quality includes:

• Ongoing critical control point monitoring
• Metal detection systems
• Allergen control program
• Centralized supplier approval programs
• Recall program/procedures in place
• Food security program in place with FDA registration and Bioterrorism Act compliance

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Field to Table

Mission Foods works hard to ensure that the ingredients and processes used to make our products are always of the finest quality.

Mission Foods partners with the best ingredient vendors in the world, whether they are growing fields of golden maize for our corn tortillas or the finest spring wheat for our flour tortillas.

When you have as many years in the Mexican food industry as Mission Foods, you take nothing for granted. Our reputation is in the food we make and we protect that reputation every step of the way. Mission Foods customers experience the very best there is to offer in Mexican Foods.

Please take a moment to browse From the Field to Your Table to learn about our commitment to product excellence.

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Our Customers

Over the years, Mission Foodservice has earned a reputation for satisfying the world's largest and most well-known foodservice organizations. Our customers include the Commercial and Noncommercial segments in the industry from Limited- to Full-Service restaurants, Business & Industry, Education, Healthcare and Travel & Leisure to name a few.

To support our customers we have an aggressive research and development program whose goals include:

• New product development/innovation
• Custom formulation
• Continuous quality improvement

Mission Foods works with our customers in every way we can to help you reach your service, quality and delivery goals-that is commitment.

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