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Company Membership
The Ben Franklin Partnership links public, private, and educational resources to aid small Pennsylvania businesses in the research, development, and eventual marketing of new products. One of the company s core values is to develop networks of companies, universities, capital sources, and suppliers in each focus area to create new job opportunities as well as fostering the growth and potential of such facilities. Abiding by these objectives, the Center is designed to focus its efforts on employing highly effective individuals from complementary domains in order to share in the common goal of improving the health of Pennsylvanians. This will be accomplished through recipe revisions, novel ideas for entrees and snack items, and the incorporation of nutraceuticals and phytochemicals in traditional favorites.

This chance to fund an institute for consumer food product evaluation within the Center is another appealing characteristic of such a facility. This innovative laboratory would allow future managers to become educated on consumers preferences as a means for responding to their culinary and health needs. In this respect, the Center has the capability of meeting the needs of consumers, manufacturers, marketing agents, and industry clientèle within one centralized operation.

The Food Innovation Center wants to be your partner. Become a member today.

Initial Members

Eat\'n Park Family Restaurants: A Pittsburgh, PA based firm serving quality food at reasonable prices and providing friendly attentive service in clean, pleasant family restaurants.

Super Bakery Inc.: A Pittsburgh, Pa based firm providing nutritious breakfast menu items to children across the United States through school lunch programs. Super Bakery is known as a leader in Bakery Nutrition with its proprietary Bakery Fortifier, NutriDough. Super Bakery\'s market reach has expanded into health care and long-term care facilities, business & industry, and the U.S. Military.

Sheetz, Inc.: Sheetz is one of the country\'s most recognized convenience store companies known for its high-quality, fresh food, based in Altoona, PA.

Hershey Foods Corporation: Hershey is engaged, with its subsidiaries, in the manufacture, distribution and sale of confectionery and grocery products. Hershey Foods manufactures confectionery products in a variety of packaged forms and markets them internationally.

Snyder\'s of Hanover: Snyder\'s of Hanover has been making pretzels with all natural ingredients since its founding in 1909 and has recently explored a set of organic items are certified by Pennsylvania Certified Organic.

SPI Polyols (now Corn Products International): A Delaware-based firm is a global manufacturer of specialty polyols in service to the confectionary, food and oral care businesses.

Current Members

Alliance for a Healthier Generation

Altoona Blair County Development Corporation

Aramark
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Ben Franklin Technology PArtners
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Benzel\'s Pretzels

Cargill
Corn Products International

Dairy Queen

DelGrosso\'s

Eat N Park
Exxon Mobile

Galliker\'s

Giant Foods
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FMC Corporation

Hanover Foods

Hershey Foods

Inter Metro

Masser Potato Farms

Metz & Associates, Ltd.

McCormick

National Dairy Council

Nestle

Olive Garden

Penn State Center for Childhood Obesity Research

Penn State Prevention Research Center

Penn State Housing & Food Service
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Pennsylvania Department of Health

Pennsylvania Restaurant Association

Sheetz

Silgan Holdings, Inc.

Snyder\'s of Hanover

Super Bakery

Sysco

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