OSI Joint Ventures With Select Ready Foods

June 5, 2014
Adds Canada to OSI's network in 17 countries.

Foodservice supplier OSI Group LLC joined with Select Ready Foods of Edmonton, Alberta, to create a joint venture company named OSI Select Ready Foods, it was announced June 5..

Select Ready Foods provides value-added pork, beef and chicken products for foodservice operators, delis and the retail market in Canada. It also makes premium entrées and appetizers under the Ready Cuisine, Rocky Mountain and Wok Ready brands. The company was founded in 1997 and currently operates two production facilities in Alberta.

“Select Ready Foods is excited to be partnering with OSI, for they have the breadth of resources necessary to significantly accelerate our growth,” said Brad Shapka, chief operating officer of Select Ready Foods.

OSI has multiple locations in the U.S., an office in Brazil and operations in eight European countries (Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine and the UK), as well as six countries in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, China, India, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan).

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