Long before the terms corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship and the triple bottom line were used, and before annual corporate responsibility reports were commonplace, Hormel Foods was doing its part to make the world a better place.
It was the company’s founder, George A. Hormel, who recognized the importance of protecting the environment and giving back and instilled it in the company’s values.
“Working for myself wasn’t enough. I needed to be part of a family and part of a community that needed me as much as I needed them, — someone to say, ‘lend a hand on this.’ I knew I would never amount to much, unless, like father, I meant more to others than I did to myself. This self-knowledge was the beginning of wisdom,” he said in his autobiography.
