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Ryt-way recognized with “Community Partnership Award”

Ryt-way Industries LLC receives SQF 2000 Level 3 certification.

Wind Point Partners has acquired Ryt-way Industries

Chamber of Commerce: Businessperson of the Year - Glenn Hasse

40th Year Anniversary message from our President

Packaging Award

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Ryt-way recognized with “Community Partnership Award”

  Ryt-way believes in empowering our employees. Five years ago, we began offering free on-site ESL classes in cooperation with the Lakeville School District’s Adult Basic Education (ABE). These classes have proven successful in improving the lives of our employees and are still offered today.  
 
Beyond the ESL program, Ryt-way management further recognized the potential win-win of offering more job-specific training to our employees in the hopes of preparing them to move into higher paying positions in our Company. We again partnered with Lakeville ABE to create a Work Skills Training Program to teach employees job-related terminology as well as reading, math, and communications skills needed to be able to advance within our Company. Those who complete and successfully pass this course receive company-sponsored incentives. Many have also been rewarded with a promotion into higher paying positions within our Company.
  Ryt-way was honored for our Work Skills Training Program by The Minnesota Literacy Council* at their 2010 “Sharing the Power” Conference.  For more information on this award program or the Minnesota Literacy Council, please check out their website at
www.themlc.org/sharing.

*The Minnesota Literacy Council is a statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the basic English and literacy skills of adults and children. Our mission is to share the power of learning through education, community building, and advocacy.

Ryt-way Industries LLC receives SQF 2000 Level 3 certification.

Ryt-way Industries LLC of Lakeville Minnesota is the first US Company to achieve SQF2000 Level 3 certification for shelf stable foods.   Level 3 is the highest standard to be certified by SQF and is a significant achievement and testament to the food safety and quality systems in operation at Ryt-Way Industries.  SQF 2000 certification ensures that Ryt-Way’s food safety and quality management systems comply with international and domestic food safety regulations. This assures suppliers and their customers that their food products have been produced, processed, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards, at all levels of the supply chain.

The SQF Level 3 certification takes the HACCP model developed for food safety and applies it to food quality as well. The requirements encompass all areas of the business from ordering/receipt through processing and shipping as well as pre-requisite programs such as sanitation, maintenance, calibration and others.

“Working to certify to this standard has improved our already robust food safety and food quality systems” according to members of the Quality Department at Ryt-way. “Many of our customers have mandated the requirement.  All our customers can be assured that the high standard of SQF Level 3 is being applied to their products.”

Visit www.rytway.com for more information on Ryt-way Industries LLC

Visit www.sqfi.com for more information related to the SQF certification.

 

Wind Point Partners has acquired Ryt-way Industries

Lakeville, Minn. — August 13, 2008 — Glenn W. Hasse has announced that Wind Point Partners has acquired Ryt-way Industries, which is headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota.  

Mr. Hasse started the Company on May 1, 1965.  Since then, Ryt-way has become one of the nations leading contract manufacturers and packagers serving the food industry.  Its capabilities include recloseable pouches, cup and bowl lines, and multiple fill on horizontal and vertical packaging lines, in addition to batch or continuous blending systems, cup wrapping, and planning and purchasing project support for products such as ready-to-eat cereals and meals, snack foods, crackers, mixes and convenience foods. 

According to Mr. Hasse, “Wind Point’s experience in the food industry together with their strong management team, which includes the existing management team, leaves me confident that Ryt-way will continue to be an industry leader going forward.  One of the primary considerations in deciding to sell to Wind Point was their commitment to expand the business and to continue to conduct operations out of Lakeville with the existing employee base.”   

Ryt-way employs approximately 635 full-time employees and uses up to 200 contract workers as needed.  No financial terms were disclosed.  Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. served as exclusive financial advisor to Mr. Hasse on the transaction.

Wind Point Partners® is a private equity investment firm with approximately $2 billion in capital under management. Wind Point focuses on partnering with top caliber executives to acquire middle market businesses where it can establish a path to value creation. Additional information about Wind Point is available at www.windpointpartners.com.

 

40th Anniversary Message

   This month Ryt-way will celebrate its 40th Anniversary.  Even as I say the words they are difficult to imagine.

   When you begin a business enterprise of any type there are so many things to think about and do on a day-in-and-day-out basis that it would be untrue to say that each and every thing happens according to some master plan.  As you can tell from reading the Newsletter articles that detail Ryt-way’s growth and development, the last 40 years have been filled with both successes and failures, with good decisions and not so good decisions, with well conceived, executed plans and with happenstance.  Although there has been much hard work there has also been a fair amount of fun along the way.  Such is the life of all businesses that survive for any length of time. 

   There are way too many things that contribute to a successful business enterprise to include in this article however I want to mention the one thing that I believe to be the most important.  That is to never forget about all the people who have come, stayed or departed along the course of the journey, who have contributed to and are continuing to contribute to that success.  I include among them my wife Kay, my son Tim, my parents, my family, my friends, and all of Ryt-way’s Employees both past and present.  Thanks to all of you, Ryt-way is proud to be celebrating its 40th Anniversary.  Let’s hope that together we celebrate many more.                       

Glenn Hasse, President/CEO

 

Packaging Award

The Kellogg Company, recently received an AmeriStar Award from the Institute of Packaging Professionals for the design of Drink ‘n Crunch in November, 2004.  Ryt-way Industries, LLC. participated in the design phase of the project and assisted The Kellogg Company in the commercialization of this new item.  Drink ‘n Crunch is an ergonomically designed vessel with two cups, one inside the other.  Fresh milk is poured into the outer cup, and cereal is in the inner cup for the ultimate portable breakfast!  A Ryt-way Industries, LLC. representative attend the awards presentation as a participant in the project.

    The best movies of the year are awarded the Oscar.  The AmeriStar Package Awards honor the best packages of the year.  Winning an AmeriStar Award is truly a mark of distinction.  The AmeriStar Awards program rewards the innovators, the achievers, and the packaging profession as a whole.

 


 
 
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