Good Foods Group LLC is a company that’s been in business for just over a decade. Kurt Penn, the founder and CEO of the company, was first exposed to high pressure processing back in 2008 at a trade show and then later when the chicken sausage business he owned was purchased by Perdue Farms, who was using HPP.
According to Joyce Longfield, vice president of product innovation at Good Foods, “Penn thought to himself, ‘This is the technology of the future,’” Longfield says. “So before he even know what his next company was going to be, he had purchased an HPP machine and eventually built Good Foods around it. Good Foods is an HPP company that makes food as opposed to a food company that uses HPP,” Longfield explains.