ARC Diversified was a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation in Cookeville, Tennessee, mainly concerned with hiring and training the severely disabled in the manufacturing of food products. At one time, the company employed over 100 disabled people to manufacture and co-pack several private label brands and its own Granny Bunt brand. On average, their brands reached more than four million people around the world daily.
ARC Diversified was the first non-profit agency in the United States to operate a facility approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under PL No. 47-011-02 for the production of manufactured goods sold to the feeding programs of the U.S. government and private industry. ARC-Diversified utilized the manufacture of food items to create opportunities for severely disabled in the development of work skills, vocational services and a better quality of life.
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