Mt. Olive Pickle Company
The Mount Olive Pickle Company is an American food processing company located in Mount Olive, North Carolina. The company's primary product is pickled cucumbers, but it is also a large supplier of pepper, mixed pickle, relish and other pickled products. Mt. Olive is the largest independent pickle company in the United States and top-selling pickle brand in United States. In the Southeastern United States, where its market share approaches 70 percent.
Facilities are all located in Mt. Olive on 110 acres (45 ha) with 800,000 square feet (74,000 m2) of production, office and warehouse space. The company has in excess of 1,200 brining vat and can store over 40,000,000 pounds (18,000,000 kg) of cucumbers. The company employs over 500 year round and swells to over 800 during the busiest intake season each summer. In 1943, the company was one of the first in the country, to offer profit sharing plans to their employees. In 1959, Mt. Olive established an employee community fund that helped support local community organizations.
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