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     President Todd Blount and Kettle Operator Paul Alphonse

About Us

Blount is a custom foods company creating fabulous soups, gourmet prepared foods and unique clam products. 

Appealing Business Opportunities -- Unparalleled Customer Collaboration

The Blount family has been in the food business since 1880.  Our product line includes refrigerated and frozen gourmet soups, sauces, dips and spreads for food service and retail, as well as custom clam meat products and breaded seafood.  Blount’s gourmet soups and specialty foods are made with the finest and freshest ingredients, handcrafted by our dedicated team through unparalleled customer collaboration.  Our seafood background establishes as us the largest producer of clam chowder in New England and the largest manufacturer of lobster bisque in the country.  But this does not limit us from making awesome beef chili, chicken tortilla or organic tomato soup.

Blount's customers include national restaurant chains whose custom soup is made specially for them according to their secret recipes.  Similarly, the deli departments of many large and small supermarket chains have Blount create their hot-to-go soup selections, as well as refrigerated store-brand prepacked soup cups.  Blount also carries a full line of refrigerated and frozen soups sold to restaurants, club stores and retailers nationwide under the Blount, Legal Sea Foods and Panera Bread brands.  Blount’s specialty clam products are used by other famous soup makers, restaurants and retailers alike.  Blount operates production facilities in Fall River, Massachusetts, and in Warren, Rhode Island. 

 

The Blount Axiom: If you upgrade your soups – you will sell more

We are upgrading America’s soup experience!  Whether it is our awesome soups or chowder made with our famous clams, America wants a great soup -- and we deliver.  If a customer-focused retailer or restaurant offers our soup, they will sell MORE soup!  This is our promise, and we have plenty of positive experiences from our current customers to prove it.  This promise is an equation with many parts.  Our products are special and unique.  To sell more soup we need to make sure our soups are great every time, that they are shipped on time and in full quantities.  We need to do everything in our power to keep the soup on the shelf.  Should the unexpected happen, we stand ready to serve, solve and rectify problems; even those that are not ours!  When problems arise our mission is to communicate and provide options.

Here We Are --  A look into the inward values that drive us

The Best Products Period!
Our products are simply awesome. This starts with our commitment to creative culinary expertise and the highest quality standards. Premium ingredients are critical to making a premium product. In the end however, we the people are the most important ingredient by taking complete responsibility for the quality process and the end product. Our products are expensive and thus they must be great.

Ultimate Customer Service
Our customers are part of Team Blount. Our goal is to make them successful by working together on unique projects and creating awesome products.  We build into the process ways to be flexible yet efficient in providing ultimate customer service. Our customers can depend on us as real people who communicate, follow through and solve problems.  We promise to provide the customer with their soup to the high quality they expect on time and in the quantity ordered.

A Team of Champions
OK, we’re competitive and we want to win.  We’re proud of who we are and we want to be known as the best!  We are a great team with a common goal.  Each one of us is valuable to the team, we must each do our job with excellence because other people are depending on us. In the end, let’s have fun and enjoy an atmosphere where family and friends can work together.

Great Decisions
Great companies last for generations when great decisions are made to do the right thing.  Honesty and trust are essential ingredients in every relationship, as a company and individuals.  This includes not compromising our standards of quality, safety and integrity.  We welcome individual and corporate accountability for what we do.

Success Is Our Middle Name
We have been and will continue to be successful both as a company and as individuals. We survive on consistent financial results and being a leader in the markets we serve.  Corporate success gives us confidence to reinvest our profits into infrastructure, growth and people.  The success also extends to the security and stability we bring to our families. This gives us the self confidence and pride to invest in our job and give our personal best to the company.

Outward Values: As our customer…all of this is yours to profit from

Team Blount — Family-owned since 1880, Blount has long recognized that great people are the best ingredients for making great food. Companywide, our team approach and shared vision is at the core of our continued success.

Trusted Partner — Our culinary team of exceptional chefs, researchers and technologists provides a unique, customer-focused experience that is fostered by innovation and client collaboration. Customers pick Blount as a partner because of our reputation for quality, trust and attention to detail.

Culinary Innovation — Blount is the market leader for unmatched manufacturing flexibility and recipe customization. We take great pride in making the best refrigerated and frozen fine foods, offering scalable solutions for retail, food service and restaurant customers.

Specialty Seafood — Blount Fine Foods, a leader in shellfish processing and high quality seafood products, has been the supplier of choice for America’s best-known institutions, food service distributors, soup manufacturers and restaurateurs.

Industry Leader — For more than 60 years, Blount has introduced numerous industry-first advancements. Our constant pursuit of process improvements, culinary innovation, high-quality standards (SILIKER and AIB) and customer excellence combined with our strong knowledge of seafood and processing experience ensure we will maintain our leadership position.

Finest Ingredients — Blount strives to offer the finest and freshest ingredients – free of chemicals, artificial colorings, additives or preservatives, and minimally processed. We offer healthy alternatives that eliminate sodium phosphate and trans-fat oils.

Environmental Stewardship — Blount is committed to responsible and sustainable environmental practices and the development of new eco-standards, ensuring there will be enough seafood to meet today’s demand while conserving for future generations. In addition, Blount uses state-of-the-art processing techniques and equipment that saves energy and reduces environmental waste.

Our Corporate Strategy - An inside look into our future

As of 2009 we have successfully stayed focused on building a world-class soup business and now we are ready to branch out into other value-added prepared foods.  Our focus will be on investing on processes that blend premium ingredients into a gourmet refrigerated food offering, taking the form of dips, spreads, salads and more.  We will be offering these products under the Blount, Legal Sea Foods, Panera Bread and private label brands.

In addition, we are building on the quality and value of our clam processing lines.  We are actively looking for growth opportunities to build our seafood business through vertical integration.

We are building a team of champions and state-of-the-art systems to prepare for this growth.  We are building infrastructure and investing in prepared foods packaging equipment.  In the end we will be an ever growing part America’s prepared foods options!