Crest Ink - Volume 28 - Number 03

1986 – Machine Shop building purchased & refurbished

M & S Dairy Specialties founded by George Mc Donald, E. C. Scott & Tom Gaskins M & S Dairy Specialties renamed Crest Foods Jay Meiners and Dick Moeller hired

 This picture was taken for Jay Meiners’ birthday, just a few months before he passed away . Jay Meiners passed away

1957 – E. C. Scott resigns after legal battle 1957 – Crest Foods renamed to Gaskins Foods 1960 – Gaskins foods renamed Crest Foods Crest Foods purchased by Jay Meiners, Dick Moeller, Bert Kemp and Ray Sailer for $182,000 Jay Meiners & Dick Moeller to the left and the original owners, George McDonald & Tom Gaskins are pictured to the right.

 Jim Spangler, Jeff Meiners, Steve Meiners, Gary Guenther & Mike Meiners at the Crest Foods Chili Cook-off shortly after Jay passed.

Initial construction on West Warehouse Facility The original West Warehouse on IL Rte. 38, 3 miles west of Ashton. Ingredient Division lab expanded to include pilot plant

Contract Packaging Division started by packaging coffee whitener for Dean Foods Not the actual coffee whitener for Dean Foods, but it was packaged in bottles just like these that we used for Borden shortly after.

1969 – Profit sharing fund started 1977 – First construction on Brown Street production facility Crest Foods became Meiners family owned business 

 Grewe’s Tap was taken down in order to build next to the existing Ingredient Division Lab Mix Facility constructed West Production area added to warehouse facility

Consumer Products Division started with first product being Chex Party Mix Seasoning  This is the oldest Chex Mix packet we can find, which was from 2-3 years after it originated.

Consumer Products lab built in refurbished building that was original home to Crest Foods

 Officially back to our roots on Main Street in Ashton.



Ingredient Warehouse facility constructed

July, August & September 2016 Crest Ink 3

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