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Western Family Foods
Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934 by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores with store brands.
It distributes the Western Family, Shurfine, Shursaving, MarketChoice and Better Buy brands which are used in many independently-owned supermarkets.
It is based in Tigard, Oregon.
Product incidents
On October 11, 2007, food manufacturer Con Agra asked stores to pull its Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies because of 152 cases of salmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption of ConAgra pot pies, with 20 people hospitalized. By October 12, a full recall was announced, affecting all varieties of frozen pot pies sold under the ice cream brands Banquet, Albertsons, Food Lion, Great Value, Hill Country Fare, Kirkwood, Kroger, Meijer, and Western Family.