Our History
Take a look back over the last 70 years of our business…
1946
Company founded as M & S Milk Specialties (McDonald & Scott). Start of the Dairy Ingredient Division.
1953
Tom Gaskins buys the company. Name changed to Crest Foods Co., Inc.
1967
Partnership of Jay Meiners, Dick Moeller, Bert Kemp and Ray Sailer buy the company.
1968
First toll charge packaging business. Start of the Contract Packaging Division.
1977
Brown Street Contract Packaging facility completed.
1984
First turn-key private label product. Start of the Consumer Products Division.
1985
Brown Street Dairy Ingredient facility completed.
1988
Jay Meiners passes. Family ownership continues with Steve, Jeff and Mike Meiners.
1990
120 acres purchased for expansion two miles west of Ashton, IL.
1991
First 170,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility built (Crest West).
1992
Major R&D lab renovations.
1997
Office complex, Contract Packaging QC testing labs completed.
2001
R&D lab expansion and pilot plant completed.
2003
Contract Packaging Mix Facility completed.
2006
Warehouse expansion and Production Facility West completed.
2010
Warehouse expansion and Machine Shop completed.
2014
Consumer Products Lab completed.
2015
Dairy Ingredient Warehouse completed.
2018
Third generation joins the corporate Board of Directors and shares in company ownership.
Today
Principal owners continue to lead the company with no plan to retire in the near future.