From a 1924 pushcart in Baltimore’s Fells Point, Barcelona Nut Company has grown into a manufacturer of roasted nuts and trail mixes, along with packaged popcorn products. Its history also includes the Stonehedge Farms brand, which began making coated popcorn in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 1998. Today, the company offers private-label and co-packing support, helping food brands develop, package, and ship custom snack products.
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Bassett Nut CompanyEstablished in 1928, Toledo’s Bassett Nut Company batch-roasts gourmet nuts and makes fresh popcorn, combining its long-standing nut traditions with the gourmet popcorn operation that acquired it in 2022. The company also prepares chocolates and custom gift boxes, allowing customers to build their own snack combinations for delivery or corporate gifting.HOLLAND, OH
Jeppi Nut & Candy CoJeppi Nut & Candy Co. traces its Baltimore roots to 1884, when three Sicilian brothers began roasting Virginia peanuts for city customers. After five generations of Jeppi family stewardship and later ownership by the Pavlos family, the Timonium company continues that local snack tradition while supplying businesses across the Mid-Atlantic with nuts and candy.LUTHERVILLE TIMONIUM, MD
Fisher's PopcornFisher’s Popcorn has been hand-making boardwalk popcorn since Everett Fisher launched a stand on Ocean City’s Maryland boardwalk in 1937. Now a fourth-generation family business, it still cooks Everett’s secret caramel recipe in copper kettles and makes fresh batches at its Delaware beach shops, with production also serving grocery retailers across the East Coast. Its dedicated manufacturing space, opened in 2024 in Roxana, Delaware, helps carry that beach tradition to snackers around the country.OCEAN CITY, MD
C.J. Dannemiller CoFrom Clarence Dannemiller’s 1935 door-to-door popcorn route in Ohio, C.J. Dannemiller Co. has grown into a family-owned wholesale supplier of nuts, popcorn, seeds and concession products for businesses nationwide. Now in its fourth generation, the company serves everyone from food manufacturers and retailers to concession operators, offering case orders, recurring delivery and pallet-scale purchasing. Its SQF certification adds documented food-safety standards to a business built around long-running customer relationships.NORTON, OH