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OSI Group LLC

OSI Group is a privately owned food processing company with international headquarters in Aurora, IL. It operates five U.S. plants, located in Chicago and West Chicago, IL; Oakland, IA; West Jordan, UT; and Fort Atkinson, WI. It manufactures and sells On-Cor brand frozen meals (www.on-cor.com), as well as many private label brand foods for its various Foodservice and Retail customers. It has over forty plants in total around the globe, including Western and Eastern Europe; China; and Australia. OSI also has interest in multiple strategic alliances worldwide.

HISTORY

In 1909, German immigrant Otto Kolschowsky opened a family meat market in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, two years after arriving in the United States. He expanded into the wholesale meat trade in 1917 and relocated the business in a neighboring town, Maywood. The company became known as Otto & Sons in 1928, and over several decades it established a local reputation for offering quality meats.

In 1955, McDonald’s (www.mcdonalds.com), then a fledgling start-up with grand aspirations, opened its first store in Des Plaines, Illinois and chose Otto & Sons as the supplier of fresh ground beef patties. The deal was formalized with a handshake between Ray Kroc, the founder and CEO of McDonald’s, and the sons of Otto Kolschowsky. Kroc and the Kolschowsky heirs forged a strong personal relationship over the years. Supplying beef to local McDonald’s restaurants very soon became Otto & Sons’ main business. Cryogenic food processing, a method of preserving fresh food through liquid nitrogen freezing, emerged in the late 1960s to revolutionize the fast food industry. McDonald’s was able to get consistent quality product from a few high volume producers and therefore no longer needed to rely on its network of roughly 150-200 fresh beef suppliers. Otto & Sons accepted Kroc’s offer to become one of McDonald’s four frozen meat suppliers.

In 1973, Otto & Sons opened its first high volume meat plant in West Chicago (http://westchicago.org/) with specially developed patty-forming machines and liquid nitrogen freezing tunnels. At the same time, it formed a separate unit called Glenmark, where it folded the non-McDonald’s business. They were small local projects such as supplying specialty meats to area restaurants and processed meats to area supermarkets. In 1975, the company changed its name to OSI Industries. It served as a supplier to McDonald’s, and grew in size and prosperity as McDonald’s expanded geographically.

Through years of supporting the expansion of a single customer, OSI had evolved into one of the largest privately held food processing corporations in the world. It was held in high regard throughout the food service industry for its manufacturing efficiency, product innovation, dedicated customer service, and commitment to food safety.

In the 1990s, OSI shifted away from exclusively serving McDonald’s and began to attract a diversified mix of private label, retail, and other foodservice customers.

PRODUCTS

OSI's products include Bacon; Breakfast & Specialty Sausage; Hot Dogs; Cooked Beef and Pork; Raw Chicken; Fully Processed Chicken; Fresh, Frozen and Cooked Beef Patties; Pizza and Dough-based Products; Kettle & Smoked Products; and Sandwich Assembly. In Asia, they also manage Produce.

LOCATIONS
 * OSI Group Global Offices, Aurora, IL
 * OSI West Chicago, IL
 * OSI Chicago, IL
 * OSI Oakland, IA
 * OSI West Jordsan, UT
 * On-Cor Frozen Foods, Fort Atkinson, WI
 * OSI Food Solutions, UK
 * OSI Food Solutions, Germany
 * OSI Food Solutions, Hungary
 * OSI Food Solutions, Poland
 * OSI Food Solutions, Spain
 * OSI Food Solutions, Ukraine
 * OSI Food Solutions, Austria
 * OSI Food Solutions, Serbia
 * OSI Europe Foodwoks, Germany (2 locations)
 * OSI Bad Iburg, Germany
 * OSI Poland Foodworks
 * OSI Austria Foodworks
 * OSI Asia/Pacific, China
 * OSI China, Shanghai
 * OSI China, Chengdu
 * OSI China, Dachang
 * OSI China, Dalian Branch
 * OSI China Produce, Dachang
 * OSI China Produce, Guangzhou
 * OSI China Produce, Kunming
 * OSI China Produce, Shanghai
 * OSI Group Poultry Development Co., China
 * SunOSI Poultry Development Co., China
 * OSI Hong Kong Trading Co.
 * OSI Australia, Eagle Farm
 * OSI Australia, Blacktown