Record #:

6943

Author(s):

Gray, Tim

Abstract:

T. W. Garner Food Co. is BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's 2004 North Carolina Small Business of the Year. The company, founded by Thad W. Garner in Winston-Salem in 1929, makes and sells sauces, jams, jellies, and preserves. Texas Pete, the best-selling hot sauce in the South and No. 3 in the country, is one of Garner Food's most-recognized products. The family-owned company employs about sixty-five and projects revenues of $20 million in 2004.

Source:

Business North Carolina (NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 12, Dec 2004, p34-36, 38, 40, 42-43, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sauce industry--Winston-Salem; T.W. Garner Food Co. (Winston-Salem)

Record #:

32968

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

Thad Garner, president of T. W. Garner Food Company in Winston-Salem, began his company in 1929 selling barbecue sauce. As the business began to expand, his barbecue sauce evolved into a hot sauce called Texas Pete. Today, the company produces a line of forty different products.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 42 Issue 11, Nov 1984, p98-99, il, por

Subject(s):

T.W. Garner Food Co. (Winston-Salem); Sauce industry--Winston-Salem