Press Releases

For Immediate Release – August 15th, 2008 | Zumbro River Brand has met the criteria for certification as a “Women’s Business Enterprise ” in partnership with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. More

For Immediate Release – July 1, 2008 | Contract Coating Services

ZRB offers experienced custom production of your coated ingredients. To optimize product consistency, equipment accommodates large coating batches -- up to 3 tons per batch. Capabilities include aqueous or lipid coatings over a wide temperature range. Improved product attributes may include taste masking, moisture and environmental protection, pH or temperature-triggered release, controlled / sustained release and odor control.

For further information contact Gary Masters – 507-446-9097  – .

For Immediate Release – March 27, 2008

Albert Lea, MN  56007Quality Packaging for Small and Medium Quantities --

Customized Packaging Services for Stand-up Pouches, Bartelt Packs and Form-Fill-Seal Bags are offered by Zumbro River Brand, Inc.  Specializing in medium and small volume runs, ZRB is pleased do your product start-up, market testing and show samples. Two compartment Bartelt Packs are also an option.    Blending, Agglomeration, Extrusion and Flavoring services are available prior to packaging for turn-key operation.   Kosher Certification, Organic-Certified and Gluten-Free processing and packaging are available at both ZRB facilities  --Owatonna and Albert Lea, MN. 

For further information contact Virginia Busch – 507-446-9097 X 102  – .

March 10, 2008, Zumbro River Brand and PowerCap® Team to Create Solutions

 Zumbro River Brand (ZRB) agglomeration services can successfully transform your ingredient or dry mix product by improving product flowability and generating dispersability for lump-free solutions.  Agglomerating several ingredient components produces a homogeneous blend that will not segregate on handling or packaging.  More...

Oct 23, 2007 — Owatonna , MN   55060 –  In response to pressure from parents and educational professionals, sodas and sugary treats are being removed from school vending machines.   Zumbro River Brand, Inc.  has developed a variety of good-for-you snacks which deliver the crunch and flavor impact of conventional snacks in a higher protein, low fat snack product.  Cheesy taco, black pepper pizza, honey mustard, and potato chip flavored snacks are available as prototypes in this line.  A variety of shapes including zig zags, rings, mini pizza slices and scoops appeal to kids.   Some products offer low sodium levels.  Single serve packaging is also available for these products.  Zumbro River Brand will work with manufacturers to tailor the products to their specifications.

Sept 10, 2007, Albert Lea, MN 56007– Zumbro River Brand, Inc. has developed several nutritious, crunchy snack products with low sodium and high protein levels. These snacks provide a generous serving size in 100 calorie packs. They are available in a variety of shapes and flavoring choices for contract production to meet customer specifications.

Reduced-sodium Memphis Barbeque Multi-Grain Chips contain only 140 mg of sodium per 25 g serving. This is about half the sodium content of most conventional snack chips. These whole grain chips also offer 3 g of dietary fiber and 3 g of protein per serving.

Texas Barbeque Whey-Soy Chips provide 10 g of protein and 4 g of fiber per 30g/100 calorie serving. Benefits of whey protein to health and weight maintenance are a plus for this formulation. Derived from inulin and oat fiber sources, both soluble and insoluble fiber types are included in the corn-based chip.

Cheese-Taco Potato-Soy Bites are a tasty 70 calorie treat when 28g are packaged for convenient snacking. This generous one ounce snack portion effectively supports weight loss efforts by providing 13g of protein and 2 g of fiber. This serving size of protein helps curb the appetite and provides a satisfied feeling.

At our new plant in Albert Lea, Zumbro River Brand can help customers develop products, produce the extruded base snack, and then flavor and package it for retail sale.

  Sept 1, 2007 - Ginny Busch has been promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

May 1, 2007 Doris Maki has been promoted to Director of Product Development.

ZRB would like to welcome Peter Croatt as the Director of Quality Assurance.  Peter comes to us with an extensive background in the food industry including Vision Pharma Technogolies, Protient, IFP, Inc., Form-A-Feed, Quali -Tech and Kallestad Laboratories.

Gary Masters has been promoted to Owatonna Plant Manager. Gary has more that a decades worth of experience in the contract manufacturing business.

Apr 15, 2007 - Zumbro River Brand, Owatonna, MN announces that their new contract processing facility in Albert Lea, MN is operational. This plant has agglomeration, blending and packaging capabilities.  ZRB offers packaging of snack and cereal items as well as powders.  Bartelt packaging featuring divided pouches for items like pasta and dry sauce mix are available.  A new Wenger twin screw extrusion system will be operational in Oct of 2007, offering another 6 million pounds of extrusion capacity.  ZRB will continue to provide extrusion and agglomeration custom processing services in their Owatonna, MN plant.  A pilot size extruder is also available for trials and small runs.  An 10,000 sq ft addition to the Albert Lea facility has been recently completed for  additional warehouse space.

Apr 1, 2007 - Jim Fischer has been promoted to Executive Vice President.