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The Surprisingly Big Company®
Our mission is to be a leading food manufacturer by converting needs, ideas, and expertise into value for our members, business partners, and consumers.
West Liberty Foods is a food company. We manufacture hundreds of meat and poultry products that can be found in well-known grocery stores and top restaurant chains nationwide. Recognized as one of the top 50 protein processors in North America, we have the capacity to produce over 650 million pounds of food products per year across our four facilities. We are The Surprisingly Big Company®, and we’re right in your backyard.
CORE VALUES
Family Oriented
We will maintain our agricultural heritage and strive to provide an atmosphere that encourages family life.
Leadership
Through relationships, knowledge, and vision, we will strive to ethically influence situations and create empowered and engaged team members.
Results Driven
By providing the tools, metrics, and analysis, we will empower our individuals to deliver improved customer and organizational results.
Entrepreneurship
We will act in an entrepreneurial spirit to take calculated risks to grow our business.
Tenacity
With persistence and due diligence, we will strive for solutions and pioneer new innovations.
Innovation
We will strive to transport ideas into improved products, services, or processes in order to advance, compete, and differentiate our organization successfully in our marketplace.
Relationship
We will invest time, money, and effort to build relationships based upon trust, openness, creditability, and mutual respect.
Social Responsibility
From farm to plate, we will be ethically responsible stewards of our human, natural, cultural, and financial resources.
Integrity
We will consistently embrace our core values in all aspects of our business.
WE BELIEVE IN DOING THE RIGHT THING
We are a Landfill Free Company. The NSF-ISR verification process demonstrates that the total waste from our facilities entering the landfill is less than 1%.
OUR FACILITIES:West Liberty, Iowa
Corporate Headquarters
Turkey Processing Facility
Research & Development
Bolingbrook, Illinois
Production Facility
Research & Development
Liberty Cold
Mount Pleasant, Iowa
State-of-the-Art Slicing Facility
Tremonton, Utah
State-of-the-Art Slicing and IQF Facility
Leadership Training
Leadership Competency Model Training (LCM)
LCM is an introduction to the five Key Performance Drivers which position West Liberty Foods to achieve a competitive and strategic advantage. This training opportunity is provided to all salaried, clerical, technical, professional and maintenance team members. Team members are introduced to leadership tools and skills to increase their ability for success in the workplace. It is also prepares team members to practice the “West Liberty Foods Way” of leadership, focusing on strategies for personal growth and leveraging individual leadership strengths. The training provides strategies for leading oneself and others with diverse styles.
Leadership Excellence/EQ
This training was introduced in the fall of 2014, with LCM and HPT as prerequisites to this advanced leadership training. This learning opportunity is a great time to enhance and focus on one’s emotional intelligence. With emphasis on self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, we can excel in our abilities to lead with excellence.
Effective Management Training (EM)
EM training focuses on understanding individual roles, knowing our preferred work styles, communicating effectively, understanding team member empowerment and accepting accountability.
High Performing Teams Training (HPT)
HPT focuses on the variables which contribute to team success and how “shared leadership” positively impacts the building of effective teams. This training also increases one’s capabilities by building trust, making decisions, diagnosing problems and managing conflict.