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Wenneman Meat Company in the News
Through the years,
Wenneman Meat Company has made the news. Below are some
of the stories featuring Wenneman Meat Company.
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March 21, 2011 -
Wenneman Meat Company to Rebuild in St. Libory, Illinois
Wenneman Meat Company has announced
it will stay in St. Libory, Illinois.
The new facility is
projected to cost $5 million dollars and will locate
adjacent to the previous site on Illinois Route 15 in
St. Libory.
The former facility burned to the
ground on January 27, 2011.
With 12 fire departments responding
to the blaze it was still a total loss.
Designed by Mike Schneider of
Quadrant Design from Waterloo, Il., the new specially
designed 22,000 square foot processing facility will
house a largely expanded retail area, a slaughter floor,
processing area and office space.
The new design will provide
for the most efficient and cost effective methods in the
industry.
Lake Contracting of Addieville, IL
will be the general contractor for the project.
Owner Dave Lake and project
manager Mark Albert have been working feverously on this
design/ build project.
It is expected that ground
will be broke by the second week of April with a
completion date in October.
Wenneman Meat Co. expects to
employee 40 full time employees.
Keith Moran of Moran Economic
Development has assisted Mayor Phyllis Behrman and the
Village of St. Libory to develop a TIF district to
provide economic incentives for the project.
TIF District incentives were
essential in Wenneman’s staying in the Village as other
communities had attempted to recruit the popular meat
company.
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UPDATE February 17, 2011
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Services we are now offering
to our valued customers:
**New Hours of operation:
Monday through Friday 8 - 4:30 Saturdays, 8 - Noon.
If other arrangements need to be made, please contact Brad
Schmitz at
618-713-4195 or Paul Otten
at
618-967-3948.
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Deer Update -
People
holding confirmation post cards for deer that have already
been processed, and are waiting for smokies and jerkey may
at this time pick up their products at the St. Libory
facility during normal business hours. Anyone that has
not yet received a post card, please contact us for a status
update of your order. Some orders for smokies and
jerkey are being processed at this time and will be
available after February 12, 2011. Please wait to
receive your confirmation post card prior to coming to our
St. Libory facility for pick up. If you have not
received a confirmation post card by February 19, 2011,
please contact us at that time to verify your order.
** Deer Processing
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Deer may be dropped off at our St. Libory location for
processing. We will transport the deer to our temporary
processing facility. You will be able to have your deer
processed just as before. We will either assign you a
pick up date or call you when your order is complete.
**Custom Beef and Hog processing
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Call 768-4328 for a delivery appointment to our facility
Monday between 8-3. Livestock is to be delivered to our
St. Libory location. We will then transport the
livestock to our temporary processing facility, process
the livestock to your request, and return the product to
our St. Libory facility for a scheduled pickup.
**Spices & Butchering Supplies
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Spices and casings are available on a "walk in" basis at
the St. Libory facility. Pork trimmings and beef
trimmings are also available with a three (3) day
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January 27, 2011 -
Wenneman Meat Co. severely damaged in fire.
You can view
various news reports on the fire at these links:
FOX2,
KMOV,
and
Belleville News Democrat. |
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February 18, 2008 -
KMOV TV - USDA Orders Nation's Largest Beef Recall - the
USDA is ordering the recall of 143 million pounds of
frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse..
Click here to view |
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Sauce Magazine's
Catherine Neville
talks about her visit to Wenneman Meat Co. in an
internet podcast. She begins talking about Wenneman roughly 6 minutes into the podcast.
Click here to listen |
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