Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Arkansas based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Arkansas Food and Beverage Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Westrock Coffee Company
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Westrock Coffee is a private label coffee company that focuses on integrated coffee, tea, and extract service.
Craft Standard
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Craft Standard is a beverage company that provides ready-to-draft on-premise cocktails.
Tyson Foods
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Tyson Foods is a protein-focused food company that processes and markets chicken, beef, and pork.
Delta Peanut
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Delta Peanut is an agricultural company that specializes in the production of peanuts.
Twin Rivers Foods
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Twin River Foods is part of the Poultry Product Manufacturing Industry.
Natural Way Food Group
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Natural Way Food Group is an innovative food company that produces natural peanut butter and almond butter that comes in multiple flavors.
Readthelabl
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Readthelabl is a vision to bring ready made whole food solutions to busy families.
Oh Baby Foods
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Oh Baby Foods is a provider of food products used to offer healthy food products for babies.
Riceland Foods, Inc.
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Riceland Foods is a food production company that provides rice milling and marketing services.
OK Foods
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OK Foods is a fully-integrated chicken producers.
Simmons Foods
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Simmons Foods manufactures and supplies poultry, pet and animal nutrition products.
Safe Foods
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Safe Foods is a biotechnology firm that offers food safety, poultry, and food processing services.
Blackhive
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Blackhive is a trading company that sources and distributes commodity food ingredients and packaged products to the food and retail sector.
Solve for Food
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Solve for Food is developing a network of regional, state-of-the-art food innovation and food processing centers featuring MATS systems
CAT Squared
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Innovative software solutions designed specifically for the food industry – MES
Bryan Foods
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Bryan Food is a Southern tradition rooted food and beverages company, offers hotdogs, smoked sausage, lunch meat, cocktail smokies, etc.
Nile Sugar Company
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Nile Sugar was set up in 2007 to build, operate and manage a beet root sugar extraction plant and refinery.
Al Ahram Beverages Company
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Al Ahram Beverages Company is a beverages company and among the best within the Heineken Group.
Simmons Pet Food
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The largest canned pet food private label and co-branded manufacturing businesses in the US.
Yarnell’s Ice Cream
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Yarnell’s is a consumer based company that provides wide range of ice cream flavors.
Adams Fairacre Farms
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Adams Fairacre Farms is a food & beverages company specializing in meat, cheese, and coffee products.
Coffee.org
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Coffee.org Is Dedicated To Serving Our Coffee Customers
Wixon
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Wixon is a food & beverages company providing meat, poultry, and seafood products.
De Wafelbakkers
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De Wafelbakkers provides baking services. The Company offers pancakes, waffles, and other related products.
Simple Loose Leaf
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Simple Loose Leaf offers a wide selection of tea such as Blue Lady Grey, Blood Orange and Genmaicha tea.
Georges Farmers Market
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Georges Farmers Market manufactures and supplies chicken saddle-packs, marinated, whole and frozen chicken.
Umarex USA, Inc.
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Umarex USA is a consumer goods company that produces guns, airguns, airsoft, and elite force.
Aidells Sausage Company
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Aidells curates the finest ingredients to create unique and delicious fusions of flavor in artisanal meats.
Ozone International LLC
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Ozone International is a food & beverages company providing food safety solutions and ozone services.
Grovac
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Grovac Systems International, L.C. provides equipment and natural ingredients solutions. It offers commercial machines, and small
Janis & Melanie
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Janis & Melanie is a food products supplier.
Little Bread Company
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Home of Fayetteville’s favorite fruits, nuts, and cream puffs.
Newmarket Naturals
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One stop on-line shop for all Water filtration system including shower head filters and drinking water filters.
The Venesian Inn
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The Venesian Inn is a restaurants and Italian specialties,plus beer & wine company located in Springdale.
Noodles Italian Kitchen
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Noodles Italian Kitchen, Italian Restaurant in Fayetteville.
Calvert Enterpriises
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Calvert Enterprises is a family run tree trimming service and grass fed meat supplier in Greenbrier, Arkansas.
4th Utensil
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4th Utensil offers cost-effective solutions to the waste created by traditional plastic straws.
Harry Saul Minnow Farm
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Harry Saul Minnow Farm offers bait farming services.
Southeast Poultry
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Southeast Poultry is a a privately-owned poultry processing plant.
Gilchrist Bag Manufacturing
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Gilchrist Bag Manufacturing is a privately owned and operated full service manufacturer of quality paper bags, sacks, & specialty supplies.
Pink House Alchemy
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Pink House Alchemy Limited Liability Company
Good Old Days
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Good Old Days is a food manufacturing company that produces and markets frozen fruit desserts, ready-to-bake cobblers, and side dishes.
Stone Mill Bread
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Stone Mill provides breads and catering throughout the United States.
Tyson Breeders
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Tyson Breeders, Inc. provides poultry products.
FoodText
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As an enterprise FoodText hopes to provide all those who are stressed for time in today’s society by offering a time saving way to
Dickson Street Inn
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Dickson Street Inn is a company that provides hotel accommodations and pub services.
Gillam Farms
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Gillam Farms, a farming operation producing blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and pumpkins.
Xplore Restaurant Group
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Xplore Restaurant Group operates restaurants in multiple golf courses in Hot Springs Village such as Granada, Isabella, and Desoto Golf.
MOLE ZAP
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APGR Green was founded in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Loblolly Creamery
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Loblolly Creamery is a handcrafted ice cream-making company.
Stock My Pond
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Stock My Pond provides a fish delivery service, offers quality fish including Channel Catfish, Crappie, Redear Bream, Hybrid Bluegill, etc.
Wyoming Whiskey, Inc.
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Wyoming Whiskey, Inc. produces Wyoming’s first premium whiskey, using regional ingredients.
Forrest City Grocery
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Forrest City Grocery wholesale food and tobacco distributor.
CCF Brands
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CCF Brands is a Category Manager for fresh-shelled eggs in major retail, supplying billions of eggs annually.
Ismailia National Food Industries
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Ismailia National Food Industries engages in the manufacturing, freezing, canning, drying of vegetables, fruits, and legumes.
Big Box Karaoke
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Big Box Karaoke is a bar and restaurant that offers space for birthday and bachelor parties, girls’ night out and corporate events.
Tacos 4 Life Grill
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Tacos 4 Life Grill is in the restaurants business that cooks and offers various types of cuisine that include tacos, meals, and drinks.
Bison Pumps
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Bison Pumps offers shallow well hand pumps, playground water pump , community water pump and deep well hand pumps.
Mama Fu’s Asian House
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Mama Fu’s Asian House is a restaurant that provides Asian cuisine and dishes.
Stoby’s Restaurant
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Stoby’s Restaurant is a restaurant chain that offers a wide variety of food and beverages across multiple locations.
Tyson Brand
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Tyson Brand is a food production company that offers excellent quality ready to cook meals products.
Capital Hotel
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Capital Hotel is a hospitality company specializing in dining and lodging services.
The Resident Chef
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The Resident Chef helps people create amazing meals for their friends and family.
Ozark Natural Foods
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Ozark Natural Foods is Northwest Arkansas’ natural-foods Co-op, owned by a community of more than 10,000 investors, most of whom live.
Hays Supermarkets
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Hays Supermarkets delivers consumer goods that include bakery products, cheese, fruits, wines, and cocktails via online and offline stores.
Northwest Arkansas Food Bank
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Northwest Arkansas Food Bank is a non-profit organization that distributes food to people who face financial hardship.
Larry’s Pizza
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Larry’s Pizza is a provider of food and beverages.
Hitmeupp
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Hitmeupp provides food delivery service connecting customers with local restaurant for a convenient and affordable delivery service.
Anthony Forest Products
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Anthony Forest Products is a paper & forest company that produces laminated beams and Southern Yellow Pine Lumber.
Tankersley Foodservice
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Tankersley Foodservice is a food and beverages company specialized in marketing and distributing food products.
G.P.M. International
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G.P.M. International is a food broker.
Big Timber Brewing Company
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Big Timber Brewing is a production microbrewery/taproom located in the heart of Appalachia, beautiful Elkins, West Virginia.
Minute Man Burgers
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Minute Man Burgers is a restaurant that specializes in charcoal-grilled burgers and rotisserie chicken, along with tasty fries and shakes.
