| Company |
Location |
Employees |
Product |
| Monterey Mushrooms |
Loudon |
550 |
Commercial mushrooms |
| Con Agra Food |
Cocke |
475 |
Food products |
| Interstate Bakeries (Merita) |
Knox |
372 |
Bakery products |
| Sara Lee Bakeries |
Knox |
362 |
Bakes breads and snack cakes |
| Bush Brothers & Co. |
Jefferson |
360 |
Manufactures dried and dehydrated fruits and vegetables & soup mixes |
| Tate & Lyle |
Loudon |
268 |
Corn syrup & flavoring extracts |
| Sysco Knoxville |
Knox |
250 |
Processes & distributes food products |
| Viskase Corp |
Loudon |
244 |
Cellulose casings |
| Green Mountain Coffee Company |
Knox |
230 |
Coffee Roasting, packaging & wholesaling |
| Advanced Food Company |
Campbell |
225 |
Food products |
| Reily Foods Co. (JFG) |
Knox |
200 |
Coffee roasting, manufacturers peanut butter & mayonnaise |
| Family Brands |
Loudon |
156 |
Meat packing plant |
| Processed Food Corporation |
Knox |
155 |
Frozen soups |
| Travis Meats Inc. |
Knox |
150 |
Meat processing and packing |
| Wamplers Farm Sausage Co. |
Loudon |
113 |
Manufactures sausage from slaughtered meat |
| Swaggerty Sausage Co. Inc. |
Sevier |
80 |
Manufactures sausage from slaughtered meat; meat processing |
| House of Thaller |
Knox |
30 |
Manufactures salads |
| Crockett Creek LLC |
Blount |
15 |
Manufactures dried beef from purchased meat |
| English Mountain Spring Water Company |
Jefferson |
14 |
Bottles spring water for drinking |
| Benton’s Smoky Mountain Country Hams |
Monroe |
5 |
Dry cured country ham, bacon & proscuitto |