Mennel Milling
Family-owned food-production company, founded 1886 in Fostoria, Ohio, supplying wheat flours, bakery mixes, and grain-based ingredients through mills, elevators, packaging, warehousing, and trucking operations in seven states.
Mennel Milling is a family-owned food-production company founded in 1886 in Fostoria, Ohio, and now led by the fifth generation of the Mennel family. It employs approximately 1,000 people across more than 30 locations in seven states, operating flour mills, grain elevators, bakery-mix facilities, packaging operations, warehousing, and trucking and transportation services.
The company supplies bakeries, food manufacturers, and industrial baking operations with wheat flours produced at its flour mills, bakery mixes made at dedicated mix facilities, and customized grain-based ingredients tailored to individual customers. Its technical domains span grain milling, bakery mix formulation, grain processing, packaging, warehousing and logistics, and transportation - disciplines that depend on consistent procedures, food-safety standards, and reliable supply-chain execution.
Growth has come through acquisitions of mills, grain elevators, bakery-mix facilities, packaging operations, and trucking services. The firm states a mission emphasising quality, uniformity, and service, alongside continued investment in products, processes, people, food safety, and supply-chain capabilities. Its founding families were Harter, Brown, and Mennel, and the business has operated for more than 130 years.