Marcus Food Co. is a thirty-eight year old 'Center-of-the-plate' marketing company serving all phases of the food-service industry. Sales offices are located in nineteen locations in the United States and Canada. Our inventory is strategically placed in major cold storage facilities throughout North America so that we can create a customized distribution program to satisfy all your beef, turkey, pork, seafood, poultry, and further processed product needs.
Started by Howard Marcus in 1980, Marcus Food was a natural outgrowth from the Marcus' family ownership of the Excel Packing Company, founded by Sam Marcus in 1936. After going public in 1970 as Kansas Beef Industries, a merger with Missouri Beef Packers in 1974 resulted in MBPXL. With a subsequent sale to Cargill, Inc. in 1979. Howard formed Marcus Food Co. to facilitate buyer's purchasing needs in both food-service and retail