Business View Magazine | January 2020

321 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 THE V I LLAGE OF MONTGOMERY , I LL INOI S Carl Buddig and Company, based in Homewood, Illinois, is owned and operated by third generation Buddig Family members. The Company is also proud that in recent years, fourth generation family members have joined the organization. For Carl Buddig and Company, family is at the heart of everything they do, from the company - family-owned since 1943 - to its family of 1,400 employees, to its family of products, and finally, to the families they feed. The Budding family tradition began when Carl Buddig opened a meat distribution company in Chicago, forming the roots of today’s Buddig brand of products. In 1958, the company built its first USDA- inspected facility, which allowed it to distribute products nationally. Consumers loved their thin-sliced lunchmeats, so they became a manufacturer too. Today, Carl Buddig and Company is also the parent company responsible for manufacturing and distribution of Old Wisconsin® hardwood-smoked sausage and meat snack products, and Kingsford® barbecue and specialty meats. Both are sold in supermarkets across the country. Carl Buddig and Company continues to embrace quality and innovation, consistently producing high-quality products because Buddig knows that it’s feeding families with the very best in taste, variety, and convenience. ®Kingsford is a registered trademark of The Kingsford Products Company, LLC ...... To learn more, please visit our website www.buddig.com buildings and fill them with different companies. We’ve also had some new development on raw dirt. We have a large number of food processing and distribution facilities in the community, such as a large dome that is accessed by rail that stores the byproduct of sugar beets from North Dakota and Minnesota. It comes here by rail and is stored, and then the sugar is shipped out to confectionary companies, soda manufacturers, and bakery companies.” That dome, of which Young speaks, is owned by the United Sugars Corporation; at 134 feet in height and 26,000 square-feet in capacity, it’s part of the largest single sugar transfer facility in the U.S. Montgomery’s downtown is situated near the Fox River. Its major occupier is the Village Hall, and other buildings include Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7452, Atrévete Confections, George’s Family Restaurant, a few medical offices, and a trade school (Capelli Academy of Cosmetology). “Unfortunately, there’s not a ton of activity in the downtown area, and that’s one of the items