Nueske's Applewood Smoked Meats is a specialty

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supplier in

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, United States. The company produces

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History

Nueske's was founded in the

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when R.C. Nueske began selling meats using family recipes."Nueske's,
''Corporate Report''
October 2010, accessed 15 October 2010. Nueske started marketing bacon, sausages, hams and smoked turkeys from a

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at small resorts in northern Wisconsin. By 2022 the company offered 30 products including glazed spiral-sliced hams, smoked turkeys, mettwurst, smoked pork chops, and beef 'n' bacon burgers, while its core bacon products continued to outsell all other products combined by about two to one. As of 2000 the company was operated by two Nueske brothers, Robert D. and James A. Jim Nueske helped expand distribution nationally, and international sales in Russia and Eastern Europe have been initiated.

Operation

Nueske's prepares its meats with a 20- to 24-hour smoking in "16 steel-lined concrete-block smokehouses heated by open fires of applewood logs" Racks hold 80 sides at a time for about 16,000 pounds a day, with the smoked meat emerging "lean and cordovan-colored, ready to be hand-trimmed and then machine-sliced, roughly 18 one-eighth-inch slices to a pound." Nueske's headquarters is located west of Green Bay. The company markets its products via both

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and retail supermarkets. The company spent $7.5 million on a 2006 construction project that included a plant expansion. Funding assistance included a $219,000 Transportation Economic Assistance from the state Department of Transportation that helped cover construction costs for two access roads near Nueske's. The expansion was expected to create and retain 148 jobs and more than $4 million in annual wages.Nueske's plans $7.5 million expansion
" ''The Business Journal of Milwaukee'', May 18, 2006.Doris Hajewski,

" ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', October 26, 2008.

Reviews

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'' said Nueske's produced the "

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of bacon, the

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of rashers" and as being well suited to

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s, accompaniment of eggs, and as an "ideal counterpoint to the richness of calf's liver or shad roe."R. W. Apple Jr.,
The Smoky Trail to a Great Bacon
, ''New York Times'', February 16, 2000. Nueske's is a three-time winner of the gold Specialty Outstanding Food Innovation (sofi) award from the

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, and its bacon has been used by high-end restaurants across the United States.

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