Company profile
The Middleby Corporation, originally founded in 1888 as Middleby Marshall Oven Company and rebranded with its current name in 1985, is a global enterprise based in Elgin, Illinois. It specializes in the development, production, commercialization, distribution, and upkeep of an extensive array of kitchen equipment for the foodservice, food processing, and residential sectors. Its operations span across numerous international regions, including North America (United States, Canada), Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The company's Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group provides a comprehensive selection of professional kitchen apparatus. This encompasses diverse oven types such as conveyor, combi, convection, baking, proofing, deck, speed cooking, and hydrovection units. The division also supplies cooking appliances like ranges, fryers, rethermalizers, steam cooking systems, induction and countertop units, food warming and catering solutions, heated cabinets, charbroilers, and innovative ventless cooking systems. Further offerings include kitchen ventilation, toasters, griddles, charcoal grills, commercial mixers, custom stainless steel fabrication and millwork, and professional refrigeration equipment (including refrigerators, blast chillers, cold rooms, ice machines, and freezers). Additionally, it delivers specialized solutions for soft-serve ice cream, coffee and beverage dispensing, home and professional craft brewing, fry dispensing, bottle filling and canning, and advanced IoT integration. Middleby's Food Processing Equipment Group caters to manufacturers of products such as hot dogs, dinner sausages, poultry, lunchmeat, muffins, cookies, and bread. This segment delivers a robust suite of machinery for food preparation, including various batch, baking, proofing, conveyor belt, and continuous processing ovens; sophisticated frying and automated thermal processing systems; tumblers, massagers, grinders, slicers, reduction and emulsion systems, mixers, formers, and blenders. Moreover, it supplies specialized equipment for battering, breading, and seeding, alongside water cutting systems, food presses, food suspension devices, filling and depositing mechanisms, forming equipment, and solutions for food safety, handling, freezing, defrosting, and packaging. Lastly, the Residential Kitchen Equipment Group offers a curated collection of home kitchen appliances. This range includes cookers, stoves, dishwashers, microwaves, and cooktops, alongside specialized items such as wine coolers, ice machines, ventilation systems, and outdoor cooking equipment.
- CEO
- Timothy FitzGerald
- Employees
- 8,826
- IPO date
- 29 Jan 2018
- ISIN
- US5962781010
