Coast Packing Company

What Coast Packing Company does

Coast Packing Company, founded in 1922, is a private manufacturer of edible animal fats — primarily lard and tallow — along with vegetable shortenings and meat products. The firm operates from Vernon and employs 51–100 people. Its core business is the production and distribution of specification-grade animal fats that serve two parallel customer sets: (1) commercial foodservice operators and food processors in bakery, confectionery, and general foodservice applications that require clean-label and heritage ingredient inputs, and (2) home cooks, bakers, and chefs who purchase for traditional cooking and baking use.

The underlying technology is straightforward rendering and packaging of edible animal fats; no proprietary software, AI, or platform components are disclosed in the source material. Products are positioned against the modern backdrop of seed-oil dominance by emphasizing authenticity, natural origin, and heritage usage — a positioning reinforced annually through the #LardLovers Recipe Contest (now in its ninth year) and National Lard Day celebrations on December 8.

The revenue model is product sales of physical goods — lard and tallow — to industrial and consumer end-markets. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is community-led at the consumer end (recipe contests, hashtag campaigns) and likely relationship-based sales at the industrial end, with no distribution partners, e-commerce channels, or sales-channel detail disclosed. The firm competes within the edible animal fat market, which is sized at USD 16.83B in 2025 and projected to reach USD 75.11B by 2036 at a 4.6% CAGR; tallow and lard are identified as the fastest-growing sub-categories. Coast Packing's strategic posture appears to be a stable, mature operator leveraging category tailwinds rather than executing an aggressive expansion playbook.

Name

Coast Packing Company

Website

https://coastpacking.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1922

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Coast Packing Company is a 100-year-old private manufacturer of lard, tallow, and vegetable shortenings serving foodservice, bakery, confectionery, and home-cooking markets with specification-grade natural animal fats.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Edible Animal Fats

NAICS

Fats and Oils Refining and Blending (311225), Rendering and Meat Byproduct Processing (311613)

SIC

Fats & Oils (2070), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Edible Animal Fats Rendering & Refining (Tallow, Lard) (AFAKAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Animal-Derived Edible Fats (Tallow, Lard, Butterfat/Ghee) (AFAJALAE), Edible Rendering (Tallow, Lard, Poultry Fat) (AFANAGAA), Bakery & Confectionery Fats (CBR/CBS/CBE, Coating & Filling Fats) (AFAJALAG)

Keywords

• Edible animal fats
• Lard manufacturing
• Tallow production
• Bakery shortenings
• Foodservice ingredients

Headquarters

HQ city

Vernon Hills

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Edible Animal Fat Products: Coast Packing Company generates revenue through the sale of edible animal fats, specifically lard and tallow products. These products serve the bakery, confectionery, and foodservice sectors with demand driven by renewed interest in traditional cooking fats.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Coast Packing Company manufactures and sells edible animal fat products, primarily lard and tallow, for use in bakery, confectionery, and foodservice applications. The company positions its products as authentic, natural, specification-grade fats serving clean-label and heritage cooking traditions. Beyond manufacturing, the company operates the annual #LardLovers Recipe Contest as a community engagement initiative promoting traditional cooking fats.

Product overview

Coast Packing Company offers a focused portfolio of natural animal fat products, primarily lard and tallow, serving foodservice, bakery, confectionery, and retail cooking applications. The company's products include specification-grade fats targeting clean-label and heritage product applications. The company also runs the annual #LardLovers Recipe Contest to promote authentic, natural animal fats in American kitchens.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lard Products Natural, authentic animal fat lard products for cooking, baking, and foodservice applications. Marketed as a traditional cooking fat for American kitchens and used in heritage recipes, clean-label formulations, and home cooking.
• Tallow Products Edible tallow products serving bakery, confectionery, and foodservice sectors as a traditional cooking and formulation fat. Tallow is among the fastest-growing categories in the edible animal fat market.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Tyson Foods: Tyson Foods is one of the largest U.S. meat processors and produces substantial volumes of tallow and lard as byproducts of its slaughter operations. It is a broad incumbent peer because it shares Coast Packing's upstream animal-fat production economics and downstream food ingredient customer base, though as part of a much larger protein business.
• Cargill: Cargill is one of the largest global agricultural commodity and food ingredient companies, with significant fats and oils production. It is a broad incumbent peer because its edible oils and specialty fats businesses serve the same bakery, foodservice, and food processing customers that Coast Packing targets, but across a much broader portfolio.
• Bunge Limited: Bunge is a global agribusiness and food ingredients major with a large oils and fats portfolio serving bakery, foodservice, and food manufacturers. It is a broad incumbent peer because it operates in the same fats and oils manufacturing space as Coast Packing but at vastly greater scale and across both vegetable and specialty fats.
• JBS USA: JBS is a global meat processor that produces tallow, lard, and rendered byproducts for ingredient and industrial markets. It is comparable to Coast Packing because it shares the same animal-fat byproduct supply chain, though at substantially larger scale and integrated into a broader protein business.
• Archer Daniels Midland (ADM): ADM is a global leader in oilseed processing and refined oils/fats manufacturing for food and industrial applications. It is a broad incumbent peer because its vegetable oils and specialty fats divisions produce products that overlap with Coast Packing's lard and tallow offerings in the bakery and foodservice channels.

Emerging players

• Epic Provisions: Epic Provisions is a heritage-positioned meat snack brand that similarly capitalizes on traditional animal-fat content and whole-food narratives. It is an emerging player peer because it targets overlapping consumer segments interested in nose-to-tail and traditional fat consumption, though it operates downstream in branded packaged goods rather than ingredient supply.

Direct peers

• Darling Ingredients: Darling Ingredients is the largest publicly traded rendering company, producing tallow, lard, and meat byproducts from animal processing. It is a directly comparable peer because it operates in the same upstream rendering and animal-fat production value chain as Coast Packing, with overlapping product categories (tallow, lard).
• Stratas Foods: Stratas Foods is a leading U.S. supplier of specialty fats and oils for foodservice, food processing, and bakery/confectionery applications. It is directly comparable to Coast Packing because both supply specification-grade edible fats to overlapping B2B customer segments in the bakery, confectionery, and foodservice channels.
• Baker Commodities: Baker Commodities is a U.S. rendering company producing tallow, lard, and other animal byproducts. It is comparable to Coast Packing because it shares the same rendering-based supply chain for edible animal fats and serves similar downstream bakery and food processing customers.
• Ventura Foods: Ventura Foods is a major manufacturer of specialty oils, shortenings, and fats for foodservice and retail customers. It overlaps directly with Coast Packing in the production of edible fats and shortenings for bakery, foodservice, and packaged-food customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/coastpackingco
• Facebookfacebook.com/coastpackingco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/coast-packing-company

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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