Sausage Wars
-
https://fortune.com/2025/06/20/hormel-sues-johnsonville-sausage-secrets/
Call it a brat battle or a sausage subterfuge. Whatever the label, there’s a standoff brewing in the sausage world.
Hormel is suing its archrival Johnsonville, alleging a former employee left with trade-secret recipes and market intelligence and brought them to the competitor.
“The sausage market is increasingly competitive, and improper use of confidential, proprietary and trade-secret information, or wrongful competition or solicitation, could cause a manufacturer significant competitive economic disadvantage,” the suit reads.
Hormel also accuses another former employee of trying to lure other Hormel employees to Johnsonville after he changed jobs, violating a non-solicitation agreement.
Hormel, which alleges Johnsonville did not cooperate when sent a letter outlining the “unlawful behavior” of the two former employees, is asking for the return and deletion of confidential data as well as unspecified monetary damages.
and, fun fact
Los Angeles consumes more hot dogs than any other city, purchasing more than 27 million pounds of them in 2024
-
It’s all baloney.
