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| The latest change in the company deals with the partnership with URM Food Service. In March of 2006, URM bought out Food Service, and Inland Meats moved from its old location on Trent in Spokane Valley, to the former Food Service Building in the city of Spokane. Inland Meats would stay as a sole proprietorship, but at the same time, be doing business with its partner URM. Now along with having delivery to many areas of the Northwest, Inland Meats is a proud partner with URM, expanding the business on a much larger scale. New operations are taking place in a much larger building, almost twice the size of the old plant at nearly 20,000 square feet of space. Also, Inland Meats now employes over 40 full-time people. The year 2007 represented the 75th year of business in the Greater Inland Northwest, Spokane area, and 40th year of having the business in the Mullenix Family. |
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| Click on a picture for a Full-Size view And to read old newspaper articles |
| History: Inland Meats Inc. has been serving the Greater Spokane Area, and other areas of the Inland Northwest since 1932. Its founder, Mike Guioddi, was of Sweedish decent. Originally Inland Meats opened up on a very popular corner in Downtown Spokane. This location, at the corner of Riverside and Browne (mostly known as Thudpuckers and now is the location of the new America West Building), would be the headquarters as the business continued to grow. |
| In 1952 things would change for the better, and for good. A young man by the name of Larry Mullenix would go to work for the business, just starting out as a kid. Eventually Larry would get a delivery route up to Sandpoint, Idaho. After having his route for a couple of years, Larry had the idea to start up his own side business, buying product from Inland Meats, and selling it to customers up in Sandpoint. |
| As his business grew, Larry would start to buy in to Inland Meats, little bits at a time. Once he saved up enough money, he bought the business outright, and took over as president in 1967. From the start, Larry had trouble getting the production area of the building to be under USDA control. This led to the purchase of a separate facility, just a few blocks down the road, between Riverside and Main. This new building was under USDA control, and became the production part of the business, while other operations continued at the original location. |
| Business would then continue as normal until 1973. This would be a time in which Inland Meats would then go back to being in one building, but in a new location. Larry would build the new building on a plot of land in the outer parts of Spokane, in Spokane County, on Trent Ave. This new building would be over 10,000 square feet, and at the time cost about $250,000 to build. Production was once again in the same building. One change in the way the business would be ran, is that there would no longer be slaughtering or cooking at the new facility. |
| Old Business Card, 1940-1960 |
| Inland Meats Production, approx early 40's |
| Larry's Wholesale Meats Invoice Truck, late 1950's |
| Inland Meats Production, Dec 1941 |
| Old Invoice, 1950's |
| Spokane Daily Chronicle Article2/24/1973 |
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| Spokane Daily Chronicle Article Mon June 23, 1969 |
| Larry, along with wife Nancy, would have four children, one girl Michelle, and three boys Mike, Dan, and Chuck. These three boys would enter in to the meat business, and join their father. Mike and Chuck would stay in the now "Family Business" for many years, until eventually going off and starting up businesses of their own, much like their father. Dan would stay as vice president, and much like Larry once did, buy in to the company a little at a time. Finally in 2004, Dan would take over as owner and president of Inland Meats. Dan, along with his wife Cindy, would have two boys of their own, Troy and Taylor. |
| Company Trip to Lake Roosevelt, 1980's |
| History |
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