Middleby Corp

The Middleby Corporation is a global enterprise specializing in the design, production, marketing, distribution, and servicing of a comprehensive range of equipment for commercial foodservice, industrial food processing, and residential kitchens. Its operations extend across numerous international markets, including the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. The company's offerings are segmented into three primary divisions: Commercial Foodservice Equipment Group: This segment provides an extensive array of professional kitchen solutions. Products include diverse oven types such as conveyor, combi, convection, and speed cooking models; cooking appliances like ranges, fryers, rethermalizers, and steam and induction cooking units; food warming and catering equipment; heated cabinets, charbroilers, and ventless cooking systems. It also covers kitchen ventilation, toasters, griddles, charcoal grills, professional mixers, custom stainless steel fabrication, refrigeration units (including blast chillers, cold rooms, and freezers), ice machines, and specialized beverage dispensing, home and professional craft brewing, and bottle filling and canning equipment, alongside innovative IoT solutions. Food Processing Equipment Group: This division caters to industrial-scale food production. It supplies machinery for batch, baking, proofing, and continuous processing ovens; advanced frying and automated thermal processing systems; equipment for tumbling, massaging, grinding, slicing, reduction, emulsion, mixing, forming, and blending. Further offerings include battering, breading, seeding, water cutting, food pressing, food suspension, filling, depositing, and comprehensive food safety, handling, freezing, defrosting, and packaging solutions. These systems are utilized by manufacturers producing diverse products such as hot dogs, dinner sausages, poultry, lunchmeat, muffins, cookies, and bread. Residential Kitchen Equipment Group: This segment focuses on high-end appliances for the home. Its portfolio includes cookers, stoves, dishwashers, microwaves, cooktops, wine coolers, ice machines, and both indoor ventilation and outdoor kitchen equipment. Established in 1888 as the Middleby Marshall Oven Company, the firm adopted its current name, The Middleby Corporation, in 1985. Its corporate headquarters are located in Elgin, Illinois.