About

Tom Blakeway started Quality Boneless Beef Company Inc in 1967, to supply the Fargo-Moorhead area with fresh ground beef materials.  The business was run by just Tom and one other meat cutter.  Tom would go out in the morning making deliveries of ground beef and take orders for the following day.  He would then come back to the plant in the afternoon, put on a frock and help with the boning of the cattle for the next day’s deliveries.  Tom’s concept was fairly simple, to provide a fresh quality product to the retail and restaurant customers in the area. 

Tom expanded the business by adding more products such as portion-cut steaks and pork chops along with ground beef patties.  With these product additions he needed to expand his staff by hiring meat cutters and a sales staff to handle the business.  In 1976, Tom purchased Fargo Packing Company, and that is when the Valley Maid (which was established in 1948) line of products such as Hams and Smoked Sausages were added.  Also, he expanded the sales territory to encompass all of North Dakota, parts of South Dakota and western Minnesota. 

Since 1980 the fresh meat side of the business has been expanded to include Boxed Beef, Pork, Poultry, and fresh products from other manufacturers. In addition, in the 80’s, a full line of seafood, shrimp, lobster and fish fillets were added.  With those added products, a DBA (does business as) was added to better reflect the wider variety of products, and that name was Quality Meats & Seafood.  Finally, in 1993, Quality Meats & Seafood was granted a Certified Angus Beef® license to carry and distribute their brand of products. 

In 2003, the company became 100% employee owned and we currently employ around 70 people between our 2 facilities.  Fargo Packing and Sausage Company continues to process a wide variety of smoked hams, sausages and cooked meats.  The Corporate office and our 30,000 square feet distribution center contains our beef and pork cutting operation along with our ground beef and beef patty production center. 

We exclusively partner with independent restaurants, retail meats shops, local grocery store chains, regional processors and similar wholesalers.  Tom retired in the late 1980’s, his high standards are what our staff and crew strive for.  Our product mix has significantly expanded and changed with the times, superior quality and customer satisfaction has always been and will always be at our core philosophy.