MPPTA Client Spotlights

New Beginning for Something Old

A 78-year-old processing business in Millen, Georgia is taking on new life, thanks to Jarrod and Becca Creasy.

Jarrod grew up on a farm not far from Millen, where Fries Frozen Food meat processing had been operating since 1948, while Becca grew up in central Florida in an agricultural family. After getting married on September 20, 2014, they began using Fries to process the beef they stocked in their own freezers and sold to others. As they dropped off an animal for processing one day, the owner said, “You two ought to buy this business.”  

Heywood Provisions Flies High with Quality Products

Heywood Provisions is flying high these days. 

Literally.

The small further-processing enterprise tucked into an industrial park in urban Atlanta has grown exponentially since Patrick Gebrayel first opened for business in 2011.

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Gebrayel worked under legendary French Chef Jean-Louis Palladin in Washington, D.C., and then moved to Atlanta. Frustrated by the lower quality sausages he was working with at an Atlanta-area country club, he set out to create a business specializing in unique, high-quality meat and value-added products while supporting local livestock farmers.