Private label & custom co-pack — pork & beef

Your brand,
our forge.

Better-for-you pork and beef under your brand — built for CPG retail-ready programs and foodservice, to your spec.

What we run Your brand

CPG / Retail-Ready

Private label, packaged & shelf-ready

Foodservice

Custom spec & formats, at volume

Organic No Antibiotics Ever Grass-Fed
Organic options No antibiotics ever Grass-fed options No added nitrates or nitrites Clean labels
How we work

Two ways to put cleaner meat under your brand

One partner, one clean-label standard — built for whichever side of the business you're growing.

CPG / Retail-Ready

Retail-ready, under your brand

Private label and custom formulation, packaged and labeled for the shelf — with the consistency a category rollout needs.

  • Private label & custom recipe development
  • Retail-ready packaging & labeling
  • Claim-forward — Organic, NAE, grass-fed, no-nitrate
  • Scales from pilot to full rollout

Good fit for: grocers, natural retailers, and emerging CPG brands.

Foodservice

Custom-spec product at volume

Consistent formulations and formats built for the line and the distributor — at the throughput operators rely on.

  • Custom specs, blends & formulations
  • Formats built for the line — bulk or portioned
  • Clean-label options across the program
  • Volume and run-to-run consistency

Good fit for: restaurant groups, broadline & specialty distributors, commissary kitchens.

Reviews

Trusted by the people who buy this for a living

Buyers across retail, DTC, and foodservice. Brands withheld for confidentiality.

★★★★★Retail

"Fastest retail-ready packaging approval we've had — and they flagged two risky label claims before print."

S
Sarah
Director of Private Brands · Top-10 U.S. grocery retailer
★★★★★DTC

"Our supplier fell through six weeks out. They moved fast, kept us on schedule, and steered us off a box spec that would've failed in transit."

M
Marcus
VP of Supply Chain · National DTC protein brand
★★★★★Foodservice

"Run-to-run consistency across 200-plus units. No surprises."

E
Elena
Culinary Director · Multi-unit restaurant group
★★★★★Retail

"They walked us through the claims minefield — Organic, grass-fed, no-nitrate — and saved us a costly relabel."

D
David
Senior Category Manager, Meat & Deli · Regional grocer
★★★★★DTC

"As a small brand I needed a partner who'd move fast without making me feel small. They scaled our sausage program from pilot to national — and flagged packaging issues I didn't know to ask about."

P
Priya
Founder & CEO · DTC breakfast brand
★★★★★Foodservice

"Reliable specs, on time at volume — and they actually know protein."

J
James
Director of Procurement · Foodservice distributor
What we make

Pork & beef, across every format

Built to your recipe, or developed with you from scratch — one clean-label standard throughout.

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Bacon

Cured, smoked & sliced to your spec — slab to retail packs.

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Sausage

Fresh or fully cooked, links to bulk — your blend or ours.

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Charcuterie

Cured & dry styles — sliced or whole, made to your spec.

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Cuts

Whole-muscle pork & beef, case-ready or bulk, to spec.

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Ground

Pork & beef, your lean point, bulk or retail.

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CPG / finished

Retail-ready packaged products under your brand.

If it's pork or beef, we can spec it — custom formats and programs welcome.

Better-for-you

Cleaner, by default

Better-for-you isn't a premium tier here — it's the starting line. We build programs to the claims your shoppers and operators look for.

Organic No Antibiotics Ever Grass-Fed No added nitrates / nitrites No artificial ingredients Non-GMO options Whole30-eligible Paleo-friendly Keto-friendly Gluten-free Humanely / responsibly raised

Claims are built to your program's specs and verified to supplier documentation. Regulated claims and certifications (Organic, Grass-Fed, No Antibiotics Ever, and others) are confirmed before any product is labeled.

Label & compliance

Label design and USDA approval, handled

Your claims are only as strong as the label that carries them. We design the pack and shepherd it through USDA — so you launch clean and on time.

Label & packaging design

On-brand, retail-ready artwork

Label and packaging design built to your brand, your claims, and your format — for shelf or foodservice.

  • Brand-aligned label & packaging artwork
  • Dielines, print-ready files & spec sheets
  • Claim placement and required legends, done right
  • Retail-ready and bulk / foodservice formats
USDA approval

Through FSIS, the first time

We prepare and route labels through USDA FSIS, matching every claim to the wording and documentation it requires.

  • Sketch-approval prep & FSIS submission (LSAS)
  • Claim wording: Organic, grass-fed, NAE, no-nitrate
  • Substantiation & supplier docs, kept audit-ready
  • Guidance to avoid the costly relabels

We prepare and guide submissions; final label approval rests with USDA FSIS. Regulated claims are confirmed against product specs and certifications before printing.

How it works

From spec to shelf

1

Spec

Start with your brand, your claims, and your target cost. Bring a recipe or build one with us.

2

Source

Clean inputs matched to your claims — Organic, NAE, grass-fed, no-nitrate, and more.

3

Make

Custom cure, smoke, blend, grind & pack on equipment built for retail and foodservice runs.

4

Ship

Retail-ready or bulk, with the consistency to scale from pilot to full rollout.

About

Craft you can put your name on

Forged Provisions exists to make the cleaner option the default. We pair real butchery and formulation with the discipline of a manufacturing partner — so retailers and operators can launch better-for-you pork and beef under their own brand, without the usual tradeoffs between clean, consistent, and scalable.

Start a program

Leave your mark.

Your brand, forged into better pork and beef. Tell us the channel, the claims, and the volume — we'll tell you how fast we can make it.