The company started in the coffee and tea business and has diversified through to include condiments, dressings, seasonings, and baking products.

Luzianne Iced Tea is available nationally while other products have greater distribution and demand in the Southern United States.

[1] William B. Reily began his career in the grocery and packaged goods business in the late 1870s as a country store clerk in Bastrop, LA.

Both his coffee and tea products were sold under the Luzianne (a regional pronunciation of Louisiana) brand name that he created.

It wasn't until its 1965 acquisition of the JFG Coffee Company that Reily Foods began diversifying their product offerings.

They include Swans Down Cake Flour, Try Me Sauces & Seasonings (namely Tiger Sauce), Wick Fowler's 2-Alarm Chili, La Martinique Salad Dressings, Carroll Shelby's Original Texas-Style Chili, Presto Cake Flour, No Pudge Fat Free Brownie Mix, French Market Coffees, New England Tea & Coffee.

The family home of Wm B Reily, Kalorama, in Collinston Louisiana 5 miles south of Bastrop is now a nature preserve open to the public, and has been added to the national register of historic places In his authoritative and best-selling personal book The Death of a President, author William Manchester mentions Oswald's unsuccessful job with Reily (without naming the company) as the top example of "the bleak truth was that he couldn't do anything right" and then added that "bit by bit the sickening truth was emerging; no one wanted him, no one had ever wanted him" in telling Oswald's personal story leading up to November 22, 1963.