Recognized as one of the top 50 protein processors in North America, the company has the capacity to produce over 650 million pounds of food products per year across four facilities.

According to The National Provisioner, West Liberty Foods is the 34th largest meat and poultry processor in the United States.

West Liberty Foods meat and poultry products can be found in grocery stores and restaurant chains nationwide.

[4] Much of the company's sales come from large nationwide foodservice customers,[5] and as of 2006, was Subway's largest supplier of sliced sandwich meat, providing the franchise with more than 1 million pounds per week.

[7] West Liberty Foods maintains separate facilities for research and development and laboratory testing services.

[9] Prior to 1996, Louis Rich, the brand name for Oscar Mayer's turkey division, owned the processing plant in West Liberty.

[1] In early 1996, Oscar Mayer's parent company, Kraft Foods, announced that they would close the plant that December if no buyer purchased it.

[6] The Iowa turkey growers who sold to Kraft discussed purchasing the plant to ensure that demand for their birds remained.

[1] The company faced financial difficulty because the turkey market was oversupplied and prices hit historic lows.

[6] Turkey prices eventually rebounded, and the company was bolstered by sales to Sara Lee near the end of 1998.

[1] The company grew again in April 2003 when it opened a processing plant in Mount Pleasant, IA, which was later expanded in 2004.

[12] Company leadership changed in 2004 as Ed Garrett was named president and COO when Rutledge resigned to take a position with another growers' organization.

[16] A National Labor Relations Board hearing to confirm or invalidate the vote was scheduled for January 5, 2005, but then postponed until February 16, 2005.

[18] UFCW withdrew its objections, and West Liberty Foods posted a notice that they would not close the plant or fire workers if employees unionized.

[2] The Mount Pleasant plant is a 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m2) facility that is used for slicing cooked cheese, turkey, chicken, beef, pork, and other products.

[9] The two facilities are connected, and product is immediately transferred by conveyor from the plant to cold storage when packaging is complete.

[9] The design and operation of the Mount Pleasant plant was developed to decrease potential hazards to food safety.

[22] WLF representatives have stated that the goal of the Mount Pleasant plant is to create a pathogen-free environment.

[28] The incentives were conditioned on the new jobs paying a certain level above the county median wage, offering health insurance, and the company staying in Utah for 10 years.

[29] After this development, the state held the incentive offer open provided that West Liberty Foods could find another suitable site that met Utah's requirements.