Hook-N-Ladder Jerky is a family owned meat snack company founded in 2018 by retired Cleveland firefighter Mark Bauman, whose lifelong appreciation for smoked meats began while growing up in Cleveland’s historic Slavic Village neighborhood. Influenced by the old world butcher shops and Eastern European smokehouses of Northeast Ohio during the 1960s and 1970s, Bauman spent years searching for Read More
Iowa Smokehouse – Honey Jalapeno Beef Jerky
Iowa Smokehouse began as a small snack food distribution business in 1984 when founder Lee Holsman borrowed $5,000 (with his sister as cosigner) to buy a Volkswagen Rabbit and $3,000 worth of jerky and other snacks. Over the years, Lee’s son Aaron joined the business, and together they developed the Iowa Smokehouse branded line of meat snacks, jerky, meat sticks, steak bites, kippered slabs, and summer sausage. Read More