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Our History...
The Swiss Country Store was
operated by many families
throughout the years. It was in May
of 1965 that Bill and Margie Sloan
moved their family from St. Louis
County when they purchased the
Swiss Country Store from Margie’s parents, Ervin and Velma (Fiegler) Rauter.
Bill, a former meat market manager, began
to cut meat and manufacture sausage in the
country store. Bill and Margie operated both the
Swiss Country Store and Service Station, as well
as raised their five young children. He added a
walk in cooler and a small processing room in
the store, where he began to process beef and
hogs for the local farmers.
As his processing business grew, Bill realized
the need to expand or build in order to keep up
with the demand for his German Sausages. Bill
and his new business partner, Leroy Epple built and opened the Swiss Processing Plant
Inc. in October of 1969 for the purpose of butchering animals for the local farmers. It
wasn’t long before Bill saw the need to expand the meat business and he bought out
Leroy in 1973 and proceeded to double the size of the operation by adding more cooler
space, a larger retail area and two more smokehouses.
Bill was always looking for new opportunities, and his foresight led to the beginning of a
successful catering operation in 1976. In 1997 the size of the operation was doubled by
adding a warehouse, a packaging
room, additional cooler space,
a sausage kitchen, and another
smokehouse. There was also an
upgrade of equipment to remain
competitive and to diversify their
operations; which then included
wholesale, mail order, deer
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