NOLA.com

Blue Runner, the canned beans company, looks to break into dry bean market

Blue Runner Foods for decades fixed red beans for cooks who didn’t have the time or impulse to simmer beans from scratch. The cans in the distinctive blue and white labels provide an easy solution, ...
The Advocate

Blue Runner to expand and produce frozen foods; it seeks a property tax break too

The same large kettles where Blue Runner Foods has prepared red and navy beans and meal bases for gumbo and jambalaya will see added duty as the company expands into frozen foods in a $2.2 million ...
The Advocate

Blue Runner Foods gears up for new product line, inspired by ways pandemic changed dining

Before the pandemic, Blue Runner Foods, maker of canned beans and gumbo, planned to launch itself into the frozen foods market. The new products would be marketed to consumers and grocery store delis ...
The Houma Courier

Blue Runner expands bean production

GONZALES — Hurricane Gustav nearly toppled a century-old former sugar cane building beside Blue Runner Foods on Labor Day 2008. The manufacturer of famous Louisiana cream-style canned beans decided to ...
Business Wire

Blue Runner Foods Appoints Its First Woman President to Lead Louisiana’s 105-Year-Old Red Bean Company

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Runner Foods today announced that Katie Bautsch, former vice president of operations for the 105-year-old Louisiana canning company, will take the reigns as the ...