About Us

Viking Food Group is a family owned business with three generations of experience in ingredient sales, product development, and customer support.

Time Line:

· Early 1940’s Frank Wolf begins selling chocolate and cocoa products to the confectionary, dairy, and bakery industries, as well as to retailers.

· 1950’s Frank shifts his focus away from retail sales and begins to focus on providing better service and an expanded product line for the dairy industry.

· 1960’s Frank’s son-in-law Ron Pershall joins the company to expand sales.

· 1984 Frank Wolf retires.  Ron Pershall founds Viking Chocolate Company with a focus on high volume liquid chocolate, compound, and cocoa.

· 1990’s Ron’s son-in-law, Jeff Horrocks, joins the company with a focus on adding and expanding products and services to meet as many customer needs as possible.

· 2000’s Ron’s son, David Pershall, joins company with a focus on improving communications between internal and external operations.

· 2002 As the scope of Viking Chocolate Company’s products expands well beyond that of chocolate.  The company begins doing business as Viking Food Group.

· 2002 Viking teams up with Amanda Karwic and Food Solutions to provide added technical services for internal product development, consulting, and labeling.