Johnny's Meat & Fruit Market

Aurora Packing Company acts as a slaughterhouse. The company purchases livestock, specifically fat cattle, and then processes those cattle into raw-beef products. Aurora Packing Company also acts as a wholesaler, marketing and distributing its raw-beef products to commercial clients. The company is exclusively a wholesaler and refuses to take orders from or sell to the general public. Aurora Packing Company maintains its corporate headquarters in North Aurora, Ill., and has been in business since 1980.

City Foods, Incorporated is a USDA inspected facility, which produces about 400,000 - 500,000 pounds of beef products per week. Most of its volume is in the form of the large quantities of fresh domestic steer navels it bones out daily. The company purchases truckloads of USDA Selected and USDA Choice navels from western United States slaughterers. The company has a crew of highly skilled butchers who bone the fresh, steer navel-short plates to produce high quality fresh and frozen beef 50 percent trimmings, outer skirt steaks, inner skirt steaks, navel pastrami pieces, beef bacon pieces, center cut navel short ribs, rib cap meat, rib finger meat, bones and edible suet. It also bones out large quantities of bone-in briskets, which the company uses to produce its nationally distributed Bea s Best Raw Corned Beef Briskets.