Schweigert™ Meats Helps Make Kids Top Dog for a Day
Parents Can Register Kids to Win Minnesota Twins™ Tickets and More
MINNEAPOLIS – ST. PAUL, Minn. – What proud parent doesn’t think their teen or tweener isn’t the top dog around? With that in mind, Schweigert™, official hot dog of the Minnesota Twins™, is helping moms and dads put their child in the spotlight. Parents just need to register their child in the Schweigert™ Top Dog Sweepstakes. Children whose names are drawn win four tickets to an upcoming Minnesota Twins game, the opportunity to announce the Twins batting lineup, plus a signature “Top Dog” baseball cap. Twenty children will win during the regular Minnesota Twins 2010 baseball season.
Children must be entered by a parent or legal guardian and must be between the ages of 7 and 16. For more details and to register, visit: www.SchweigertMeats.com. While there, check out the newly launched local website, focused on this local Minnesota brand and its long-term investment in the community. It offers grilling tops, product details and a Community Spotlight profiling volunteers throughout the Minnesota and Wisconsin area. Visitors are encouraged to nominate individuals within their own community for upcoming Spotlight features as well.
This year announced the return of Schweigert™ to the Twins fan food favorites, with the introduction of four hot dogs at the new Target Field, including the Original Twins Dog™, a Tenderbite® hot dog made from the original Schweigert™ recipe served at the Twins first stadium in the 1960s; the Twins Big Dog™, a juicy, generously sized, all-beef, quarter-pound hot dog which replaces the former Twins Dome Dog; the Twins Dugout Dog™, an old-fashioned, natural casing, coarse ground pork and beef hot dog, and the extra long Dinger Dog™.
Fans also can get that authentic ballpark flavor at home. In June, three of the specialty hot dogs, the Original Twins Dog™, Twins Big Dog™ and Dugout Dog™ were also introduced at grocers in the Minnesota and Wisconsin area. The new line of Schweigert™ brand hot dogs have specially marked packages sporting the Minnesota Twins logo and are available at Byerly’s, Coborn’s, Country Market, Cub, Jubilee, Lunds, Super 1, Target and other select retailers throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin.
About Schweigert Meats
In North Minneapolis in the spring of 1937, Ray Schweigert opened his first retail store. It was a neighborhood mercantile specializing in fresh and cured meat along with groceries and general merchandise. Ray’s customers were the local residents of the neighborhood. In those days, the market was no further than a short walk to the corner. Ray had a dream of having the biggest and best shop in town. Word spread that Schweigert Meat Co. had the best, and soon a home delivery truck was added.
Within 3 years in the summer of 1940, Schweigert Meat Co. had grown to be the top meat shop in the area and Ray decided to change location to a larger plant near present day downtown Minneapolis at 26th and Emerson. With this move he added three more delivery trucks that serviced St. Paul and St. Cloud. It was at this location that Schweigert Meat Co. remained for almost 33 years and grew to include a fleet of more than 30 delivery trucks servicing Minnesota and parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and North Dakota.
In 1983, Schweigert meats moved to Albert Lea, Minn., eventually becoming a member of the Cargill family, where to this day it continues to carry on Ray’s tradition of making quality meats for local tastes.
About Cargill
Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately-held company employs 159,000 people in 68 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business. For more information, visit www.cargill.com.
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