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BACKSTORY: Slim Jim is an American meat snack brand sold and manufactured by Conagra Brands.^[1] Slim Jim snacks are widely available and popular in the United States, generating $575 million in revenue in 2015.^[2] About 1 billion Slim Jim snacks are produced annually in at least 21 varieties.^[3]

Al Levis and his partner Joseph Cherry invented the first Slim Jim in 1929 in Philadelphia. In the 1940s they hired a meatpacker to develop the product for production.^[4] In 1967 he sold the company for about $20 million to General Mills,^[4] which moved the operations to Raleigh, North Carolina, and merged them into the meatpacking operations of their recently acquired Jesse Jones Sausage Co. to create Goodmark Foods.^[5] Ron Doggett moved to Raleigh in 1969 as he was named corporate controller of the newly formed entity, and was later the company’s Vice President of Finance.^[5] In 1982, General Mills put the company up for sale, and Doggett and three other GoodMark executives acquired the company; Doggett assumed the offices of president and chief operating officer.^[5]Conagra bought Goodmark in 1998.^[6] Until 2009, the former Jones Sausage plant in Garner, North Carolina was the only facility in the world which produced Slim Jims.^[7]^[8]

The product Levis created is different from the one produced since the 1990s, with Lon Adams (1925–2020)^[9] developing the current Slim Jim recipe while working for Goodmark.^[10]

Production was interrupted after an explosion and fire on June 9, 2009 heavily damaged the plant in Garner, killing three workers and a subcontractor worker.^[11] Conagra reopened the plant six weeks after the incident.^[12] Since it could only produce at about half of its original capacity, ConAgra arranged for other facilities to produce Slim Jims^[7] including a facility in Troy, Ohio. On May 20, 2011, the facility in Garner closed, the same day that the company’s former spokesman “Macho Man” Randy Savage died.^[13] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)