Morty Pride

Morty Pride is a family-owned and operated meat-processing company located in Fayetteville, North Carolina. After working in meat sales for nine years, M.B. (Morty) Hudson decided he would start a company as a wholesale meat distributor in 1969. M.B. started by purchasing pork items, lunch meats, and sausage items from local processors and distributing them to grocery and convenient stores in the area and region. Sales for the first week totaled just six hundred dollars. In the beginning, M.B. saw the company as being a one-man operation just making his family a living. Expectations were quickly exceeded as the company grew to include three trucks and three sales persons within the first few years. Distribution was the core of the business until 1979 when M.B. built a small building in his back yard for his own production, and the brand Morty Pride was born.