Del Real Foods took the slow-cooked meats of a Michoacan kitchen, refused to add preservatives, and figured out how to sell them in the Costco cold case. In 2024 a Guatemalan food giant bought a controlling piece.
Cacique started in 1973 with a mother's cheese recipe and a father selling it door to door out of a car cooler. Fifty years on it is the country's top Hispanic cheese, crema and chorizo brand - stocked in roughly four of every five U.S. grocery stores.