Hormel Foos Corporation (NYSE: HRL) is a food company based in southeastern Minnesota (Mower County), perhaps best known as the producer of SPAM luncheon meat. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U.S., by George A. Hormel in 1891. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation 102 years later in 1993. Hormel sells food under many brands, some of which include the Carapelli, Dinty Moore, Farmer John, Jennie-O, and Stagg brands, as well as under its own name. The company stock is a component of the Standard and Poor's 500 index.