Li'L Guy Foods Articles, White Papers, and Case Studies:

 

• Little Guys Join Ranks of Sponsors
  Area teams offer a variety of packages as companies large and small ride the bandwagon.

 

• Mexican Food Maker Finds Recipe for Success with QuickBooks® Enterprise Solutions®
  When you’re a $3 million company competing with a $2 billion giant, you have to be quick on your feet — or get squashed flat as a tortilla.

 

• Vendor Spotlight: Christina Sloan - Li'L Guy Foods®
  Tortilla chips are a favorite snack at most restaurants, parties or other events. Now, Ameristar has a new vendor to provide this classic snack for our guests. The vendor, Li'L Guy Foods®, is a third-generation family-owned business and provides quality Mexican foods.

 

• Flour Power - Li'L Guy's Third Generation Goes Beyond Being Chips Off the Old Block
  David and Christina Sloan should be careful. They just might outgrow the name of their grandfather's company. The two young, third-generation principals of Li'L Guy Foods® have taken the company from the brink of disaster and positioned it to generate more revenue in 2006 than any other point in its 40 years.

 

• Li'L Guy Benefits from MBE Certification
  Li'L Guy Foods was founded by Don Miranda in 1965 and now is owned and operated by his grandchildren David, Edward and Christina Sloan. The primary business is to develop, manufacture, market, distribute and sell tortillas and other Mexican food products to retailers, restaurants, institutions and through mail order.

 

• KC Chamber Picks Businesses for Mentorship Program
  The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce chose 12 area businesses to participate in the Herman A. Johnson Business Mentorship.

 

• Sloan Lets Others Partake of Her Hard-Won Experience
  

  Christina Sloan isn't the type of executive with framed commendations and degrees lining her office. Her space, busy with papers and projects, is just doors away from the Li'L Guy Foods® factory, close enough to smell the tortilla chips coming off the production line. Evidence of her accomplishments is much harder to frame.

 

• KCBJ Announces Women Who Mean Business Winners
  

  Twenty-five women have been named as honorees of the Women Who Mean Business program for 2007.

 

• Minority Business Issues Survey
  

  The Kansas City Business Journal asked area minority business executives about minority business issues. Below are responses from Rita Cortes, president of Hoffman-Cortes Contracting Co.; Lenora Payne, president of Technology Group Solutions LLC; Christina Sloan, vice president and director of sales of Li'L Guy Foods; John Walker, owner of Perfect Output of Kansas City LLC; and Nasi Zarinkia, president of Modern Maintenance Inc.

 

• Putting the Spice Back Into Li'L Guy Foods®
  

  The Mexican food manufacturer stumbles and then prospers under third-generation entrepreneurs.

 

• Idea Generation
  

  Siblings bring new technology, attitude to the business of selling tortillas.