Jarod Steffes and Tyler De Vos (Left to right) are co-founders of Muddy Bites, a snack that recently landed a major distribution contract. Steffes attended high school in Granville, and later graduated from Gehlen Catholic High School in Le Mars.
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A startup firm which began selling their product online will soon have its product on the shelves of Walmart. The product is Muddy Bites. The company is a partnership of former Le Mars area resident, Jarod Steffes, and his business partner Tyler De Vos. Steffes describes a Muddy Bite.
Steffes recalls how Muddy Bites came to be.
Steffes needed a partner to produce Muddy Bites. Enter Tyler De Vos.
The partners quickly divided up the workload.
The first Muddy Bites were made in 2019 by a crew of college students in Ames, and now the company operates at a facility in North Sioux City, SD. The company had already worked its way into retail stores, 52-hundred so far nationwide. Their big break came earlier this year, when they competed with several thousand other firms in a product showcase before Walmart executives in Arkansas. Muddy Bites was among those products chosen for sales at Walmart stores nationwide. Steffes says they are now ramping up production to meet an April Walmart deadline.
