Company History

Axium Foods is the company behind Pajeda’s and is a division of McCleary, Inc. Mac McCleary founded our company in South Beloit, IL in 1960. He was an entrepreneur and true innovator in his time and, while an employee of the Adams Corporation, was directly involved in the production of the first crunchy cheese curls.

Today, Axium Foods is still a family-owned company and has proudly surpassed 50 years in business as a leading snack manufacturer; not only of its own branded snacks, but also a wide variety of private-label snacks as well.