A third-generation family business that specializes in traditional Taiwanese pork products will start work this week on a new Sioux Falls headquarters.
Formosa Food Company Inc. is moving and expanding its operation from northwest Iowa, where it has been in business since 1983. The company will break ground Thursday on 8 acres zoned for heavy industrial use at 3100 N. Bahnson Ave., not far from Gage Brothers Concrete Products.
The business is led by sisters Jennifer and Heather Shih, who grew up in Hull, Iowa, left for college and each decided to return to help run the business.
“We come from a traditional Taiwanese family — my dad was the oldest son of five kids, and our paternal grandparents started it in Taiwan, and Dad decided to look into the United States and found an interest for this product,” said Jennifer, the oldest of three daughters…