BLUM AND BERGERON

The business was incorporated by the Blum family in 1968 after the deaths of Shelly and Leopold. Leopold's son Louis Blum and grandson Tom Cobb ran the company in their footsteps. Louis, an engineer, invented the modern shrimp drying machine, and is credited with saving the Louisiana dried shrimp industry. Rising cost of shrimp, health regulations, and competition from the canning and the frozen shrimp industries threatened all shrimp drying operations. Louis's drying machine brought the drying process indoors and reduced the drying time to hours rather than days. It also eliminated spoilage due to weather while keeping the drying process sanitary. All the inventions to produce (cook, dry, shell and clean) dried shrimp in Louisiana were invented and patented by members of the Blum and Bergeron families. Today, this machinery and equipment is used worldwide wherever dried shrimp is produced. South Louisiana is the only area of the United States of America that produces dried shrimp...

Also known as: BLUM AND BERGERON, INC., dried shrimp

Primary location: Houma United States