Oberto is an American family-owned business that makes meat snacks including all natural jerky, pepperoni, charcuterie, chicken bites and other smoked meats. The company was founded in 1918 by Constantino Oberto in Seattle, Washington. It is now headquartered in Kent, Washington.

The company's founder, Constantino Oberto (1889-1943), an Italian immigrant, began selling his hand-made Italian sausages in 1918 from a small shop in South Seattle.

In 2018, the Oberto family sold the business to Canadian conglomerate Premium Brand Holdings, though the main operations have stayed in the Seattle area.

ORIGINAL BEEF JERKY No Artificial Ingredients. Gluten Free. No MSG. They say you can't improve on an original, but with the addition of real wood smoke and an even more tender bite, we just did.

Premium Brands Holdings CorporationOberto Snacks Inc. / Parent organization Premium Brands, a company with more than 47 brands under its ownership, is the buyer of Kent-based Oberto, a family-owned meat snack maker.

Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an existing libretto by Antonio Piazza probably called Rocester.

Oberto Snacks Inc, 7060 Oberto Dr, Kent, WA, Business Services - MapQuest.

Employing more than 500 food professionals, Oberto's mission is to empower people to make better choices for a healthier and happier life.

Oberto original beef jerky doesn't do anything to wow you, it's just the standard for what solid beef jerky is. Dry, salty, a little chewy, and extremely crushable. Oberto gets points for not only setting the bar, but also remaining as affordable and available as its seemingly always been.

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• Cattleman's Cut. Cattleman's Cut/Oberto.
• Oberto. Oberto.
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• Epic. Epic.
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• Krave. Krave Beef Jerky.

The USDA defines a minimally processed product as one that is not fundamentally altered during production (simply put, we marinate premium cuts of beef, cook them, dry them, and put them in a handy package for you to enjoy).

Italian (mainly Piedmont):: from the ancient Germanic personal name composed of audha 'power wealth' + berht 'bright'. variant of the personal name Uberto; see Uberti .

Oberto – remains family owned (five members of the Oberto clan share ownership) and Art remains, well, Art. Today Oberto Brands employs 550 people. With annual revenue of more than $260 million, the company's expanding constellation of meat snacks is distributed coast to coast.