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Updated: September 10, 2025 @ 2:48 am
In November of 2022, Buzz Foods of Malden acquired HuntingtonÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s S.S. Logan Packing Co. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” just 15 months later it closed the former Huntington company.
In November of 2022, Buzz Foods of Malden acquired HuntingtonÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s S.S. Logan Packing Co. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” just 15 months later it closed the former Huntington company.
EditorÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s note: This is the 619th in a series of articles recalling Huntington people and places.
Founded in 1925, HuntingtonÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s S.S. Logan Packing Co. sold a variety of meat products to food markets, restaurants and other customers throughout the region. Nester Logan, the companyÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s founder and long-time president, died in 2021.
The firm started out as a small meat shop at 1935 3rd Ave. and later moved to 120 21st St. near the Ohio River. S.S. Logan long operated a slaughterhouse but ultimately stopped slaughtering on site but switched to bringing beef in from out-of-state, mostly from the Midwest.
In November 2022, a Kanawha County company, Buzz Foods of Malden, announced it had acquired HuntingtonÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s S.S. Logan Packing.
BuzzÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s owner Dickinson Gould said the acquisition would open more distribution channels for the Kanawha County firmÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s freshly slaughtered meat from its Appalachian Abattoir. Buzz opened the $6 million abattoir, French for slaughterhouse, in 2021.
In a news release, Buzz Foods characterized the sale as ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œconsolidating the regionÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s two most significant wholesale meat distributors and uniting two well-known, family-operated businesses.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
Just 15 months later Buzz Foods closed the former S.S. Logan Co.
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œThis was not our original plan,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ said BuzzÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s owner Gould. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œOur intention and hope was to grow business and employment in the Huntington area, but unforeseen circumstances forced us to change our plans.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
Gould said ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œmajorÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ equipment and facility failures at the Huntington location led to the decision.
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œThe costs of repairs (was more) than anticipated, so we made the decision to consolidate all deliveries, inventory distribution and meat processing to our Charleston area location,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ he said. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œBuzz Food continues business as usual, minus one facility in Huntington.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
