A HISTORY RICH WITH TRADITION,
enhanced with innovation
At the
age of 47 Kurt Arthur Lippmann started Hi-Grade Sausage Company but
his story starts over 30 years earlier in Dresden, Germany. This is
where he had his first schooling, learning quickly the techniques that
would serve him so well the rest of his life. By the late 1920's he
had immigrated to the United States landing in the Intermountain West. He
worked thro
ughout Utah and Idaho, early on at Cudahy Packing Co. and then several years more with
Wirthlin's in Salt Lake City. In
1953, with many years of saving and with the help of family and friends,
he began building his dream. He opened Hi-Grade in early 1955. His
sausages quickly became a favorite and word spread. For over forty years he cultivated the
business and his employees with a strong and loving hand. Since his
passing in 1996 we have strived to uphold his spirit and values by
carrying on his tradition of delivering a mouth-watering array of fresh
sausages, hot dogs, hams, many specialty sausages, and other fine meats.
