About GloryBee
About GloryBee
From the Beginning
GloryBee was founded in 1975 with a vision to provide high quality, ethically sourced ingredients that nourish people and the planet. As the company has grown and evolved over the last five decades, leadership has passed to the next generation with Alan Turanski, son of founders Dick and Pat Turanski, leading the helm. A beekeeper since he was 10 years old, Alan is committed to ensuring Glorybee maintains its unique perspective on honey, bees, and natural ingredients. From hive to table, GloryBee is there - not just as a middleman, but a gateway.
Our Values
GloryBee was founded in the 1970s in small town Oregon by a missionary. Over the years, the company has grown and evolved into a leader in the honey and natural ingredients categories. We take great pride in our origins and in our progress as well! All guided by our values: sourcing quality ingredients, stewarding our resources, respecting our people and planet and ultimately contributing to a healthy world where bees and people thrive.
When It Has to be...
Sustainability
Sustainability is our way of creating the change we seek in the world. GloryBee is committed to ensuring our business operates with purpose and makes a significant impact in our community and our industry. Maintaining our B Corp certification challenges us to improve our business practices and decision making in order to continually consider how we are inspiring our employees, mitigating our environmental impacts, and being a force for good in our community.
Scalability You Can Rely On
As the world and environment change, we continuously prepare for risks of all kinds. At GloryBee, we have proactively built a resilient supply chain with a network of vetted ingredient suppliers across the globe to ensure you have ethically-sourced ingredients on time, no matter what.
Forward Thinking
We foster a dynamic and unique partnership with you. Honey expertise and rich knowledge of the honey industry, allow us to help solve your most pressing needs. Our best-in-class Quality Assurance and R&D teams partner with you to act as your external champions.
High Quality
GloryBee scored 96% on our 2022 SQF audit. Our auditors were especially impressed with our knowledgeable staff, our super clean facilities, and our excellent documentation. Food safety is about assessing the risks and possibilities of what can go wrong, from the supplier all the way through to the customer, and making sure the end product is safe.
100% of GloryBee employees receive food safety training in their first week on the job, as well as quarterly and annual refreshers.
Expert
Expertise comes in many forms at GloryBee. We have worked with honey for nearly 50 years, so we're definitely experts in honey! But that expertise goes deep - it means we have procurement expertise and commitments to communities we source from; it means we have a series of individuals in our QA department that hold certifications and training in a variety of areas; it means we have an R&D component that is testing products, recipe blends, and ingredient viability on the regular. Any way you look at it, someone at GloryBee has a skillset worth accessing.
R&D + Innovation
Our Research, Development and Innovation Team has decades of experience innovating product lines, functionalities, and strategies for technical applications and solutions. More than anything, we know honey and other ingredients inside out—expertise we use to help you improve your ingredient yields, analyze your combinations, and optimize product outcomes.
Our Leadership
Our leadership team at GloryBee represents individuals from far and near who are committed to quality products and using business as a force for good.
President of GloryBee and Beekeeper
Senior Director of Business Development
Senior QA Supervisor
Technical Director of R&D & Innovation
Vice President of Manufacturing
Director of Procurement
Vice President of Supply Chain
Environmental Stewardship Manager
Sr. Business Development Midwest & East
Our Team
We're one of the premier employers in the Pacific Northwest! If you are a talented individual looking to join our team, contact us today.
How we give
Giving back is a non-negotiable part of GloryBee. Since our humble beginnings nearly 50 years ago, we've prioritized giving back to our local and wider community. This tradition continues today with our support of:
Bees pollinate 1 out of every 3 bites of food you eat. Bees are in danger. Learn what we're doing to SAVE the BEE.
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Being a Certified B Corporation means that we meet the rigorous global standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability.
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We donate 100% of our profits from our Ukraine Honey to organizations providing relief work to the Ukraine people.
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GloryBee and Food 4 Farmers help coffee farmers to diversify their income through beekeeping.
Learn MoreFamily owned & operated
From the beginning, founders Dick and Pat Turanski built GloryBee with a passion for honey and the health of the honey bee. They believed that healthy food would be a sustainable business in the future – long before the “better-for-you” brands had shelf space in the marketplace.
With leadership now passed on to the second generation, GloryBee is still family-owned and operated with the same vision of a healthy world where bees and people thrive.
Our Partners
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The Willamette Valley Sustainable Foods Alliance
The American Beekeeping Federation
The Oregon State Beekeepers Association
The Willamette Valley Sustainable Foods Alliance
The American Beekeeping Federation
The Oregon State Beekeepers Association