Fresh, Organic Pasta Start-Up Finds Success, Plans Expansion

A Montana entrepreneur has turned his passion for food into a thriving business devoted to creating and marketing fresh pasta. His main ingredients – “mostly just flour, eggs and water" – are sourced from in-state and regional organic suppliers. Great Northern Pasta’s organic fettuccine, spaghetti, penne rigate, and many other products are now found in 25 grocery stores and roughly 18 restaurants. Just two years after opening his pasta factory and first store he is looking to open a second store and broaden his product line to include organic dry pasta,and hopes to expand nationwide.