Case Study: Garner Foods cuts device provisioning from 8 hours to under 2 with Office 365

Family food business spices up operations, reduces new device implementation time by 50 percent

Garner Foods is a fourth‑generation, family‑owned food manufacturer (116 employees) best known for Texas Pete hot sauce, operating six production lines across four sites with a mobile sales force. The company needed to improve cross‑location communication and regulatory‑compliant collaboration, reduce reliance on on‑premises servers, and simplify IT for a two‑person team while supporting PCs, laptops and mobile devices used on the plant floor and in the field.

Garner moved to Microsoft 365 Business—including Teams, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business and Office apps—consolidating vendors and managing everything from a single portal with built‑in security. The change gave employees secure access to apps and data on any device, improved collaboration and compliance, and cut new‑device provisioning and employee onboarding from about a day to under two hours.

Garner Foods

Brad Everts

IT Supervisor