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Say it with Meat!
SEATTLE, WA (Dec 6, 2005) The Oberto Sausage Company is the nation’s largest jerky concern, and its Rainier Avenue outlet seems to carry every possible variety: beef, pork and turkey, cured and seasoned in myriad flavors (original, spicy, teriyaki, hickory, BBQ, taco, mesquite, etc.), and packed in bags, cans, and jars of all sizes. Of course, there’s big savings in bulk buying, for instance, $12.99 gets you a “Five-Pound Turkey Bag.” Various “Ends & Pieces” of other products are sold in similarly large plastic bags, many marked “CLOSE TO DATE” and “PAST BEST BY DATE.”

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http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2005/12/06/say_it_with_meat.php

Five Percent Higher Operating Speeds Fuel
U-6 Oh Boy Oberto Beef Jerky Unlimited Hydroplane to Mid-Season High Point Leader


SEATTLE, WA (Aug 2, 2004)
 Oh Boy! Oberto Beef Jerky, title sponsor of the U-6 Miss Madison Unlimited Hydroplane has undergone major modifications to be more competitive in the Unlimited Hydroplane Racing circuit.  Operating under a new Crew Chief, Mike Hanson, the revamped boat is operating at 5-6 MPH faster than last season and is sporting a new paint design.

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http://www.oberto.com/whats_new/news_items080204.asp

Hydroplane Veterans and Rookies In Strong Field for Chevrolet Cup at Seafair

SEATTLE, WA (July 28, 2004) The 2004 Gold Cup winner Nate Brown, National High Points leader Steve David, and defending Seafair and National High Points champion Dave Villwock, will head a strong contingent of at least 10 Unlimited Hydroplane drivers and teams vying for the 2004 Chevrolet Cup at Seafair on Seattle’s Lake Washington, August 6-8.


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http://www.oberto.com/whats_new/news_items072804.asp


Oh Boy! Oberto and the Seattle Mariners Team Up on Super Tuesdays.

Free Samples are always a hit at the Oberto Lookout Landing!  Look for Oberto Beef Jerky, Sausage Sticks and more during the top of the 4th inning at all Oberto Super Tuesday home games at Safeco Field.

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http://www.oberto.com/whats_new/news_items032204.asp


FLW Outdoors beefs up sponsorship team with Oh Boy! Oberto Beef Jerky
Minneapolis - January 15, 2004
FLW Outdoors announced today that Oh Boy! Oberto® Beef Jerky, maker of America’s No. 1 favorite jerky, is the newest member of its sponsorship team. The meat-snack maker will be the Wal-Mart FLW Tour’s official beef-jerky sponsor. Oberto has been making high-quality meat snacks for more than 85 years and will join a long list of companies who sponsor FLW Outdoors, the world’s leading marketer of competitive fishing.

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http://www.flwoutdoors.com/article.cfm?id=141178

Oberto Thanks US Military Troops with Special Holiday Gift
Seattle --- December 16, 2003
Over the last several months the company has received hundreds of requests for Beef Jerky from US Troops.  Oberto responded by donating over 15,000 goodie bags to military personnel stationed overseas for the holidays. 

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http://www.oberto.com/whats_new/news_items122003.asp

Eighty-Five Years of Good Taste
Horizon Air Magazine – May 2003
“For most regents, a royal title is assumed at birth. But for Art Oberto, chairman of Kent, Washington–based Oberto Sausage Company, the title of “Jerky King” was earned through hard work and an imaginative sense of fun.”

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http://www.oberto.com/whats_new/news_items052003.asp

Art Oberto Inducted Into The Hydroplane Hall of Fame
King County Journal -- July 31, 2003

"Oberto's support hasn't gone unnoticed. Last year, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Hydroprop Awards Banquet.Today, he's being inducted into the Hydroplane Hall of Fame."

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http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/138994

You Never Sausage Determination as Built Oberto
Seattle PI - April 26, 2002

"Art Oberto has watched his father's sausage factory grow to more than 800 employees, making almost 400 products, since taking the reins in 1943. Now 75, he still keeps up his 'hobby' as chairman, CEO and chief cheerleader for Seattle-based Oberto Sausage Co."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/68046_oberto26.shtml

Oberto is preparing to attack the mighty Slim Jim with a pepperoni stick.
Puget Sound Business Journal - April 26, 2002

"The stakes are potentially immense for Kent-based Oberto and its marketing partner Frito-Lay Inc., based in Plano, Texas. Oberto executives hope their new 99-cent pepperoni stick will take a bite out of the Slim Jim sausage market share, and add revenue to Oberto's bottom line."

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http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2002/04/29/story4.html

Oberto to go national with new snack
King County Journal -- April 26, 2002

"KENT -- Look out, Slim Jim. Prepare to meet your new challenger. The nation's top-selling meat snack product, which is produced by Raleigh, N.C.-based GoodMark Foods Inc., is about to go head to head on convenience store shelves across the nation with a new pepperoni stick that is being rolled out nationally this month by Oberto Sausage Co."

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http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/90385