The Marzetti Company (MZTI)
Dressings, dips and frozen breads maker. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 25, 2026. Ranked 74 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
3,500
Leading staffing pattern
Other Food Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now20%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The Marzetti Company states 3,500 employees making dressings, dips and sauces read at other food manufacturing and frozen garlic bread and rolls read at bakeries, by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 10% people work and 67% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,500 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). The filing describes food plants in the United States and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.
The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, we had 3,500 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Food Manufacturing | 60% | By description (c): Marzetti dressings, dips, sauces and croutons made at the company's plants for retail and foodservice customers, dressing and specialty food manufacturing, NAICS 311941 and 311999 in the 3119 group, the SIC 2030 business. |
| Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing | 40% | By description (c): New York Bakery frozen garlic bread and Sister Schubert's frozen rolls made at the company's bakeries, frozen bakery products, NAICS 311813 in the 3118 group. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 3,500 employees, down from 3,700; retail 52% and foodservice 48% of revenue; no hourly, part-time, union or country counts; fiscal year ends June 30; renamed from Lancaster Colony.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Food Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- PepsiCo (PEP, 306,000 employees)23% now, 26% by 2028
- International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF, 21,500 employees)27% now, 35% by 2028
- McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC-V, 14,100 employees)20% now, 24% by 2028
- Utz Brands, Inc. (UTZ, 3,300 employees)20% now, 24% by 2028
- The J. M. Smucker Company (SJM)20% now, 24% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's two AI sentences are cybersecurity risk factors: the adoption of AI and machine learning may make unauthorized disclosure harder to prevent and intensify its cybersecurity risks.
- “The rapid ongoing evolution and increased adoption of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, may make it more difficult to avoid unauthorized disclosure and misappropriation of proprietary information and to anticipate and implement protective measures to recognize, detect, and prevent the occurrence of any of the cyber attacks.”
- “Furthermore, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 10
- Fiscal 20262
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3,500 | 2026-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-30 | 3,700 | 2025-08-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-30 | 3,400 | 2024-08-22 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 3,400 | 2023-08-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-06-30 | 3,200 | 2022-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2021-06-30 | 3,200 | 2021-08-26 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-30 | 3,200 | 2020-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-30 | 3,200 | 2019-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 2,900 | 2018-08-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 2,800 | 2017-08-24 | 10-K |
| 2016-06-30 | 2,700 | 2016-08-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-30 | 2,600 | 2015-08-28 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-30 | 2,500 | 2014-08-28 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-30 | 3,100 | 2013-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-30 | 3,100 | 2012-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2011-06-30 | 3,100 | 2011-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-06-30 | 3,200 | 2010-08-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-06-30 | 3,200 | 2009-08-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-06-30 | 3,500 | 2008-08-29 | 10-K |
| 2007-06-30 | 4,800 | 2007-08-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-06-30 | 5,600 | 2006-09-08 | 10-K |
| 2005-06-30 | 5,500 | 2005-09-13 | 10-K |
| 2004-06-30 | 5,500 | 2004-09-10 | 10-K |
| 2003-06-30 | 5,500 | 2003-09-25 | 10-K |
| 2002-06-30 | 5,900 | 2002-09-25 | 10-K |
| 2001-06-30 | 6,000 | 2001-09-27 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-06-30 | 6,600 | 2000-09-26 | 10-K |
| 1999-06-30 | 6,700 | 1999-09-23 | 10-K |
| 1998-06-30 | 6,300 | 1998-09-24 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-06-30 | 6,400 | 1997-09-24 | 10-K |
| 1996-06-30 | 6,300 | 1996-09-24 | 10-K |
| 1995-06-30 | 6,000 | 1995-09-22 | 10-K |
| 1994-06-30 | 5,600 | 1994-09-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The split between dressings and frozen breads is by description (c); the filing counts no employees by product line.
- The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of U.S. plants, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000057515-26-000019, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of The Marzetti Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The Marzetti Company's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does The Marzetti Company employ?
- 3,500 as of June 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up The Marzetti Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Food Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 10% people work and 67% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The Marzetti Company's annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 0, 2, 2 and 2 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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