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OUR SERVICES

We are your partners at every stage. Bring us a recipe and we'll help you scale it. Bring us a question and we'll help you answer it in our innovation kitchen. Bring us a vision and we'll help you build the product that delivers on it. 

We put everything we've got into your idea. We're proud when it wins. 

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Private Label

We operate as an extension of your brand. Sauces, seasonings, rubs, kits, and large-scale custom blends, manufactured to your specs, labeled with your brand, and ready to scale.

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Custom Product Development

Our R&D team builds custom formulations from the ground up, engineered to your exact specs, your brand standards, and your consumers' expectations. Clean label, allergen-free, Kosher, organic, specific flavor profile. The product that leaves here is the product you described.

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Manufacturing

From formulation to finished product. Precise, repeatable results whether you're scaling a single SKU or launching an entire line. Every batch runs through tight controls for consistency, safety, and quality. The same standard applies on run one and run one thousand.

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Prototype Testing & Quality Assurance

Every formula faces a full battery of real-world trials before it moves forward. Flavor integrity, packaging, shelf stability, real-world conditions. The blend that wins in the lab has to win in production. We don't move on until it does.

  • Culinary Test Kitchen

    Hands-on formulation, flavor exploration, and application testing through collaborative working sessions and real-time iteration.

  • R&D Lab

    Science-backed development with food scientists, master meat crafters, and our in-house Executive Chef.

  • Rapid Prototyping

    Move from bench sample to scalable concept quickly. Validate flavor integrity and shelf stability before launch.

  • Pilot Scale Production

    Validate performance before full commercialization with our thermal processing and packaging experts.

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Our family commitment to craft mastery combined with relentless exploration in both equipment and flavor creates solutions no one else can offer. 

For a purpose bigger than ourselves.

OUR BRANDS

The brands behind the promise.

  • Prosmoker brand logo with hanging dark brown products in the background

    Pro Smoker

    A premier thermal processing technology company built for food producers of every scale.

    Visit Pro Smoker 
  • Hand holding a bottle of Memphis King BBQ sauce with a blurred background

    PS Seasoning

    Creates seasonings, sauces, and smokers for those who want the highest quality meat products.

    Visit PS Seasoning 
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THE STORY BEHIND THE NAME

Our family chose this work decades ago and never stopped. We had a vision to transform how food gets made through products, solutions, and partnerships that help people create with confidence. Our dream is to be the first name people think of when they want to create food experiences worth sharing. That name is Dervati. 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is Dervati hiring?

Yes. See open positions here: Careers

What does Dervati mean?

Dervati is inspired by the German words for "the father." For the Hanni family, the name is connected to their Swiss heritage, their faith and the belief that good things are built through love, creativity, courage, and service to something bigger than ourselves. Dervati is the parent company created to protect and steward what the Hanni family has built over generations. The name reminds us to lead with responsibility, care, and long-term purpose in how we serve our customers, partners, and team.

Who owns Dervati?

Dervati is owned and operated by Joe and Trish Hanni and their family. The Hannis built PS Seasoning and Pro Smoker over decades, and Dervati is the structure they created to hold that work, grow it, and open it to partners who want to access that expertise.

Why does a parent company exist?

PS Seasoning and Pro Smoker are focused brands. They do their jobs well because they aren't trying to do everything. Dervati is where everything else lives: the R&D, the Customer Innovation Center, the private label and manufacturing services, and the future brands that don't exist yet. It also opens those capabilities to other food companies who want a partner with the expertise that built PS and Pro Smoker. Working with PS or Pro Smoker means you're working with the brand. Working with Dervati means you're working with what's behind them both.

What does Dervati do that others can't?

Bring a concept to life, prove it out in real production conditions, manufacture it at scale, and deliver it shelf-ready, all under one roof, held to one standard, run by the same family that built PS and Pro Smoker. Most companies do one part of that well. We spent generations building all of it.

What's the difference between PS and Pro Smoker?

Pro Smoker is a B2B technology brand. Its lane is thermal processing equipment for food manufacturers, processors, and large-scale commercial operations. PS is a consumer and commercial flavor and equipment brand. It sells seasonings, sauces, rubs, smokers, and kits to home meat crafters and pitmasters, and bulk seasoning to meat markets and butcher shops.

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