Born in the province of Laguna, FILOMENO N. RIVERA saw the need of his people from the time he learned the value of living specially those time wherein the only source of income is the land. He graduated at the University of the Philippines as Agriculturist.

Working with the government gives him all the opportunity to meet all kinds of people and businesses. And in 80's he became a meat processor together with his wife, LOURDES C. SANTOS-RIVERA to generate additional income for the family. Being exposed into this line of business, he decided to put up his own store for the meat processing ingredients.

And in 1997, Spices and Foodmix House was established with the mission of promoting food grade and unadulterated ingredients for the meat processors. The company's vision is to be able to deliver safe food on every household thru meat processing.