Quality Ingredients of Burnsville is just a fraction of the size it was a year ago, but there’s nothing amiss. It’s smaller today because that was the plan.

It was about a year ago that Quality Ingredients sold by far its biggest business. Since then the management team has been busy getting reacquainted with the much smaller business it kept – and liking what it’s learned. A year after the divestiture, CEO Isabelle Day said she wouldn’t change a thing.

Because growth ...