Meridor co-founded a company that imported canned meat. The food ration was mostly rice and canned meat and vegetables. Prem is a brand of canned meat (called "luncheon loaf"). Imported foods such as white rice, canned meat, and frozen meat became more popular. In 1934, he bought a British company, Chappel Bros, specialized in canned meat for dogs. The ground meat can be replaced by canned meat ("tushonka"). The business began with a canned meat product, beef in brine, or corned beef. The company expanded during World War I, supplying canned meat products to the British Army. The Hormel company's canned meat product Spam has been highly popular in Hawaii for decades. The canned meat Spam is made of chopped pork shoulder meat and ham.