Welcome to C. Cretors & Company C. Cretors & Company is a leader in the multi-billion U.S. concession business, and is widely credited as being the catalyst for the creation of the modern concession industry with the original popcorn machine patent. Today, we are the leading designers and manufacturer of Concession, Foodservice and Food Processing equipment that provides world wide solutions. Based in Chicago, IL, we continue to manufacture exclusively in the United States. ...\"We Invented the Popcorn Machine, then Just Kept Going.\" Manufactured and Assembled in America...Since 1885