Blue Apron Inc. is an American ingredient-and-recipe meal kit service, which exclusively operates in the United States.

The weekly boxes contain ingredients and also include suggested recipes that must be cooked by hand by the customer using the pre-ordered ingredients.

As of September 2016, the company had shipped 8 million meal servings. In June 2017, the company went public with an initial public offering.

Traded as:           NYSE: APRN (Class A)

Founded:            August 2012; 8 years ago

Headquarters:   New York City, New York, U.S.

Subsidiaries:       Blue Apron Market;        BN Ranch

URL:                       www.blueapron.com