Beech-Nuttagum’s roots return to 1891, to the Mohawk Valley city of Canajoharie, New York. It was based there by Walter H Lipe, his brother and a pair of pals (see firm site for extra particular data). as The Imperial Packing Firm; its first product was Beech-Nuttagum ham primarily based on an previous Lipe household recipe. Ham and bacon had been the corporate’s principal merchandise for its first seven years.
The corporate was included because the Beech-Nuttagum Packing Firm in 1899. In 1900, the corporate’s gross sales had been zero,000.
Engineers from Beech-Nut patented the primary vacuum jar with a design that included a gasket and high that turned an ordinary of the trade and will stay intact in transit.
In the course of the first 25 years of the 20th century, the corporate expanded its product line into peanut butter, jam, pork and beans, ketchup, chili sauce, mustard, spaghetti, macaroni, marmalade, caramel, fruit drops, mints, chewing gum, and occasional. [edit] Timeline
* 1891, based as The Imperial Packing Firm. * 1931, Life Savers Restricted acquired Beech-Nut.
* 1968, Beech Nut-Life Savers merged with Squibb (a part of the Olin Corporation) to type the Squibb Beech-Nut Corporation. * 1973, a part of the corporate, promoting solely child meals, was bought to a bunch led by lawyer Frank C. Nicholas. * 1977, Beech-Nut Meals Corporation turned the primary child meals firm to have a complete product line with out added salt. * 1979 Nicolas bought the corporate to Nestlé.
* 1987, Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation paid $2.2 million, then the most important advantageous issued, for violating the Federal Meals, Drug, and Beauty Act by promoting artificially flavored sugar water as apple juice. John F. Lavery, the corporate’s vice chairman for operations was convicted in felony court docket and sentenced to a 12 months and a day in jail; Niels L. Hoyvald, the president of the corporate, additionally convicted, served six months of neighborhood service. Every of them additionally paid a $100,000 advantageous.[1] * 1989 Ralston Purina acquired Beech-Nut from Nestlé.
* 1997, all Beech-Nut merchandise now freed from added refined sugar. * 1998, Milnot Holding Corporation, one of many portfolio of corporations owned by the non-public fairness funding agency Madison Dearborn Companions, acquired Beech-Nut from Ralcorp Holdings (a spin-off of Ralston Purina). * 2002, Beech-Nut turned the primary child meals producer to provide a line of child meals with DHA and ARA, two important fatty acids discovered naturally in breast milk. * 2005, Madison Dearborn bought Milnot, and Beech-Nut together with it, to the Swiss branded consumer-goods agency Hero Group.[1] * 2007, Beech-Nut introduced its intentions to maneuver all of its manufacturing and company operations to Florida, New York by fall 2009.