Beech-Nut

Beech-Nut
Industry Baby food
Founded 1891
Founder Raymond P. Lipe, John D. Zieley, Walter H. Lipe and David Zieley
Key people
Jeff Boutelle
Products Peanut butter, jam, pork and beans, ketchup, chili sauce, mustard, spaghetti, macaroni, marmalade, caramel, fruit drops, mints, chewing gum, and coffee
Website www.beechnut.com
For the Beechnut tree, see Beech.

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation is a baby food company that is owned by the Swiss branded consumer-goods firm Hero Group.[1]

History

Beech-Nut's roots go back to 1891, to the Mohawk Valley town of Canajoharie, New York. Raymond P. Lipe, along with his friend John D. Zieley and their brothers, Walter H. Lipe and David Zieley, and Bartlett Arkell, founded The Imperial Packing Co. with the production of Beech-Nut ham. The product was based on the smoked hams of Raymond and Walter's father, farmer Ephraim Lipe. The company's principal products were ham and bacon for the first seven years. David and John Zieley sold their shares to the Lipe brothers in 1892.

The company was incorporated as the Beech-Nut Packing Company in 1899. In 1900, the company's sales were $200,000. Engineers from Beech-Nut patented the first vacuum jar with a design that included a gasket and top that could remain intact in transit and became a standard of the industry .

During the first 25 years of the 20th century, the company 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 coffee.

Currently, Jeff Boutelle is the CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Company.

Timeline

References

  1. "Company Overview of Beech-Nut Nutrition Company". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. Business Finance The Management Approach, Richards C. Osborn, pages 524-526
  3. TIME Magazine, June 18, 1956: CORPORATIONS: New Wrapper
  4. James Traub (July 24, 1988). "Into the Mouths of Babes". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-28. It is well within the reach of most white-collar criminals to assume an air of irreproachable virtue, especially when they're about to be sentenced. But there was something unusually compelling about the bearing of Niels L. Hoyvald and John F. Lavery as they stood before Judge Thomas C. Platt of the United States District Court in Brooklyn last month - especially in light of what they were being sentenced for. As president and vice president of the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation, Hoyvald and Lavery had sold millions of bottles of apple juice that they knew to contain little or no apple juice at all - only sugars, water, flavoring and coloring. The consumers of this bogus product were babies.
  5. "Beech-Nut Nutrition Recalls Baby Food After Glass Found in Jar". ABC News. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

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