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TreeHouse Foods
TreeHouse Foods, Inc processes food products for distribution to foodservice and grocery companies. Its products include private label soups, sauces and salad dressings. History Bay Valley Foods, LLC, now a division of TreeHouse Foods, actually preceded its parent company. Bay Valley Foods was founded in 1862, along with the founding of Alart & McGuire, under…
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Fortune Brands, Incorporated
Fortune Brands, Incorporated is a company engaged in the production and distribution of premium spirits worldwide. The company is headquartered in Illinois, USA. History Fortune Brands, Incorporated was founded under the name American Brands in 1969. The company was able to acquire the holding company ACCO in 1987. Among ACCO’s subsidiary brands was Swingline. In…
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Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation
Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation is one of the country’s leading manufacturers of private label products. The company’s headquarters are located in Illinois, USA. History On the 12th of August, 1895, the Gilster Milling Company was established by siblings who wanted to enter the business of flour milling. Under this company, flour products under several brands (Featherlite,…
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Diced Bacon Products Possibly Infected with Listeria
New York-based importer R.D. Food Services LP/Jetro Cash & Carry Enterprises LLC has announced a recall for about 2,900 lbs. of cooked diced bacon. The company is recalling the product because of a possible Listeria contamination. The recall was announced on the 22nd of July, with the assistance of the FSIS and the USDA. The…
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Imported Beef Recalled Due to Ivermectin
Florida-based Northwestern Meat, Incorporated is recalling about 6,240 lbs. of frozen beef products that have been imported from Honduras. The frozen boneless beef is being recalled because of a possibility that the meat may be contaminated with Ivermectin, an animal drug. USDA and the FSIS announced the recall on the 27th of July, after results…
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Soy Flour Recalled For Salmonella Contamination
Michigan-based cooperative, the same producers of Thumb Oil seed, announced a product recall last October 4th. The recalled product is a kind of soy flour used in the making of animal and human food. The recall was announced because of a possible bacterial contamination in the affected soy flour. The company reported that it is…
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Food 4 Less
Food 4 Less is a chain of warehouse grocery stores that is headquartered in Compton, California. The grocery chain is a subsidiary of grocery giant Kroger, Inc. History The name Food 4 Less and its logo was conceived in 1930 by a man named Lou Falley. Falley founded chains of stores under Food 4 Less…
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Casco Corn Products International
Casco is a leading producer and supplier of high-quality industrial additives and food ingredients in Canada. Its Canadian headquarters is located in Ontario while its main headquarters is located in Illinois, USA. History Business partners Thomas Aspden and William T. Benson founded Casco in September of 1858 as a corn wet-milling company. Originally, Casco was…
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