Standard Brands was a packaged foods company, formed in 1929 by J. P. Morgan & Co. with the merger of:[1]
By 1940, it was the number-two brand of packaged goods after General Foods.[3] By 1955 the company was listed as 75 in the Fortune 500.
Standard Brands made several acquisitions. It bought Planters in 1960, and the Curtiss Candy Company in 1964. In 1970 it purchased the British snack food company Walkers from the Walkers family.[4] In 1979, it acquired Inver House scotch.[5]
Seagrams approached Standard Brands with the idea of a merger.[6] The company merged with Nabisco in 1981 to form Nabisco Brands, Inc.[7][8]
- Fleischmann Company
- Royal Baking Powder Company
- E. W. Gillett Company of Canada (1929) - Toronto-based baking goods company (maker of Magic Baking Powder) founded by P. W. Gillett in 1852
- Widlar Food Products Company[2]
- Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company
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References
- Morgan Mergers Time, 1929, retrieved 2008-08-04^
- Standard Brands Co. Completes Merger The Standard Union, December 6, 1929, retrieved March 5, 2023^
- Pennies from Leaven Time, 1940, retrieved 2008-08-04^
- Martin Glenn. The Best Job in the World - The PepsiCo Walkers crisp Marketing Case Study^
- Publicker Completes Sale of Liquor Business In U.S. for $35 Million retrieved 2017-07-07^
- George Lazarus. Was Standard driven into Nabisco's arms? Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1981, retrieved March 6, 2023^
- http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Nabisco-Foods-Group-Company-History.html Nabisco History^
- RAY. KAMAL GHOSH. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, SECOND EDITION: STRATEGY, VALUATION AND INTEGRATION 2022^