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Standard Brands

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Industry
  
food

Defunct
  
1981

Successor
  
Nabisco Brands, Inc.

Headquarters
  
New York, New York

Fate
  
merged with Nabisco, Inc.in 1981

Founded
  
1929 (merger of Fleischmann Company,Royal Baking Powder Company,E. W. Gillett,Widlar Food Products and Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company)

Standard Brands was formed in 1929 by J. P. Morgan with the merger of:

  • Fleischmann Company
  • Royal Baking Powder Company
  • E. W. Gillett Company of Canada
  • Widlar Food Products Company
  • Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company
  • By 1940, it was the number-two brand of packaged goods after General Foods. 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 1979, it acquired Inver House scotch.

    The company merged with Nabisco in 1981 to form Nabisco Brands, Inc.

    References

    Standard Brands Wikipedia