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The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is a manufacturer and market leader of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, health and natural foods beverages, and natural peanut butter in North America.
Headquarters for Smucker's are in Orrville, Ohio. The company owns many other food brands as well, see Category:J.M. Smucker brands.
History
The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker. The company has been family run for four generations.
For almost thirty years until his death in 2005, actor Mason Adams was the TV commercial spokesman for their line of jellies and jams, ending with the famous line, "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"
Products
- Jam, Jelly, & Preserves
- Fruit Butter
- Jam
- Jelly
- Low Sugar
- Preserves
- Simply Fruit
- Sugar Free
- Peanut Butter
- Goober PB&J
- Jif
- Nat. Peanut Butter
- Sandwiches
- Grape PB&J
- Strawberry PB&J
- Grilled Cheese
- Uncrustables
- Ice Cream Toppings
- Magic Shell
- Microwaveable Ice Cream Topping
- Specialty Ice Cream Topping
- Spoonable Ice Cream Topping
- Sugar Free Ice Cream Topping
- Sundae Syrups
- Specialty Items
- Fruit Syrup
- Plate Scapers Dessert Topping
- Specialty Items
- Oils and shortening
- Flour and baking mixes
- Hungry Jack
- Martha White
- Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)
- Juices & other beverages
- After the Fall
- Real Brew
- R.W. Knudsen Family
- Santa Cruz Organic
Controversy
A product of the Smucker company has become a standard example in intellectual property literature of a frivolous patent: the "sealed crustless sandwich". See the link for more information.
See also
External links
References
On the "sealed crustless sandwich":
- Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it (ISBN 069111725X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.
Companies based in Ohio | Fortune 1000 | J.M. Smucker brands
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