Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On Thursday, Hormel Foods announced it has signed a definitive agreement to buy Unilever's Skippy peanut butter business, the No. 2 U.S. branded peanut butter and the No. 1 peanut butter brand in ...
Unilever Completes Global Skippy Sale Outside of China ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unilever today completed the sale of its global Skippy business to Hormel Foods, ...
Skippy is an American brand of peanut butter manufactured in the United States and China. First sold in 1932, [ 1 ] Skippy is currently manufactured by Hormel Foods , [ 2 ] which bought the brand from Unilever in 2013. [ 3 ]
In 2013, Hormel Foods purchased Skippy—the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and the second-best-selling brand in the world—from Unilever for $700 million; the sale included Skippy's American and Chinese factories. [40]
In 1955, Best Foods acquired Rosefield Packing Co., makers of Skippy peanut butter. In 1958 Best Foods was bought by Corn Products Refining Company to form Corn Products Company, which in 1969 became CPC International Inc. Hellmann's mayonnaise arrived in the United Kingdom in 1961 and by the late 1980s had over 50% market share. [7]
Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL) is reportedly in search of a buyer for its North American peanut butter brand Skippy. The consumer goods giant has hired Lazard Ltd. (NYSE: LAZ) to help conduct the sale ...
These products were formerly owned by Unilever, but have since been sold to other companies. Pages in category "Former Unilever brands" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
Peanut butter is a lucrative category. Americans individually consume three pounds of peanut butter each year. Children eat an average of 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time they ...