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Van Camp's is an American brand of canned bean products currently owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Their products typically consist of beans stewed in a flavored sauce. Van Camp's has for some time been the second-best selling brand of baked beans in the United States, competing with Bush's Baked Beans .
In 1983, Quaker bought Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., makers of Van Camp's and Gatorade. [16] Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994 and sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million. [17] Triarc sold it to Cadbury Schweppes for $1.45 billion in September 2000. [18] It was spun off in May 2008 to its current owners, Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
Stokely-Van Camp acquired the rights to produce and market the Gatorade brand in 1965 before the company was purchased by the Quaker Oats Company in 1983, which, in turn, was bought by PepsiCo in 2001. [4] As of 2010, Gatorade is PepsiCo's fourth-largest brand, on the basis of worldwide annual retail sales. [5]
Stokely-Van Camp Industrial Complex is located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The Van Camp's company built the cannery to make baked beans under the direction of Gilbert Van Camp and later became Stokely-Van Camp. The building was built in 1845 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1983.
In 1875, S. S. McCall established the Illinois Canning Company to can locally grown vegetables, and this was so successful that in 1878 the Hoopeston Canning Company was established, which later became part of Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. [5] In addition, Silgan Can (formerly American Can) had a factory which manufactured the tin cans themselves, and ...
Stokely, of Newport, Tennessee, was a son of the president of Stokely Brothers Canning Company (which in 1933 bought Van Camp to become Stokely-Van Camp Inc. The Stokely brand of canned food is now a brand of Seneca Foods and Van Camps a brand of Conagra Inc.) The couple married just two months after they met. They had two sons, Dykeman Stokely ...
Three years later, brothers James and John Stokely founded the Stokely Brothers Company (now Stokely-Van Camp's) to can vegetables they grew throughout the French Broad valley. [36] Newport native Ben Hooper served as governor of Tennessee from 1911 to 1915.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.