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Swanson chicken pot pie. Carl A. Swanson (1879–1949) was a Swedish immigrant who worked on a farm in Blair, Nebraska, until he moved to Omaha.There, he worked in a grocery store where he came into contact with John O. Jerpe, who owned a small commission company, in which Swanson would become a partner in 1899. [1]
After John Hjerpe's death, Swanson became the sole owner of the corporation. [2] By 1938, the Swanson enterprise was one of the larger creameries in the United States and during World War II became a major supplier of poultry and egg products to the U.S. military. In 1945, the company's name was officially changed to C.A. Swanson and Sons.
A self-taught natural health enthusiast, Swanson cites the influence of Linus Pauling, Irwin Stone, Roger J. Williams, Paul Bragg, and Adelle Davis. Swanson's personal regimen began with vitamin E, and by 1968, he was a regular user of several vitamins and supplements and began ordering in bulk to maintain his personal supply. Not long after he ...
1950s: Swanson TV Dinners. Although TV dinners first came about in 1945 when Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured them for military and civilian airplane passengers, they didn't become prominent ...
The Swansons changed their company name in 1954 to avoid trademark confusion with C.A. Swanson and Sons, which had just begun the national roll-out of their frozen meal line. Archway was chosen for the company's new name, taking its name from the arch motif featured as a part of the original Swanson cookie packaging.
In December 2017, Campbell's completed the acquisition [29] of Pacific Foods of Oregon, LLC [30] for $700 million and announced the agreement to acquire the snack company Snyder's-Lance for $4.87 billion in cash. [31] The latter deal is the largest in the company's history. [32]
In recent years, Thomas' TV Dinner role was disputed by former Swanson and Campbell employees, frozen food industry officials, and Swanson family heirs, who said the product was created by the Swanson brothers, Clarke and Gilbert. [3] (M. Crawford Pollock, who was Swanson's in-house marketing chief at the time, was also said to have played a role.)
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