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2. Planters - Wikipedia

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   Planters Nut & Chocolate Company is an American snack food company now owned by Hormel Foods. Planters is best known for its processed nuts and for the Mr. Peanut icon that symbolizes them. [1] Mr. Peanut was created by grade schooler Antonio Gentile for a 1916 contest to design the company's brand icon. [1]

3. Mr. Peanut - Wikipedia

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   Planters Peanut Company was founded in 1906 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania by Amedeo Obici, and incorporated two years later as the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company.In 1916, a young schoolboy, Antonio Gentile, submitted drawings of an anthropomorphic peanut to a design contest. [4]

4. Amedeo Obici - Wikipedia

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   Obici and Peruzzi founded Planters Peanut Company (unincorporated) in 1906 and incorporated it as Planters Nut and Chocolate Company in 1908. Planters owned four factories by 1930. Obici invented a new method of skinning and blanching peanuts so the roasted goobers came out clean. In 1913, they built a new processing plant in the heart of ...

5. In a nutshell: Planters opens applications for 3 new ... - AOL

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   For 90 years, Planters, the nut and chocolate snack company, ... In 1999, Planters unveiled the Mr. Peanut Hot Rod, a 25-foot-long peanut-shaped vehicle. The same year, the recognizable NUTmobile ...

6. Planters nuts recalled due to potential for listeria ... - AOL

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   It also affects 8.75-ounce cans of Planters Deluxe Lightly Salted Mixed Nuts with a “best if used by” date of April 5, 2026, and a package UPC code of 2900001621 on the side of the can.

7. Mr. Peanut speaks in new ad campaign -- and he's pretty funny

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   Mr. Peanut, the iconic mascot of Planters peanuts, is ending 94 years of silence in a new commercial. Given stop-action life (and the voice of Robert Downey Jr.), Mr. Peanut hosts a memorable ...

8. Hormel Foods - Wikipedia

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   The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel in 1891. It changed its name to Hormel Foods in 1993. George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicago slaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there.

9. Mr. Peanut of Planters fame is dead at 104 and Twitter is ...

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   Crack your shell and hold the pieces to the sky in honor of a fallen hero.