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Colman's is an English manufacturer of mustard and other sauces, formerly based and produced for 160 years at Carrow, in Norwich, Norfolk. Owned by Unilever since 1995, Colman's is one of the oldest existing food brands, famous for a limited range of products, almost all being varieties of mustard.
Mustard seeds (top-left) may be ground (top-right) to make different kinds of mustard. The other four mustards pictured are a mild yellow mustard with turmeric coloring (center left), a Bavarian sweet mustard (center right), a Dijon mustard (lower left), and a coarse French mustard made mainly from black mustard seeds (lower right).
Jeremiah Colman (1777–1851) was an English miller who founded Colman's Mustard, a business which merged into the conglomerate Reckitt & Colman, and is now owned by Unilever. Jeremiah Colman (1771-1851) who began the milling of mustard at Magdalen Gate, Norwich, in 1804.
[27] [note 3] Together with Colman's, the company acquired French's, the American mustard manufacturer, in 1926 for £750,000. [28] Overseas acquisitions in the 1920s and 1930s were partly in response to the protectionist environment of that period. [29] In 1929, a former scientist at Jeyes joined the firm, and developed the Dettol disinfectant ...
Jeremiah James Colman (14 June 1830 – 18 September 1898) was an English mustard manufacturer and the third member of the family in charge of the eponymous company Colman's. He was a popular philanthropist in his home town of Norwich and a Liberal politician who represented the city in parliament.
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Colman was the son of Jeremiah Colman (1807 - 1885) and Isabella Button. [1] Educated at King's College School and St. John's College, Cambridge, [2] Colman joined the J & J Colman mustard business and then served as its Chairman from 1896. [3] He was also Chairman of Commercial Union. [3]
Michael Jeremiah Colman was born on 7 July 1928 to Jeremiah Colman (later 2nd baronet, of Gatton Park; 1886–1961) and Edith Gwendolen Tritton (1902–1980), scion of the Tritton baronets. He was the grandson of Sir Jeremiah Colman, 1st Bt, and a descendant of Jeremiah Colman, founder of Colman's. Colman was educated at Eton College. [1]