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14 unusual facts about H. J. Heinz Company


At the Codfish Ball

The next day, Megan approaches Don with an idea for the Heinz campaign: a mother serving her child beans in various historical contexts, from caveman times through to the future.

Bomen, New South Wales

Major industries located within Bomen are located within the Bomen Business Park which include Cargill Foods Australia, Heinz-Watties factory, BOC Gas plant and Austrak concrete sleeper plant.

Cape Cornwall

In 1987 the site was donated to the nation by the H. J. Heinz Company.

Cyberspace and Reds

Users of the app were required to scan one barcode displayed on the website, and the barcode "from the side of a 300g tin of tomato soup by a well known brand" (the brand turned out to be Heinz).

Economy of Seychelles

In 1995, Seychelles saw the privatization of the Seychelles Tuna Canning Factory, 60% of which was purchased by the American food company Heinz.

Elst, Gelderland

H. J. Heinz Company's sauce factory for the European market is located south of the town centre.

Eric Malling

In another of many sensational stories, the Federal Minister responsible for Fisheries, John Fraser had to resign after Malling revealed he had overruled his own health inspectors and allowed the sale of tainted Starkist brand of tuna based on the suggestion by a non-government corporation.

Finsbury Pavement

The company later established a large manufacturing plant in Peckham, which became the United Kingdom's first manufacturing base of H. J. Heinz Company in 1905.

James Wattie

Since 1992 the company has been owned by H. J. Heinz Company and is one of the world's leading food manufacturing companies.

Jan Beatty

She was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council in 1990, and the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation.

Jon Astley

His most commercially successful song was "Jane's Getting Serious", later popularized by a Heinz ketchup television commercial starring a pre-Friends cast member Matt LeBlanc.

Nahum Barnet

(The Wertheim factory later became a Heinz factory and, for over 50 years, has been the studios for television station GTV-9.)

Orthodox Union

In 1923, the H. J. Heinz Company's Vegetarian Beans became the first product to be kosher certified by the OU.

The Johnston Brothers

By 1956, Johnston had established Johnny Johnston Jingles Ltd., which was responsible for hundreds of advertising jingles in the early years of British commercial television, including "A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say - Beanz Meanz Heinz!", "You can be sure of Shell", and the first ever colour TV commercial in Britain, for Birds Eye peas in 1969.


Antoinette Martignoni

Martignoni created illustrations for large United States corporations (such as Avis Rent A Car System, Pepsi, H. J. Heinz Company, Nabisco and Duracell).

Behold

William R. Johnson, now president of H.J. Heinz, was assistant brand manager for Behold at Drackett, 1974-1977.

Jorgensen Engineering

Today, Jorgensen Engineering has 250 employees worldwide, and supplies systems for i.e. Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth, H. J. Heinz Company, and Nestlé.

Linda McCartney Foods

The brand was created in 1991 by Linda McCartney (1941–1998), sold in 2000 to Heinz, and sold again in 2006 to the Hain Celestial Group, though the McCartney family remains involved in its development.

Mrs. Grass

Grass is a food brand used on noodles made by the American Italian Pasta Company (a division of Ralcorp) and a boxed soup manufactured by Wyler's (a subsidiary of the H. J. Heinz Company).

Ottogi

In 1980s, the firm triumphed over multinational manufacturers such as H. J. Heinz Company and Hellmann's and Best Foods in South Korean market and still has over 80% market share for ketchup and mayonnaise in Korea.

Relish

Heinz, Vlasic, and Claussen are well known in the United States as producers of pickles and relishes.