The J.M. Smucker Co.
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The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is a manufacturer and market leader of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, health and natural foods beverages, and natural peanut butter in North America.
Headquarters for Smuckers are in Orrville, Ohio.
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History
The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker. The company has been family run for four generations.
Products
- Jam, Jelly, & Preserves
- Fruit Butter
- Jam
- Jelly
- Low Sugar
- Preserves
- Simply Fruit
- Sugar Free
- Peanut Butter
- Goober PB&J
- Jif
- Nat. Peanut Butter
- Sandwiches
- Grape PB&J
- Strawberry PB&J
- Grilled Cheese
- Uncrustables
- Ice Cream Toppings
- Magic Shell
- Microwaveable Ice Cream Topping
- Specialty Ice Cream Topping
- Spoonable Ice Cream Topping
- Sugar Free Ice Cream Topping
- Sundae Syrups
- Specialty Items
- Fruit Syrup
- Plate Scapers Dessert Topping
- Specialty Items
- Oils and shortening
- Flour and baking mixes
- Hungry Jack
- Martha White
- Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)
Controversy
A product of the Smucker company has become a standard example in intellectual property literature of a frivolous patent: the "sealed crustless sandwich". See the link for more information.
See also
External links
- J.M. Smucker Co. (http://www.smuckers.com/)
- U.S. patent: Sealed crustless sandwich (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,004,596.WKU.&OS=PN/6,004,596&RS=PN/6,004,596)
References
On the "sealed crustless sandwich":
- Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovcation and progress, and what to do about it (ISBN 069111725X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.