The J.M. Smucker Company

The J.M. Smucker Company

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: SJM S&P 500 Component
Founded	Orrville, Ohio, United States (1897 (1897))
Founder	Jerome Monroe Smucker
Headquarters	Orrville, Ohio, United States
Key people	Richard Smucker (CEO) Vince Byrd (President and COO)
Products	Fruit spreads ice cream toppings coffee health and natural foods beverages shortening natural peanut butter
Subsidiaries	Big Heart Pet Brands
Slogan	With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good
Website	jmsmucker.com

The J. M. Smucker Company is an American manufacturer of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, beverages, shortening, natural peanut butter, and other products in North America. Smucker's headquarters are located in Orrville, Ohio.

History

The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker. The company produces many types of jellies, jams, and other food items. Jerome was born on December 5, 1858 in Orrville, Ohio. Much of his life was spent as a farmer in Orville. In 1897 Jerome built a cider mill that was located in Orrville. Fruit that was used was from trees that Johnny Appleseed had planted in the early nineteenth century. Later, he prepared apple butter and sold it from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. The company was incorporated in 1921.

The J. M. Smucker Company is a marketer and manufacturer of fruit spreads, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, sweetened condensed milk, and health and natural foods and beverages. J.M. Smucker company brands include Smucker's, Santa Cruz Organic, Jif, Laura Scudder's, Crisco, Pillsbury, Eagle Brand, R.W. Knudsen Family, Hungry Jack, White Lily, and Martha White in the United States, along with Bick's, Five Roses, Robin Hood, and Shirriff in Canada.

The J. M. Smucker Company has been headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, since its founding, and has been family-run for four generations. Since 1998, the company has appeared on FORTUNE Magazine's annual listing of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in the United States", ranking number one in 2004.

In May 2008, Smucker's announced it had bought the food division of Knott's Berry Farm from ConAgra Foods, but not the theme park, which Cedar Fair owns. On June 4, 2008, Smucker's announced it would purchase the Folgers coffee brand division from Procter & Gamble for $3.3 billion. Completion of the sale was announced on November 6, 2008.

Throughout 2012, Smucker's contributed $485,000 to a $46-million political campaign known as the "Coalition Against The Costly Food Labeling Proposition, sponsored by Farmers and Food Producers". This organization was set up to oppose a citizen's initiative, known as Proposition 37, demanding mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients. About 70% of the funding for the initiative was provided by a PAC and by companies with financial interests in the organic foods industry, with most of the remainder coming from a handful of wealthy individuals. Following rejection of the proposition in the November 2012 referendum, organizers called for a boycott of companies funding the campaign to defeat the referendum.

On August 6, 2014, Smuckers announced they are buying Sahale Snacks.

Past and present slogans

• "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"
• "Smucker will make you pucker!"
• "If you find a better jelly, you buy it!"
• "Smucker Company, the brand you can trust"
• "There ain't no place like Smucker's!"
• "The only brand of jams that can make a piece of bread lively!"
• "If you're hungry, Smucker's is the way to go!"
• "Smucker's may be yummy, your tummy may be too, but your grocer's freezer, is not far from you!"
• "Bread, jam and jelly, in your belly, lick your spoon and cut your bread, then you will be Smucker's well fed"

Johnny Carson, former host of The Tonight Show, once introduced his sponsor on air as "With a name like Smucker's, it had better be good!"

Products

• Jam, jelly, and preserves
  • Dickinson's Gourmet Preserves
  • King Kelly Orange Marmalade
  • Fruit Butter
  • Jam
  • Double Fruit
  • Low Sugar
  • Preserves
  • Simply Fruit
  • Sugar Free
  • Organic
• Peanut butter
  • Jif
  • Jif to Go
  • Goober PB&J
  • Smucker's Natural with Honey
  • Adams Natural
  • Laura Scudder Natural
  • Organic
• Sandwiches
  • Grape PB&J
  • Strawberry PB&J
  • Grilled cheese
  • Peanut butter and honey on wheat
  • Peanut butter
  • 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
  • Marshmallow spoonable ice cream topping
• Specialty items
  • Crosse & Blackwell, traditional English foods
  • Fruit syrup
  • Habitant (Canada, vegetable items only; jams, fruit spreads and syrup is made by E.D. Smith)
  • Bicks
  • Milnot
  • Plate Scapers dessert topping
  • Specialty items
• Oils and shortening
  • Crisco
• Flour and baking mixes
  • Hungry Jack
  • Martha White
  • Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)
  • White Lily
  • Robin Hood Flour (in Canada)
  • Five Roses Flour (in Canada)
• Juices, beverages, and sauces (natural and organic)
  • After the Fall
  • Natural Brew (Real Brew in Canada)
  • R.W. Knudsen Family (also apple butter and cranberry sauce)
  • Santa Cruz Organic (also peanut butter, chocolate and caramel sauce, and applesauces)
  • Tenderleaf Tea (from the makers of Folgers)
• Coffee products
  • Folgers
  • Millstone
  • Dunkin' Donuts (licensed to manufacture in retail grocery market)
  • Kava
  • Cafe Bustelo/Cafe Pilon

Company acquisitions

Source:

• 1963
  • Mary Ellen (jams and jellies)
• 1979
  • Dickinson's (gourmet preserves and jellies)
• 1984
  • Knudsen & Sons (fruit and vegetable juices)
• 1988
  • Good Morning (marmalade) (Canada)
  • Shirriff (dessert toppings and marmalades) (Canada)
• 1989
  • Henry Jones Foods (jams and jellies) (Australia) sold in 2004 to SPC Ardmona.(Australia)
• 1994
  • Laura Scudder (peanut butter)
  • After the Fall (juices)
• 1998
  • Adams (peanut butter)
• 2002
  • Jif (peanut butter)
  • Crisco (oils)
• 2004
  • International Multifoods Corporation
    • Pillsbury (flour products and frosting)
    • Hungry Jack (pancake mixes, syrup, and potato side dishes)
    • Pet (milk products)
    • Martha White (baking mixes and ingredients)
    • Robin Hood Flour (Canada)
    • Red River Cereal (Canada)
    • Bick's (pickles and condiments) (Canada)
    • Golden Temple (Indian foods) (Canada)
• 2006
  • White Lily Brand (flour products)
• 2007
  • Eagle Family Foods
    • Eagle Brand/Borden (milk products)
    • None Such (mincemeat)
    • Kava (acid-neutralized coffee)
  • King Kelly Orange Marmalade
• 2008
  • Knott's Berry Farm (jams, jellies, and preserves)
  • Europe's Best (frozen fruit and vegetables) (Canada)
  • Carnation - Canadian brand (milk products) (Canada)
  • Folgers Coffee Company (coffee products)
• 2010
  • Millstone Coffee Company (coffee products)
  • Rowland Coffee Roasters (coffee products)
• 2011
  • Sara Lee North American foodservice coffee and tea operations (coffee products)
• 2015
  • Big Heart Pet Brands

See also

• Sealed crustless sandwich, a patented Smucker product
• Reverse Morris trust, an acquisition method favored by Smucker.

External links

• J.M. Smucker Co. Corporate website