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 Smucker's are in Orrville, Ohio. The company owns many other food brands as well, see .

Contents

1 History
2 Products
3 Controversy
4 See also
5 External links
6 References

History

The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker. The company has been family run for four generations.

For almost thirty years until his death in 2005, actor Mason Adams was the TV commercial spokesman for their line of jellies and jams, ending with the famous line, "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good!"

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
* Crisco
Flour and baking mixes
* Hungry Jack
* Martha White
* Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)
Juices & other beverages
* After the Fall
* Real Brew
* R.W. Knudsen Family
* Santa Cruz Organic

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.

External links

References

On the "sealed crustless sandwich":

Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovation and progress, and what to do about it (ISBN 069111725X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.