Frozen food brands

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Dr. Praeger%27s

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Eggo

Eggo is a brand of frozen waffles in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which is owned by the Kellogg Company. Several varieties are available, including homestyle, miniature, blueberry, strawberry, vanilla bliss, brown sugar cinnamon, buttermilk, and chocolate chip.

Other than waffles, Eggo also produces a selection of pancakes, French toast, and egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches, of which varieties include ham or sausage.

By mid-June 2009, Eggo had a 73% share of the frozen waffle market in the United States.

Eggo waffles were invented in San Jose, California, by three brothers, Tony, Sam, and Frank Dorsa. In 1953, the Dorsa brothers introduced Eggo frozen waffles to supermarkets throughout the United States. Frozen waffles do not require a waffle iron to prepare.

When the Dorsas first introduced the product it was called "Froffles", a portmanteau of frozen waffles. However people started referring to them as "eggos" due to their eggy taste. The name caught on and the brothers began using the moniker in marketing. Eventually the name became synonymous with the product and, in 1955, the Dorsa brothers officially changed the name to "Eggo".

Along with frozen waffles, the Dorsa brothers also produced Eggo potato chips (and Golden Bear potato chips) and Eggo syrup. All of the products were produced at a sprawling plant and factory on Eggo Way in San Jose, CA, near the intersection of US101 and East Julian Street. The Dorsas were very involved in local community activities and donated extensively to school and community projects. For Halloween, instead of candy, Tony Dorsa would give out bags of Eggo potato chips to trick-or-treaters.

In 1968, as a means of diversification, the Kellogg Company purchased Eggo. Their advertising slogan—"L'eggo my Eggo"—is well known through their television commercials.

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El Charrito

El Charrito is a brand of Tex-Mex TV dinners. The word is Spanish for "little cowboy". The brand was introduced in 1980 by the Campbell Taggart company, who owned the El Chico restaurant chain.

Though its entrees included taquitos, queso, and beef enchiladas, it was also known for the uniquely named Saltillo Dinner, a three-compartment dinner consisting of two enchiladas (one each beef and cheese), Spanish rice and refried beans.

In 1995 the parent company became Earthgrains and chose to focus on baked goods, selling the El Charrito brand to Don Miguel Mexican Foods.

Edit July 24, 2017: After not finding El Charrito dinners at my store for some weeks, I checked the Hormel Foods Don Miguel website. Apparently El Charrito frozen dinners have been discontinued.

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Findus

Findus

Findus is a frozen food brand which was first sold in Sweden in 1945. Findus products include ready meals, peas and Crispy Pancakes, the latter of which were invented in the early 1970s.

The Swiss food company Nestlé owned the Findus brand from 1962 to 2000; it sold the rights to the brand in most of Europe in 2000 whilst retaining ownership in Switzerland. Through a number of acquisitions, the brand in Scandinavia, France, Spain and the United Kingdom came to be owned by the Findus Group, owned by Lion Capital LLP, Highbridge Capital Management and JPMorgan Chase. In Italy, it was owned by Iglo Group, which marketed a similar range under the Iglo and Birds Eye brand.

In June 2015, Iglo Group was purchased by Nomad Foods. Nomad followed this in November 2015 with the purchase of Findus' European business, with the exception of Findus UK and Young's, which remain under the ownership of Lion Capital and its partners. Young's confirmed in February 2016 that it intended to rebrand Findus in the UK.

The origins of the Findus brand date back to the founding of Skånska Frukt- vin- & Likörfabriken (Fruit, Wine and Liqueur Industries) in Bjuv, Sweden in 1905. In 1941 Skånska Fruktin & Likörfabriken was acquired by the confectionery manufacturer Freja Marabou and was subsequently renamed Findus Canning Factory. In 1945 the first Findus-branded deep frozen food products went on sale in Sweden, produced in a small factory in Skåne. Findus products were exported to an increasing number of European countries in the late 1950s, including the United Kingdom in 1958. In 1962, Findus Co. was acquired by the Swiss food company Nestlé.

In 1963 Nestlé and the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever formed a frozen foods joint venture in Italy, which sold products under the Findus name. Unilever acquired Nestle's stake in the joint venture in 1985, giving it full ownership of the Findus brand in Italy.

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Freezer Queen

Freezer Queen was for decades a U.S. frozen food packaging company. It was a pioneer of the TV dinner industry beginning in 1958. For many years it was an important employer in Buffalo, New York. It was founded by Buffalo businessman Paul Snyder and at one point had over 1,000 employees. In 2004 its Buffalo plant failed a government safety inspection and was closed by Home Market Foods, its corporate parent. The company was previously owned by United Foods.

The plant's closure left many employees unemployed. The USDA inspection found such violations as live cockroaches in the gravy tank on multiple occasions. In response, Freezer Queen first requested a new USDA inspector, then suggested that parts of the facility were debris-strewn and not normally cleaned, and finally elected to shut down the facility rather than fix the unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

In its final years, Freezer Queen was merely a brand entity for the line of frozen dinners and entrees it had previously produced. Among those Freezer Queen-branded products were "Gravy with Salisbury Steaks," and "Broccoli with Cheese Sauce." Home Market Foods then transitioned the brand to "Family Buffet," ending Freezer Queen's history.

The former warehouse and production facility is slated to be demolished for Queen City Landing, a 23-story apartment tower.

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Frikom

Frikom

Coordinates: 44°55′23″N 20°26′29″E / 44.922946°N 20.441483°E / 44.922946; 20.441483

Frikom (full legal name: Industrija smrznute hrane Frikom d.o.o. Beograd) is a Serbian maker of ice cream, which also sells frozen fruit, vegetables, fish, and pastries. It was set up in the early 1970s in Yugoslavia with help from Unilever. At first called Jedinica Zajedničkog Ulaganja (Joint Venture Unit), it was renamed Frikom - Kompanija Smrznute Hrane (FRozen Food KOMpany). Since its 2003 privatization, it has been part of the Agrokor group, a Croatian company.

Frikom in 2008 bought 70 percent of the company for processing and trading of agricultural products Nova sloga from Trstenik, part of which is factory Mivela water, which has high levels of magnesium, for 4 million euro and commits to invest another 11 million euros. Nova sloga has the exclusive rights to exploit water in the field Mivela in Veluće, eight kilometers from Trstenik on an area of 4,125 square kilometers.

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Gorton%27s of Gloucester

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Green Giant

Green Giant

Green Giant and Le Sueur are brands of frozen and canned vegetables owned by B&G Foods. The company's mascot is the Jolly Green Giant.

The Minnesota Valley Canning Company was founded in 1903 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. It used the brand name "Le Sueur Z" for canned vegetables starting in 1903; "Le Sueur" by itself was first used in 1933.

The brand "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas" was first used in 1925, and the figure of a giant was introduced three years later by Carly Stanek. The brand was created in response to the discovery of a new variety of pea, the Prince of Wales: they were, as Martin Sloan relates, "oblong, wrinkled, and, as peas go, huge. Despite their size, they were tender, and had a special flavor and sweetness that couldn't be matched. The company went to the brands for which it canned and found that none of them wanted to sell the new peas. So Minnesota Valley decided to sell them under its own label. Rather than apologize for the size of the peas, they decided to emphasize it. They named the peas 'Green Giant.'" The original mascot had very little in common with the familiar green figure of today: he was a scowling caveman wearing a bearskin rather than foliage (this original concept actually owed much to a dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "Der Bärenhäuter" – "Bearskin"). In 1935 a young copywriter, Leo Burnett, revised the face of the brand: "he traded the bearskin for a leafy suit, gave the Giant a smile...and put the word 'Jolly' in front of the Giant's name." The Giant made his first television appearances in 1954, and was later voiced by Elmer Dresslar, Jr. The booming "Ho, ho, ho" became the Giant's signature tagline in 1961. Since 1972 he has had a young apprentice, the Little Green Sprout, who represents the consumer.

The company was renamed to the Green Giant Company in 1950. In 1979 it merged with the Pillsbury Company; in 2001, the group was acquired by General Mills. In 2015, General Mills sold the brand to B&G Foods for $765 million in cash.

In Canada the brand Le Sieur has been used since at least 1964, instead of Le Sueur – presumably to avoid the implications of the French word sueur (= 'sweat').

In 1963 a 7" 33rpm EP, "When Pea-Pickers Get Together," featuring Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Green Valley Singers was released. Side one was a medley of popular folk songs, while side two told the story of how Ford and the Jolly Green Giant collaborated on writing his signature TV song ("How The Green Giant Found His Song (And Almost Lost His Ho! Ho! Ho!)"). The jacket for the record gives the official "biography" of the Jolly Green Giant.

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Groupe Doux

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Société Anonyme Industry Groupe Doux S.A.

Doux Group, founded in 1955 and headquartered in Châteaulin, Finistère (France), is a French food processing company in the industrial poultry production business, exporting poultry-based processed products. In 2014, It was ranked as the largest producer of poultry in Europe, and the third largest in the world. The group is led by Arnaud Marion, who has been the CEO of Doux since late 2012.

In 1933, Pierre Doux started his poultry business in Nantes (France) in 1933. In 1955, he moved to Port Laudnay and opened Doux’s first slaughterhouse. The poultry farming in Breton developed into soilless cultivation which meant the feeding of poultry with food from outside the farming area.

In the 1960s, Doux adopted a hybrid chicken system where different chicken strains could inter breed and gain the benefits of their respective physiological attributes. By now, Doux was working closely with the Institute of Animal Breeding (Institut de sélection animale (ISA)) to retain the best chicken strains according to their physiological attributes. Then later in the 1960s, Doux worked closely with the Institute of Animal Breeding (Institut de sélection animale (ISA)) to retain the best chicken strains according to their physiological attributes. Also during this time, the company bought its first freezing machines in the USA and initiated the development of a trading frozen poultry to the Middle East.

In 1975, Charles Doux became head of the company founded by his father.

In the 1970s, Doux went international and became the first frozen and processed poultry exporter to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In 1990, Doux agreed to purchase Père Dodu (full acquisition in 1998), a leading brand of poultry products in France. They set up the delivery location near the coast to avoid any religious problems, blockades or otherwise.

In 1991, Doux bought the brande Père Dodu of the group Guyomarch, which was finalized in 1998 with the purchase of Soprat.

The Gatt agreements signed in Marrakesh in 1994 required the EU to reduce its export aid, and Doux lost half its export market.

In 1998, Doux acquired Francosul, Brazil’s leading poultry processing company for countries where production costs make them more competitive. Following was the development of Brazilian protectionism which indebted Doux 200 million euros. In May 2012, Doux agreed to lease its Brazilian assets to its competitor JBS SA through a 10-year renewable contract, but couldn’t clear its €200 millions debt associated to its Brazilian operations.

In 2004, avian flu brought down the global poultry market. That year, the Doux Group posted a loss of 14 million euros. Between October 2005 and February 2006, sales dropped 15 to 20%, and 25% to 30% between late February and early March 2006. Doux recorded a total loss of 45.3 million euros and the following year a loss of 35.3 million euros. In total, from 2002 to 2008, the turnover of Doux fell 6.7% to $1.5 billion euros. In 2008, Doux recorded a loss of 7 million euros.

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Happy Belly

Happy Belly, (Chinese: 家乐宝; pinyin: Jiālèbǎo), is a food brand under Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing Pte Ltd, the world leading manufacturer of spring roll pastry, located in Singapore. It was created as a brand for its oriental range of frozen food products.

The “Happy Belly” brand is used by Tee Yih Jia to market the following range of frozen ready-to-eat Asian convenience food:

Headwriter & Scriptwriter: Simmon Tan Pilot Episode entitled: "Don't You Criticize My Food" was the Winner of the Bronze Medal at the New York Festival, 1995.

Spring Home products are accredited with the following certifications:

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