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, shortening, 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 Category:J.M. Smucker brands.

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

[edit] 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!"

[edit] Products

• Jam, Jelly, & Preserves
  • Fruit Butter
  • Jam
  • 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
  • Peanut Butter and Honey
  • 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
• 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, beverages, & 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 & caramel sauce, & applesauces)

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB&J)

[edit] External links

• J.M. Smucker Co.
• U.S. Patent 6,004,596 : Sealed crustless sandwich

[edit] 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 0-691-11725-X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.