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Adams Extract & Spice company history timeline

1888

John Anderson Adams, began making and selling extracts in Michigan in 1888.

1922

In 1922, he built a two-story building downtown and continued production.

1947

In 1947, he designed and built the first assorted food color 4-pack line that is still sold today.

1955

In 1955, the company built a new plant, designed by the famous architecture firm Lundgren and Maurer on I-35.

1965

Her name can be found on many of the original recipes boasted by the company including the "Adams 75th Anniversary Pound Cake", or Five Flavor Cake, and the “Prize Winning Pound Cake”, a blue-ribbon winner at the 1965 State Fair of Texas.

2002

The Adams Extract building continued production in Austin, Texas, under direction of John G. Adams, Sr., from the Adams family until 2002.

2009

In 2009, the movie Extract (film) was released and based on the childhood memories creator and director Mike Judge had of the Adams Extract Plant in Austin, Texas.

2011

In mid-July 2011, Adams Best Vanilla, six other extracts, and food colors were added as a feature product in the popular Apple iTunes app, "Cupcakes!".

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