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In 1847, Sandford paid $500 for a half interest in the company, which he and Thomas named T. & S. Gibbs.
After Sandford’s death in 1886, his widow Sallie took over the business.
1922: Bush Brothers is incorporated.
Then known as the Yasui Sewing Machine Company, the firm launched Japan's first domestically produced sewing machine under the Brother label in 1928.
A third facility, located in Clinton, Tennessee, joined the fold three years later, in 1931.
Fred Bush, A.J. Bush's oldest son, was named president in 1931, inheriting the difficult task of shepherding Bush Brothers through the Great Depression.
The company launched its first household sewing machine in 1932.
Renamed Brother Sales, Ltd., in 1941, the company began to apply its accrued expertise in motors and manufacturing to diversification during the postwar era.
Every story has a beginning, and Deseret Ranch’s story began in 1947 when Henry Moyle was in Georgia on assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1948: Bush's Best Brand first appears.
In 1950, Moyle acquired the first parcels for the Church and within two years pieced together the core of the ranch, over 220,000 acres.
In many respects, the decades-long improvements begun by ranch managers in 1950 continue even today.
The foray into other product lines began in 1952, when the company introduced canned dry beans.
Some of the side projects, like a 1956 motorcycle named the "Darling," turned out to be dead ends.
The company launched its first portable typewriter in 1961 and changed its name to Brother Industries, Ltd., the following year.
In 1965, Fred Bush's younger brother Claude was named chairman.
Brother's mechanical know-how combined with emerging electronics to result in the world's first high-speed dot matrix printer in 1971.
The amount that the cleaning company conglomerate Clorox paid for Hidden Valley Ranch in 1972.
Ethier was named chairman in 1978, the same year Condon Bush was elected president of the company.
In 1979 the United States federal government agreed and started adding punitive duties (58.7 percent) to each typewriter imported into the United States.
Brother produced its ten-millionth typewriter in 1980 and its ten-millionth knitting machine three years later.
By 1983 sales in this segment of Brother's business surpassed its traditionally dominant sewing machine sales.
He is originally from Lakeland, Florida and has been associated with Deseret since 1986.
In order to compete with personal computers, Brother added editing screens and memory to its electronic typewriters and launched a word processor in 1987.
1992: Company headquarters are moved from Chestnut Hill to Knoxville.
The sauce became a major phenomenon after they figured out a way to preserve ranch dressing for long enough that it could be bottled and sold. (Though then again, it wasn’t easy—Clorox food scientists spent nearly a decade trying to get it right, according to Malcom Gladwell. It became a hit despite the the food scientists believing they had failed.) By 1992, ranch dressing was the most popular kind of salad dressing.
Neither company had responded to the marketing campaign launched by Bush Brothers in 1993, at least in terms of advertising spending.
According to Bush Brothers' estimates, the company nearly tripled its market share in the baked beans category by 1994, taking command of a market that generated an estimated $400 million in sales annually.
Smith-Corona, which by this time was partly owned by the British firm Hanson plc, succumbed to Brother's competitive onslaught (as well as other inexorable market forces), and sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1995.
In 1995, the company introduced Bush's Boston Baked Beans in the New England market, the same year Duke, a golden retriever, first appeared as Jay Bush's on-air sidekick.
On the heels of the company's rousing success with baked beans, Bush Brothers took another ambitious leap, introducing a new brand in 1996.
In 1999, in fact, Campbell Soup chose not to advertise its baked beans at all.
In 1999, the company began planning for an expansion to its production capacity.
“It’s tough to feed men up in those bush jobs,” the Nebraska native told Los Angeles Times food reporter Sergio Ortiz in 1999. “If they don’t like something, they’re as likely to throw it at the cook as they are to walk out cursing.
The company controlled 50 percent of the $470-million-in-sales baked beans market in 2001.
The expansion, to be completed by mid-2003, was expected to triple the company's production capacity.
An example of that slow expansion: Back in 2014, an Australian YouTuber named Elly Awesome had a freakout moment after discovering that Cool Ranch Doritos was being sold in her home country for the first time.
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