G&G Specialty Foods Inc history

A signature product resulted, as did the Underwood Devil logo, which was trademarked in 1870, the oldest still in use in the United States.

In 1889 they founded B & G to produce pickles and relish, as well as other condiments.

In 1915 she began experimenting with maple sugar with her daughter, home for the summer from Columbia University where she studied Home Economics.

In 1923 Las Palmas was established and began to offer a number of canned Mexican foods and sauces.

Using the traditional New England brick oven method, B & M introduced its Brick Oven Baked Beans in 1927 and soon began advertising on a national basis.

Leonard Polaner joined the family business in 1956 after earning a master's degree from Harvard Business School.

First to go in March 1993 was the Polaner line, sold to American Home Products for $67.5 million.

1996: B & G Foods is formed by investor group; company acquires Bloch & Guggenheimer and Burns & Ricker from Specialty Foods.

Financial results for 1997 indicated that the company was already showing signs of success.

B & G Foods made yet another acquisition in July 1998 when it purchased privately held Maple Grove Farms of Vermont, Inc., makers of maple syrup and salad dressing under the Maple Grove Farm label, private-label maple syrup products, and natural foods under its Up Country Naturals label.

Underwood Company, and the two became part of the Heritage brands that B & G Foods acquired in 1999.