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Durkee (food Business)
Durkee is an American brand of spices, marinades, and powdered sauce mixes owned by B&G Foods. Durkee Famous Foods was established by Eugene R. Durkee in 1851. History Durkee's was established by Eugene R. Durkee, the founder of E. R. Durkee & Co. Spice dealers in Buffalo, New York, in 1857. By 1917, the company had built a four-story industrial structure in Elmhurst, Queens. As of 2021, the company has a major production facility in Ankeny, Iowa. Which is the actual home of what was Tone Brothers Spices (Owned by Rykoff Sexton at that time) Currently owned by B&G Foods who own Durkee brand. Durkee became the largest factory and employer in Elmhurst, with over 300 employees, primarily women. E.R. Durkee died in 1926, leaving everything to his daughters. Since the 1980s the company has had a series of owners, and in 2016 it was sold by ACH Food Companies, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods, to B&G Foods. Glidden Co. purchased the firm in 1929, and it became Durke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B&G Foods
B&G Foods is an American branded foods holding company based in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company was formed in 1996 to acquire Bloch & Guggenheimer, a Manhattan-based producer of pickles, relish and condiments which had been founded in 1889. B&G has been publicly traded since 2007 and its primary growth strategy is to acquire "orphaned" brands, those which no longer fit with their parent company's primary business. The company made 20 acquisitions between 1997 and 2017 and held 51 brands mostly Frozen food, frozen and shelf-stable food. History Precursors The "B&G" name began in 1889 when two immigrants, Joseph Bloch and Julius Guggenheimer, started a pickle company, Bloch & Guggenheimer, Inc., in Manhattan. In its early days, B&G built a large pickle plant in Long Island City, Queens which the company operated until the 1970s when it moved production to Maryland. B&G produced pickles, relish, and other condiments under the B&G brand and by the 1980s they had become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bromelain
Bromelain is an enzyme extract derived from the stems of pineapples, although it exists in all parts of the fresh pineapple. The extract has a history of folk medicine use. As an ingredient, it is used in cosmetics, as a topical medication, and as a meat tenderizer. The term "bromelain" may refer to either of two protease enzymes extracted from the plants of the family Bromeliaceae, or it may refer to a combination of those enzymes along with other compounds produced in an extract. Bromelain enzymes are called ''fruit bromelain'' and ''stem bromelain''. Although tested in a variety of folk medicine and research models for its possible efficacy against diseases, bromelain has only one approved clinical application issued in 2012 by the European Medicines Agency a topical medication called ''NexoBrid'', used to remove dead tissue in severe skin burns. Extract components Bromelain extract is a mixture of protein-digesting (proteolytic) enzymes and several other substances in smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's population lives in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
