Tobin Packing Co., Inc.
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Certificate Details
Product Details
Tobin Packing Co., Inc.
Certificate Type
Common Stock
Date Issued
December 3, 1979
Canceled
No
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Machine printed
Approximate Size
12" (w) x 8" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
Additional Details
NA
Historical Context
The roots of this company go back to 1921, when Frederick M. Tobin bought a controlling interest in the Rochester Packing Co. A Syracuse native, Tobin started in the meat business as a salesman for a Buffalo company before rising through the ranks there and at a Utica plant.
By 1924, Tobin broke ground for the Albany Packing Co. in the state capital and a decade later built another plant in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Those plants merged into the Tobin Packing Co. in 1942. The firm later acquired a plant in Estherville, Iowa, as part of its operations.
The company was best known for its "First Prize" line of meat products - in particular, its White Hots. White Hots were a sausage-like product that was originally made out of 50 percent stale bread, some pork, veal and beef. They were white because of the bread and the gray color of the veal and pork. Eventually Tobin would make them of all meat, with milk and fresh eggs added.
Frederick Tobin retired in 1969, when his company was said to be the largest meat-packing company in the Northeast. Problems started soon after. The company showed a profit only once from 1971 to 1976. Tobin ended its meat-processing operations in Rochester in 1975 and switched operations to its Albany and Buffalo plants. The Rochester facility was used mainly as an area distribution center until it closed in 1976.
Corporate headquarters were moved to Albany. By 1979, the company was sold to Halco Products of New York City. Tobin products continued to be sold here and elsewhere for a while. Tobin filed for bankruptcy in 1981, and John Morrell & Co., based in Cincinnati, acquired Tobin's line of meat products.