Rare GENERAL FOODS Working Proof
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Product Details
Company
General Foods Corporation
Certificate Type
Working Proof for the company's Common Stock
Time Period
1980's
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Format & Approximate Size
This proof is adhered to a thick 12" x 8 1/2" piece of cardboard. The proof is protected by a "flip up" clear protective and editing layer and is adhered to the folder itself.
Images
You will receive the exact proof pictured as it is the only one of it's kind. The first picture shows the proof with the edit layer lying atop the piece. The second picture shows just the proof with the plastic layer lifted out of view. The third picture shows the back of the cardboard with various notations and approvals.
Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
Additional Details
General Foods was incorporated in 1922, having developed from the earlier Postum Cereal Co. Ltd., founded by C.W. Post (1854–1914) in 1895 in Battle Creek, Michigan. After a number of experiments, Post marketed his first product — the cereal beverage called Postum — in 1895.
Other profitable products followed, notably Grape Nuts (1897), Post Toasties (1904), and, after Post’s death, Post 40% Bran Flakes (1922). From 1925 to 1929 the Postum company began absorbing other firms: Jell-O Company in 1925; Igleheart Brothers (Swans Down flour) and Minute Tapioca Co. in 1926; Franklin Baker (coconut), Walter Baker (chocolate), and Log Cabin (syrup) in 1927; La France Company (bluing), Maxwell House (coffee), and Calumet (baking powder) in 1928; and Certo (pectin) and Birdseye (frozen foods) in 1929.
Several other products eventually came into the organization, such as Sanka coffee (1932), Gaines dog food (1943), Bird’s Custard Powder (1947), Kool-Aid (1953), W. Atlee Burpee garden products (1970), Oscar Mayer & Company meat products (1981), and Entenmann’s Inc. bakery products (1982).
As early as 1908, Post had established foreign operations, including the Canadian Postum Company Ltd., in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and the Grape-Nuts Company Ltd., in London. By the late 20th century General Foods had manufacturing plants in most of western Europe and in such other countries as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil. In 1985 General Foods Corporation was bought by the holding company Philip Morris Companies, which later merged its operations with those of Kraft.
Additional Information
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