1960\'s-70\'s dated 100 Pieces of General Foods Corporation - 100 Stock Certificat for Sale

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1960\'s-70\'s dated 100 Pieces of General Foods Corporation - 100 Stock Certificat For Sale

$1960\'s-70\'s dated 100 Pieces of General Foods Corporation - 100 Stock Certificat$
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1960\'s-70\'s dated 100 Pieces of General Foods Corporation - 100 Stock Certificat:
$175.00

Company Monogram vignette by American Bank Note. 100 Pieces. General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name \"General Foods\" was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions, by Marjorie Post after she inherited the established cereal business from her father C. W. Post. In November 1985, General Foods was acquired by Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group, Inc.) for $5.6 billion, the largest non-oil acquisition to that time. In December 1988, Philip Morris acquired Kraft Foods Inc., and, in 1990, combined the two food companies as Kraft Foods. \"General Foods\" was dropped from the corporate name in 1995; a line of caffeinated hot beverage mixes continued to carry the General Foods International name until 2010. Roots of General Foods can be traced to the Post Cereal Company, founded by C. W. Post in 1895 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Post was a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium (run by John Harvey Kellogg, brother of Kellogg Company founder Will Keith Kellogg), and was inspired by the diet there to start his food company (and become a rival to the Kellogg brothers, who sold their own breakfast cereals). Post invested $78 in his initial equipment and supplies and set up manufacturing in a barn on what was known as the \'Old Beardsley Farm\'. His first product was Postum, a \"cereal beverage\" alternative to coffee made from wheat and molasses. The first cereal, Grape-Nuts, was developed in 1897 followed by Elijah\'s Manna in 1904 which was renamed Post Toasties in 1908. In 1907 Collier\'s Weekly published an article questioning the claim made in advertisements for Grape Nuts that it could cure appendicitis. C. W. Post responded with advertisements questioning the mental capacity of the article\'s author, and Collier\'s Weekly sued for libel. The case was heard in 1910, and Post was fined $50,000. The decision was overturned on appeal, but advertisements for Postum products stopped making such claims. After C.W. Post died in 1914, his daughter Marjorie Merriweather Post took over the company. The Postum Cereals company, which went on with some acquisitions such as Jell-O (gelatin dessert) in 1925, Walter Baker & Company (chocolate) in 1927, Maxwell House (coffee) in 1928, and other food brands. By far the most important acquisition of 1929 was of the frozen-food company owned by Clarence Birdseye, called \"General Seafood Corporation\". Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was one of the most important entrepreneurs in the history of the food industry. Born in New York City, he became interested in the frozen preservation of food during the course of working as a fur trader in Labrador between 1912 and 1916. By 1923, he had developed a commercially viable process for quick-freezing foods using a belt mechanism, which he patented. In 1924, with backing from three investors, he formed the \"General Seafoods Company\", in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to produce frozen haddock fillets packed in plain cardboard boxes. The founder\'s daughter, Marjorie M Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.