![]() In 2001, Nestle, a Swiss company, lapped it up. More than 100 years later, Purina still produces a range of dog and cat food. Quicklist:title: PURINAtext: In 1894, Wiliam H. Today, Gerber owns more than 80 percent of the U.S. Founded by the Fremont Canning Company in Fremont, Mich., in 1927, the company eventually became part of Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis. Quicklist:title: GERBERtext: The "Gerber" baby is almost as famous as the baby food of the same name. ![]() But thirteen years ago, it, too, was acquired by Unilever, the British/Dutch company. ![]() Quicklist:title: BEN & JERRY'Stext: Founded in 1978 by fun-loving hippies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in Burlington, Vermont, Ben & Jerry's and their funky flavors-Cherry Garcia! ChubbyHubby!-is an American institution. In 1987, its parent company was bought by British/Dutch monolith, Unilever N.V. The product was used as an antiseptic during World War II, and eventually became the top producer of petroleum jelly in the US. Quicklist:title:VASELINEtext: Back in 1872, a named Robert Chesebrough invented a petroleum jelly that he patented as Vaseline. Some of the brands that we know and love, and consider to be quintessentially American, are actually owned by foreign companies. According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2012, Chinese buyers agreed to spend $11.57 billion in 49 deals to acquire U.S. If the deal goes through (there are political worries about Chinese food safety, and another company could always step in and make another offer), it will be the largest acquisition of an American company by a Chinese outfit. pork provider, Smithfield Ham, the 87-year-old Virginia-based meat giant, might soon be owned by the Chinese.īut thanks to a recent $4.7 billion cash acquisition, Shuanghai International Holdings, the majority shareholder of Henan Shuanghui Investment & Development Co., China's largest meat processing enterprise, will now be the parent company of brands like Armour, Farmland and Healthy Ones. June 2, 2013— - intro: Bacon, sausage and ham are such mainstays of American diets, it's hard to imagine that the largest U.S.
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