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I suppose one interesting thing about brands (or perhaps just Heinz) is that we assume they're local. I would have said Heinz was a British company, no questio
by AlexMuir 14y ago
I suppose one interesting thing about brands (or perhaps just Heinz) is that we assume they're local. I would have said Heinz was a British company, no question. Likewise with Kelloggs.
- DanBC 14y agoWhich has interesting results when the parent company changes a name from Marathon to Snickers. (I agree about the Britishness of Heinz and Kelloggs. It's only in the past ten years that I realised they weren't.)
- erock 14y agowell, we can't get spotted dick here (really we can if you look hard enough(also, i only take pictures of the can to send to friends)), but heinz was founded in Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Heinz_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Heinz_Company
- ahi 14y agoKelloggs' biggest factory is in the UK, but it has something of a strange American history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelloggs#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelloggs#History
- parenthesis 14y agoAs an aside, I grew up very close to a Scottish castle owned by a member of the Heinz family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle
- robotmay 14y agoWe do eat something like 95% of all baked beans they produce, however.