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  Beatrice Foods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company and household name, until it was taken over by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. in 1986 during the leveraged buyout fad of the 1980s.
The Beatrice Creamery Company was founded in 1894 by George Everett Haskell and William W. Bosworth, by leasing the factory of a bankrupt firm of the same name located in Beatrice, Nebraska.
Beatrice's Canadian subsidiary, Beatrice Foods Canada Ltd., was founded in 1969.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beatrice_Foods   (545 words)

  
 Beatrice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
On March 1, 1905, the company was incorporated as the Beatrice Creamery Company of Iowa, with capital of $3,000,000.
During the next two years, the company built creameries in Oklahoma City, OK, Chicago IL, and Pueblo CO, and by 1910, the company was operating nine creameries and three ice plants and had sales branches dotting the nation.
New companies producing specialty foods or foods were added to the Beatrice family, thus continuing the policy of developing Beatrice into a truly representative foods firm.
www.beatrice.ca /about/index.asp   (1009 words)

  
 Beatrice Foods Co.
The Beatrice Creamery Co. was founded in Nebraska in the 1890s by partners George Everett Haskell and William W. Bosworth.
By the time Beatrice moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1913 (settling in a large facility on South State Street in 1917), it was already a leading seller of dairy equipment and operator of dairies.
By 1990, the last of Beatrice was sold off, and the company that had once been one Chicago's largest was gone.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2566.html   (240 words)

  
 Woburn toxic-waste trial: Death and justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Beatrice Foods Company, which in 1978 purchased the John J. Riley Company tannery, 228 Salem Street, and an adjacent 15-acre undeveloped property, from John J. Riley Jr., and sold them back to him in 1983.
Schlichtmann suggested that, if Beatrice or Grace had informed city and state agencies there were chemicals on their properties, tests of the wells would have been ordered and the contaminants might have been found sooner.
Beatrice could not be held to a standard of strict liability, the brief added, because Schlichtmann had not shown that the tannery disposed of any of the four chemicals at issue on the 15 acres.
home.earthlink.net /~dkennedy56/woburn_trial.html   (12394 words)

  
 History of Wells Manufacturing and Bloomfield Industries
The firm moved in 1968 to Verdi, and was later purchased by Beatrice Foods Company.
The company continued to expand their business in the foodservice industry, as well as the custom deep drawn stamping business and stainless steel medical products industry.
In 1984, Bloomfield along with four other Beatrice companies, Market Forge, Wells Manufacturing, Taylor Freeze and World Dryer, were purchased by an investment firm and structured under the corporate umbrella of Specialty Equipment Companies.
www.wellsbloomfield.com /WB_History.htm   (972 words)

  
 A Guide to the Gebhardt Mexican Foods Company Records, 1896-1988
Gebgardt Mexican Foods Company was a food processing company based in San Antonio.
In 1959, Gebhardt Chili Powder Company became an independent division of the Beatrice Food Company of Chicago.
In 1986, Beatrice Foods was acquired by Kohlburg, Kravis and Roberts and it became part of the Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson division.
www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utsa/00029/00029-P.html   (520 words)

  
 Center for Environmental Health | Example 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The judge explains that the families accused two companies - W. Grace Company and a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods Company - of contaminating two area wells and causing the leukemia-related deaths of six Woburn residents.
Across the nation, people with grievances will start demanding that companies be held legally and financially responsible for the human cost of toxic waste.
Companies need to be held responsible for their negligent dumping of wastes.
www.sp.uconn.edu /~an226vc/example6.html   (662 words)

  
 The Pork Rind Capital of the World!
After Mary and John Rudolph founded the company (1955) they operated as an independent until 1966 at which time they sold to the then giant Beatrice Foods Company.
John remained at the head of Rudolph Foods and was also a Beatrice vice-president with some 15 other companies reporting to him.
In 1987 in the midst of the leveraged buyout of Beatrice by Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, the Rudolph family had the opportunity to repurchase Rudolph Foods.
www.rudolphfoods.com /start.htm   (396 words)

  
 Dearborn Brass
Ed was President of the company and ran the sales organization, while Nate was the Vice President and General Manger and ran the manufacturing operations of the company.
Included in the Beatrice Foods family of companies were four other plumbing related companies, Chicago Specialty, Wrightway Manufacturing, Anchor Brass and Hoov-R-Line.
Even though the company is part of a large entity the customer still expects and receives the personal service for which the company is known, and has been a big part of the company's success for the fust 100 years of business.
www.dearbornbrass.com /info.htm   (696 words)

  
 Robert Fenton
He has also has extensive hands on operations experience as a member of the Beatrice Foods Company Corporate Operating Services Staff and for the past seven years his consulting assignments specialized in improving the operations of small to mid-size manufacturing companies.
They negotiated forbearance agreements with all lenders, prepared a universally accepted business plan, operated the company on existing cash resources over a three month period, implemented major manufacturing cost reductions and were successful in finding a buyer for the company.
Subsequent to Beatrice Foods Company he has been Director of Manufacturing for Buxton (personal leather goods), Director of Manufacturing for Hunter-Douglas, Inc. (window coverings), Director of Operations for Berwick Industries (ribbons and bows), Vice President of Manufacturing for Bufkor (jewelry boxes and display cases).
www.horizonadvisors.com /RobertFenton.htm   (505 words)

  
 John Franklin Haskell
Josiah Haskell and wife were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters: The daughters were Ida May and Nellie, the former of whom died in 1887 and the latter in 1908.
In 1892 he went out to Beatrice, Nebraska, and found employment with the Haskell and Bosworth Creamery Company, which was the nucleus of the present great enterprise of the Beatrice Creamery Company.
After a short time he was sent to Cuba, Kansas, and given charge of a branch house of the company for two years, and then was located at Herington, Kansas, taking charge of the large branch house there and being given full charge of the entire Kansas business.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/haskeljf.html   (1009 words)

  
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Consumer goods conglomerate Beatrice Foods Company (“Beatrice”), the parent of John J. Riley Tannery (the “Tannery), emerges as the next likely candidate.
Beatrice also owns the Whitney Barrel Company located in the east Woburn near the Tannery.
To prove negligence, we must prove that there are damages or injuries; a causal link between the damages and the injuries; a duty and that the defendants breached that duty.
www.law.indiana.edu /instruction/scanlan/3202/papers/rev2h.doc   (923 words)

  
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Based on circumstantial evidence, it appears likely that Grace contaminated land in the area of Wells G and H. The Anderson family and other litigants deserve a large monetary settlement in the event of proof that Grace’s actions caused their children’s leukemia.
Another possible defendant may be the Beatrice Foods company which bought the old Woburn Riley tannery.
Recently, chemically contaminated land in the area was identified as belonging to Beatrice.
www.law.indiana.edu /instruction/scanlan/3202/papers/2e.doc   (822 words)

  
 Adnderson v. Beatrice Foods
Beatrice Foods Co., 900 F.2d 388 (1st Cir.
Beatrice, 1994 U.S. Dist. Lexis 1989, 1994 WL 67859 (N.D.Ill. 1994), denying Beatrice Insurer Liberty Mutual's Motion for Leave to File Affirmative Defenses, which was construed as a Motion to Dismiss (available only on web site or in library).
Beatrice, 1994 U.S. Dist. Lexis 1993, 1994 WL 63015 (N.D.Ill. 1994).
www.law.fsu.edu /library/courseresources/beatrice/index.html   (1139 words)

  
 Beatrice Foods Co.
Description: Beautifully engraved SPECIMEN certificate from the Beatrice Foods Co. dated 1977.
This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman.
This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s Chairman of the Board and Secretary and is over 26 years old.
www.antiqnet.com /detail,beatrice-foods,337462.html   (66 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Civil Action: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Grace and Beatrice Foods had been dumping a cancer-causing industrial solvent into the water table of Woburn, Massachusetts, for years; in 1981, the families of eight leukemia victims sued.
Jan Schlichtmann had hoped that a victory would send a message to the boardrooms of America and felt that the cluster of leukemia victims in Woburn (the disease had claimed the lives of at least six children) guaranteed his success.
This company routinely dumped toxic chemicals on the ground in Woburn and when GK objected to the policy, GK was forced to resign or be fired.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0613180704   (1509 words)

  
 USCA1 Opinion 01-1648
The Anderson plaintiffs claimed that contaminated well water had caused them and their children to contract various ailments, including several fatal cases of leukemia, and that some of the TCE found in Wells G and H had come from a tannery operated by Riley (the "tannery").
Beatrice had assumed the tannery's environmental liabilities when it purchased the tannery in 1978.
Subsequent Environmental Protection Agency studies concluded that Beatrice's land had contaminated Wells G and H, and Beatrice agreed to pay its share of cleanup costs.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01-1648.01A   (7002 words)

  
 Welcome to SANDERSON Plumbing Products Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
During the depression of the thirties, drastic measures were needed to keep the company going.
The decision was made in 1939 to move the company closer to its primary supplier of wood in Columbus, Mississippi.
In 1956, Beneke became the parent company to Magnolia Products, marking the first entrance into the house wares field by a major bathroom seat manufacturer.
www.birdfarmtractors.com   (368 words)

  
 Tayto - The Original Irish Crisp - About Us - Company History
Tayto, a member company of the Cantrell and Cochrane Group, was set up in 1954 by Mr.
Major change occured in 1965 when a Chicago based company, Beatrice Foods acquired a share in Tayto.
This financial injection allowed major expansion to take place, and in 1968 a new factory was built in Coolock, and the factory at Harold's Cross was closed.
www.taytocrisps.ie /aboutus/about_history.asp   (360 words)

  
 Harvard Public Health Review: Something to Prove: The Biostatistics of a Civil Action
Both describe the civil suit brought against Beatrice Foods Company and W.R. Grace and Company by Woburn families whose children suffered from leukemia.
The corporations were accused of contaminating the two wells that provided much of the water supply to eastern Woburn, where most of the families lived.
In 1986 the case against Beatrice was dismissed, and Grace made an $8 million settlement with the Woburn families.
www.hsph.harvard.edu /review/summer_civilaction.shtml   (1288 words)

  
 Beatrice Foods Company
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This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Corporation and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical man and woman with the company logo.
This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s Chairman of the Board and Secretary.
www.scripophily.net /beatfoodco2.html   (390 words)

  
 Retail, Medical and Foods Search from $50 to $99.99
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 Answers Systems Inc.
After leaving Armour/Greyhound, Bud spent 11 years with Beatrice Foods, working for Eckrich Foodservice as a Region, Division, and National Sales and Marketing Manager.
Bud moved to Chicago and was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Beatrice Refrigerated Foods Company, which consisted of 5 Beatrice Center-of-the-Plate companies.
After the 1985 leverage buy-out of Beatrice Foods, Bud left corporate life, moved to Florida and in 1986 founded Answers Systems Inc. Answers Systems is a full service database management and marketing company dedicated to working with manufacturers serving the Away-From-Home market.
www.answerssystems.com /team.htm   (607 words)

  
 O'Shea, Divine & Company - About Us - Partners and Staff - Bob Divine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His experience includes the chief executive role with several companies, as well as functional responsibilities in the operations and financial areas.
Divine was a founding partner of O’Shea, Divine & Company, Inc. in 1991.
Earlier, he had been President of the Airstream Division of Beatrice Foods Company, preceded by several years as president or operations vice president of other manufacturing firms.
www.divinesearch.com /about/bob_divine.htm   (186 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Beatrice: From Buildup Through Breakup: Books: Neil R. Gazel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
United States, New York, Miracle White, Meadow Gold, Beatrice Foods, Los Angeles, World War, Wall Street, New Jersey, American Brands, San Francisco, General Foods, George Haskell, Grocery Division, National Dairy, John Hazelton, Juan Metzger, Chun King, Creameries of America, John Sexton, New Year, Fort Wayne, George Gardella, New Bremen, Norton Simon
It was very informative and provided excellent insight into the "Beatrice way".
This is an amazingly insightful recounting of the building of one of the finest companies in the US, and it's ultimate demise through greed.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252017293?v=glance   (562 words)

  
 TLC Beatrice Foods Philippines, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
LC Beatrice Foods Philippines, Inc. is a private held company compose of professionals and leaders gathered from different industries to bring in values that will realize its vision and mission of helping revitalize the economy of the Philippines by way of introducing a modern technology in meat processing.
In the future, TLC Beatrice Foods Philippines Inc. foresee a world class quality and locally produced meats that will bring Philippines in the roster of countries that serves the world with quality yet affordable meat products.
ive our vision for a business environment for the Philippine agricultural sector that creates profitable livelihood for the rural population makes available quality and affordably-priced food products to the general consuming public and establishes an export capability for the industry.
www.tlcb.com.ph   (173 words)

  
 Scripophily from Antique Networking
Description: Beautiful engraved Bond Certificate from Beatrice Foods Company which was issued in 1978 for $1,000.
Below is a summary of the History of Beatrice
This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian...
www.antiqnet.com /category,scripophily-629.html   (78 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Beatrice : from buildup through breakup
Find in a Library: Beatrice : from buildup through breakup
Publisher: Urbana : Published for the University of Illinois, Bureau of Economic and Business Research by the University of Illinois Press, ©1990.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/d2e91b02f7f38eafa19afeb4da09e526.html   (75 words)

  
 ConAgra Foods : Retail Food Products, Food Service and Food Distributor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
ConAgra Foods is proud to be one of North America's favorite food companies.
We provide many of the favorites that consumers rely on for breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between.
See how ConAgra Foods can help you and your family live healthier with tools, ideas, recipes, and more.
www.conagra.com   (109 words)

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