King Arthur Flour

King Arthur Flour

Infobox Company
company_name = King Arthur Flour Company
company_
vector_
company_type = Private, employee-owned company
genre =
foundation = 1790
founder = Henry Wood
location_city = Norwich, Vermont
location_country = United States
location =
origins =
key_people = Frank E. Sands II, chairman
area_served =
industry = Food
products = Flour, baking mixes, cookbooks
revenue = USD 45,000,000
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 190 (as of 2006)
parent =
divisions =
subsid = The Baker's Catalogue (mail order)
owner =
company_slogan =
homepage = http://www.kingarthurflour.com/
dissolved =
footnotes = The King Arthur Flour Company, formerly the Sands, Taylor & Wood Company, is an American miller and retailer of specialty flours, cookbooks, and baked goods. The company was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1790, and is now based in Norwich, Vermont.

The company's flagship product line, King Arthur Flour, includes a variety of wheat flours for home and commercial baking, marketed as "Never Bleached—Never Bromated."

History

The King Arthur Flour Company was founded in 1790 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Henry Wood. Wood was primarily an importer and distributor, originally of English-milled flour. The business grew quickly, and Wood took on a partner in the early 1790s, forming Henry Wood & Company. Benjamin Franklin Sands took over the company in 1870, renaming it to reflect his ownership interest. In 1895, the company was reorganized as a joint-stock company, named Sands, Taylor & Wood Company after its then owners: Orin Sands, Mark Taylor, and George Wood (no relation to Henry Wood).

In 1896, Sands, Taylor & Wood decided to introduce a new brand of premium flour. George Wood had attended a performance of the musical "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table", which inspired the name of the new product: King Arthur Flour. The brand was introduced at the Boston Food Fair on September 10, 1896, to substantial commercial success.

With Orin Sands's death in 1917, control of the company passed to his son, Frank E. Sands, grandfather of current chairman Frank E. Sands II. As the market for retail flour declined, the company expanded into the bakery market, first with wholesale flours and later (in the 1960s) into commercial baking equipment. Sands, Taylor & Wood also introduced other retail food products under the King Arthur name, including a line of coffee.

Sands, Taylor & Wood acquired Joseph Middleby, a maker of baking supplies such as prepared pie fillings, in 1973; three years later, that business was expanded with the purchase of H.A. Johnson. As interest rates rose through the 1970s, financial pressures forced the company to change strategy, and in 1978 then-president Frank E. Sands II sold off all but the core flour business and relocated the company from Brighton, Massachusetts to Norwich, Vermont.

Sands, Taylor & Wood Company converted to an employee-owned structure in 1996, and also changed its name to The King Arthur Flour Co., Inc., in reflection of its principal brand.

In addition to its flour business, King Arthur Flour also sells baking equipment and ingredients through its catalog, "The Baker's Catalogue", and at its flagship store, The Baker's Store, located in Norwich, Vermont. It has also published four cookbooks, including the "King Arthur 200th Anniversary Cookbook" and the "King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion", the latter of which was a James Beard Award winner for Cookbook of the Year in 2003.

References

*cite book
title = The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook
authorlink = Brinna Sands
last = Sands
first = Brinna B.
publisher = Countryman Press
year = 1992
chapter = Introduction & History
pages = pp. 12–19
isbn = 0-88150-247-2
id = LCC|TX765.S265|1992
edition = 2nd ed.
*cite book
title = The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion
authorlink = King Arthur Flour
last =
first =
publisher = Countryman Press
year = 2003
chapter =
pages =
isbn = 0-88150-581-1
id =
edition =
*cite web
title = King Arthur Flour 2006 media kit
format = PDF
url = http://www.kingarthurflour.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/f8216d5459b6db6fec717d920497a27d/miscdocs/presskit06.pdf
accessdate = 2007-04-13

External links

* [http://www.kingarthurflour.com/ Official website]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Flour — For other uses, see Flour (disambiguation). A paper sack of wheat flour, with a metal measuring scoop. Flour is a powder which is made from grinding cereal grains, other seeds or roots (like Cassava). It is the main ingredient of bread, which is… …   Wikipedia

  • King's College London — Infobox University name = King’s College London motto = Sancte et Sapienter (Latin: With Holiness and Wisdom ) established = 1829 type = Public endowment = £119.4 millioncite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/02/39/08/financialstatements2… …   Wikipedia

  • KING, Philip Gidley (1758-1808) — third governor of New South Wales was born at Launceston, Cornwall, on 23 April 1758, the son of Philip King, draper, and his wife, a daughter of John Galley, attorney at law. Educated at Yarmouth, he entered the navy as a midshipman in 1770, and …   Dictionary of Australian Biography

  • Sponge cake — is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder, Be Ro flour Home recipes 40th edition ] Delia Smith s Book of Cakes Sixth Impression 1981. ] that derives its structure from an egg foam into… …   Wikipedia

  • Norwich (Vermont) — Norwich …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bread machine — A bread machine or breadmaker is a home appliance for baking bread. It consists of a bread pan with a paddle mounted in the center, in a small special purpose oven, with a control panel. While most bread machines have different cycles for… …   Wikipedia

  • Rye bread — is bread made with flour from rye grain of variable levels. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used and the addition of coloring agents, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour. It is higher in fiber …   Wikipedia

  • Lard — Infobox oils name=Lard imagesize=300px caption= Wet rendered lard, from pork fatback. composition= fat= water= solids= sterols= fatcomposition=y sat= 38–43%: Palmitic acid: 25–28% Stearic acid: 12–14% Myristic acid: 1% interster= unsat= 56–62%… …   Wikipedia

  • Baker's yeast — Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast commonly used as baker s yeast.  Gradation marks are 1 µm apart Baker s yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used as a leavening agent in baking bread and bakery products, where… …   Wikipedia

  • Vermont — This article is about the U.S. state of Vermont. For other uses, see Vermont (disambiguation). State of Vermont …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”