Food manufacturers of Chicago
- Food manufacturers of Chicago
=Food Manufacturers=
Since the 1840s, Chicago has played a significant role in national and international food production, with companies such as Swift & Armour -- which became Swift & Company and Armour and Company -- sparking the international meat-packing revolution. As a transportation hub with a central location, the city became a center for the distribution of goods out West and back East.
Hundreds of well-known food products have originated or are produced in the city. Below is a list of widely known food manufacturers with current or historical ties to the Windy City.
*Armour and Company
*Bays English Muffins
*Budlong Pickle Company
*Brach's Confections
*Bridgford Foods
*Cloverhill Bakery
*Curtiss Candy Company
*Ferrara Pan Candy
*Fortune Brands
*Fuhrman and Forster Company
*Keebler
*Kraft Foods
*La Preferida
*M&M/Mars
*Morton Salt
*Nabisco
*Quaker Oats
*Oscar Mayer
*Sara Lee
*Schulze and Burch Biscuit Company
*Tootsie Roll Industries
*Swift & Company
*Vienna Beef
*Vita Food Products
*Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
External Links
[http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalDeptCategoryAction.do?deptCategoryOID=-536888728&contentType=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&entityName=Planning+And+Development&deptMainCategoryOID=-536884767 Made in Chicago]
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