Crosse & Blackwell

Crosse & Blackwell

Founded	1706
Products	Seafood sauces, relishes, canned fruit, canned vegetables, chutneys, meat sauces, baked beans, jams and jellies
Website	www.crosseandblackwell.com

Piccalilli label as used by Crosse & Blackwell around 1867.^[1]

Crosse & Blackwell is a food production brand which has been in existence since 1706.

Originally trading under the Jackson brand and then West and Wyatt, the company was purchased in 1830 by Edmund Crosse and Thomas Blackwell. Over the years, the brand has been applied to various varieties of canned, dried and bottled grocery products.

In 1960, Nestlé bought the Crosse & Blackwell Group^[2] and developed the name across a number of food categories worldwide. The acquisition increased Nestlé's output (adding 11 factories). The acquisition including the largest fish-canning factory in the UK (located in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland). Crosse & Blackwell employed 4,700 workers in production and 1,900 other employees and salesman at the time of the acquisition.

However, the company divested the Crosse & Blackwell operations in 2002. Today ownership of the Crosse & Blackwell brand is divided between The J.M. Smucker Company in North America and Princes Foods in Europe, having previously been owned by Premier Foods.

Notes

1. ^ Maxwell Alexander Robertson, English reports annotated, 1866-1900, Volume 1, Publisher: The Reports and Digest Syndicate, 1867. (page 567)
2. ^ Nestlé (1991)- 125 Years 1866-1991, Published by Nestlé SA, Vevey