INDEX: Heinz Retail Merchandising Display Fixtures

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BACKSTORY: The H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz (/haɪnz/), was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[2] The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactured food products on six continents, and marketed them in more than 200 countries and territories. The company claimed to have 150 number-one or number-two brands worldwide as of 2013.^[3] Heinz ranked first in ketchup in the US with a market share in excess of 50%;^[4]^[5] the Ore-Ida label held 46% of the frozen potato sector in 2003.^[6]

Since 1896, the company has used its “57 Varieties” slogan; it was inspired by a sign advertising 21 styles of shoes, and Henry Heinz chose the number 57 even though the company then manufactured more than 60 products, because “5” was his lucky number and “7” was his wife’s.^[7]

In February 2013, Heinz agreed to be purchased by Berkshire Hathaway and the Brazilian investment firm 3G Capitalfor $23 billion.^[8] On March 25, 2015, Kraftannounced its merger with Heinz, arranged by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital.^[9]^[10] The resulting Kraft Heinz Company is the fifth largest food company in the world.^[11] Berkshire Hathaway became a majority owner of Heinz on June 18, 2015. After exercising a warrant to acquire 46 million shares of common stock for a total price of over $461 million, Berkshire increased its stake to 52.5%.^[12]The merger to form Kraft Heinz was completed on July 2, 2015.

Heinz was founded by and is named for Henry J. Heinz, who was born in the United States to German immigrants. His father was originally from Kallstadt (then part of the Bavarian Rhenish Palatinate, now part of Rhineland-Palatinate). His mother Anna was from Haunetal, Hesse-Kassel, and they met in Pittsburgh.

Henry J. Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869.^[13]There he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began marketing horseradish. The first product in Heinz and Noble’s new Anchor Brand (a name selected for its biblical meaning of hope) was his mother Anna Heinz’s recipe for horseradish. The young Heinz manufactured it in the basement of his father’s former house.^[14]

The company went bankrupt in 1875. The following year Heinz founded another company, F & J Heinz, with his brother John Heinz and a cousin, Frederick Heinz. One of this company’s first products was Heinz Tomato Ketchup. The company continued to grow.

In 1888, Heinz bought out his two partners and reorganized the company as the H. J. Heinz Company. Its slogan, “57 varieties”, was introduced by Heinz in 1896. Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City (a shoe store boasting “21 styles”), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting “7” specifically because, as he put it, of the “psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages”.^[3] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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