The J.M. Smucker Co.

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The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is a manufacturer and market leader of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, health and natural foods beverages, and natural peanut butter in North America.

Headquarters for Smuckers are in Orrville, Ohio.

Contents

1 History 2 Products 3 Controversy 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

History

The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker. The company has been family run for four generations.

Products

• Jam, Jelly, & Preserves
  • Fruit Butter
  • Jam
  • Jelly
  • Low Sugar
  • Preserves
  • Simply Fruit
  • Sugar Free
• Peanut Butter
  • Goober PB&J
  • Jif
  • Nat. Peanut Butter
• Sandwiches
  • Grape PB&J
  • Strawberry PB&J
  • Grilled Cheese
  • Uncrustables
• Ice Cream Toppings
  • Magic Shell
  • Microwaveable Ice Cream Topping
  • Specialty Ice Cream Topping
  • Spoonable Ice Cream Topping
  • Sugar Free Ice Cream Topping
  • Sundae Syrups
• Specialty Items
  • Fruit Syrup
  • Plate Scapers Dessert Topping
  • Specialty Items
• Oils and shortening
  • Crisco
• Flour and baking mixes
  • Hungry Jack
  • Martha White
  • Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)

Controversy

A product of the Smucker company has become a standard example in intellectual property literature of a frivolous patent: the "sealed crustless sandwich". See the link for more information.

See also

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB&J)

External links

• J.M. Smucker Co. (http://www.smuckers.com/)
• U.S. patent: Sealed crustless sandwich (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,004,596.WKU.&OS=PN/6,004,596&RS=PN/6,004,596)

References

On the "sealed crustless sandwich":

• Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovcation and progress, and what to do about it (ISBN 069111725X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.