Hunt's

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Hunt's
Owner / user Conagra Brands
Introductory year 1888
Products Food
(tomato products)
Website http://www.hunts.com
Val Vita Foods-Hunts foods workers circa 1940.jpeg
Val Vita Foods workers Fullerton, California 1940.jpeg


Employed at Val Vita Food Products in 1940, a few years before the merger with Hunt's

Hunt's is an American food products brand owned by ConAgra Brands .

In addition to various types of tomato sauces, the brand includes tomato paste , ketchup , barbecue sauces, canned potatoes and canned fruit products.

Company and brand history

1888, Joseph and William Hunt in Sebastopol , California , a canning factory under the name of Hunt Bros. Fruit Packing Co . The brothers moved the company to nearby Santa Rosa in 1890 and to Hayward in 1895 . Her small factory there grew rapidly in the face of California's booming fruit and vegetable industry. Until 1941, they shipped a hundred million cans of soups, fruit, vegetables and juices every year.

From 1943 to 1990 the company saw several takeovers and mergers:

In 1943 Hunt's was acquired by Norton Simons Val Vita Food Products - a competing company founded in the early 1930s and based in Fullerton , California. The merged company retained the name Hunt and was as Hunt Food and Industries, Inc. entered. The Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Company , a manufacturer of food oil merged in 1960 with Hunt's Foods, Inc. and to Hunt-Wesson Foods . Hunt-Wesson merged with McCall Corporation and Canada Dry in 1968 to form Norton Simon Incorparated . In 1983 that company was taken over by Esmark (formerly Swift & Company ), which merged with Beatrice Foods the next year . In 1985 it was taken over by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts with the aim of selling it more expensive again. Hunt-Wesson was sold to the agribusiness ConAgra Foods in 1990 .

In 1999, the Hunts management moved from Fullerton to Irvine , California. In 2006, Hunts finally became a product-only brand after ConAgra Foods closed the Hunts corporate office in Irvine.

In May 2010, corn syrup was temporarily removed from Hunts products. In May 2012 this ingredient was put back into production. In December 2018, NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes signed a promotional deal with Hunt's.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Workers of the Writers' Program. "Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and its Environs". Hastings House, 1941, page. 346.
  2. ↑ DARYL STRICKLAND: ConAgra Leases Most of Old Fluor Space . In: Los Angeles Times , November 23, 1999. Retrieved July 19, 2018. 
  3. ^ ConAgra moving Irvine operations to cut costs. In: Orange County Register. February 3, 2006, Retrieved July 27, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ ConAgra switches back to HFCS in Hunt's ketchup citing lackluster demand . May 31, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013. 
  5. ↑ High-fructose corn syrup cut from Hunt's ketchup . In: News & Record , Associated Press , May 17, 2010. 
  6. ^ Adam Wells: Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes Signs Endorsement Contract with Hunt's Ketchup. Retrieved July 27, 2020 (English).