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19-705: [REDACTED] Look up durkee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Durkee may refer to: Groups, organizations, companies [ edit ] Durkee (food business) is an American brand name under conglomerate ownership. It formerly was an independent food company, Durkee Famous Foods, founded by Eugene R. Durkee in 1851. Durkee Marine , former Staten Island marine hardware company People [ edit ] Charles Durkee (1805–1870), American politician from Wisconsin Charlie Durkee (born 1944), placekicker for

38-412: A major producer of other ingredients including emulsifiers , enzymes and lactose . Its grocery division is a major manufacturer of both branded and private label grocery products and includes the brands Mazola, Ovaltine , Ryvita , Jordans , Kingsmill and Twinings . Its retail division, Primark , has some 384 stores across several countries, predominantly Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, and

57-481: A subsidiary of Associated British Foods , to B&G Foods . Glidden Co. purchased the firm in 1929, and it became Durkee's Famous Foods, a division of Glidden Co . Glidden merged with SCM Corp (formerly Smith-Corona company) in 1967, and Durkee became the Glidden-Durkee Division of SCM. The Company was sold in 1986 and was subsequently absorbed into a larger-food processing conglomerate. In 2007,

76-505: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This brand-name food or drink product–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Associated British Foods Associated British Foods plc ( ABF ) is a British multinational food processing and retailing company headquartered in London , England. Its ingredients division is the world's second-largest producer of both sugar and baker's yeast and

95-587: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Durkee (food business) Durkee's was established by Eugene R. Durkee, the founder of E. R. Durkee & Co. Spice dealers in Buffalo, New York , in 1857. By 1917, the company had built a four-story industrial structure in Elmhurst, Queens . As of 2021, the company has a major production facility in Ankeny, Iowa . Which

114-470: Is the actual home of what was Tone Brothers Spices (Owned by Rykoff Sexton at that time) Currently owned by B&G Foods who own Durkee brand. Durkee became the largest factory and employer in Elmhurst, with over 300 employees, primarily women. E.R. Durkee died in 1926, leaving everything to his daughters. Since the 1980s the company has had a series of owners, and in 2016 it was sold by ACH Food Companies,

133-811: The New Orleans Saints Norman Durkee (1948-2014), American composer and pianist Sarah Durkee , singer-songwriter William Durkee Williamson (1779–1846), American politician from Maine Will Durkee (born c. 1983), poker player Characters [ edit ] Reese Durkee , fictional character on the soap opera Passions Other uses [ edit ] Durkee, Oregon , USA; an unincorporated community in Baker County See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Durkee" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Durkee All pages with titles containing Durkee Topics referred to by

152-714: The North American operations fell to his son Galen . The company sold Fine Fare in 1986 to the Dee Corporation, and in 1991, went on to acquire British Sugar . In 1997, ABF sold its retail operations in Ireland (including Northern Ireland) to Tesco . These businesses were: Quinnsworth and Crazy Prices in the Republic of Ireland and Stewarts Supermarket Limited and Crazy Prices in Northern Ireland. This sale also included

171-798: The Stewarts Winebarrel off-licence chain, Lifestyle Sports & Leisure Ltd (a retail sports and leisure business), Kingsway Fresh Foods (a meat processing facility) and Daily Wrap Produce (a fruit and vegetable packaging plant). In May 1994, Greggs acquired the Bakers Oven chain from the company. In 2000, the company sold its interests in Burton's Biscuits. In 2002, it acquired the Mazola corn oil, Argo and Kingsford's cornstarch, Karo and Golden Griddle syrups, and Henri's dressing brands, along with several Canadian brands, from Unilever ; in 2004, it acquired

190-601: The Tone's spice business and Fleischman yeast business from Burns Philp ; and in 2007, it purchased Patak's Indian food business. On 26 March 2011, Associated British Foods, and its parent company Wittington Investments , were targeted over tax avoidance by UK Uncut during anti-cuts protests . The tax avoidance scheme involved moving capital between ABF/Primark and the affiliated Luxembourg entity ABF European Holdings & Co SNC by means of interest-free loans, avoiding tax of about £9.7 million per year. The protest took

209-694: The UK. ACH Food Companies is an American subsidiary. Associated British Foods is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . The company was founded by Canadian W. Garfield Weston in 1935, initially as Food Investments Limited, with the name changing to Allied Bakeries Limited a month later. Between 1935 and 1956, ten national and regional bakery companies were acquired by Allied, including Barrett and Pomeroy, and London and Provincial Bakeries. The largest acquisition at this time

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228-500: The bakery businesses owned by the Trust. Allied, under its new name, adopted in 1960, of Associated British Foods, continued to run A.B.C. as a separate brand after its takeover, with a major A.B.C. bakery in Camden Town , London. This closed in 1982 and the A.B.C. name was retired. Following the death of the founder in 1978, control of the company was passed on to his son Garry , while

247-604: The building was renovated and became the Elmhurst Educational Campus, which hosts three separate high schools. The company's Durkee Sauce is sold at Court Street Grocers in Brooklyn and served on their Turkey + Durkee sandwich in the "mustardy, vinegary, mayonnaise-based" sauce concoction. This food and/or confectionery corporation or company-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United States corporation or company article

266-453: The company denied being involved in unscrupulous uses of land, in an article containing reports of forced evictions by other companies. In November 2024, George Weston, chief executive of ABF claimed that the recent UK Budget may lead it to invest more outside the UK over fears the High Street will bear the "weight of tax rises". 54.5% of ABF is owned by Wittington Investments . 79.2% of

285-503: The form of a mass sit-in in Fortnum & Mason . In February 2013, the firm denied "illegal and immoral" tax evasion after it was accused by an international charity of moving its profits outside Zambia to reduce its tax bill. ActionAid said Zambia Sugar, a unit of AB Foods, had made profits of $ 123 million since 2007, but had paid "virtually no corporate tax" in Zambia. In October 2013,

304-539: The sale of 20 million biscuits per day. Allied's sales the year prior were $ 154 million with profits of $ 12.6 million in current dollars. With the acquisition of A.B.C., Allied almost doubled its share of the UK's bread market by the end of the decade. In December 1954 they purchased from Howardsgate Trust the single Fine Fare Supermarket in Welwyn Garden City , the Welwyn Store grocery branches and

323-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Durkee . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Durkee&oldid=1200089463 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

342-536: The share capital of Wittington Investments is owned by the Garfield Weston Foundation , which is one of the UK's largest grant-making charitable trusts, and the remainder is owned by members of the Weston family. Wittington Investments also owns Fortnum & Mason and Heal & Son . George G. Weston became chief executive of ABF on 1 April 2005, and Galen Weston, the chief executive of George Weston Ltd. ,

361-520: Was in 1955 when Allied bought the British operations of the Aerated Bread Company , founded in 1862. This acquisition included both the bakery business and the chain of cafeterias, the A.B.C. Tearooms. Allied paid $ 8.1 million for A.B.C. At that time, Allied had a large share of the UK baked goods market. Allied's market share prior to acquiring A.B.C. was 10% of all UK bread production and

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