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Henry John Heinz founded a empire of commercially-prepared foods.

Such products provided convenience to housewives, who previously had to make all their home products from scratch.

Heinz wasn't the first to market with such products in America. In fact, imports of British commercially-prepared foods had been underway for several decades before him. The problem was while the imports were a bit pricey, the more affordable domestic American competitors to these goods had acquired in the public's mind a bit of a dodgy reputation, and housewives just didn't trust a lot of them.

Heinz decided to win their trust by selling his food items in clear glass bottles so you could see what you were getting. This was an innovation.

He, and later his son Howard, also introduced defined quality control procedures in his food processing plants, and would even invite people into his factories to see how clean they were and how well-treated his employees were. He parlayed this trust into an empire through his natural marketing and advertising savvy.

Heinz ketchup sold in America today is made in Ohio and Iowa.

Heinz Baked Beans are such a staple in Britain that some Brits are actually surprised to learn the company is actually American.

Henry John Heinz was born and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Other industrial titans to come from Pittsburgh were Carnegie, Mellon and Westinghouse; Milton S. Hershey came from Pennsylvania as well.

The world headquarters of Heinz is still in Pittsburgh, where the company was founded.

Chronology of Henry John Heinz and his company

1844 -- Henry John Heinz was born 11 October 1844 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father, Johann Heinrich Heinz, had come to America four years earlier in 1840 from Bavaria. His mother, Anna Margaretha Schmitt, came from Hesse in Germany. His parents spoke German, naturally, and Heinz learnt it from them. His father had a brick-making business.

1850 -- The family moved from Pittsburgh to Sharpsburg.

1856 -- Henry's mother made pickles in her basement for sale. He would help make them, and in 1856, at the age of twelve, he started taking them around to sell, along with produce from their garden. At the time, he was also attending Duff's Mercantile College in Pittsburgh.

1859 -- At the age of fifteen, Henry started working in his father's business and became a partner in it.

1869 -- At the age of twenty-five, Henry decided he wanted his own business, and started making and selling pickled horseradish in transparent light aqua green bottles. The transparent glass bottles were a stroke of marketing genius. Before that, products were sold in solid coloured glass bottles or pots that people couldn't see through. The transparent glass allowed buyers to inspect the product before purchasing. At the time, the bottled good manufactured industry had acquired a bad reputation for using filler, such as turnip pieces, or even wood chips, that you couldn't see were in the product until you got home. (By 1878, he could afford to switch to the more expensive completely clear glass bottles.)

1870 -- Henry married Sarah Heim. Henry began branching out into pickles, sauerkraut and vinegar, sending shipments to grocers in Pittsburgh. He set up headquarters in Sharpsburg, just to the north of Pittsburgh. A two-storey farmhouse served as both the factory and the offices. (It is now in Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan.) He then acquired a partner, L. Clarence Noble, who was a neighbour, and called the company Heinz & Noble. The two bought one hundred acres along the Allegheny River to grow vegetables on, as well as a vinegar factory in St Louis, Missouri, and expanded to larger facilities.

1872 -- Heinz and Noble introduced their ketchups at the Philadelphia fair -- one walnut based, and one tomato based.

1872 -- Heinz introduces a sweet pickle, sweetened with saccharine. A few years later they switched to sugar as a sweetener.

1875 -- Heinz and Noble had expanded greatly. They had moved premises to the city, had another office in St Louis, had up to 150 employees depending on the season, and had 25 horses. They owned one hundred acres of land along the Allegheny River, of which 30 acres were planted with horseradish, and they had a contract to process six hundred acres of cucumbers from a farm near Woodstock, Illinois. They were producing 3,000 barrels of sauerkraut, 15,000 barrels of pickles, and 50,00 barrels of vinegar (the St. Louis location was also producing vinegar.)

1875 -- December. Credit was still tight in 1875, owing to the Jay Cooke banking panic of 1873, which put the economy into depression until 1879. Throughout 1875, Heinz mortgaged everything he could to stay afloat, but finally filed for bankruptcy in December 1875 owing $170,000, with assets of $110,000.

1876 -- Henry restarted business with his Cousin Frederick and brother John, by managing to borrow $3,000. He called it the "F. & J. Heinz Company." They were listed as the owners until he was discharged from bankruptcy and able to own a company again.

1877 - Heinz first experiments with the use of tin cans, for sauerkraut.

1877 - Heinz yellow mustard, Heinz Dusseldorf mustard and Heinz chow-chow introduced.

1877 - Added mincemeat with suet, actual meat, candied citron and cider vinegar in place of alcohol. It was sold in wooden buckets, stone crocks or glass jars.

1877 / 78 - Added white pickled onions, barrel-fermented for three to four months in salt and pickled in clear, distilled vinegar.

1879 - Introduced a pepper sauce made from red and green peppers.

1879 - The depression ended in 1879. Heinz's company finally turned a corner and made $15,000 in profit. He gave all his employees a $15 bonus for Christmas, and paid off 12 of the debts from the old company's bankruptcy.

1880 - Added apple butter and cider vinegar to products.

Sometime before or around this time, he introduced chili sauce, mincemeat, olives, and pickled cauliflower.

1886 -- In the summer, Heinz travelled to Europe from New York on the City of Berlin paddlewheel ship. His wife, his sister Mary, his daughter Irene, aged 14, and his three young sons came with him. They landed in Liverpool. While in Europe, he also travelled to England with his family and samples of seven of his products. On 18th June, he walked into the prestigious store known as "Fortnum & Mason", and talked his way into a buyer's office there. He persuaded the buyer to taste samples of ketchup, horseradish, and chili sauce. The buyer did, and agreed on behalf of the store to carry all seven of the products he carried with him, making Fortnum's the first grocery store in England to carry Heinz products. Note that Heinz Baked Beans were not amongst this seven initial products. Heinz did not make them until 1895, and Fortnum and Mason began carrying them in 1901. [1]

He also went to Germany to visit relatives. He returned to America in 1886 at age of 42. He subsequently introduced for his workers the pay levels, benefits and services that he saw German workers had.

1888 -- He bought full control of the Heinz company and simplified the name to just the "H.J. Heinz Company"

1888 -- Piccalilli introduced

1889 -- "India Relish" introduced

1890 -- Tomato Chutney introduced.

1892 -- Dill pickles are added to product line.

1894 -- Took some of his family for a 5 month tour of Europe and Egypt. His wife didn't feel up to the trip so stayed home. Heinz returned to America on the ship "City of Paris", on which he met Mark Twain

1894 -- His wife Sarah dies, aged 51, on 29 November from various complications including pneumonia.

1895 -- Heinz Baked Beans are added to the product line. This produce helped Heinz get through the depression of 1893 to 1896. Heinz put in an automated canning line for the beans, which allowed him to sell them for 10 cents a can, instead of 15 cents. The beans were first baked, then canned with added tomato sauce. [2]

1896 -- Henry opened an office near the Tower of London, his first overseas office. He opened factories to actually make the products in England in Peckham in 1905 and in Harlesden in 1919.

1896 -- Henry came up with the slogan "57 varieties." He was 52 at the time. The number "57" in the slogan "57 varieties" was just a number he made up.

1897 -- Cream of Tomato Soup is added to the product line.

1900 -- By 1900, the Heinz company was making over 200 different products

1919 -- The Heinz company had twenty-five factories. Henry died of pneumonia at the age of 75 on 14 May 1919, and was buried in Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. His son Howard was away at the time on a leave of absence from the company, serving as a food commissioner for Herbert Hoover in the Balkans. He became president of the company upon his return. He was married to Elizabeth Granger Rust Heinz. They had two sons, Rust, and Howard J. (called Jack)

1941 -- Howard J. Heinz II (Jack) became president of the company.

1958 -- Up until 1958, all growth was actual growth in the company, as opposed to buying out competitors. In this year, they started acquisitions. They bought a food processing operation in the Netherlands, and then acquired companies in America, Mexico, Italy and Portugal over the next few years.