The story of Pittsburgh: Food products

Food products (Vol. 1, nr. 12)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623587

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241112

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Food products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 12

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: [ca. 60] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Pittsburgh provision & packing company

Collection:: Economics Books

The Officers are: Robert Allerton, President; Jas. S. McFadyen, Vice-President; John Anderson, Treasurer and General Manager; Geo. N. McDonald, Secretary. . SWIFT & COMPANY Although Swift & Company was not incorporated until 1885, the business out of which it grew was founded by Gustavus F. Swift in 1868. From the time Mr. Swift made the first successful refrigerated shipments of dressed meats to the East, during the seventies, Swift products have been regularly sold in Pittsburgh. Swift & Company is an Illinois corporation, owned by more than 47,000 stockholders, and capitalized at $150,000,- 000. The growth of the company, from a modest beginning has been made possible largely because a portion of the profits has been re-invested in the business year after year since its founding. To-day it is one of the largest American packing companies, with a nation-wide organization, and has more than 50,000 employes. Last year the company’s sales amounted to $775,000,000. This company slaughters cattle, sheep, and hogs, and markets the resulting meat and by-products in various stages of manufacture. The company also assembles and distributes produce, (butter, eggs, poultry, and cheese), manufactures oleomargarine, soap, gelatin, glue, fertilizer, etc., and refines and markets cottonseed oil and other vegetable shortenings. Swift & Company has 26 meat packing plants located in various parts of the United States. Most of these are located in the principal livestock producing regions. The company also operates produce plants where eggs are sorted and prepared for market, where poultry is milk fed and standard- ized according to weight and quality, and where butter is manufactured in modern and sanitary creameries. Swift products are distributed through more than 400 branch houses and a large number of ‘““car routes” in this country and through numerous branches and agencies abroad. The branch house is a wholesale marketing establishment located in the larger towns and cities, from which Swift pro- ducts are sold to retailers. Carloads of meat, produce, and

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