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:: Rieck-McJunikin dairy co.

Collection:: Economics Books

of activity sweeps west from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River and south from the Great Lakes to Dixieland. Previous to the inception of the National Dairy Products Corporation in 1923 Mr. Rieck had by various steps built his business to the point where the corporation he led was domi- nant in the distribution of milk, cream, ice cream and other dairy products throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1898 Mr. Rieck made his first ice cream following the expan- sion of facilities that came when the business was incorpor- ated as the Edward E. Rieck Company of Pennsylvania. This organization continued to prosper and grow to immense pro- portion until 1918 when the McJunkin-Straight Dairy Com- pany was absorbed. That corporation has since been known as the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Company and operates three plants in Pittsburgh and others in McKeesport, Butler, New Castle, and Charleroi. It was in 1923 that the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Company in cooperation with the Hydrox Corporation of Chicago, which similarly dominated the Chicago dairy field, formed the necleus of the National Dairy Corporation. Mr. Rieck headed the latter as Chairman of the Board of Directors while Thomas H. Mclnnerney, President of the Hydrox Corpora- tion and a prominent Chicago financier and industrialist, became President. While this organization was being completed a program of expansion began. In keeping with the character of the princi- pal companies the units that have been added are uniformly old established companies and invariably good earning prop- erties. First, National Dairy Products Corporation took over the Castles Ice Cream Company of Perth Amboy, N. J., and the J. T. Castles Ice Cream Company of Newark, N.J., through an exchange of National Dairy common for the common stock of the subsidiaries. The two Castles companies controlled the ice cream situation in many sections of New Jersey after operations dating back to 1892. J. T. Castles continues to manage both enterprises. Later the W. EE. Hoffman Company operating plants in Altoona, Phillipsburg, Barnesboro, and Tyrone, Pa., was acquired by outright purchase from the sur- plus of National Dairy. This company began ice cream man-

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