The Kraft Heinz Company

Henry John Heinz was born in 1844 in Pittsburgh to Bavarian immigrant parents who had arrived in the United States in 1840. He began bottling horseradish from his mother’s garden at age twelve and founded Heinz & Noble in 1869 in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, with a neighbour. The firm went bankrupt in 1875; Heinz repaid all his creditors in full and refounded the company under his own name. The famous “57 Varieties” slogan dates from an 1896 train journey. Heinz pioneered clear-glass packaging — to let buyers see the product — and championed the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. The 2015 merger with Kraft Foods Group created Kraft Heinz, one of North America’s largest food companies.