A. Schilling & Company

A. Schilling & Company was an American foodstuffs company founded in San Francisco, California, in 1881 by August Schilling and George F. Volkmann, a pair 27 year-old Bremen, Germany emigres.[1] It dealt in coffee, tea, baking powder, extracts, and spices and was acquired by McCormick & Company in 1947 and merged into McCormick's business as its Western Division.[2][3][4]

A. Schilling & Company
IndustryFoodstuffs
FateAcquired by McCormick & Company
Founded1881 (1881) in San Francisco, California, USA
Founder
    • August Schilling
    • George F. Volkmann
Defunct1947 (1947)
Headquarters
United States

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed the company's factory and office, which was quickly rebuilt afterwards.[5]

McCormick continued to use the Schilling name until the 1990s, with the last product containers marked as Schilling produced in 2002; all of McCormick's products have been made under that name nationwide since. Between November 1991 and February 1992, McCormick/Schilling hosted a recipe contest in which contestants must use "at least two spices, seasonings and/or extracts, excluding salt and pepper".[6] The Schilling and McCormick brands dominated the seasoning industry.[7]

References
  1. California Historical Society Quarterly. The Society. 1968.
  2. Pradyumna P. Karan (30 December 2004). The Non-Western World: Environment, Development and Human Rights. Routledge. pp. 20–. ISBN 1-135-93836-9.
  3. Philip Auerswald (2 April 2012). The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy. Oxford University Press. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-0-19-993084-5.
  4. Glass Packer. Ogden-Watney publishers, Incorporated. 1947.
  5. William Harrison Ukers (1935). All about tea. The Tea and coffee trade journal company. pp. 272–.
  6. Johnson Publishing Company (December 1991). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. pp. 104–. ISSN 0012-9011.
  7. Editorial Board (2017-12-28). "Johnny's, Nalley's, others gave Tacoma flavor". The News Tribune. Retrieved 23 December 2019.


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