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Hello, I would like to add new information. I also removed the word “November” and shortened the copy. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicagoslaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[3] Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[4] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamerybuilding[5] on the Cedar River.[6]
To make ends meet in those early days, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. Joining George in November 1891 was his youngest brother, Benjamin, age 14. By the end of 1891 Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year, and together they processed 1,532 hogs. The remaining members of the Hormel family moved to Austin in 1895 and joined the growing business. George turned to full-time management in 1899, and focused on increasing production.[7]
Add: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicago slaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[3][1]Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[4][2] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamery building[5] [3] on the Cedar River.[6][4]
To make ends meet, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. When George’s youngest brother, Benjamin, joined the company at age 14, Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year, and the team processed 1,532 hogs. The remaining Hormel family members joined the growing business in Austin in 1895. That same year, Hormel began selling Canadian bacon, a cured meat product.[5] [6][7] When George turned to full-time management in 1899, he focused on increasing production.[7] [8]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:47, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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But their greatest expansion came during an unlikely time: in 1893, railroad overbuilding, combined with a severe drought on the western plains, caused a bank panic and the deepest depression in American history. Hormel, instead of cutting back, concocted a risky plan. First, he saw that failing railroads meant cheaper shipping, so he started importing hogs from all over Minnesota and Iowa and sending the butchered meat to retailers as far away as St. Louis and Chicago. Second, the arrival of the refrigeration car had allowed eastern competitors to elbow into the midwestern market for fresh meat, but Hormel banked on the assumption that empty pockets meant that people would be willing to eat more smoked and cured meat. Among his new ideas was thinly slicing and sugar-curing back meat, which he marketed as a novelty breakfast item he called Canadian bacon.
The company has a history of introducing new products. Four years after its founding in 1891, George Hormel created a new way to sell pork loins by removing the backbone and curing the remaining meat. Today that product is known as Canadian bacon.(Subscription required.)
Hormel invented the first Canadian bacon, originally called "Hormel's Sugar-Cured Back Bacon" in 1885.(Subscription required.)
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Hello, I would like to add new information. I also removed the word “November” and shortened the copy. I hope I placed the "no" tag properly, wasn't sure. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicagoslaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[3] Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[4] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamerybuilding[5] on the Cedar River.[6]
To make ends meet in those early days, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. Joining George in November 1891 was his youngest brother, Benjamin, age 14. By the end of 1891 Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year, and together they processed 1,532 hogs. The remaining members of the Hormel family moved to Austin in 1895 and joined the growing business. George turned to full-time management in 1899, and focused on increasing production.[7]
Add: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicago slaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[3] [1] [2] [3] [4]
Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[4][5] [6] [7] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamery building on the Cedar River. [8] [9]
To make ends meet, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. When George’s youngest brother, Benjamin, joined the company at age 14, Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year, and the team processed 1,532 hogs. The remaining Hormel family members joined the growing business in Austin in 1895. That same year, Hormel began selling Canadian bacon, a cured meat product. [12] [13][14] When George turned to full-time management in 1899, he focused on increasing production.[7] [15]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 22:35, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
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"The packing house chain-one of the richest in the country-began with the 27-year-old Hormel's $500 investment in an Austin, Minn., meat market."(Subscription required.)
The headquarters of the Hormel company has remained at Austin, Minn., where Hormel launched the business by acquiring and rebuilding a burned out meat market. He had gone to Austin on a wool buying trip and persuaded his Chicago employer to loan him $500 to start in business. Hormel learned both the wool and the meat business as a youngster. His father, William Hormel, was a wool picker and his uncle, Jacob Decker, was a butcher. When his father's wool pulling plant failed in the depression of 1873 he quit school to go work as a butcher's delivery boy.(Subscription required.)
He found employment with a wool pulling and dyeing firm as a buyer." "Later, as a hide buyer, he went to Austin, where he took an interest in the city's community life.(Subscription required.)
Mr. Hormel was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and left school at the age of 13 to work as a lumber company surfacing machine helper, moving only briefly to the Toledo, O., Wabash railway shops."(Subscription required.)
Friedrich & Hormel are in the market for the purchase of light, medium and combing Wools with good reliable prices. The expense of handling wool with us is light, and as we represent one of the largest wool firms in Chicago we are enabled to pay Highest Cash Prices.(Subscription required.)
Friedrich & Hormel are in the market for the purchase of light, medium and combing Wools with good reliable prices. The expense of handling wool with us is light, and as we represent one of the largest wool firms in Chicago we are enabled to pay Highest Cash Prices.(Subscription required.)
The firm of Friedrich & Hormel has been dissolved. Neither retires from business but they separate its branches. Friedrich will hereafter own and run the meat market, and Hormel the packing house. Mr. Hormel will leave for Chicago this week to purchase additional machinery for the packing house. It will be all completed and ready for operations in about a month, and will have a capacity of one hundred hogs per day.(Subscription required.)
Austin grew on the fortunes of George A. Hormel, king of Spam, who exhorted his employees: "Originate, don't imitate." Hormel started his meat packing business in a grove of oak on the Cedar River, where workers cut blocks of ice in the winter to refrigerate meat.
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The Mower County Historical Society is located on the east side of the Mower County Fairgrounds at 1303 6th Ave. SW in Austin, MN. This location is home to many thematic buildings and research library. For more information on the research library, please click on the research tab. Interested in the history of Hormel Foods? Check out the original building where George A. Hormel started his great company. The building was built in 1892, but was not big enough to keep up with the production that customers wanted from the company.
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it operated out of a tiny abandoned creamery a half a mile from Main Street in Austin.
But their greatest expansion came during an unlikely time: in 1893, railroad overbuilding, combined with a severe drought on the western plains, caused a bank panic and the deepest depression in American history. Hormel, instead of cutting back, concocted a risky plan. First, he saw that failing railroads meant cheaper shipping, so he started importing hogs from all over Minnesota and Iowa and sending the butchered meat to retailers as far away as St. Louis and Chicago. Second, the arrival of the refrigeration car had allowed eastern competitors to elbow into the midwestern market for fresh meat, but Hormel banked on the assumption that empty pockets meant that people would be willing to eat more smoked and cured meat. Among his new ideas was thinly slicing and sugar-curing back meat, which he marketed as a novelty breakfast item he called Canadian bacon.
The company has a history of introducing new products. Four years after its founding in 1891, George Hormel created a new way to sell pork loins by removing the backbone and curing the remaining meat. Today that product is known as Canadian bacon.(Subscription required.)
Hormel invented the first Canadian bacon, originally called "Hormel's Sugar-Cured Back Bacon" in 1885.(Subscription required.)
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Hello, I would like to update the wording slightly. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: On 3 January 2013, Hormel Foods announced it had purchased Skippy—the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and the second-best-selling brand in the world—from Unilever for $700 million; the sale included Skippy's USA and China factories.[53 ][1]
Add: In 2013, Hormel Foods purchased Skippy—the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and the second-best-selling brand in the world—from Unilever for $700 million; the sale included Skippy's USA and China factories. [2] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 00:25, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hormel Foods, the maker of Spam luncheon meat, is paying $700 million to buy the Skippy peanut butter brand from consumer products maker Unilever. The sale includes Skippy factories in Little Rock, Ark., and Shandong Province in China.
Hormel Foods, the maker of Spam luncheon meat, is paying $700 million to buy the Skippy peanut butter brand from consumer products maker Unilever. The sale includes Skippy factories in Little Rock, Ark., and Shandong Province in China.
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Hello, I would like to cut a sentence, move it and update the wording slightly and also add a source that is not directly affiliated with Hormel (the phrasing “Human Resource” is incorrect, because it’s the “Human Rights” Resource Campaign. Thank you. Suggested new info: Delete: The company was named to the Human Resource Campaign Foundation's Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality in November.[55][1]
Add: In 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, the company was named to the Human Rights Campaign's Best Places to Work for LGBT equality.[2][66][67][68] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 00:50, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Fifteen of Minnesota's largest businesses got top marks for being LGBT-friendly, according to a new report by the Human Rights Campaign. HRC's "Corporate Equality Index" rates companies on the presence of non-discrimination policies, employment benefits, demonstrated competency and accountability around LGBT diversity and inclusion, public commitments to LGBT equality and "responsible citizenship." Among those that earned top marks: 3M, Ameriprise, Best Buy, Cargill, Dorsey & Whitney, Ecolab, General Mills, Hormel, Land O'Lakes, Linquist & Vennum, Medtronic, RBC Wealth Management, Robins Kaplan, Target and U.S. Bancorp. Another 13 Minnesota companies were also ranked though fell short of scoring 100 percent.
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Hello, I would like to add new information. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York) worked in a Chicagoslaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[3] Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[4] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamerybuilding[5] on the Cedar River.[6]
To make ends meet in those early days, Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry. Joining George in November 1891 was his youngest brother, Benjamin, age 14. By the end of 1891 Hormel employed six men and had slaughtered and sold 610 head of livestock. By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. Two additional Hormel brothers, Herman and John, joined the business that same year, and together they processed 1,532 hogs. The remaining members of the Hormel family moved to Austin in 1895 and joined the growing business. George turned to full-time management in 1899, and focused on increasing production.[7]
Add: George A. Hormel (born 1860 in Buffalo, New York[1] ) worked in a Chicago slaughterhouse before becoming a traveling wool[2] and hide buyer. His travels took him to Austin[3]and he decided to settle there, borrow $500, and open a meat business.[4] Hormel handled the production side of the business and his partner, Albert Friedrich, handled the retail side. The two dissolved their partnership in 1891.[5] He opened his meat packing firm, George A. Hormel & Co., in an old creamery[6] building on Austin’s Cedar River.[7]
By 1893, the increased use of refrigerator cars and greater efficiency had forced smaller businesses to collapse. [8]
Hormel continued to trade in hides, eggs, wool, and poultry and hired his 14-year old brother, Benjamin, in 1891.[9]
In that first year, Hormel slaughtered 610 head of livestock.[10]
Herman and John Hormel joined the family business by 1893, [11] and the remaining Hormel family members were hired soon after.[12]
In 1895, Hormel began selling Canadian bacon, a cured meat product.[13][14]
When George turned to full-time management in 1899, he focused on increasing production.[15] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:53, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Mr. Hormel was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and left school at the age of 13 to work as a lumber company surfacing machine helper, moving only briefly to the Toledo, O., Wabash railway shops."(Subscription required.)
The headquarters of the Hormel company has remained at Austin, Minn., where Hormel launched the business by acquiring and rebuilding a burned out meat market. He had gone to Austin on a wool buying trip and persuaded his Chicago employer to loan him $500 to start in business. Hormel learned both the wool and the meat business as a youngster. His father, William Hormel, was a wool picker and his uncle, Jacob Decker, was a butcher. When his father's wool pulling plant failed in the depression of 1873 he quit school to go work as a butcher's delivery boy.(Subscription required.)
He found employment with a wool pulling and dyeing firm as a buyer." "Later, as a hide buyer, he went to Austin, where he took an interest in the city's community life.(Subscription required.)
The packing house chain-one of the richest in the country-began with the 27-year-old Hormel's $500 investment in an Austin, Minn., meat market."(Subscription required.)
The firm of Friedrich & Hormel has been dissolved. Neither retires from business but they separate its branches. Friedrich will hereafter own and run the meat market, and Hormel the packing house. Mr. Hormel will leave for Chicago this week to purchase additional machinery for the packing house. It will be all completed and ready for operations in about a month, and will have a capacity of one hundred hogs per day.(Subscription required.)
it operated out of a tiny abandoned creamery a half a mile from Main Street in Austin.
Austin grew on the fortunes of George A. Hormel, king of Spam, who exhorted his employees: "Originate, don't imitate." Hormel started his meat packing business in a grove of oak on the Cedar River, where workers cut blocks of ice in the winter to refrigerate meat.
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But their greatest expansion came during an unlikely time: in 1893, railroad overbuilding, combined with a severe drought on the western plains, caused a bank panic and the deepest depression in American history. Hormel, instead of cutting back, concocted a risky plan. First, he saw that failing railroads meant cheaper shipping, so he started importing hogs from all over Minnesota and Iowa and sending the butchered meat to retailers as far away as St. Louis and Chicago. Second, the arrival of the refrigeration car had allowed eastern competitors to elbow into the midwestern market for fresh meat, but Hormel banked on the assumption that empty pockets meant that people would be willing to eat more smoked and cured meat. Among his new ideas was thinly slicing and sugar-curing back meat, which he marketed as a novelty breakfast item he called Canadian bacon.
His second employee was his youngest brother Ben, who left Toledo to work for George in late 1891, when Ben was just fourteen years old.
It slaughtered 610 cattle in its first year of business.(Subscription required.)
In 1893, two more brothers, Herman and John, left Toledo to work for George in Austin.
His cousin Jay Decker, the son of his uncle Jay Decker, came to work for him as well.
The company has a history of introducing new products. Four years after its founding in 1891, George Hormel created a new way to sell pork loins by removing the backbone and curing the remaining meat. Today that product is known as Canadian bacon.(Subscription required.)
Hormel invented the first Canadian bacon, originally called "Hormel's Sugar-Cured Back Bacon" in 1885.(Subscription required.)
Thus far during the year 1899 the business has been more than double that of the corresponding months of 1898. Good stock and cleanliness (to which Mr. Hormel gives especial attention) have created a large demand for the product over that of the large companies."
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Hello, I would like to suggest a new information on Dinty Moore. Thank you.
Delete: Hormel Chili and Spam were introduced in 1936 and 1937 respectively.[16][12]
Add: Dinty Moore stew, Hormel Chili and Spam were introduced in 1935[1], 1936 [2] and 1937[3]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 22:00, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Yes, there was a real Dinty Moore. In fact, there may have been more than one. During the Great Depression, the Roosevelt Administration came up with a plan to buy livestock from farmers and then turn it over to several meat-packing companies, including Hormel, to produce canned meat for the nation's poor. The experiment ended after only nine months. Hormel was left with 500,000 cans. Company president Jay Hormel, son of founder George Hormel, decided to make leftovers into canned beef stew. The product was so successful that Hormel had to buy up the surplus canned meat from other packers to meet the demand. Hormel needed a name for the product, so in 1935 the company bought the rights to the name Dinty Moore from a Minnesota grocer, C.F. Witt and Sons…. The name was also being used as a character in the popular comic strip "Bringing Up Father." Since the products were not in competition with each other, it was decided that there would be no confusion. But who was the Dinty Moore of the comic strip? A New York City restauranteur came forward, claiming that it was he who had inspired the character. He sued Hormel for stealing his name, but he lost the case when George McManus, creator of the comic strip, insisted that the character came from a St. Louis bellhop by that name.
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This request does not indicate which references are to be removed.
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Hello, I have suggested new ideas and sources on the Clougherty Packing sale. Thank you.
Suggested new info: Delete: In late 2016, Hormel sold Clougherty Packing, owner of the Farmer John and Saag's brands, to Smithfield Foods, with the sale closing in January 2017.[61][1]
Add: Hormel sold Clougherty Packing, owner of the Farmer John and Saag's brands, to Smithfield Foods, in 2016.[2] [3] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 22:15, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Smithfield Foods will buy Farmer John and Saag's Specialty Meats brands, and farm operations in three states from Hormel Foods Corp. for $145 million in cash. Smithfield will buy Clougherty Packing, the owner of Farmer John and Saag's, as well as hog farm operations in California, Arizona and Wyoming.(Subscription required.)
The Corcoran pig ranch owned by Hormel Foods has been sold to the world's largest pork producer – Smithfield Foods. The 420-acre ranch raises 150,000 pigs sold under the Farmer John label… is part of the parent company Clougherty Packing LLC….(Subscription required.)
Reply 12-OCT-2018
The two provided sources are reporting on information taken from a press release and would be counted as a Hormel source.
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Hello, I have new suggested text information since this reads a bit clunky. Thank you. Suggested: Delete: Jeffrey Ettinger retired as CEO, effective 30 October 2016. Ettinger remained Chairman of the Board. President & COO James Snee assumed the role of CEO effective 31 October 2016.[58][1]
Add: When Jeffrey Ettinger retired as CEO in 2016, President James Snee then became CEO.[2]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 00:40, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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The new sentence does not describe the change of roles as well or as completely as the prior version does.
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Hello, I have ideas for an updated source and wording. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: The company made an initial three-year commitment to deliver 1 million cans to in-need families in Guatemala.[1]
Add: In 2011, the company committed to delivering 1 million cans of Spammy, a high-protein turkey spread, to address malnutrition for families in Guatemala.[2] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hormel is ramping up its production of Spammy to address hunger in Guatemala where 50 percent of its people suffer from chronic malnutrition, the highest rate in the Western Hemisphere. The Hormel Beloit plant produces the high-protein turkey spread which has a long shelf life and is helping feed poor, starving families in the impoverished Central American country. One million cans are expected to be shipped from Beloit to Guatemala as part of a three-year commitment Hormel has made to the Food For The Poor and Caritas Arquidiocesana in 2011.(Subscription required.)
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The new sentence does not describe the 3-year commitment time frame as accurately as the previous one does.
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Hello, I have ideas for an updated source and wording. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: Gray replaced Corey as chairman of the board upon the latter's retirement in 1965, and M.B. Thompson became president.[1]
Add: When Corey retired in 1965, Gray became chairman of the board.[2] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 19:30, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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H.H. Corey has resigned as chairman of the board of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Austin, Minn. President R. F. Gray has been elected chairman.(Subscription required.)
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The new version leaves out the mention of Thompson, which is centrally mentioned in the ADH source.
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Hello, Would you be open to adding a “leadership” section, possibly? Listing the CEOs, etc. throughout the years. Possible space saver and easier to read. Let me know and thank you.
Would be something like this (with citations, of course):
1891 Founder George A. Hormel
1929-1954 President & Chairman of the Board Jay C. Hormel
1946-1955 President & Chairman of the Board H.H. Corey
And so on, etc.
Then remove the sentences with this same info - at the same time, is that how it works? (Foresee a super large edit request, want to use best practices at all times). Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:15, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
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A simple list would be fine, but only for the top most position, not a list for every leadership position (i.e., pres, CEO, Chairman).
Spintendo 02:10, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, here is potential wording for a new “leadership” section that lists who is the CEO throughout the years. Thank you.
If this is approved, I can then submit a request or two that shows where the leadership text should be removed.
Suggested text:
Add new section: Leadership timeline
1891 Founder George A. Hormel[1]
1929 President Jay C. Hormel[2]
1954 CEO H.H. Corey[3]
1965 CEO R.F. Gray[4]
1968 CEO M.B. Thompson[5]
1972 CEO I.J. Holton[6]
1981 CEO Richard Knowlton[7]
1993 CEO Joel Johnson[8]
2006 CEO Jeff Ettinger[9]
2016 CEO James Snee[10]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
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These would need timespans attached to them, so it should be something like this:
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George Hormel | 1891–1929 |
Jay C. Hormel | 1929–1954 |
H.H. Corey | 1954–1965 |
.....Or something like this:
....either way, it just needs to show the time-spans easily. Thanks Spintendo 06:59, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, here is potential wording for a new “leadership” section that lists who is the CEO throughout the years. Thank you.
Suggested text:
Leadership
George Hormel 1891–1926[1]
Jay C. Hormel 1926–1954[2]
H.H. Corey 1954–1965[3]
R.F. Gray 1965-1968[4]
M.B. Thompson 1968-1972[5]
I.J. Holton 1972-1981[6]
Richard Knowlton 1981-1993[7]
Joel Johnson 1993-2006[8]
Jeff Ettinger 2006-2016[9]
James Snee starting in 2016[10]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:18, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
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M.B. Thompson, board chairman of Geo. A. Hormel and Co., Austin, Minn., has resigned as chief executive officer of the company. I.J. Holton, Hormel president, will assume the duties of chief executive officer.(Subscription required.)
George A. Hormel | 1891–1926 |
Jay C. Hormel | 1926–1954 |
H.H. Corey | 1954–1965 |
R.F. Gray | 1965–1968 |
M.B. Thompson | 1968–1972 |
I.J. Holton | 1972–1981 |
Richard Knowlton | 1981–1993 |
Joel Johnson | 1993–2006 |
Jeff Ettinger | 2006–2016 |
James Snee | 2016– |
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Hello, I can see that the formatting is wonky. I am working to fix that -- wasn't sure if it would be ok to delete the request, work on it and resubmit. Thank you.
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Add new section:
Leadership
George Hormel 1891–1926[1]
Jay C. Hormel 1926–1954[2]
H.H. Corey 1954–1965[3]
R.F. Gray 1965-1968[4]
M.B. Thompson 1968-1972[5]
I.J. Holton 1972-1981[6]
Richard Knowlton 1981-1993[7]
Joel Johnson 1993-2006[8]
Jeff Ettinger 2006-2016[9]
James Snee starting in 2016[10] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 00:29, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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(Subscription required.)Hormel suffered a stroke yesterday in his Bel Air home, where he has lived since he retired as president of Hormel packing company in favor of his only son, Jay.
(Subscription required.)H.H. Corey, president since 1946, will continue as chairman of the board and chief executive officer.
H.H. (Tim) Corey resigned Monday as chairman of the board of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., but will remain actively a member of the Board of Directors. President R.F. Gray was elected the new board chairman. R.F. Gray, newly elected chairman of the board, will continue as chief executive officer of the company.
It was the beginning of his 36 years with Hormel, a stretch of time that would render him a legend in Austin and a leader to the company, as president from 1969-1979 and CEO from 1972-1981.
He served as Chief Executive Officer of Hormel Foods Corporation from 1979 to 1993 and served as its President 1979 to 1992. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Hormel Foods Corporation from 1979 to 1995.
Joel Johnson will be the company's president and heir-apparent to Knowlton. Johnson, 49, came to Hormel 1 1/2 years ago after spending six years learning the meat business at Oscar Mayer Foods. Before that, he spent 19 years in consumer marketing with General Foods Inc.
(Subscription required.)Ettinger, 45, says he’d be happy to spend another 15 years with the company. He takes over the duties of president for Joel Johnson, 60, as part of a transition toward retirement that will take two to three years.
(Subscription required.)Jeffrey Ettinger will retire, the company said Tuesday, ending a decade long tenure in which he adapted the food maker to shifting consumer tastes, nearly doubling its sales and more than quadrupling its market value. The board of directors voted to promote James Snee, its president and chief operating officer, to succeed him.
So the last part would be to just identify which items are coming out of the article (don't worry about identifying the references again, because they are being "transferred" so to speak, and won't be actually leaving the article) just the claims regarding leadership changes and new appointments, etc. that can be deleted from the prose, as they will be replaced by the list. Thanks! Spintendo 01:08, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, here are suggested deletes since this info will already be covered by the new leadership timeline. Thank you.
Delete: Jay C. Hormel became company president in 1929 and that same year the plant was expanded again to include eight new structures and the main office was tripled in size.[1]
Add: In 1929, the plant was expanded again to include eight new structures and the main office was tripled in size.[2]
Delete: Jay C. then became chairman of the board, H.H. Corey became president, and R.F. Gray became vice-president.[3]
Delete: Corey was named chairman of the board and R.F. Gray was elected president the following year.[4]
Delete: Gray replaced Corey as chairman of the board upon the latter's retirement in 1965, and M.B. Thompson became president.[5]
Delete: In 1969, Gray resigned from the company and Thompson replaced him as chairman (by this time the chairman was called the CEO) and I.J. Holton was named president.[6] In 1972, Holton became CEO.[7]That same year Richard Knowlton was elected as president, [8]the first Austinian to hold that post since Jay Catherwood Hormel.[9] [10]
Delete: Holton continued as CEO until 1981 and then this duty was also passed to Knowlton.
Delete: That same year Knowlton retired and Joel W. Johnson became president and CEO. [11]
Delete: In 2004, Jeffrey M. Ettinger succeeded Johnson as company president. [12]
Delete: Jeffrey Ettinger retired as CEO, effective 30 October 2016. Ettinger remained Chairman of the Board. President & COO James Snee assumed the role of CEO effective 31 October 2016. [13] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 19:15, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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Corey, 53, who has been vice president and general manager of the company since 1938, was advanced to the presidency Monday…. He succeeds Jay C. Hormel…. R.F. Gray, 40, who came to the company from a road construction job… was made executive vice president and general manager.(Subscription required.)
R.F. Gray, executive vice president of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Monday was elected president of the 64-year old meat-packing firm. H.H. Corey, president since 1946, will continue as chairman of the board and chief executive officer.(Subscription required.)
H.H. (Tim) Corey resigned Monday as chairman of the board of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., but will remain actively a member of the Board of Directors. President R.F. Gray was elected the new board chairman. R.F. Gray, newly elected chairman of the board, will continue as chief executive officer of the company.
It was the beginning of his 36 years with Hormel, a stretch of time that would render him a legend in Austin and a leader to the company, as president from 1969-1979 and CEO from 1972-1981.
He served as Chief Executive Officer of Hormel Foods Corporation from 1979 to 1993 and served as its President 1979 to 1992. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Hormel Foods Corporation from 1979 to 1995.
1979 New Era The company was guided by Dick Knowlton through a whirlwind of intense industry competition and innovation.
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A native of Austin, Knowlton, 52, worked summers at the Hormel plant in 1948… he became chief executive officer in 1981.(Subscription required.)
Joel Johnson will be the company's president and heir-apparent to Knowlton. Johnson, 49, came to Hormel 1 1/2 years ago after spending six years learning the meat business at Oscar Mayer Foods. Before that, he spent 19 years in consumer marketing with General Foods Inc.
(Subscription required.)Ettinger, 45, says he’d be happy to spend another 15 years with the company. He takes over the duties of president for Joel Johnson, 60, as part of a transition toward retirement that will take two to three years.
(Subscription required.)Jeffrey Ettinger will retire, the company said Tuesday, ending a decadelong tenure in which he adapted the food maker to shifting consumer tastes, nearly doubling its sales and more than quadrupling its market value. The board of directors voted to promote James Snee, its president and chief operating officer, to succeed him.
Hello, here is a potential new source not linked to Hormel. Also, I removed the month, since that is not necessary. Thank you.
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Delete: In July 2009, Hormel and Herdez del Fuerte created the joint venture MegaMex Foods to market and distribute Mexican food in the United States.[1]
Add: In 2009, Hormel and Herdez del Fuerte created the joint venture MegaMex Foods to market and distribute Mexican food in the United States.[2] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:50, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
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MegaMex Foods, LLC. engages in marketing, selling, and supplying Mexican food products and ingredients in the United States. It offers salsas, sauces, peppers, tortillas, salad dressings, seasoning mixes, guacamole, and frozen food. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Minnesota. MegaMex Foods, LLC. operates as a joint venture between Hormel Foods Corporation and Herdez del Fuerte, S.A. de C.V.
Hello, here is a potential new source not linked to Hormel. Thank you.
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Delete: Brands included in the venture include Herdez, La Victoria, Chi Chi's, El Torito, Embasa, Wholly Guacamole, Del Fuerte, Dona Maria, Bufalo, and Don Miguel.[1]
Add: Brands from this new venture include Bufalo, Chi Chi's, Dona Maria, El Torito, and Herdez.[2]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 16:13, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
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The MegaMex Foods line includes brands such as Herdez, La Victoria, Don Miguel and Wholly Guacamole.
Edit request partially implemented Spintendo 10:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, this sentence is repetitive so maybe we can delete it. Thank you.
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Delete: Hormel Foods celebrated 100 years of operation in 1991. In 1993, the name of the company was officially changed from Geo. A. Hormel & Company to Hormel Foods Corporation.
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 16:01, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, this sentence is repetitive so maybe we can delete it. Thank you.
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Delete: In 2010 MegaMex Foods, a joint venture of Hormel Foods and Herdez del Fuerte, acquired Don Miguel Foods.[1] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 16:08, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, some word tinkering may improve this segment. Thank you.
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Delete: The company purchased Chicken by George, [1]created by former Miss America Phyllis George, in 1988.
Add: The company purchased Chicken by George, created by former Miss America Phyllis George, in 1988.[2] [3] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 21:13, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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The company also diversified into catfish and poultry, buying Farm Fresh Catfish Co. in Alabama, turkey processor Jennie-O Foods Inc. in Willmar, Minn., and Chicken By George Inc., started by former Miss America Phyllis George.
The company also diversified into catfish and poultry, buying Farm Fresh Catfish Co. in Alabama, turkey processor Jennie-O Foods Inc. in Willmar, Minn., and Chicken By George Inc., started by former Miss America Phyllis George.
Geo. A. Hormel & Co. thinks Phyllis George Brown does chicken right. Hormel, a food and meat processing firm based in Austin, Minn., is acquiring Chicken by George, a Louisville firm headed by the former CBS-TV personality and Miss America….
I've moved the original ref note to include the entire sentence, which it already verifies. Spintendo 21:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, for the animal welfare paragraph, would it work to possibly update the text with info about the (paid) livestock expert Temple Grandin? Note I am not sure how to get the info about her 10-years of work in without using a source that is Hormel-centric. Open to other ideas. Thank you.
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Add: Dr. Temple Grandin is a paid consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior and worked for Hormel for reportedly over 10 years[1][2].
The Colorado State University professor, author[3], and autism spokesperson was the subject of a movie.[4]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:52, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Ms. Grandin also does work with slaughterhouses and auditing. Slaughterhouses have become more humane in their handling of animals because of demands of large restaurant companies such as Wendy's and McDonald's auditing them for animal welfare, she said. "Customers are putting demands on them," she said. "There are some plants that are not being audited by a lot of customers and they tend to be worse."
Dr. Grandin, who has worked with Hormel Foods for more than 10 years, conducts research and teaches courses on livestock handling and facility design.
Best-selling author and university professor Temple Grandin, who is the focus of a 2010 Emmy-award winning biopic about her life with autism and her advocacy for the humane treatment of livestock, brings her no-nonsense wit and wisdom to Adrian College on Thursday night.
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. Director: Mick Jackson Writers: Temple Grandin (based on the book: "Emergence"), Margaret Scariano (based on the book: "Emergence").
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Reply 25-OCT-2018
This is a perennial request which is not germane to the article.
Spintendo 23:46, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, would like to suggest a new source that is not Hormel-affiliated. Thank you.
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Delete: That same year, Hormel Foods also introduced microwave bacon.[1]
Add: That same year, Hormel Foods also introduced microwave bacon.[2]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 19:35, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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But Hormel, for now, has the last word in breakfast foods: Bacon specially packaged for the microwave. Inside each package of Hormel's Microwave line are four separate packets. Each plastic-enclosed pack contains four bacon strips. A paper-like material absorbs the grease inside each of the bag-like containers that, when microwaved, fully cook the bacon in four minutes.
Reply 25-OCT-2018
Implemented
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Hello, taking another crack at an updated source and wording. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: The company made an initial three-year commitment to deliver 1 million cans to in-need families in Guatemala.[1]
Add: In 2011, the company made a three-year commitment to delivering 1 million cans of Spammy, a high-protein turkey spread, to address malnutrition for families in Guatemala.[2] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:28, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hormel is ramping up its production of Spammy to address hunger in Guatemala where 50 percent of its people suffer from chronic malnutrition, the highest rate in the Western Hemisphere. The Hormel Beloit plant produces the high-protein turkey spread which has a long shelf life and is helping feed poor, starving families in the impoverished Central American country. One million cans are expected to be shipped from Beloit to Guatemala as part of a three-year commitment Hormel has made to the Food For The Poor and Caritas Arquidiocesana in 2011.(Subscription required.)
Reply 25-OCT-2018
The wording of this paragraph in the article has been revised to better state what it was that was being initially given to the Guatemalans.
Spintendo 23:46, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Spintendo, is it ok to revise the source, as well? Thanks!Hello-Mary-H (talk) 23:49, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, I have ideas for an updated wording. Thank you. Can we delete the “mid-1984” phrase and have “1984” instead?
In mid-1984, Hormel introduced the Frank 'n Stuff brand of stuffed hot dogs.[1] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:22, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, I have an idea for updated wording. Thank you. Can we delete the “November” phrase and have “2008” instead?
Rework: In November 2008, an article in the New York Times,
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:28, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I have an idea for an updated wording. Thank you. Can we delete the “July” phrase and have it say “2009” instead?
In July 2009, Hormel and Herdez del Fuerte created the joint venture MegaMex Foods
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:41, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, here is a source for this statement: Hormel Foods also acquired Fresherized Foods, makers of Wholly Guacamole, as part of their MegaMex joint venture.[1] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
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Fresherized Foods produces and supplies avocado, guacamole, salsa, and tomato based products. Acquisition Details: Transaction Name: Fresherized Foods, Inc. acquired. Acquired by MegaMex Foods. Announced Date: Aug 22, 2011.
Reply 31-OCT-2018
Partially implemented
Spintendo 11:53, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
@Spintendo: can you tell me the issue with the Wholly Guacamole source, so I can improve it? Thank you. Hello-Mary-H (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, here is a suggested new source. I also worded it differently since the sale happened and became final in 2017. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: In late 2016, Hormel sold Clougherty Packing, owner of the Farmer John and Saag's brands, to Smithfield Foods, with the sale closing in January 2017.[1]
Add: In 2017, Hormel sold Clougherty Packing, owner of the Farmer John and Saag's brands, to Smithfield Foods.[2]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 21:38, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I an update on this source: The Beloit Daily News is a daily newspaper that has served Beloit, Wisconsin and the stateline area since 1848. While it is a smaller press, it's not in Minnesota and not the ADH, so hoping we can use it. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: Four years earlier, the company had made an initial three-year commitment to deliver 1 million cans of this product to in-need families in Guatemala.[3]
Add: Four years earlier, the company had made an initial three-year commitment to deliver 1 million cans of this product to in-need families in Guatemala.[4] Hello-Mary-H (talk) 21:51, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Hello, can we change the source for this one? Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: R.F. Gray[52] 1965–1968[5]
Add: R.F. Gray 1965–1968[6]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 16:17, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update info the source for this one. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: George Hormel visited England in 1905 and started exporting products soon after.[7]
Add: George Hormel visited England in 1905 and started exporting products soon after.[8]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 17:56, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update the wording – trying to consolidate and shorten here. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: In 1903 George decided to add a three-story hog-kill, a two-story beef-kill, an annex, an engine room, a machine shop and a casing production department.[9]
Add: In 1903 George added a three-story hog-kill, a two-story beef-kill, annex, engine room, machine shop and a casing production department.[10]
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:19, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update the wording – trying to consolidate and shorten here. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: The embezzlement scandal provided George Hormel with additional incentive to fortify his company. He did so by arranging for more reliable capital management, by dismissing unproductive employees, and by continuing to develop new products[11],
Add: After the embezzlement scandal, George Hormel fortified his company by arranging for more reliable capital management, dismissing unproductive employees, and developing new products[12],
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:24, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to update the wording – trying to consolidate and shorten here. Thank you. Suggested new info:
Delete: The two dissolved their partnership in 1891 so that Hormel could start a complete meat packing operation on his own.[13] He opened George A. Hormel & Co. in the northeast part of Austin in an old creamery building[14] on the Cedar River.[15]
Add: Their partnership dissolved in 1891 and Hormel started his own meat packing operation[16] in northeast Austin in an old creamery building[17]on the Cedar River.[18]
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Clougherty Packing, LLC, doing business as Farmer John Meats, manufactures and supplies meat products. The company offers bacons, breakfast sausages, fresh pork, hams, hot dogs, lunch meat, and smoked sausages. Its products are available through retailers. The company was founded in 1931 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of January 3, 2017, Clougherty Packing, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Hormel is ramping up its production of Spammy to address hunger in Guatemala where 50 percent of its people suffer from chronic malnutrition, the highest rate in the Western Hemisphere. The Hormel Beloit plant produces the high-protein turkey spread which has a long shelf life and is helping feed poor, starving families in the impoverished Central American country. One million cans are expected to be shipped from Beloit to Guatemala as part of a three-year commitment Hormel has made to the Food For The Poor and Caritas Arquidiocesana in 2011.(Subscription required.)
H.H. Corey has resigned as chairman of the board of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Austin, Minn. President R. F. Gray has been elected chairman.(Subscription required.)
Hello-Mary-H (talk) 18:44, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Reply 05-NOV-2018
Partially implemented.
Spintendo 15:32, 5 November 2018 (UTC)