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Borden Dairy Company is an American dairy processor and distributor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. [6] Established in 2009, [2] the company is a successor to the original Borden Company established in 1857 by Gail Borden. [7] The company is a former subsidiary of Dean Foods. [1] On January 5, 2020, Borden Dairy Company filed for bankruptcy.
Borden is the second major dairy producer to file Chapter 11 in the past two months after Dean Foods filed for bankruptcy protection in November. Borden and its 17 affiliates have been ...
Gail Borden, founder. The company was founded by Gail Borden Jr., in 1857 in Connecticut as "Gail Borden Jr., and Company." Its primary product was condensed milk.Struggling financially, the company was saved when Jeremiah Milbank, a partner in the wholesale food distributor I. & R. Milbank & Co. and the son-in-law of banker Joseph Lake, agreed to invest and acquired 50 percent of the stock.
Elsie the Cow is a cartoon cow developed as a mascot for the Borden Dairy Company in 1936 to symbolize the "perfect dairy product". [1] Since the demise of Borden in the mid-1990s, the character has continued to be used in the same capacity for the company's partial successors, Eagle Family Foods (owned by J.M. Smucker) and Borden Dairy.
Eagle Family Foods Group LLC, doing business as Eagle Foods, is an American food company based in Cleveland, Ohio owned by private equity firm Kelso & Company.The company was founded in 2015 by Paul Smucker Wagstaff, formerly of The J. M. Smucker Company, after acquiring ownership of the canned milk brands formerly owned by Borden (Eagle Brand, Magnolia, Milnot, and PET).
The company recalled its products in February after 23 people were hospitalized and two died after being infected with the bacteria.
Responding to these worries was Gail Borden, who invented sweetened condensed milk in 1853. Its sales grew during the Civil War, as the government ordered it as a regular field ration, and by the ...
William Whiting Borden was born into a prominent and wealthy Illinois family, the third child of William and Mary DeGarmo Whiting Borden. Borden's father had made a fortune in Colorado silver mining, but the family was unrelated to the Borden Condensed Milk Company—an advantage for Borden since if asked about his wealth, he could honestly reply that his family was often mistaken for "the ...