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Crosse & Blackwell is a food production brand which has been in existence since 1706.

Originally founded as West and Wyatt, the company was purchased in 1830 by Edmund Crosse and Thomas Blackwell
Thomas Blackwell

Thomas Blackwell was a Scotland classical antiquity scholar.He was born at Aberdeen. He took the degree of M.A. at the Marischal College in 1718....
. Over the years, the brand has been applied to various varieties of canned, dried and bottled grocery products.

In 1950, Nestlé
Nestlé

Nestl? is a Multinational corporation packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with a turnover of over 87 billion Swiss francs....
 bought the brand and developed the name across a number of food categories worldwide.






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Crosse & Blackwell is a food production brand which has been in existence since 1706.

Originally founded as West and Wyatt, the company was purchased in 1830 by Edmund Crosse and Thomas Blackwell
Thomas Blackwell

Thomas Blackwell was a Scotland classical antiquity scholar.He was born at Aberdeen. He took the degree of M.A. at the Marischal College in 1718....
. Over the years, the brand has been applied to various varieties of canned, dried and bottled grocery products.

In 1950, Nestlé
Nestlé

Nestl? is a Multinational corporation packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with a turnover of over 87 billion Swiss francs....
 bought the brand and developed the name across a number of food categories worldwide. However, the company divested the Crosse & Blackwell operations in 2002. Today ownership of the Crosse & Blackwell brand is divided between The J.M. Smucker Company in North America
North America

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 and Premier Foods
Premier Foods

Premier Foods plc is a United Kingdom-based food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a former constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
 in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.