Investor Relations

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This site is dedicated to the financial documents for Beatrice. Since Beatrice is solely a privately held business, there is currently no public offering of our stock.

We have listed Beatrice financial reports as an important resource for our current investors, which are for research and continuity purposes between the predecessor and successor Beatrice entities.

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A Brief Historical Breakdown (Chronological order of relevance relating to Beatrice, Norton Simon, and Esmark, from 1890, to 1990)

• 1875: Swift & Company founded by Gustavus F. Swift
• 1890: Brothers Joseph and William Hunt founded the Hunt Brothers Fruit Packing Company
• 1894: George Haskell and William Bosworth form partnership called Haskell & Bosworth, which later becomes the predecessor business to Beatrice Creamery Company
• 1896: Willie Gebhard founded Eagle Brand Chili Powder, and Gerhardt’s Mexican Foods
• 1897: Beatrice Creamery Company is incorporated
• 1899: Southern Cotton Oil Company introduces Wesson Oil, cottonseed oil, which was an all-vegetable shortening product introduced as Snowdrift
• 1901: Continental Creamery Company introduces Meadow Gold name for creamy butter
• 1905: Continental Creamery Company is acquired by Beatrice Creamery
• 1909: Max Factor & Company founded by Maksymilian Faktorowicz, Polish immigrant to United States
• 1920: Sam Fisher (Fisher Nuts) developed his own commercial technique for roasting and salting peanuts in the shell.
• 1920: La Choy Food Products founded
• 1923: Swift & Company introduces E.K. Pond Peanut Butter, to be rebranded Peter Pan in 1928
• 1932: International Latex Corporation founded, which was known for their Playtex product line introduced in 1947
• 1943: Hunt Brothers Packing Company merges with the Val Vita Food Products, founded by Norton Simon
• 1943: Beatrice Creamery acquires La Choy, their first non-dairy food business
• 1946: Beatrice Creamery changes its name to Beatrice Foods Co.
• 1946: Rosarita Mexican Foods founded by R.C. Scarborough, and several partners
• 1946: Anthony Sana founded Sana, Inc, the first one-step-method for drying milk, introduced as Sanalac. Swiss Miss brand instant cocoa mix was introduced in 1961, originally called “Brown Swiss” for commercial use
• 1952: Orville Redenbacher, and business partner Charles F. Bowman developed superior strain of popping corn and name their company, “Chester Hybrids”, using the advised name, “Orville Redenbacher”
• 1955: Beatrice Foods acquires D.L. Clark Co. candy
• 1960: Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Company merge with Hunt Foods, to be named Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc.
• 1960: Beatrice Foods acquires Rosarita
• 1961: Beatrice Foods acquires Gerhardt’s
• 1962: Beatrice Foods acquires Cal Compack
• 1962: Beatrice Foods acquires Fisher Nut Company
• 1967: Beatrice Foods acquires Airstream Travel Trailers
• 1966: Beatrice Foods acquires Sana, and the Swiss Miss brand
• 1966: Beatrice Foods acquires Jolly Rancher
• 1968: Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry Corporation, and McCall Corporation merge to create Norton Simon, Inc.
• 1968: Beatrice Foods acquires John Sexton & Co.
• 1966: Beatrice Foods acquires V-H Quality Food, Inc.
• 1972: Beatrice Foods acquires Peter Eckrich & Sons, Inc.
• 1973: Swift & Co acquired by ESMARK, Inc.
• 1973: Norton Simon acquires Max Factor
• 1975: ESMARK acquires International Playtex, Inc. from Meshulam Riklis’
• 1976: Beatrice Foods acquires Krispy Kreme Donuts
• 1976: Norton Simon acquires the Orville Redenbacher business, and integrates with the Hunt-Wesson business
• 1977: Norton Simon acquires Avis, Inc.
• 1977: Beatrice Foods acquires Food Producers International
• 1978: Beatrice Foods sells Airstream Travel Trailers
• 1978: Beatrice Foods acquires Topicana Products, Inc.
• 1978: Beatrice Foods acquires Culligan International Company
• 1979: Swift & Co introduces Soup Starter
• 1980: Beatrice Foods acquires Fiberite Corporation
• 1982: Beatrice sells Krispy Kreme to group led by franchisee Joe McAleer
• 1982: Beatrice Foods acquires Sanitary Water Company of Fort Worth, TX, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Spirit Lake, IA, and Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Mason City, IA. The bottled water operations, Great Bear (Northeast), Ozarka (Texas), and Arrowhead (West Coast and Arizona) were part of the acquisition.
• 1983: Beatrice sells John Sexton & Co.
• 1983: Beatrice sells confectionery business unit to Leaf, Inc. Brands included in the sale are; Clark, Switzer, Milk Duds, and Jolly Rancher
• 1983: Norton Simon acquired by ESMARK
• 1984: Beatrice Foods changes its name to Beatrice Companies, Inc.
• 1984: Beatrice Companies acquires ESMARK. Beatrice Companies merges their Eckrich, Berliner & Marx (Plume De Veau), and Kneip meats business with ESMARK’s Swift & Co (Butterball, Sizzlean, Brown ‘N Serve, and Swift Premium), forming Beatrice Meats, Inc. Beatrice grocery brands; Rosarita, Gebhardt, Fisher, La Choy, Swiss Miss, are merged into the Hunt-Wesson business of ESMARK. ESMARK’s cheese operations; Treasure Cave, Pauly, and Hunt’s Redi Wip, are merged into Beatrice Cheese, Inc. (County Line) operations
• 1984: Beatrice Foods sells Food Service Equipment business to investment firm, Gibbons, Green, van Amerongen. Businesses included are; Market Forge, Wells Manufacturing, Bloomfield Industries, Taylor Company, and World Dryer
• 1984: Buckingham Corporation, the wine and liquor importer for Beatrice Foods sold to Whitbread (U.S.) Holdings
• 1984: Beatrice Chemicals acquired by Imperial Chemical Industries P.L.C. Business units included in sale are; Paule Chemical, Polyvinyl Chemical Industries, Converters Ink Company, Thoro System Products, Stahl Finish, and Fiberite Corporation
• 1986: Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts (KKR) acquire Beatrice Companies, and spend the next four years dismantling the company. KKR creates new holdings companies to group various Beatrice Businesses in preparation for divestiture; BCI Holdings Corp., BCI Consumer Products Corp., BCI U.S. Food Corp., and BCI International Food Corp.
• 1986: Wesray Capital Corp. acquires Avis Rent a Car System from BCI Holdings
• 1986: Coca-Cola Co. acquires the Beatrice Soft Drink bottling operations from BCI Holdings; Cedar Rapids, IA, Omaha, NE, Yuma, AZ, Madison, WI, Shawnee Mission and Topeka, KS, Las Vegas, NV, San Diego, CA, Hawaii, and British Columbia.
• 1986: Beatrice Personal Care subsidiary, which includes International Playtex, is sold to group of investors, led by Joel Smilow, who currently runs the Playtex business unit. Playtex Holdings Inc. is new name for independent company
• 1986: Playtex Holdings sells cosmetics businesses, Max Factor, Almay and Halston cosmetics to Revlon Group Inc. Playtex holdings will retain Jhirmack hair care products, tampons, nursing products, and gloves
• 1987: BCI Holdings spins-off Beatrice Consumer Products Corporation, which becomes E-II Holdings, Inc. E-II Holdings comprises the Pet Specialties Inc., Waterloo Industries, Beatreme Food Ingredients Inc., Aunt Nellies, Martha White, Frozen Specialties Inc., Stiffel Lamps, Culligan International Co., Samsonite Furniture Co., Samsonite Corp., Del Mar and LouverDrape Window Coverings
• 1987: BCI Holdings sells the original company business operations, Beatrice Dairy Products, Inc. (Meadow Gold) to Borden, Inc.
• 1987: Source Perrier S.A. acquires BCI Holdings bottled water operations; Great Bear (Northeast), Ozarka (Texas), and Arrowhead (West Coast and Arizona)
• 1987: Beatrice International Foods, which included Beatrice Europe, Beatrice Asia, Beatrice Latin America, and Beatrice Canada., sold to TLC Group, Inc. run by Reginald F. Lewis and becomes TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc.
• 1987: KKR renames BCI Holdings to Beatrice Company
• 1988: Seagram Co. acquires Tropicana Products from Beatrice Company
• 1988: American Brands Inc. acquires E-II Holdings
• 1988: Riklis Family Corp., led by Meshulam Riklis’ acquires most of the E-II Holdings business units from American Brands; Pet Specialties Inc., Beatreme Food Ingredients Inc., Frozen Specialties Inc., Culligan International Co., Samsonite Furniture Co., and Samsonite Corp. American Brands retains Aunt Nellies, Martha White, Frozen Specialties Inc., Stiffel Lamps, Del Mar and LouverDrape Window Coverings
• 1989: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires Beatrice Company to divest of the Fisher Nut business, due to KKR’s leverage buyout of RJR Nabisco, which Planters LifeSavers is a business unit. KKR owns both Beatrice Company and RJR Nabisco. The FTC also requires KKR to sell Beatrice’s La Choy or RJR’s Chung King and RJR’s Del Monte or Beatrice’s Hunt’s ketchup
• 1990: KKR sells Beatrice Company to CAGSUB, Inc., a subsidiary of ConAgra, Inc., which ends nearly 100 years of Beatrice, as the various businesses are sold to various other businesses. ConAgra ends up with what was left of the former Beatrice Company (Beatrice Cheese, Inc., Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson, Inc., and Swift-Eckrich, Inc.), and by late 1990’s Beatrice is no longer in the consumer, industrial, or food markets in United States. Beatrice Canada is the only remaining former entity that retains the Beatrice name, which was acquired by Parmalat SpA and Citicorp in 1997, and is now owned by Groupe Lactalis S.A as of 2011

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• 2007: Beatrice Companies, Inc. is incorporated.
• 2010: Beatrice forms new business unit for commodities called Beatrice Mercantile Exchange
• 2011: Beatrice Technologies, Inc. is formed to handle business technology installations and maintenance
• 2011: Beatrice creates new business called Zyclopz, which is to handle business virtual directory services, and later web site design and web hosting.
• 2011: Beatrice U.S. Food Corporation changes name to historic Beatrice Foods Co.
• 2015: Beatrice Technologies divests bci360i and Zyclopz business units and focuses only on Enterprise and Public Services accounts
• 2016: Official Launch Date of Beatrice Gourmet Popped Corn Announced
• 2018: Beatrice Relaunches Tarasov Herbal Dressing
• 2019: Beatrice Enters Into Definitive Agreement to Resell Bittium Tough Mobile C to Business Customers
• 2019: Beatrice Foods Co. to Restructure
• 2020: Beatrice Foods Co. to Discontinue Tarasov Herbal Dressing & Sauce due to COVID-19 Pandemic
• 2020: Beatrice Popcorn Co. Division to Merge with 2Di4 Gourmet, LLC
• 2023: Beatrice to Dedicate Emphasis on Media Sector; prepares to spinoff Beatrice Technologies as separate company called AGB 1847, Inc.
• 2024: Official Launch of Bfaith and Zonophone Internet Radio
• 2025: Beatrice Distribution launches the first ever dedicated church communion recycling programme called, ‘Chruch-Cycle’, to recycling plastic communion cups, which predominantly are tossed into normal trash

The following financials are related to Beatrice Company, prior to their acquisition by ConAgra, Inc. on August 14, 1990.  (Note: Beatrice Company is not same entity as Beatrice Companies, Inc. or Beatrice Foods Co., which was formed in 1924.  Beatrice Company was formed in 1987 to include the former Beatrice Cheese, Inc., Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson, Inc., and Swift-Eckrich, Inc. business units).