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Source: Beatrice Foods Company
advertisements. Beatrice Cooke was a well known figure in
magazine adds in the 1940's and 50's, and featured recipes relating to
Meadow Gold Dairy Products.
Please Note:
Minor additions, modifications or deletions may occur on this website from
time to time without such action published on this page.
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April
19, 2019
We uploaded the full detail sheet on the 1985 Beatrice Racing car that was used
to promote Beatrice in formula racing. The
Click
HERE
to download the 'Beatrice Racing; Newman/Haas
Lola T-900, Driver: Mario Andretti.'
April
2, 2019
Charles Sanna, Man Behind Swiss Miss Cocoa, Dies at 101 The
Click
HERE
to read the full article on a
prolific innovator, and remarkable person.
March
5, 2016
The annual reports from 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1978 have been added
to our digital archives. 1976 and 1979 are a larger format, and we are
upgrading our scanning technology to accommodate larger paper documents that we
have in our archives.
July
6,
2015
More updates were performed with the addition of added recipes, the 1972
Beatrice Foods Annual report, Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson Horizons Newsletters, and
product brochures, located on the 'Stationery Samples' page. We are hoping
that the remaining Beatrice Foods Annual Reports that are in our archives will
be scanned and uploaded.
June 15,
2015
Today is the new day for our site, as we not only have completely revamped the
look and feel of Beatrice Archives, formerly Beatrice Foods Memorial, but added
many new documents, such as recipes, converted many of our scanned Beatrice
print media advertisements from images to pdf for easier viewing and saving to
your computer. As always, we welcome feedback, and suggestions, and this
site always welcomes material to add to our digital archives to preserve the
history of Beatrice.
December 18, 2011
Okay, we have quite a few updates to talk about and we have
not been updating this page as often as we should.
Firstly, we have updated the "Ratings, Reviews & Comments"
and "Become a Member" section to where both the Beatrice Foods Memorial and Bell
System Memorial now have their own sections to become a member. Before
they were combined, but now you can become a member on either one, and post
reviews and comments on a particular site. Click
HERE
to go to the Testimonials and Member
Site.
We have updated the
Historical Beatrice
Recipes & Brochures page, and added the "La Choy: The Art
and Secrets of Chinese Cookery (1949)", and converted the "The La Choy
Collection of Favorite Oriental Recipes (1984)" to a .pdf document to make the
text searchable. On the
Historical Beatrice
Companies, Inc. Graphics page, we added a sales brochure;
"STUTE Preserves, Honey, Fruit Juices, Bottled Fruits, Diabetic Foods (1987)",
which was part of Beatrice International Foods.
November 1, 2011
We are in the process of
consolidating our web servers into one system, and the beatriceco.com will be
the parent site. We are going to phase out the porticus.org server, and
all inquiries to porticus.org will transition to beatriceco.com. This
transition will be seamless, and you should not notice any changes, other than
the web URL. However, it will take a couple of months for the web search
engines to update their web crawl. In the meantime, it you have our sites
bookmarked in your favorites, it is recommended that you update the URL's to the
newer system. After December 31st, porticus.org will automatically be
forwarded to
http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/
Same great information and organization.
October 18, 2011
Today, our web team spent the day cleaning up broken links throughout the
Beatrice Foods Memorial site, and adding new navigation links that will
assist in allowing you to go through the site with ease. In the coming
days, we will be adding new search tools to help locate various documents.
July 27, 2011
All new, The Porticus Centre has signed up for VeriSign's
Authentication Services, which will help enhance the security of this site, which
so many have come to rely upon for accurate historical information.
July 2, 2011
We are currently in the process of updating all of the Beatrice Historical
Financials, and will have the bulk of what we have in our archives scanned
and uploaded to our site by the end of the month. We have upgraded our
scanning technology, and are able to now scan much faster, and our reports
will now feature searchable text.
Click
here
to view the reports.
April 14, 2011
Sidney Harmon, who introduced the stereo receiver in 1958 passed away on
April 12th at the aged of 92. Beatrice Foods had purchased Harman
International Industries Inc. in 1977 from Mr. Harmon. Click
here
to view the article.
February 10, 2010
By popular demand, The Porticus Centre now has "Member's Center". This
is offered through Google, and the link to join is listed on both the
Beatrice and Bell System Memorial web site home pages. This will allow
members to share information with each other relating to Beatrice and Bell,
and is a great resource that we are happy to finally provide for you.
November 19, 2009
It was just announced today that The Porticus
Centre will merge with Beatrice Companies, Inc. and will be part of
the Beatrice Consumer Products, Inc. subsidiary. This merger
will help ensure that The Porticus Centre maintains the level of
quality and reliability that so many of you have relied upon over
the years, and this commitment is reinforced by our parent,
Beatrice.
Click
here
to inquire more about Beatrice.
June 6, 2009
The Beatrice Foods Memorial site has been going through some updates
recently, and most notably is the addition of the Beatrice internal news
letters, such as Beatrice World, Dairy Products Division Newsletter and
Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson Horizons Newsletter. To view the news letters,
Click:
Beatrice Internal News Letters
We have also added links to former Beatrice commercials from the 1960's and
1980's. Click:
Historical Film
& Video to check them out.
August 11, 2008
Another rare find is this advertisement that Beatrice Foods Co. had placed
in the Official Souvenir Program for the Worlds Fair, which was held in
Chicago, Illinois in 1962. Click
here
to view the add.
August 10, 2008
Three new magazine advertisements that Beatrice had placed back in 1985 and
1986 have been added to this site. One is from Tropicana Products,
Inc. and the other two from Beatrice Meats, Inc., which feature Butterball
turkey. Finding Tropicana or Butterball advertisements was no easy
task, but when we did come across them, we had to add it to the collection
of Beatrice adds. To view the adds,
Click:
Tropicana (Bon
Appetit) Click:
Butterball
(Woman's day) Click:
Butterball
(Family Circle).
February 6, 2007
The 1958, 1959 and 1960 Beatrice Foods Annual Reports have been added to the
Beatrice Historical Financials. Click
here to view the reports.
February 1, 2007
As part of the effort to scan and convert all available Beatrice Annual
Reports and other documents, we now have available the 1957 Annual Report
and Proxy Statement for Beatrice Foods in the Adobe Acrobat PDF. To view the
reports,
Click
here.
February 1, 2007
As part of the effort to scan and convert all available Beatrice Annual
Reports and other documents, we now have available the 1957 Annual Report
and Proxy Statement for Beatrice Foods in the Adobe Acrobat PDF. To view the
reports,
Click
here.
January 2007
Not much has been updated on the Beatrice Foods Memorial site for a few
month's now, since the integration of the Bell System Memorial web site into
The Porticus Centre. Our intention is to make the entire Porticus
Centre web site easier to navigate and to add more content as time goes by.
For Beatrice, we have quite a bit of material that we want to add in 2007.
One of the nice things about the Bell System Memorial joining the Porticus
Center is that with the original site that was set up, there are ideas that
can be implemented with the other memorial business sites on the Porticus
Centre, including Beatrice. One of these ideas is the "What's New"
page, which will feature announcements of new additions to the Beatrice
Foods Memorial site.
We want to thank all those who have visited this site and for the positive
comments that we received. There may not be much in the area of
Beatrice Foods documentation and history on the web, but we are going to
rectify that.
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