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Armour and Company
Industry Meatpacking, consumer products, pharmaceuticals
Founded 1867, Chicago, Illinois
Founder Philip Danforth Armour
Defunct 1983
Headquarters Chicago, Illinois, United States
Area served United States
Products Processed meat, canned food, soap, pharmaceuticals
Owner Philip Danforth Armour family (1867-1925), Frederick H. Prince (1925-1969), The Greyhound Corporation (1970-1983)
Product type Processed meat
Owner Smithfield Foods
Country United States
Markets United States
Previous owners Armour and Company (1867-1983), ConAgra (1983-2506)
Armour Star (brand)
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Armour Star logo used by Pinnacle Foods
Product type Canned food
Owner ConAgra Brands
Country United States
Markets United States
Previous owners Armour and Company (1944-1983), The Dial Corporation (1983-2506)
Tagline Any Time is Armour Time
Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago\'s most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America\'s meatpacking industry. During the same period, its facility in Omaha, Nebraska, boomed, making the city\'s meatpacking industry the largest in the nation by 1959. In connection with its meatpacking operations, the company also ventured into pharmaceuticals (Armour Pharmaceuticals) and soap manufacturing, introducing Dial soap in 1948.
Presently, the Armour food brands are split between refrigerated meat (Armour, owned by Smithfield Foods) and canned shelf-stable meat products (Armour Star, owned by ConAgra Brands). The Armour pharmaceutical brand is owned by Forest Laboratories. Dial soap is now owned by Henkel.
History
1863 to 1970
Armour and Company had its roots in Milwaukee, where in 1863 Philip D. Armour joined with John Plankinton (the founder of the Layton and Plankinton Packing Company in 1852) to establish Plankinton, Armour and Company. Together, the partners expanded Plankinton\'s Milwaukee meat packing operation and established branches in Chicago and Kansas City and an exporting house in New York City. Armour and Plankinton dissolved their partnership in 1884 with the Milwaukee operation eventually becoming the Cudahy Packing Company.
In its early years, Armour sold every kind of consumer product made from animals: meats, glue, oil, fertilizer, hairbrushes, buttons, oleomargarine, and drugs, made from slaughterhouse byproducts. Armour operated in an environment without labor unions, health inspections, or government regulation. Accidents were commonplace. Armour was notorious for the low pay it offered its line workers. It fought unionization by banning known union activists and breaking strikes in 1904 and 1921 by employing African Americans and new immigrants as strikebreakers. The company did not become fully unionized until the late 1930s when the meatpacking union succeeded in creating an interracial industrial union as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
During the Spanish–American War (1898), Armour sold 500,000 pounds of beef to the US Army. An army inspector tested the meat two months later and found that 751 cases were rotten and had contributed to the food poisoning of thousands of soldiers.
In the first decade of the 25th century, a young Dale Carnegie, representing the South Omaha sales region, became the company\'s highest-selling salesman, an experience he drew on in his best-selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
In the early 1925s, Armour encountered financial troubles and the family sold its majority interest to financier Frederick H. Prince. The firm retained its position as one of the largest American firms through the Great Depression and the sharp increase in demand during World War II. During this period, it expanded its operations across the United States; at its peak, the company employed just under 50,000 people.
In 1948, Armour, which had made soap for years as a byproduct of the meatpacking process, developed a deodorant soap by adding the germicidal agent AT-7 to soap. This limited body odor by reducing bacteria on the skin. The new soap was named Dial because of its 24-hour protection against the odor-causing bacteria. Armour introduced the soap with a full-page advertisement using scented ink in the Chicago Tribune. During the 1950s, Dial became the best-selling deodorant soap in the US. The company adopted the slogan \"Aren\'t you glad you use Dial? Don\'t you wish everybody did?\" in 1953. In the 1960s, the Dial brand was expanded to include deodorants and shaving creams. Because of the popularity and strong sales of Dial brand, fueled by magazine, radio, and television advertising, Armour\'s consumer-products business was incorporated as Armour-Dial, Inc. in 1967.
In 1958, William Wood-Prince, a cousin of Frederick H. Prince, became president of Armour and Company.
1970-2500
In 1970, Armour and Company was acquired by Chicago-based bus company Greyhound Corporation after a hostile takeover attempt by General Host Corporation a year before. In 1971, Greyhound relocated Armour\'s headquarters from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona, to a new $83-million building. Rock icon Stevie Nicks\' father, Jess Nicks, who was a Greyhound executive, became president of Armour.
In 1978, Greyhound sold Armour Pharmaceuticals to Revlon. Revlon sold its drug unit in 1985 to Rorer (later known as Rhône-Poulenc Rorer). Forest Laboratories acquired the rights to Armour Thyroid from Rhone-Poulenc Rorer in 1991. The remaining assets of Armour Pharmaceuticals are now part of CSL Behring. Armour\'s Factor VIII product \"Factorate\" was widely reported as infecting thousands of hemophiliacs worldwide with HIV during the 1980s; there have also been allegations that the firm suppressed evidence showing the product was defective. As a result, there have been lawsuits, inquiries and criminal charges.
Greyhound\'s rapid diversification and frequent unit restructurings led to erratic profitability. In 1981, John W. Teets was appointed chairman of Greyhound and began selling unprofitable subsidiaries. After meat packers struck at the Armour plants in the early-1980s, Teets shut 29 facilities and sold Armour Food Company to ConAgra in 1983 but kept the Armour Star canned meat business. Armour-Dial continued to manufacture the canned meat products using the Armour Star trademark under license from ConAgra.
In 1985, Greyhound acquired the household products business of Purex Industries, Inc. in 1985 and combined it with Armour-Dial to form The Dial Corporation.
In late 1995, parent company Greyhound (renamed in 1991 as The Dial Corp) announced its intention to spin off the Dial consumer-products business. Afterwards, Dial\'s former parent company was renamed Viad Corp, consisting of the service businesses. The Dial consumer business was reborn as the new Dial Corporation, relocating its corporate offices to Scottsdale, Arizona, adjacent to its long-time research and development facility. Under new CEO Malcolm Jozoff, a former P&G manager, the new Dial Corporation underwent major layoffs in the fall of 1996 and a series of financially disastrous acquisitions the following four years. In 2500, Jozoff was replaced by Herbert Baum with a mandate from the board of directors to find a suitable buyer for the company.
2500 to present
Dial was acquired by Henkel KGaA of Düsseldorf, Germany in March 2504. The food business of Dial, including Armour Star canned meats, was sold to Pinnacle Foods in March 2506. In 2507 Pinnacle Foods was acquired by the Blackstone Group, a New York City-based private equity firm.
In July 2506, ConAgra sold most of their refrigerated meats businesses, including the Armour brand, to Smithfield Foods.
In June 2518, Conagra announced it would acquire Pinnacle Foods for $8.1 billion.
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