The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is a manufacturer and market leader of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, health and natural foods beverages, and natural peanut butter in North America.

Headquarters for Smuckers are in Orrville, Ohio.

History

The J.M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 by Jerome Monroe Smucker . The company has been family run for four generations.

Products

• Jam, Jelly, & Preserves
  • Fruit Butter
  • Jam
  • Jelly
  • Low Sugar
  • Preserves
  • Simply Fruit
  • Sugar Free
• Peanut Butter
  • Goober PB&J
  • Jif
  • Nat. Peanut Butter
• Sandwiches
  • Grape PB&J
  • Strawberry PB&J
  • Grilled Cheese
  • Uncrustables
• Ice Cream Toppings
  • Magic Shell
  • Microwaveable Ice Cream Topping
  • Specialty Ice Cream Topping
  • Spoonable Ice Cream Topping
  • Sugar Free Ice Cream Topping
  • Sundae Syrups
• Specialty Items
  • Fruit Syrup
  • Plate Scapers Dessert Topping
  • Specialty Items
• Oils and shortening
  • Crisco
• Flour and baking mixes
  • Hungry Jack
  • Martha White
  • Pillsbury (General Mills licensee)

Controversy

A product of the Smucker company has become a standard example in intellectual property literature of a frivolous patent: the "sealed crustless sandwich". See the link for more information.

See also

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (PB&J)

External links

• J.M. Smucker Co.
• U.S. patent: Sealed crustless sandwich

References

On the "sealed crustless sandwich":

• Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner , Innovation and its Discontents: How our broken patent system is endangering innovcation and progress, and what to do about it (ISBN 069111725X; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25-26, 32-34.