Eagle Family Foods Group LLC,

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Eagle Foods, is an American food company based in

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owned by private equity firm Kelso & Company. The company was founded in 2015 by Paul Smucker Wagstaff, formerly of The J. M. Smucker Company, after acquiring ownership of the canned milk brands formerly owned by Borden (Eagle Brand, Magnolia, Milnot, and PET). Eagle Family Foods' product line includes condensed and evaporated milk,

popcorn Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of p ...

french fries French fries, or simply fries, also known as chips, and finger chips (Indian English), are '' batonnet'' or '' julienne''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and f ...

, sweet onion sticks, and pasta dishes.

History

Gail Borden introduced the Eagle Brand in 1856 to develop a

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and

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system, with its condensed milk as the flagship of the company. Then, Borden established his own company, Borden, Inc., one year later. In 1874, Eagle Brand became the first registered trademark in the then-British colony of

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. In East Asian markets (excluding

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), Eagle Brand products are currently produced by

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. The J.M. Smucker Company bought the canned milk business from Borden in 2007. Eagle Family Foods Group LLC was established after Paul Smucker Wagstaff left The J. M. Smucker Company in 2014 to carry on his own enterprise. Wagstaff partnered with his friend Jeff Boyle to acquire Eagle Brand from The J. M. Smucker Company.

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Kelso & Company negotiated the transaction and became their investment partner, and Eagle Foods was established in December 2015.Eagle Foods acquires snack brands
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on Kelso & Company In August 2016, Eagle Foods acquired the popcorn brand G.H. Cretors, derived from the Chicago-based manufacturing company Cretors established in 1885. On July 5, 2022, Eagle Foods acquired the Hamburger Helper and Suddenly Salad brands from

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for $610 million.

Products and brands

Condensed milk Condensed milk is Milk#Cow, cow's milk from which water has been removed (roughly 60% of it). It is most often found with sugar added, in the form of sweetened condensed milk, to the extent that the terms "condensed milk" and "sweetened condensed m ...

: Eagle Brand, Magnolia *

Evaporated milk Evaporated milk, known in some countries as "unsweetened condensed milk", is a shelf-stable canned cow’s milk product for which approximately 60% of the water has been removed from fresh milk. French inventor, Nicolas Appert, the "father of ...

: Magnolia, Milnot,

PET A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal. Popular pets are often considered to have attractive/ cute appearances, inte ...

Popcorn Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of p ...

: Cretors, Monster Pop!, Popcorn, Indiana *

French fries French fries, or simply fries, also known as chips, and finger chips (Indian English), are '' batonnet'' or '' julienne''-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin. They are prepared by cutting potatoes into even strips, drying them, and f ...

: Fry Masters *

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: Skinny Sticks * Pasta dishes: Helper, Suddenly Salad

Facilities

* El Paso, Texas – evaporated and condensed milk * Seneca, Missouri – evaporated and condensed milk ''Closed facilities'' These facilities produced Eagle Brand products under Borden Milk: * Ingersoll, Ontario – Ingersoll Dairy originally supplied Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk * Toronto, Ontario – supplied Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk in

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* Montreal, Quebec – supplied Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk in Canada * Chester, South Carolina – supplied Cremora and Cremora Royale worldwide (except South Africa)

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* {{Borden, Inc. Dairy products companies of the United States Food product brands Companies based in Ohio Gahanna, Ohio American companies established in 1997 Borden (company) American brands

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