SJM Stock Discussion

J.M. Smucker Company (The) Description

The J. M. Smucker Company engages in manufacturing and marketing branded food products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: U.S. Retail Coffee; U.S. Retail Consumer Foods; and International, Foodservice, and Natural Foods. It offers fruits, coffee, peanut butter, fruit spreads, shortening and oils, baking mixes and ready-to-spread frostings, canned milk, flour and baking ingredients, juices and beverages, frozen sandwiches, ready-to-eat waffles, toppings, syrups, jelly products, pickles and condiments, and fruit industrial products. The company provides its products under Folgers, Dunkin' Donuts, Millstone, Café Bustelo, Café Pilon, Smucker's, Jif, Hungry Jack, Uncrustables, Dickinson's, Adams, Laura Scudder's, Goober, Magic Shell, Crisco, Pillsbury, Eagle Brand, Borden and Elsie design, Martha White, White Lily, Funfetti, Plate Scapers, Bick's, Five Roses, Robin Hood, Carnation, R. W. Knudsen Family, Santa Cruz Organic, Double Fruit, Recharge, Red River, Crosse & Blackwell, and Golden Temple brand names. It sells its products through direct sales and brokers to food retailers, food wholesalers, drug stores, club stores, mass merchandisers, discount and dollar stores, and military commissaries; and through retail channels, and health and natural foods stores and distributors, as well as through foodservice distributors and operators, such as restaurants, lodging, schools and universities, and health care operators. The J. M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio.

Sector: Consumer Defensive
Industry: Packaged Foods
Keywords: S&P 500 Food Products Fruit Industrial Products Food Industry Milk Flour Sandwich Syrup Baking Sandwiches Condiment Foodservice Distributor Natural Food Peanut Retail Channels Food Retail Food Retailers