Cudahy Packing Company

[2] In 1887, Michael Cudahy, with the backing of Philip Danforth Armour, started the Armour-Cudahy packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska.

[3] The company added branches across the country, including a cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909.

[1] The business was hit by the Great Depression, but the company still employed about 1,000 Chicago-area residents during the mid-1930s.

Following World War II, it moved its headquarters first to Omaha and then in 1956 to Phoenix, where it took the name Cudahy Company.

[3][9] The Cudahy meat packing business was sold to management in 1981 and renamed Bar-S Foods Company.

Cudahy Packing Company's Delrich brand of margarine used a "color berry" to color its white vegetable based margarine yellow. This 1948 advertisement demonstrates how to color the margarine inside the package
Old Dutch Cleanser container in 1913