Standard Brands was a packaged foods company, formed in 1929 by J. P. Morgan & Co. with the merger of:[1] By 1940, it was the number-two brand of packaged goods after General Foods.
Standard Brands made several acquisitions.
It bought Planters in 1960, and the Curtiss Candy Company in 1964.
[4] In 1979, it acquired Inver House scotch.
[5] Seagrams approached Standard Brands with the idea of a merger.