Holsum Bread
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | United States |
| Region or state | Southeast Region, as subsidiary of Flowers Foods, in Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Creator(s) | W. E. Long Company of Chicago, Illinois, 1908 |
| Type | White bread, packaged variety |
Holsum Bread is an American brand of packaged sliced white bread. The Holsum name was being used by many retail bakeries, independently, around the country by the early 1900s. In 1908, the W. E. Long Company of Chicago acquired exclusive national rights to the name and formed a cooperative of bakeries to market a single recipe under the brand name Holsum in various cities.
One of the largest and earliest of the Long Company member bakeries still in operation is the Phoenix Bakery, which was renamed the Holsum Bakery in 1929 after then owners Lloyd Eisele and Charles Becker purchased from the Long Company the rights to use the Holsum name for their bakery and its bread .[1] Flowers Foods, one of the southern U.S. region distributors, bought Holsum Bakery in 2008.[2]
The Long Company[3] was named after its founder William Edgar Long. In 1928, Long created and pioneered the concept of packaging sliced bread two years before the Wonder brand of packaged sliced bread appeared on store shelves. The Holsum brand name remains a registered trademark of the Long Company cooperative, which has expanded across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.
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Pueblo Introduces Holsum ® Quality to Puerto Rico
The expansion of Holsum to Puerto Rico marks one of the most important changes for the company, for it started not only producing sliced bread but also sweets and crackers that would soon become an international sensation. Holsum bread first arrived in puertorican shores during the second half of the 20th Century, imported to the Island from Miami by the Puerto Rico Baking company. Soon the Holsum brand became a puertorican favorite. If the bread was so popular while being imported, what would happen if it was baked in the Island? Pueblo International believed it would be a great idea to invest, with the help of visionary investor Bob Bus and others. Holsum Bakers of Puerto Rico, an industrial bakery, was born in 1958. The first ovens dedicated to the production of Holsum® bread, cakes, sweets and crackers were located at Barrio Minillas in Bayamón. After an encounter at a bar between Bob Bus and Jesús Ramírez Vasquez, where, after Bob waited for 2 hours for a round of homemade puertorican beer but didn't receive any do to a language barrier, Jesús helped him get the beer, and afterwards Bob offered him a job at the upcoming original Puerto Rico Holsum Bakery, where Jesus worked his way up to supervisor and overlooked every decision and change made for the betterment of the bakery, allot of workers hold the claim that if it wasn't for Jesus's vision and work ethic, Holsum wouldn't have become the Mega Icon it is today on the island.
List of Holsum Bread licencees
- Aunt Millie's Bakery
- Michigan
- Bimbo Bakeries USA
- Colorado (Sara Lee)
- Delaware (Butter Krust)
- Louisiana
- Maryland (Butter Krust)
- New Jersey (Butter Krust)
- New York (Butter Krust)
- North Carolina (Butter Krust)
- Pennsylvania (Butter Krust)
- West Virginia (Butter Krust)
- Utah (Sara Lee)
- Virginia (Butter Krust)
- Flowers Foods
- Alabama
- Arizona (Holsum Bakery)
- California (Holsum Bakery)
- New Mexico (Holsum Bakery)
- Utah (Holsum Bakery)
- Gold Medal Bakery
- Connecticut
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Holsum De Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Baking Company)
- Puerto Rico
- Klosterman Baking Company
- Kentucky
- Ohio
- Lewis Bakeries
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Wisconsin
- Pan-O-Gold Baking Company
- Minnesota
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Nebraska
- Illinois
- Schmidt Baking Company
- Pennsylvania
- United States Bakery
- Alaska
- California
- Idaho
- Montana
- Oregon
- Washington
See also
References
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