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Adolphus Williamson Green (January 14, 1843 – March 8, 1917) was an American attorney and businessman. He was the co-founder of the National Biscuit Company (now known as Nabisco, owned by Mondelēz International) in 1898. A year later, in 1899, he was the first person to sell packaged biscuits.
Adolphus W. Green. National Biscuit Company 1905–1917. Industry: Food & Tobacco. Era: 1900. Green was instrumental in organizing over 40 Midwestern bakeries to form the National Biscuit Company in 1898, which became the basis for the present day Nabisco. When Green organized the firm, its only product was a cracker, the Uneeda biscuit.
Sep 12, 2021 · Adolphus W. Green effectively ran N.B.C. until the day he died, in 1917, at the age of seventy-four. At the time, his company was by a substantial margin the biggest food company in America after the giant meatpackers Swift and Armour, and the largest company dedicated to branded food rather than bulk food.
Adolphus Williamson Green, President of the National Biscuit Company, which he helped organize, died yesterday afternoon at his home in the Hotel Plaza of complications due to advanced age.
Adolphus Green was the genius that founded the modern day Nabisco, which was known as the “biscuit trust” after J.P. Morgan combined much of the nation’s bakeries under a single entity that Green controlled. He is responsible for most of the snacks America has enjoyed for generations.
Adolphus Williamson Green. Businessman, Lawyer. He founded the National Biscuit Company, known today as Nabisco. Born to immigrant parents, he traveled to Chicago in the 1870s where he became friends with a Postal Contractor by the name of Charles Walsh.
May 21, 2018 · Green—a workaholic to the extreme—was something of a prescient businessman and understood the importance of freshness, consistency, branding and advertising long before they were the norm and the...
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