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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.
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.
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.
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Dec 12, 2012 · Adolphus Green didn't kick back at Nabisco snacking on Fig Newtons. He was the driving force in creating the company and transforming it into a modern enterprise and one of the nation's largest...
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.
May 21, 2018 · Over the course of the next year, Nabsico—led by the fastidious co-founder and future company president Adolphus W. Green—worked tirelessly to introduce a new product that would set their freshly...
The chief architect of the 1898 merger and the first chairman of the new company was Adolphus Green. Green, a Chicago lawyer and shrewd businessman who had negotiated the American Biscuit Company merger, remained the guiding force at N.B.C. during the first 20 years of its existence.
