Joe Napsha Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019 12:01 a.m. A young Henry Heinz got his business start in Sharpsburg, hawking horseradish to local grocers before the Civil War.

According to Heinz’s site, their early Catsup product was first launched in the US. Henry Heinz, the company’s founder who ...

It begins with an unlikely alliance between one of the country’s richest food manufacturers, Henry J. Heinz, and an underpaid federal chemist. The two men bonded over a mutual belief that unsafe ...

Heinz “catsup” first hit store shelves nearly 150 years ago, a recipe developed by Pittsburgh resident Henry J. Heinz. Today, ...

Koehn, Nancy F. "Henry Heinz and Late Nineteenth-Century Brand Creation: Making Markets for Processed Food." Business History Review 73, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 348–392.

Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946.

Heinz was founded in Pittsburgh in 1869 by a 25-year-old named Henry John Heinz, who began his business by selling his mother's horseradish recipe. Over the years, Heinz expanded his catalogue ...

The fascinating stories of titans of the American food industry, including Henry Heinz, Milton Hershey, John and Will Kellogg, and the McDonald brothers. In the wake of the Civil War, a revolution ...