It was just announced today that The Porticus
Centre will merge with Beatrice Companies, Inc. and will be part of
the Beatrice Consumer Products, Inc. subsidiary. This merger
will help ensure that The Porticus Centre maintains the level of
quality and reliability that so many of you have relied upon over
the years, and this commitment is reinforced by our parent,
Beatrice.
June 6, 2009
The Beatrice Foods Memorial site has been going through some updates
recently, and most notably is the addition of the Beatrice internal news
letters, such as Beatrice World, Dairy Products Division Newsletter and
Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson Horizons Newsletter. To view the news letters,
Click:
Beatrice Internal News Letters
We have also added links to old Beatrice commercials from the 1960's and
1980's. Click:
Historical Film
& Video to check them out.
August 11, 2008
Another rare find is this advertisement that Beatrice Foods Co. had placed
in the Official Souvenir Program for the Worlds Fair, which was held in
Chicago, Illinois in 1962. Click
here
to view the add.
August 10, 2008
Three new magazine advertisements that Beatrice had placed back in 1985 and
1986 have been added to this site. One is from Tropicana Products,
Inc. and the other two from Beatrice Meats, Inc., which feature Butterball
turkey. Finding Tropicana or Butterball advertisements was no easy
task, but when we did come across them, we had to add it to the collection
of Beatrice adds. To view the adds,
Click:
Tropicana (Bon
Appetit) Click:
Butterball
(Woman's day) Click:
Butterball
(Family Circle).
February 6, 2007
The 1958, 1959 and 1960 Beatrice Foods Annual Reports have been added to the
Beatrice Historical Financials. Click
here
to view the reports.
February 1, 2007
As part of the effort to scan and convert all available Beatrice Annual
Reports and other documents, we now have available the 1957 Annual Report
and Proxy Statement for Beatrice Foods in the Adobe Acrobat PDF. To view the
reports,
Click
here.
January 2007
Not much has been updated on the Beatrice Foods Memorial site for a few
month's now, since the integration of the Bell System Memorial web site into
The Porticus Centre. Our intention is to make the entire Porticus
Centre web site easier to navigate and to add more content as time goes by.
For Beatrice, we have quite a bit of material that we want to add in 2007.
One of the nice things about the Bell System Memorial joining the Porticus
Center is that with the original site that was set up, there are ideas that
can be implemented with the other memorial business sites on the Porticus
Centre, including Beatrice. One of these ideas is the "What's New"
page, which will feature announcements of new additions to the Beatrice
Foods Memorial site.
We want to thank all those who have visited this site and for the positive
comments that we received. There may not be much in the area of
Beatrice Foods documentation and history on the web, but we are going to
rectify that.
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