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Scudder's Natural Peanut Butter business was acquired by Smucker's from BAMA Foods Inc. in December 1994. In 2009, Smucker's marketed the Laura Scudder's brand of natural peanut butter on the west coast. According to a March 31, 2010, announcement, Snack Alliance, Inc. was acquired
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on its food products and sold in twin packs to further reduce staleness and crumbling. This new standard of freshness was reflected in the marketing slogan, "Laura
Scudder's Potato Chips, the Noisiest Chips in the World". The Laura Scudder Potato Chip Factory was at Garvey Avenue east of Atlantic
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for $ 100 million. Annual sales for the chipmaker were $ 126 million in 1986. To avoid union issues, Borden closed all
California plants of Laura Scudder Inc. only a year later. Borden's overall culture of mismanagement, incurrence of excessive debt to finance numerous acquisitions, and several
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to honor his grandmother. It was completed in 1989 but only broadcast in 2007, because one of her daughters did not want anything made about her. After she died, the documentary was shown on the southern
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subsidiary, was already in trouble, and was put up for sale in
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663:"Laura Scudder, Cooking with Wartime Rations and Monterey Park"
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738:"Borden Acquires Laura Scudder's"
560:. Laura Scudder's. Archived from
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