Ken's Foods

Ken's Foods is a privately held food manufacturing company located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Ken's primary products are salad dressings, sauces, and marinades. The company's commercial food manufacturing divisions produce products both for retail sale and food service, including contract manufacturing for companies such as Newman's Own.{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,536354,00.html|title=Newman's Own Story|last=Newman|first=Paul|date=November 3, 2003|magazine=Time|publisher=Time Warner}}

Operations

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Ken's is the number-three manufacturer of salad dressings in the United States behind Kraft Foods and Wish-Bone. Besides its headquarters in Marlborough, the company employs over 1,200 people in facilities located in McDonough, Georgia, Lebanon, Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada.{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_20_36/ai_86207883/ |title=Ken's Steak House, Ken's Foods embroiled in trademark lawsuit |last=Frumpkin |first=Paul |date=2002-05-20 |work=Nation's Restaurant News |accessdate=2009-06-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501003347/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_20_36/ai_86207883/ |archivedate=2009-05-01 }} The company's commercial foods division provides the majority of business, generating about $100 million in sales during 2001. Its retail sales of the company's bottled products reached almost $88 million.{{Cite journal |last1=Christian |first1=Scott |last2=Grant |first2=Shannon |last3=McCarthy |first3=Peter |last4=Wilson |first4=Dwain |last5=Mills |first5=Dale |date=2011-06-01 |title=The First Two Years of Full-Scale Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor (AnMBR) Operation Treating High-Strength Industrial Wastewater |url=https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article/doi/10.2166/wpt.2011.032/21220/The-First-Two-Years-of-FullScale-Anaerobic |journal=Water Practice and Technology |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |doi=10.2166/wpt.2011.032 |issn=1751-231X}}

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History

The brand takes its name after Ken's Steak House, a Framingham, Massachusetts restaurant founded by Ken and Florence Hanna in 1941. As the restaurant grew, locals began to request that the Hannas bottle their dressings for sale. In 1958 the Hannas licensed the company's name to a family friend and the manufacturing company was then founded.{{cite web|url=http://www.kensfoods.com/kf/news/kensHeritage.servlet |title=Ken's Heritage |publisher=Ken's Foods |accessdate=2009-06-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519105001/http://www.kensfoods.com/kf/news/kensHeritage.servlet |archivedate=2009-05-19 }}

Ken’s ingredient list received backlash from consumers who claimed that the labels on the bottles displayed misleading information. This was the basis for the 2020 court case, Skinner v. Ken’s Foods Inc. The labels originally emphasized the presence of olive oil by placing the words, "Made with Extra Virgin Olive Oil", on the neck of the bottle. However, olive oil was not a significant percentage of the total components that made up the brand’s salad dressings. The company later relabeled their bottles.{{Citation| volume = 53| pages = 938| title = Skinner v. Ken's Foods, Inc.| date = 2020-08-21}}

References

External links

[http://www.kensfoods.com/ Ken's Food Website]

Category:Salad dressings

Category:Condiment companies of the United States

Category:Steakhouses in the United States