Who started Heinz Noble & Company?

There he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began marketing horseradish. The first product in Heinz and Noble's new Anchor Brand (a name selected for its biblical meaning of hope) was his mother Anna Heinz's recipe for horseradish. The young Heinz manufactured it in the basement of his father's former house.

Who was HJ Heinz?

HJ Heinz, the son of immigrant parents, built this this company from scratch. After falling to bankruptcy, Heinz came back to rebuild a company that would eventually gross over $11 billion in sales per year. Henry J. Heinz was one of eight children, born to parents who emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

When did HJ Heinz become a company?

Family wrangling would continue for twelve years, until the company bought out John’s one-sixth interest for $58,000 in 1888 ($1.6 million today), at which time the company was renamed HJ Heinz, with HJ firmly in control. In 1880, company sales doubled from $99,000 to $198,000.