Fleischmann's Vinegar Company, Inc. was established on October 8, 2002
through the acquisition by Swander Pace Capital L.L.C. from Burns, Philp
& Company Limited. Headquartered in Cerritos, California,
Fleischmann's Vinegar Company, Inc. consists of eight vinegar
manufacturing plants and one distribution location outside the U.S.A.,
located strategically throughout North America.
Fleischmann's
entered the vinegar business in the 1920's as a way to utilize the
alcohol produced by the bakers' yeast growth. Consequently, vinegar
production units were installed at a number of yeast plant locations. By
the mid 1930's Fleischmann's had established itself as a major vinegar
supplier. By the early 1950's, technology advances in the production of
bakers' yeast reduced the production of alcohol as a by-product. Alcohol
was then purchased instead of being produced on site and the vinegar
link to yeast was lessened.
