| LC control no. | n 80023154 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Pepperidge Farm, Inc. |
| Variant(s) | Pepperidge Farm Bakeries |
| See also | Founder: Rudkin, Margaret |
| Beginning date | 1937 |
| Located | Norwalk (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Bakeries Food industry and trade |
| Affiliation | Campbell Soup Company |
| Found in | Bread and history. [FS] 1955. Margaret Rudkin's own story of Pepperidge Farm bread, 1953?: page 4 of cover (Pepperidge Farm, Inc., Norwalk, Conn.) Wikipedia, viewed Jan. 21, 2020: Pepperidge Farm (founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin of Fairfield, Conn., it is based in Norwalk, Conn.; Rudkin moved the growing business from her kitchen to her garage, and then to a factory in 1940; she opened a modern commercial bakery in Norwalk, Conn. in 1947 and soon after added other plants in Pennsylvania and Illinois; Rudkin discovered fancy chocolate cookies on a trip to Europe in the 1950s, bought the rights to produce and sell them, and started the Distinctive Cookies line for Pepperidge Farm, which subsequently expanded into other products under her management; she sold the business to the Campbell Soup Company in 1961 and became the first woman to serve on its board of directors) |
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