Gerber Products Company

Gerber Products Company

Gerber Products Company is a purveyor of child sustenance and infant items. An in the past American-possessed organization headquartered in Fremont, Michigan, Gerber is currently a backup of Nestlé Group. Its backup, Gerber Life Insurance Company, is headquartered in White Plains, New York.

History 

Gerber was established in 1927 in Fremont, Michigan by Daniel Frank Gerber, proprietor of the Fremont Canning Company, which created canned products of the soil. At the proposal of a pediatrician, Gerber's wife, Dorothy, started making hand-strained nourishment for their seven-month-old girl, Sally.

Perceiving a business opportunity, Gerber started making child nourishment. By 1928 he had created five items for the business sector: hamburger vegetable soup and strained peas, prunes, carrots, and spinach. After six months, Gerber's infant nourishments were appropriated across the country.

The brand in the long run turned into a noteworthy organization in the child sustenance industry, offering more than 190 items in 80 nations, with marking in 16 dialects. Its essential rivals are Beech-Nut and Del Monte Foods, yet Gerber controls 83 percent of the child nourishment market in the United States.

In 1994 Gerber converged with Sandoz Laboratories. After two years, Sandoz converged with CIBA-Geigy to shape Novartis, one of the biggest pharmaceutical organizations on the planet. In 2007 Gerber was sold to Nestlé for $5.5 billion.