Cudahy Co. - Specimen Stock Certificate - Cudahy Packing Company

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Meat packing company! Available in Orange or Olive. Please specify color. The Cudahy Packing Company was an American meatpacking company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company, with Michael Cudahy founding the business in Omaha, Nebraska, backed by Philip Danforth Armour. In 1890, Cudahy purchased Armour’s interest and renamed the business to Cudahy Packing Company, which expanded rapidly with branches across the U.S. The company also diversified into consumer products, opening a cleaning products plant in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1909.

In 1911, Cudahy moved its headquarters from Omaha to Chicago. One of the company's well-known products was the Delrich brand of margarine, which featured a "color berry" to tint the white vegetable-based margarine yellow—a common practice before pre-colored margarine became widespread. The Old Dutch Cleanser, introduced by Cudahy in 1905, became a significant cleaning product. In 1955, the cleanser was sold to Purex, and later in 1985, Greyhound Corporation acquired Purex’s consumer products, including Old Dutch Cleanser, merging it with Greyhound's Armour-Dial division to form The Dial Corporation. In 1981, Cudahy’s meatpacking operations were acquired by Bar-S Foods Company, marking the end of its independent presence in the meatpacking industry.