Cudahy Packing Co. - circa 1940's Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Cudahy Packing Company was an American meat packing company established in 1887 as the Armour-Cudahy Packing Company and incorporatedin Maine in 1915. The Cudahy meatpacking business was acquired by Bar-S Foods Company in 1981. In 1887, Michael Cudahy, with the backing of Philip Danforth Armour, started the Armour-Cudahy packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska.

Cudahy Packing Company was created in 1890 when Cudahy bought Armour's interest. The company added branches across the country, including a cleaning products plant at East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1909. In 1911, the company's headquarters were relocated from Omaha to Chicago. In 1905, Cudahy Packing Company introduced Old Dutch Cleanser. In 1955, Purex acquired Old Dutch Cleanser from Cudahy. The Greyhound Corporation acquired the consumer products business of Purex (which included Old Dutch Cleanser) in 1985 and was combined with Greyhound's Armour-Dial division, forming The Dial Corporation. In December 2003, Dial was sold to Henkel for $2.9 billion. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudahy_Packing_Company