B&G Foods, Inc.
A North American packaged-food company that owns a wide shelf of familiar pantry brands rather than one big name, including Cream of Wheat hot cereal, Ortega Mexican foods, and Maple Grove Farms syrups. Its roots reach back to 1889, when the Bloch and Guggenheimer immigrant families started selling pickles from the streets of Manhattan—the "B&G" in the name stands for Bloch & Guggenheimer. The modern company formed in 1996 and has since grown by buying up well-known "orphaned" brands that larger firms no longer wanted.