United States The company's world headquarters were in Chicago, Illinois, with the H. J. Heinz division located in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the company was founded. The company's "keystone" logo was based on that of
Pennsylvania, the "
keystone state".
Heinz Field was named after the Heinz company in 2001. A majority of its ketchup was produced in
Fremont, Ohio, and the rest made in
Muscatine, Iowa. Heinz opened a pickle factory in
Holland, Michigan, in 1897, and it is the largest such facility in the world. The Heinz Portion Control subsidiary is located in
Jacksonville, Florida, and produces single-serving containers of ketchup, mustard, salad dressings, jams, jellies and syrups. Heinz also had factories in the following locations:
Arizona (
Phoenix);
California (
Chatsworth,
Escalon,
Irvine,
San Diego);
Florida (
Fort Myers);
Idaho (
Pocatello);
Iowa (
Cedar Rapids,
Muscatine);
Massachusetts (
Newburyport);
Ohio (
Mason,
Massillon);
Oregon (
Ontario), and
South Carolina (
Florence). In 2000, seven retailers, including
Walmart,
Albertsons, and
Safeway, comprised half of the company's sales by volume. Products include
canned baked beans in tomato sauce (popularized in the "beanz meanz Heinz" advertising campaign), spaghetti in a similar sauce, and canned soup, condensed soup, and "ready to eat" soups. Heinz manufactures "Big Red" tomato sauce, and a number of flavored baked bean varieties, as well as canned meals. Heinz also markets the
Wattie's brand of canned foods, which are made in
New Zealand. On October 6, 2008, Heinz announced plans to acquire the Australian company
Golden Circle which "manufactures more than 500 products, including canned fruit and vegetables, fruit juices, drinks, cordials and jams". Heinz has other factories in
Echuca and
Mill Park. The group's first offer for the site was rejected by Heinz. Girgarre was the second to last tomato sauce factory in Australia, and its closing brought an end to Heinz's 70 years of tomato processing operations in Australia. As of May 2020 Kraft Heinz is said to potentially be in discussions with Graeme Hart to sell off the brands of Wattie's in New Zealand and Golden Circle in Australia.
Canada Heinz was established in Canada in 1908 in a former tobacco factory in
Leamington, Ontario (known as the Tomato Capital of Canada). Most products shipped from Leamington have bilingual English and French labels for distribution throughout Canada, but a substantial amount of product is sent from there to the US. Ketchup is the main product produced there, and the city has been a center of tomato production. The factory also produces Canada Fancy (Grade A) tomato juice, mustard, vinegar, baby food, barbecue sauces, canned pastas, beans, pasta sauces, gravies and soups. Heinz Canada is the major supplier of single-serving and flexible-packaging condiments for most fast food chains in Canada. Leamington is the largest tomato-processing region per acreage in the world. The Leamington plant usually processes more than 250,000 tons of tomatoes per year. Heinz Canada's head office is in
North York, Ontario; it also has operations in
St. Marys, Ontario;
Montreal, Quebec; and
Calgary, Alberta. On November 14, 2013, Heinz announced that the Leamington facility, the second-largest in the company, would close sometime in May 2014. Ketchup processing operations were to be consolidated at the company's US locations. Over 800 local jobs were lost due to the town's largest employer ending operations there. A local effort began in an attempt to save the 105-year-old Leamington plant, and it included creating a
Facebook page to gather support. On February 27, 2014, the Highbury Canco Corporation signed a letter of intent to acquire and operate the facility. In April it was reported that Highbury Canco Corporation had received a one-year license to process tomatoes at the facility, saving some 250 jobs. As a result of this corporate restructuring and the angry Canadian response, a rival food company,
French's, began producing its own ketchup brand using Leamington produce. It marketed the brand with an appeal to Canadian patriotism. This successful campaign, combined with a Canadian grassroots effort on
Facebook encouraging purchasing of the French's product, resulted in Heinz's market share in Canada dropping from 84 to 76%, a significant shift in a mature market. This undesirable development was exacerbated in 2018 when Canadian tariffs were erected against specific American exports, which includes ketchup produced in the United States, in retaliation to the US President Trump's tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum exports. Heinz conducted a belated public relations campaign in Canada to try to counter the public anger against them, a task made more difficult by public sentiment rising to encourage a boycott of American goods in reaction of US President Trump's rhetoric against Canada.
India Heinz Ketchup is available in India in two varieties, the standard Tomato Ketchup and Tomato Chili Sauce. As Indian taste preferences vary among the regions, Western brands such as Heinz must work on Indian interpretations of ketchups for sale in the country. Heinz acquired the former foods division of
Glaxo India, gaining the Complan, Glucon D, Glucon C, Sampriti
Ghee, and Nycil products and brands. In 2019, Heinz sold a portion of the business, including Complan and Glucon-D, for $627.18 million to
Zydus Wellness.
Indonesia H. J. Heinz Company entered
Indonesia in 1999, when it acquired 65 percent share of PT. ABC Central Food, for US$70 million, and formed
PT. Heinz ABC Indonesia. The company is based in
Jakarta, and manufactures sauces, condiments, juices and syrups. Serving demand from Indonesia's large population and growing economy, in the early 21st century PT. Heinz ABC Indonesia is the largest Heinz's business in Asia, and one of the largest in the world. It employs 3000 employees, has 3 production facilities, 8 packing facilities, and an extensive distribution network in
Java and other parts of Indonesia.
Netherlands Heinz sells many products in the Netherlands; the
Elst factory in
Gelderland is the primary production facility for Heinz sauces for Western Europe. In 2006, production of both
HP Sauce and
Daddies was transferred from
Birmingham, West Midlands to Elst as a result of the acquisition of
HP Foods and the subsequent closure of the Aston factory. Subsequently, Heinz suffered severe supply issues for the ex-HP Foods brands as the Elst factory struggled to integrate production, resulting in significant negative coverage from UK retailers. Heinz was forced to begin bottling sauce in Spain, shipping ready-made sauce from Elst, to get product back into supply. Netherlands factories are also responsible for producing signature sauces such as mayonnaise and ketchup for its Southeast Asian market.
United Kingdom , visible in the centre) commemorates the purchase of
Cape Cornwall for the nation by
H. J. Heinz Company. The ruins of St. Helens Oratory can be seen on the left, with the two offshore rocks called
The Brisons in the distance. After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in
Peckham, south London in 1905. This was followed by a factory at
Harlesden, north-west London in 1919. Bombed twice in World War II, this factory remained in production until 2000. Production was started at a former munitions factory at Standish near Wigan in 1946, before the
new factory at
Kitt Green, near
Wigan, opened in 1959. Heinz also had an infant food factory in
Kendal, Cumbria. The site specialized in baby milks, previously under the brand of
Farley's, but then manufactured under the name Heinz Nurture. Heinz produces oriental foods sold under the Amoy brand, once used under license from Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan. In 2018,
Amoy Food was sold to the new owners,
CITIC Capital Asian Foods Holdings Ltd. In July 2001, the
Food Standards Agency of the
Government of the United Kingdom found Heinz canned baked beans products to be contaminated with the
hormone disruptor bisphenol. In 2013, the Kitt Green facility was listed as one among the world's five largest manufacturing units by the
Discovery Channel (the list comprised
Reliance's Jamnagar Refinery,
Volkswagen's car plant, Kitt Green Foods plant,
NASA's Kennedy Space Center and
POSCO's steel plant). It was Europe's largest food factory and supplied more than 1 billion cans every year.
China On February 22, 2013, Sanquan Food, a Chinese frozen food company, signed a contract to purchase LongFong Food, a subsidiary of Heinz Company in China. With this sale, Heinz (China) will focus on infant foods and sauces in emerging markets such as China. == Animal Welfare ==