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Horn & Hardart
Horn & Hardart, American restaurant company founded in Philadelphia in 1888 by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, famous for its Automat waiterless coin-operated cafeterias from 1902 to 1991 in Philadelphia and New York; brand revived with Automat Coffee in the 2020s.
Hostess Brands
Hostess Brands, American maker of Twinkies, CupCakes, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos; twice bankrupt (2004, 2012), revived by Apollo and Metropoulos in 2013, listed as TWNK in 2016, acquired by J.M. Smucker for $5.6 billion in November 2023.
Hot Pockets
Hot Pockets is an American frozen microwaveable stuffed-sandwich brand created by Paul and David Merage's Chef America, launched in 1983 and sold to Nestlé in 2002 for $2.6 billion.
Hungryhouse
Hungryhouse (hungryhouse.co.uk) was a UK online takeaway ordering marketplace founded in 2006, owned by Delivery Hero from 2011 and sold to Just Eat for £239.5 million in 2018 after a CMA phase 2 clearance.
Hunts Point Food Distribution Center
The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center is a 329-acre wholesale food campus in the South Bronx, New York City, handling about 4.5 billion pounds of food annually.
Huy Fong Foods
Huy Fong Foods, founded 1980 by Vietnamese refugee David Tran in Los Angeles, makes rooster-logo Sriracha, Chili Garlic, and Sambal Oelek sauces; known for no advertising, the Underwood Ranches lawsuit, and recurring shortages.
Hy-Vee
Hy-Vee: employee-owned Midwestern supermarket chain founded 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg; over 550 locations in nine states, $13 billion sales, West Des Moines headquarters.
Hydrox
Hydrox is the original creme-filled chocolate sandwich cookie, launched in 1908 by Sunshine Biscuits, four years before Oreo. Discontinued by Keebler in 1999, it was revived by Leaf Brands in 2015 with a kosher, vegan-certified formula.
Hypermarket
Hypermarket: very large self-service store combining supermarket food retail with general merchandise, defined as over one third food sales and 2,500 m² or more. Invented by Carrefour at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France, 15 June 1963; now losing share to other grocery channels.
Ice pack
Ice pack: reusable water-gel cold packs, instant chemical packs, and PCM packs used to cool injuries, food, and cold chain shipments. Distinguished by propylene glycol gel fill, endothermic ammonium nitrate instant packs, and FDA food regulation of packaged ice.
Iceland (supermarket)
Iceland Foods Ltd is a British frozen-food supermarket chain founded in 1970 by Malcolm Walker in Oswestry, Shropshire, headquartered in Deeside, Wales. Distinguished by its frozen focus, The Food Warehouse format, 2.2% UK grocery share, family ownership, and its 2026 dropped trademark dispute with the country Iceland.
IGA (Canada)
IGA, the Independent Grocers Alliance, is a grocery store banner in Canada operated by Sobeys since 1998, with more than 250 stores in Quebec where it leads supermarket market share.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food industry
COVID-19's impact on the food industry: simultaneous supply and demand shocks to food supply chains, meat plant closures, food-service collapse, transport disruption, and hunger risk from lost income.
Impossible Foods
Impossible Foods: Redwood City, California plant-based meat company founded in 2011 by Pat Brown; maker of the Impossible Burger, whose signature soy leghemoglobin heme ingredient is fermented in engineered yeast.
Indomie
Indomie is an Indonesian brand of instant noodles produced by Indofood, first launched in 1972, best known for the dry Mi Goreng variant and sold in more than 100 countries.
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி)
Indra Nooyi (இந்திரா நூயி), born 1955 in Madras, is the Indian-American former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (2006-2018), architect of Performance with Purpose, later an Amazon director and author of My Life in Full.
Instacart
Instacart (Maplebear Inc., Nasdaq: CART) is a San Francisco-based grocery technology marketplace connecting customers, retailers, advertisers, and independent-contractor shoppers across 2,200+ retail banners and nearly 100,000 stores in the US and Canada; founded 2012, IPO 2023 at $30 per share.
Institute of Food Technologists
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is a nonprofit scientific society for food science, founded in 1939, whose members work in academia, government, and industry.
Iron sodium citrate complex (salt anticaking agent)
Iron sodium citrate complex (iron citrate), a dark green/red iron-citrate solution used as a salt anticaking agent; GRAS Notice 1036 by Cargill, FDA no questions Oct 6, 2022, max 135 mg/kg salt.
ISO 22000
ISO 22000 is the ISO international standard for food safety management systems, applicable to any organization in the food chain. Current edition ISO 22000:2018 with a 2024 climate action amendment; HACCP-based; not GFSI-recognized alone, unlike FSSC 22000.
J. Lyons and Co.
J. Lyons and Co. (Joe Lyons), British caterer and food manufacturer founded 1886 by the Salmon and Gluckstein families; teashops, Corner Houses, Lyons Tea, Lyons Maid, and LEO, the world's first business computer (1951); absorbed by Allied-Lyons, head office closed 1995.
Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Badger Mars (born 1939) is an American heiress holding an estimated one-third of Mars, Incorporated, granddaughter of founder Frank C. Mars; retired Mars executive, arts, education, and equestrian philanthropist.
Jaffa Cakes
Jaffa Cakes, McVitie's sponge-orange-chocolate cakes introduced in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges; ruled legally cakes, zero-rated for VAT, in the 1991 United Biscuits tribunal.
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice (Jamba) is an American smoothie and juice bar chain founded as Juice Club by Kirk Perron in San Luis Obispo in 1990, franchising since 1993, public 2006, Focus Brands 2018, now GoTo Foods with 710 U.S. stores.
James Quincey
James Quincey is a British business executive who served as chief executive of The Coca-Cola Company from 2017 until March 31, 2026, and then became its Executive Chairman.
Janine Allis
Janine Allis (born 1965) is an Australian entrepreneur who co-founded Boost Juice in 2000 and Retail Zoo in 2007, directs Kogan.com, joined Sea Shepherd Australia's board, and appeared on Shark Tank, Australian Survivor, and Food Stars.
Jarden
Jarden Corporation, founded in 2001 by Martin Franklin and Ian Ashken, was an American consumer products company (Yankee Candle, Coleman, Mr. Coffee) sold to Newell Rubbermaid in 2016 for about $15.3 billion; Delaware courts later valued it at $48.31 per share, below the deal price.
JBS S.A.
JBS S.A., also known as Friboi and now listed as JBS N.V. on the NYSE, is a Brazilian multinational meatpacking company founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás. It is the world's largest meatpacker, with six protein segments, US operations, and documented deforestation and corruption controversies.
JBS USA
JBS USA, the Greeley, Colorado-based North American and Oceanian arm of Brazil's JBS, is a leading meat processor (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, prepared foods) created by the 2007 Swift & Company acquisition, with 2021 net sales of US$48.8 billion.
Jelly Belly
Jelly Belly is an American gourmet jelly bean brand launched in 1976 by Herman Goelitz Candy Company, first to flavor bean centers, famous through Ronald Reagan, and acquired by Ferrara Candy Company in 2023.