Stouffer Corporation

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Stouffer Corporation was an American corporation headquartered in Cleveland and later Solon, Ohio. Primarily known for its line of frozen foods, over its history, it has had a major presence in the restaurant and hospitality industries. The Stoffer company began in 1922 as a lunch counter operated by Abraham E. Stouffer in Cleveland, Ohio, soon expanding into a chain of Stouffer Restaurants. In the 1940s, the company began selling a line of frozen foods from its restaurant locations, which proved so popular that frozen foods became the company's main focus by the mid-1950s. Stouffer Corporation was acquired by the cooking appliance company Litton Industries in 1967 and then the food conglomerate Nestlé in 1973, and existed as a wholly owned subsidiary corporation for the next quarter century. Stouffer Corporation became a division of Nestlé USA in 1998 and was renamed Nestlé Prepared Foods. The division was merged with other units over the next several decades and its name was changed...

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