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Oscar Mayer Limited
Furnham Rd., Chard
Somerset, Somerset TA20 1AA, England
Tel. +44-146063781
Fax +44-146067847

Type: Private
On the web: http://brands.kraftfoods.com/oscarmayer
Employees: 2,028

US kids might wish they were an Oscar Mayer wiener, but in the UK they can aspire to being lasagna or bangers and mash. No relation to the lunchmeat brand owned by Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer Limited is a leading manufacturer of private-label chilled convenience foods and other prepared meals. The company sells the meals primarily through UK retailers, including J Sainsbury. Chairman John Bigwood and his family started the business when they purchased the UK franchise for Oscar Mayer brand hot dogs, but later went into the prepared meals business instead.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2008:
Sales: $265.1M

Officers:
Chairman: John Bigwood
Accountant: Fresh Prepared Foods

Competitors:
Bakkavor
Northern Foods
Uniq

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Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products.

History

German immigrant Oscar F. Mayer (March 29, 1859 in Kösingen, near Neresheim, Württemberg - March 11, 1955) began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1900 in Chicago, Oscar Mayer, along with his brother Gottfried, leased the Kolling Meat Market, on the near-northside of Chicago. The two sold bratwurst, liverwurst, and weißwurst and were popular in the predominantly German neighborhoods of Chicago around the market.[1]

Oscar Gustave Mayer, grandson of the founder and the third Oscar Mayer to head the company until he retired in 1977, remarried in 1999, at the age of 85.

In 2007, the company was subject to an email hoax which claimed that Oscar Gustave Mayer did not support the United States military.[2][3] On July 6, 2009 Mayer died of old age at 95 in Hospice Care in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.

The "Oscar-Mayer-Platz" in the village of Kösingen, now in the Federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, is named for him.[citation needed]

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