Popcorn brands

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Healthy Choice

Healthy Choice is the name of a brand of refrigerated and frozen foods owned by ConAgra Foods. According to ConAgra's official corporate history, it came into being after then-ConAgra CEO Charles "Mike" Harper suffered a heart attack in 1985. Forced to dramatically alter his diet, he came up with the idea of a line of healthier frozen foods.

ConAgra now sells a broad array of dishes through its Healthy Choice brand, including frozen dinners, side dishes, cold cuts and other meats, canned soups, ice cream, bread, pasta sauce, and even popcorn.

In April 2009, ConAgra reintroduced Healthy Choice's line of frozen meals along with new products, including a line of All Natural Entrees. To promote the changes, Healthy Choice spent between $90 million to $100 million on a multimedia campaign that includes advertisements with actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus featured in commercials directed by Christopher Guest. Other rebranding efforts included new packaging designs.

In Canada, Healthy Choice is a brand of ConAgra Brands. In Australia, McCain Foods, a Canadian company, owns the Healthy Choice name.

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Jiffy Pop

Jiffy Pop is a popcorn brand of ConAgra Foods. The product combines popcorn kernels, oil, and flavoring agents with a heavy-gauge aluminum foil pan.

Frederick C. Mennen of LaPorte, Indiana, a chemist, inventor and industrialist, is credited with developing the product in 1958. Mennen began marketing Jiffy Pop in 1959.American Home Products purchased Jiffy Pop from Mennen that same year, and within one year the product had reached the national U.S. market. In the 1976, the stage magician Henri Bouton, fils, better known as Harry Blackstone, Jr., was endorsing what the television-commercial jingle called "the magic treat — as much fun to make as it is to eat."

Jiffy Pop was based on a similar product designed five years before by Benjamin Coleman of Berkley, Michigan, and marketed by the Taylor-Reed Corporation as E-Z Pop. In the early 1960s, Taylor-Reed sued Mennen Food Products for patent infringement. The district court ruled for the plaintiff, finding Jiffy Pop and E-Z Pop equivalent products, but the case was overturned on appeal.

American Home Products spun off its food division, and renamed it International Home Foods, in 1996. In 2000, ConAgra purchased International Home Foods.

Original Jiffy Pop packages used a plain, bright aluminum pan. This was eventually replaced by an aluminum pan with a black treatment on the outside to improve heat transfer. Also, although at one time a "Natural" flavor and a Jiffy Pop Microwave Popcorn version was manufactured, as of 2016^[update] Jiffy Pop is offered in only one stovetop version, Butter Flavor Popcorn.

Jiffy Pop has run television commercials dating back at least to 1967. In one commercial, a genie appears and gives two children Jiffy Pop to eat. The slogan was repeated several times to highlight the fact that Jiffy Pop is "as much fun to make as it is to eat".

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LesserEvil

LesserEvil Healthy Brands Inc. is a food company located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Its offices and factory are located in Danbury CT. It is a local employer of 40 to 50 factory and office workers. All of its products are marketed as made from the best or better ingredients. They are all gluten free and non genetically modified and many of them are organic. The company has four snack lines: Super 4, Buddha Bowl, Chia Pop and Chia Crisps. They are available through national distribution by UNFI, Kehe, Natures Best, and DPI and are carried by some of the nations largest retailers.

In 2007, LesserEvil became one of the top-selling popcorn lines in the Natural Retail Channel, and is the top selling organic popcorn line in the country in 2014.

LesserEvil was founded in March 2004 in Tuckahoe, New York. LesserEvil first released a line of four Kettle Corns, touting them as low in carbohydrates, free of trans fats, preservatives, and high-fructose corn syrup.

In early 2005, LesserEvil shifted from a low-carb line to an all-natural line.

In early 2007, LesserEvil entered the potato snack market and launched Krinkle Sticks, a line of baked, reduced-fat potato snacks.

In 2014, according to spins, LesserEvil is one of the top selling snack lines in the natural category in the country. Also, Dr. Oz featured LesserEvil’s Chia Crisps as the “Ultimate Snack” in late 2012. In earlier 2012, LesserEvil won the Gluten Free Snack of the Year by the Connecticut Specialty Foods Association. LesserEvil Healthy Brand Snacks have also been featured by Rachel Ray,Hungry Girl,Shape Magazine, and Inc. magazine among others. CSP also chose LesserEvil’s Classic SeaSalt Krinkle Sticks as a finalist for their Retailers’ Choice Best New Products in the ‘Salty Snacks’ category.

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Karmelkorn

Karmelkorn is an American popcorn retailer. It was founded in 1929 in Casper, Wyoming, by Bill O'Sullivan. Initially, Karmelkorn stores sold popcorn and caramel corn out of downtown storefronts, but by the 1960s, the chain began operating in shopping malls. By 1982, the chain had 270 shops in 43 states.

In 1986, Dairy Queen's parent company IDQ (now part of Berkshire Hathaway) purchased the Karmelkorn chain. Dairy Queen began co-branding Karmelkorn with the Dairy Queen and Orange Julius brands.

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Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs is an Australian snack food made by the Greens food company.

Originally released in the 1970s, it is caramelised, ready-to-eat popcorn, similar to the American Cracker Jack. The concept was first floated by the head food technologist for Greens, Sir Shane McMaster, in the late 1960s, but the company delayed the product due to uncertainty of the market appeal. The popcorn is coated with toffee and rolled in crushed peanuts. Flavours include butterscotch and caramel.

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs were known for their colourful packaging, which featured surreal psychedelic artwork, reminiscent of Peter Max, Robert Crumb or The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. The initial marketing was developed by Frank Margan, the creative director at John Singleton's SPASM agency. This packaging was varied in the late 1980s.

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Lucky Elephant Popcorn

Lucky Elephant Pink Candy Popcorn is a Canadian confection that has been on the snack food market since the 1950s. It has generally been more commonly found retailed at mom and pop grocery stores, carnivals, concession stands, arenas and neighbourhood food outlets, and more recently is being launched in major grocery outlets across Canada.

Lucky Elephant popcorn is sold in 70g boxes and comes with a small prize inside. The popcorn is caramelized with a pink candy coating to give it that classic taste. There are also no peanuts in the package.

Lucky Elephant is produced and distributed by Poppa Corn Corp of Toronto, Ontario.

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Answer 7

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Target Corporation

Target Corporation is the second-largest discount store retailer in the United States, behind Walmart, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. Founded by George Dayton and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was originally named Goodfellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910. The first Target store opened in Roseville, Minnesota in 1962 while the parent company was renamed the Dayton Corporation in 1967. It became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 and held ownership of several department store chains including Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Field's, and Mervyn's.

Target established itself as the highest-earning division of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation in the 1970s; it began expanding the store nationwide in the 1980s and introduced new store formats under the Target brand in the 1990s. The company has found success as a cheap-chic player in the industry. The parent company was renamed the Target Corporation in 2000 and divested itself of its last department store chains in 2004. It suffered from a highly publicized security breach of customer data and the failure of its short-lived Canadian subsidiary in the early 2010s but experienced revitalized success with its expansion in urban markets within the United States.

As of 2016, Target operates 1,803 locations throughout the United States. Their retail formats include the discount store Target, the hypermarket SuperTarget, and "flexible format" stores previously named CityTarget and TargetExpress before being consolidated under the Target branding. Target is often recognized for its emphasis on "the needs of its younger, image-conscious shoppers," whereas its rival Walmart more heavily relies on its strategy of "always low prices."

The Westminster Presbyterian Church from downtown Minneapolis burned down during the Panic of 1893. Without insurance coverage to cover the financial loss, the congregation found itself unable to rebuild. The church appealed to parishioner George Dayton to purchase an empty corner lot adjacent to the original church in its possession; funds raised from the property's sale allowed the church to rebuild and Dayton constructed a six-story building on his newly purchased property.

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Pop Secret

Pop Secret is a brand of popcorn produced by Diamond Foods.

Pop Secret was previously manufactured by General Mills and then was purchased by the Diamond Foods on September 2008. The brand was first launched in January 1986.

Pop Secret formerly sponsored an annual NASCAR race called the "Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400" at Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina, as well as the race it was replaced by in 2004, the "Pop Secret 500" at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Pop Secret created a variety of colored popcorn called Pop Qwiz [sic] in the early-1990s. Colors included yellow, blue, green, and a mystery bag with a surprise color. Pop Secret created the What's Your Pop Secret? Theatre, which showcased and supported independent film makers. Pop Secret continues to support Film Independent (FIND), a non profit organization that helps increase diversity in film making within the industry.

In 2014, Pop Secret introduced a pre-popped popcorn in a bag.

On September 15, 2015, it was announced that Pop Secret would become the official popcorn of the Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort, as well as becoming the title sponsor of the nighttime show Fantasmic! at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World.

A troupe of independent writers, film makers and animators created Pop Secret Mountain, which is a fan site devoted to the product. The site was panned by the advertising community as being blatantly corporate.

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Pop Weaver

The Weaver Popcorn Company, based in Van Buren, Indiana, is one of the largest popcorn companies in the United States.

Founded in 1928 by Ira E. Weaver, whose family still controls the company, it develops, grows, processes, packages, and ships a variety of popcorn products for sale around the world. Its customers include store chains around the world, as well as concessionaires, and international popcorn distributors. In 2007, the Weaver Popcorn Company became the first company to remove diacetyl, a controversial butter flavoring, from its Pop Weaver microwave popcorn products.

Pop Weaver is a flagship brand. This popcorn has a moderate sodium content. They are one of the only major companies that use canola oil for their products. This is a healthy alternative to soybean, coconut or sunflower oil. Flavors for microwave include Butter, Light Butter, Extra Butter, Kettle Corn, Caramel, Cinnamon Roll, Jalapeno Cheddar and Parmesan and Herb. Flavors for concession sale include Weaver Gold, Caramel & Sweet, Premium Hybrid Yellow, Candy cane flavor, Almond, and chocolate dipped. Flavors for pre-popped include Caramel Corn with Peanuts and Dash of Salt.

Trail's End is a brand sold by the Boy Scouts of America and Scouts Canada in fund raising. Available flavors from year to year vary, but include Caramel Corn, Butter Light (microwave), Unbelievable Butter (microwave), Caramel Corn with Almonds & Pecans, Butter Toffee Caramel Corn, White Cheddar Cheese, Cheddar Cheese, Buffalo Cheddar, Bacon Ranch, Jalapeño Cheddar, Cheese Lover's Collection, Sweet and Savory Collection and Popping Corn. They also have chocolate products that include White Chocolatey Pretzels, Chocolatey Pretzels, Dark & White Chocolatey Drizzle, Chocolatey Peanut Clusters, Chocolatey Caramel Crunch, and White Chocolatey Caramel Crunch. Consumers can also donate popcorn to the US military by making a cash contribution. Trail's End sends popcorn to the armed services stationed both domestic and international, including combat areas. Scouts generally retain over 70% of the proceeds.

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