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Hormel Foods Corporation
US food company; Spam, Skippy, Applegate, Jennie-O; major deli meat and processed meat producer; Austin MN plant is historic Spam production center.
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Grocery (SPAM, Skippy, Natural Choice)
40%Deli and Food Service
30%Refrigerated Foods
20%International
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Did you know2023
Hormel's SPAM brand underwent one of the most unusual brand transformations in food history. Invented in 1937 as a shelf-stable luncheon meat, SPAM became associated with US military supply during WWII (12 million cans distributed to military and Allied nations per week) and with low-income convenience food in post-war America. In South Korea, the introduction of SPAM via US military bases during the Korean War (1950-1953) created a premium perception: SPAM was a luxury product unavailable under post-war scarcity. Today, South Korea has the second-highest SPAM consumption rate per capita globally and SPAM gift sets (beautiful boxes of multiple SPAM cans) are a standard holiday gift for Chuseok and Lunar New Year — the Korean equivalent of giving someone fine wine or a premium food hamper. The same product that Americans associate with cheap convenience food is a luxury gift item in Seoul. Hormel sells $250M+ in SPAM to South Korea annually at premium prices in gift packaging. A US wartime canned meat ration became a luxury gift through cultural distance and scarcity memory.
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