A. Schilling & Company was an American foodstuffs company founded in San Francisco, California

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, in 1881 by August Schilling and George F. Volkmann, both natives of Bremen

Bremen

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, Germany

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 who had migrated to America and were then both aged 27. It dealt in coffee, tea, baking powder, extracts, and spices and was merged into McCormick & Company

McCormick & Company

McCormick & Company manufactures spices, herbs, and flavorings for retail, commercial, and industrial markets. The company began in 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. One hundred years later, McCormick moved from downtown Baltimore to the suburb of Hunt Valley, Maryland. McCormick has...

in 1946. McCormick continued to use the Schilling name for its Western division until the 1990s.