Chase & Sanborn Coffee is an American

United States

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 coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

 company established in 1862 in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. It claims to be the first coffee company to pack and ship roasted coffee in sealed tins.

When Standard Brands

Standard Brands

Standard Brands was formed in 1929 by J.P. Morgan with the merger of:*Fleischmann Company*Royal Baking Powder Company*E. W. Gillett*Widlar Food Products Company*Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company...

 was formed in 1929 it acquired Chase & Sanborn, where it remained until 1981 when the company merged into Nabisco

Nabisco

Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...

. Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...

 sold the brand to Sara Lee in 2002, and the Chase & Sanborn, Hills Bros., MJB

MJB (coffee)

MJB is an American brand of coffee currently owned by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA, a company in the Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group. MJB is popular in the western United States, western Canada and Japan....

, and Chock Full O' Nuts brands were sold to Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group in 2006.

Further reading

• "Caleb Chase."