Stock price Hormel Foods Corp (HRL) today

Hormel Foods Corporation is an American food company, including a huge assortment of meat snacks and sausages sold under various brands, among which the best-known brand of canned meat SPAM. Founded in 1891 under the name George A. Hormel & Company. The company did emphasis on packaged and chilled pork, chicken, beef and lamb meat products The company introduced Hormel canned ham, the first canned ham in America, in 1926. Canned ham was released in 1937 ham SPAM. In 1986, the company acquired the brands Jennie-O Foods and Chi-Chi, a year later - Top Shelf. In 1993, the company changed its name to Hormel Foods. In 2013, Hormel Foods acquired Skippy for $ 700 million, in 2015. - Applegate Farms $ 775 million, the Hormel Vital Cuisine ready-to-eat product line was launched that same year, and Columbus Manufacturing was bought for $ 850 million in 2018.