Nabisco - Bigger Than You Know
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- Nabisco has been one of the biggest brands in food, being at the center of some of the most significant business deals in the industry. This video talks about the history of Nabisco while highlighting some of its most notable products.
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My grandfather actually worked at Nabisco way back when. According to my grandma, he would bring home tons of boxes of Oreos and Mallomars, which honestly sounds like the greatest benefit ever.
Fake
@@RodolphosTechchannel proof?
@@RodolphosTechchannel how do you know that
Yeah my grandfather did as well.
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Not really but just jumping in on the bandwagon 🤷♂️
@@MrRezRising fake news media
MatPat actually did a Food Theory on Oreo and Hydrox. Oreo actually used more underhanded methods to claim the top spot, it wasn't just the Nabisco name alone.
Yeah that was a good video, watch out for the nabisco hench men😅
MatPat is a hack who has shit theories on things he doesn't play or know about.
@@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970 aren't you just a ray of sunshine
@@god_of_none Far better than what Matpat is, and that's good enough for me.
The guy who formed Nabisco, Adolphus Green, actually betrayed his business partners who he had helped create the company that would later become Nabisco by going behind the backs of the founders of American Biscuit Company to merge with William Moore’s company and put himself in control of the newly formed Nabisco.
Source/proof?
Adolphus hitler?
Source: trust me bro
@@tiggie_96 food that built america
@@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 go look up hook he does a full video explaining
Fun Fact: In Japan, Nabisco products were manufactured under license by Yamazaki Baking from 1970 until 2016, when Mondelez International terminated the joint venture and opted to have Nabisco products imported from China and Indonesia. A year later, Yamazaki introduced their version of Oreo called "Noir", which is produced at the former Oreo factory in Ibaraki Prefecture. In comparison to the current Oreo, Noir has a darker cocoa taste, which is much closer to the original Oreo recipe.
the same thing happened with PepsiCo
singapore has both versions!
Company Man, your content is blessed. Have you considered covering Peloton's rise and fall? Something about the pandemic, rising competition, and other factors... This said, I thank you for your content which has helped me though these times.
peloton needs help
@@andrewgreenwood1387 I worked for a Peloton campaign, it died in around a year and a quarter of a year (15 months, 18 months tops).
Yeah I’d be interested in him covering the copyright infringement lawsuit regarding the music on their treadmill software
@@deester7914 Holy smokes... I was unaware of that one, and I spent 3-4 months in that campaign!
This is my favorite YT channel. Your research and presentation are impeccable.
It’s always really succinct. This type of video could easily be 30+ minutes but he keeps them so tight.
I remember moving to Argentina when I was 7 years old in 1988 and used to miss Oreo cookies but then Nabisco bought out Terrabusi and brought along Oreos and Chips Ahoy. I was ecstatic!!!
Ok boomer!
@@DjJokerr GenX but not a millenial by 2 months, October of 1980.
@@DjJokerr us boomers ended in 1964....what does that have to do with anything?????🤨
My father was a delivery driver for NABISCO in New York, back in the late 50's. While waiting to be hired with New York Ciy Fire Department
Having Kraft and Nabisco together does make sense--- cheese and crackers! :)
We've forgotten the crackers, gromit!
My grandpa retired from RJR around 1994. He worked as a flavorist and although you’d mostly think it was related to cigarettes, they also tested food products. Not bad for a guy without a college degree who had been luckily picked from the factory floor.
The HBO Original film "Barbarians at the Gate" regarding the RJR Nabisco buyout in 1988 (based on the Bryan Burrough and Peter Riegert book of the same name) is a must-watch for business history fans or film enthusiast.
I find it interesting that Oreo isn't the original....Hydrox is.
Stop spreading lies! Put respect on Oreo name.
I liked Hydrox better back in the day
Fax
man that is wild you do this today. i have been watching a show called "the food that built america" and last night I watched the episode about nabisco and how they came up with the oreo.
Fun Fact: did you know that there was a Disney short at the 1939 New York's World's Fair which is produced for Nabisco Mickey's Surprise Party? It's the only short to use Fred Moore's Mickey and Minnie's animation design
I heard one of my great aunts worked our local Nabisco plant back in the 80s I believe. My grandfather also worked for them as a line mechanic back in the 90s. I remember him coming home with his Nabisco shirt on.
Been waiting for this one the longest!! Thank you & great video as always!!
There was a viral string of tweets 2 years ago where a guy figured out that Triscuit meant Electric Biscuit because people (including the Nabisco themselves) forgot what it meant.
The story behind RJR Nabisco and its leveraged buyout is a legend on Wall Street. It really foreshadowed the rise of the private equity industry and its dominance in corporate America today - highly recommend the book (and movie) Barbarians At The Gate to anyone interested!
I remember that movie. It was great. Lots of good actors
Dominance, can we really say that? With the exception of private equity companies that ends up owning 5% of every blue chip, I see them as LBO-obsessed just buying already dying companies and just squeezing them for their last worth. Big tech and banks are the ones dominating. They're just vultures ultimately.
I was going to comment about Barbarians At the Gate! Excellent book, and it really showcases how KKR in particular became a force in the private equity world.
I finally know why I grew up with Oreos and Chips Ahoy having a different brand name (Christie) than my U.S. friends (Nabisco)! Any other Canadians remember the ad slogan “Mr. Christie, you make good cookies”?
There is a great book called Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. It chronicles the LBO (Leveraged Buy Out) of RJR Nabisco.
There used to be a Nabisco factory nearby that closed down a few months ago. You could always smell cookies driving by it!
I live by a nestle dog food factory, wish it was a nabsico factory instead that sounds way more pleasant 😂
same but they closed it recently haha maybe the same one
Can you do the rise and fall …and rise again of Hydrox? It’s gotten a cult following for being the originator of sandwich cookies.
For real?
@@spongeboobstar5488 yea. They were first, but their ads, at least for a while around when Oreo was created, was just them bitching about Oreo taking their idea, so they kinda died in popularity
why would them nasty thing be coming back Yuck
I remember Oreo's competition Hydrox right up into the 70s! Not sure when they disappeared. Good cookie though.
I've seen Hydrox pop up again from time to time. They don't seem to be gone, just hard to find.
I never would have thought that's what triscuits meant. That'll definitely be my conversation starter at parties that will make me a social outcast for sure
Electric Biscuit and National Biscuit Company TIL
Wow! I’m shocked to hear the Oreo was introduced in 2012! I swear I thought it has been around a lot longer than just 10 years.
It's 1912...
@@stefanbraem no currently it's 2020
@@glubstubs actually it’s 2023
Must be that Mandela Effect.
@@stefanbraem Check 5:44 :P
Mike, can you do historical companies next like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Pierpont Morgan
I didn't know some of those foods were so old.
It's been decades since I've had an Oreo.
You always drop little tidbits of info that are fun, unique, and/or interesting. Knowing the string on the animal crackers was for hanging on a Christmas tree is one of my all time favorites! I couldn't love it more! 🎄😍
I see the title card and the first thing that comes to mind: the jingle. It's definitely bigger than I know. Great video.
Na-biiiiiiis-co! *ding*
Not too far from where I live in Pittsburgh, there's a small office and shopping complex called Bakery Square. It used to be a big Nabisco factory, which baked goods for the company into the late 1990s. Over 20 years later, it's sprung back to life, with Google as its largest tenant and dozens of small shops, firms, and restaurants taking up the rest. A metal placard near the Google offices describes the main building historically belonging to the National Biscuit Company.
Love your videos! I learn so much new information I was not aware of. Looking forward to your next video already!!!
Grew up near a nabisco factory. You would drive by and it would smell ridiculously heavenly.
Happy to say I’ve just found this channel and this is my first time being part of the notification gang! Woot!
Very well then
Company Man in the pocket of Big Biscuit.
Weird, you wouldn't think crackers were something that needed to be invented. Like, they seem timeless, something that was brought over from the Old World or something.
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hard tack was like a cracker that wouldn't go bad. The cracker was an invention of advancing food security
Biscuits feel luke the opposite. They feel like something new or at least more modern then a cracker, but they are older. I find it kind of funny.
For those who wanna know more about the leveraged buy out I absolutely recommend the book Barbarians at the Gate which goes into detail of the internal struggles at RJR Nabisco :) one of my favorite business books up there with Disney War and Conspiracy of Fools
You really had to upload right after I finished eating pizza
I can’t believe how long some of my favorites have been around! I had no idea they’re that old. Stuff like this is why I live this channel.
Hey, Company Man. You should definitely do a Bigger Than You Know video on Berkshire Hathaway. Fun fact, they owned a TV station based in Miami, Florida under the call letters WPLG, which is an affliate of ABC (American Broadcasting Company).
Masonville, (now Brookland) Maryland - also now Rockefeller created oil fields was first known as "Cracker Town" for the Founder of the famous cake and cracker company on President Street. His company used wooded cracker crates
Curious if you will cover the Hydrox cookie? It was the very first chocolate with crème filling cookie to exist before Oreos and then was proclaimed to be a knock off Oreo. Might be interesting to see your insight on the history of them
Hydrox was the best tasting cookie!! Oreos suck!!
Hydrox messed up with their ads, instead of showing off the cookie itself, it was just them bitching about Oreo copying them and that they were the original. I do like the cookie though, and to my knowledge they still use basically the same recipe that they did when they were first made
They should call it something more appetizing.
@@rf159a Oreos are the best ever
hydrox sounds like a cleaning product-
This is a good example of how consolidation in the food industry has happened and how they get away with raising prices with little fear of competition
Raising prices and deteriorating quality. With little to no competition and the ability to buy up whoever gives them a run for the money. Dangerous and sad and ultimately hurts consumers.
You're the reason I'm buying a pack today. Haven't bought them in years. You seriously need a marketing deal.
Buy Hydrox instead. Better ingredients.
I kind of miss hydrox. My dad was heartbroken when they went down. Oreos are good but I can't eat the regular Oreos without thinking of him.
You can find them at Cracker Barrels now, in the general store part!
@@droojohnson I don't live near a cracker barrel store.
@@droojohnson Yeah I love Cracker Barrel and I’m from New York.
The feeling when a new Company Man video drops!
Always fire dude!
Once again, humbly asking for “The Rise & Fall of Bally Total Fitness” 🙏
Nabisco is a company that I was aware of after 20+ years in the grocery business Mondelez's presence is everywhere in the store.
We have a Nabisco building where their products were made in Evansville Indiana that now houses apartments and an absolutely banger restaurant.
I would really like to see a Rise and Fall of Sizzler Family Steak House! They grew up fast and had many locations and then just died off relatively fast. What happened? They used to promote cheap and great steak and shrimp plates.
That would be great to see. I worked at a Sizzler throughout the 1970s
Triscuit, while obvious, is clever also for another reason many may not realise, for example... "tris" from "electricity", with "cuit" meaning "biscuit".... but also... "circuit", as in, electric circuit.
I used to pass a Nabisco bakery on my way to work. This one made cookies and the smell would drift for miles. It smelled so wonderful when I would drive by that place.
Great video as always! The Oreo Vs Hydrox is very interesting. I had seen a video by food theory that dove further into the topic.
You do such a phenomenal job on these videos
I live in a town called Roanoke, Virginia and in our downtown area there is an old advertisement for Uneeda biscuit That was painted on a brick wall. Yours later a building went up which covered and preserved that painting and that building has since come down exposing the advertisement. And might I say that advertisement is now a pretty important piece of at least our local culture in fact one guy shows up at the city market every week with artwork and one is just a canvas poster of the Uneeda ad
I work for Nabisco, it was not bigger than I thought 👀 they also just bought cliff bar
I remember the jingle at the end of some of the older commercials: 🎶 Na-bis-co! 🎶 *DING*
Chips Ahoy! is probably my favorite product of theirs. I think they taste better than Oreos.
Just a compliment here. Love your content - well written, entertaining, informative. Keep up the good work!
Great video! It's currently the 100th year of the HARIBO company- the one with the gummy bears- and it'd be neat to see a video about them. I'm sure they're an interesting company! Thank you for producing such great content!
What I didn't realize was how old so many of those products were. I honestly thought a lot more of them were more... I don't know, modern.
One thing i noticed after Oreo and Chips ahoy change from nabisco into Mondelez, their quality toned down A LOT at least in my country lol. Chips ahoy cookies now taste like overcook cookies that hard, nothing chewy like before also smaller. Oreo just getting tinier and tinier, even reduced from 15 pcs into 12...
great video man
Thank you for another terrific episode!!!!
I remember a games website I played on a LOT back in the late 90s or early 2000s called NabiscoWorld. Your typical flash games of the era (mini golf is the one that I can specifically remember), all stylized in a theme park type thing based on Nabisco's various snack brands. So yes, I was generally aware of how they are one of the mostly food-based megacorps.
My mom use to be a bookkeeper at Nabisco back in the 50's & 60's
The only other place I've heard "Uneeda Biscuit" is the opening of "The Music Man"
5:44 I remember when I first entered school in 2012 and having Oreos as my favorite snack. I feel old now 😔
In Bangladesh, Nabisco was huge.. but then local companies took over.. had no idea that it was an American company at that time
Nadisco the company that stole the oreo
Hydrox’s are still made and personally I think they’re tastier than Oreos
Oreo is still the best Hydrox tested like very poor store brand
Well technically they were brought back several years ago after veryyy long,
Unfortunately, Chips Ahoy! was discontinued in Japan. I really love Chips Ahoy! and Mondelez should sell them in Japan again.
Glad this lightly touched on the Barbarians at the Gate LBO.
When I was in elementary school in the early 90’s(Toluca Lake Elementary School), from kindergarten to 5th grade, my bestfriend was a nice, genuine kid named Justin(I wish I could remember his last name) & I remember that I went to his 7th bday pool party.
It was a Hawaiian Luau themed party on Camarillo St in NOHO818, i remember that ever cookie there at his party, toys, decorations everything was Nabisco.
I remember that I was told by my mom, that Justin’s mom had told my mom[my mom & Justin’s mom were really great friends, their friendship organically happened much like Justin & I’s friendship in kindergarten all the way up until 5th grade when we graduated & I never saw him again, he moved,Justin’s mom trusted me since kindergarten to update her on Justin’s progress in class] that Justin’s grandfather is NABiSCO.
I said ok, unfazed by the info my mom had just given me [I grew up in North Hollywood818 & I met & saw a lot of celebrities, so I wasn’t fazed by the info until after the fact.]
(I loved Nabisco products as a kid)
Then I proceeded to go swim, even though I couldn’t swim.
I was drowning in his pool & I remember his Uncle dove into the pool with his clothes on & rescued me, I remember he told me(after I gathered myself) “Dude you didn’t let your head go underwater, you kept kicking your feet to reach the top surface, I saw your legs(underwater) when I jumped in & DUDE! your going to be a GREAT swimmer one day(I took swimming lessons that next summer & I’ve been a good swimmer ever since the age of 8yrs old.)
Long story short, I never befriended Justin because of who he was related to, heck, he never told me until years later after I had already knew & I still was in WOW when he told me, Justin was a really good friend of mine & I pray all is well with him & his family
Finally, I feel like it's been weeks since the last interesting episode!!
Wow! Living in canada, i never realized it was called Nabisco in the USA! only ever saw christie. blew my mind
He should have mentioned the LBO was made into a book and movie "Barbarians at the Gate"
Nabisco actually stole the oreo from a smaller company called Hydrox and pushed them out of business because they weren't large enough to compete.
Nobody cares boomer!
“Chips ahoy even had these cheesy looking commercials only on”
Well I guess we’ve come full circle
*early
alot of people don't know this but Company Man is Behind The Meme
I didn't even know that!
Congrats on reaching 1.5 million subs!
I have been waiting for you to do a vid on Nabisco. I use to pass the Philly plant when I went to tech school. It smelled so good.
"Ahoy" is a nautical greeting, a hail (as in "hailing frequencies open") the equivalent to hello. "Ahoy there Matey!"
When did the term 'biscuit' stop being commonly used in the consumer markets in the USA? It is a key part of many of these earlier brands and companies, yet now is only used in most of the rest of the English speaking world.
I am aware it is used to mean dry cakes eaten with fatty breakfasts in the south, but that does not seem to be similar to any of the products discussed here.
Stopped being used around the time of the invention of the biscuit that you're talking about
English also call cookies ' digestives'
Now ain't that appetizing?🤪 Yummy!
Yep I was a military rep. for Kraft from 1999 to the merger with Heinz in 2016. Seen a lot of those changes
They also owned Canadian-based Christie Brown Company. OREO is sold under the Christie name in Canada.
For 1912 you said 2012 lol love the vids man
This is one of the reasons I love this channel. I learn something new every time, even though I've been eating this brand for decades. Nasbisco will always be childhood memories and nostalgia for generations.
The arrow in the thumbnail was very helpful.
Another gr8 vid!!! Yes, I've known about these big mergers and companies being swallowed up by others...I did work at Post, Proctor & Gamble, Del Monte and several others companies years ago as an outside contractor and saw it all first hand! Thnx much!
Alarming how large these conglomerates are allowed to be, swallowing up all the competition in their path. It seems dangerous and like too much power. Why is it legal? Competition is healthier for consumers.
i didn't hear a single word, i just kept hearing the lyrics of System of a Down's 'Violent Pornography'
I saw a TH-cam short about hydrox, while eating chicken in a biscuit and that reminded me of this video, I just realized that chicken in a biscuit is Nabisco too
Since the cookies are made in Mexico now every package of Oreos I get is inconsistent since Mondelez took over
Yeah, the cookies have gown down in quality lately. At least we still have Oreo ice cream.
I think Hydrox should be credited as the original Oreo recipe.
Nabisco for a long time has been based in my home state, New Jersey!
Shredded Wheat, the big biscuit ones, they're overlooked. Now I buy the little bran ones, more fiber, but I buy the big ones once in awhile. We had Hydrox one time when I was a kid. I didn't get it, I didn't get the name, but they were the original. Now all the choices with the banana creme centers or cinnamon double stuff, I don't get that either. Well, I do, it all steers you toward the flagship product.
I remember Uneeda biscuits. They were big crackers, very bland, sort of like puffed-up saltines. But they were good with jam.
Every time I hear Company Man's voice I hear what Owen Wilson's kid probably sounds like.
I would love to see Natural Wonders and Service Merchandise featured!
Bonus points if you heard Company Man give the wrong date for the creation of the Oreo!
A little known fact is that RJR Nabisco bought a chain of bagel bakery and restaurants called Skolnik’s. They were based in Chicago but had a significant presence in Philadelphia. I used to work for them there. RJR Nabisco expanded them into Maryland, NJ, and Texas which at the time, hadn’t caught on to the bagel’s popularity. The result was the Texas location closing after a year and RJR selling off Skolnik’s.
I remember passing by a Nabisco plant while driving along Route 1 to and from work.
😞 This makes me sad. I hate these huge corporations gobbling up everything and spitting out what they don’t want, destroying good small businesses.
I like the Nilla Wafers and Fig Newtons
Coming back to add to my comment which I posted even before I started watching the video... Nice to see a shout out for The Fig Newton. ✋🏼 IMHO, It's an underrated product.