Editing Heinz (section)

===United Kingdom===
[[File:Cape Cornwall (Judithili) edit.jpg|thumb|right|The Heinz Monument (the 1864 chimney of the former [[Cape Cornwall Mine]], visible in the centre) commemorates the purchase of [[Cape Cornwall]] for the nation by [[H.&nbsp;J. Heinz Company]]. The ruins of St. Helens Oratory can be seen on the left, with the two offshore rocks called [[The Brisons]] in the distance.]]

After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the company opened its first UK factory in [[Peckham]], south London in 1905. This was followed by a factory at [[Harlesden]], north-west London in 1919. Bombed twice in World War II, this factory remained in production until 2000.<ref>{{cite web|title=Secret history |url=http://www.brent.gov.uk/media.nsf/tbm89april2009/LBB-90 |publisher=London Borough of Brent |work=The Brent Magazine |date=April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100910110342/http://www.brent.gov.uk/media.nsf/tbm89april2009/LBB-90 |archive-date=September 10, 2010 }}</ref> Production was started at a former munitions factory at Standish near Wigan in 1946, before the [[H. J. Heinz, Wigan|new factory]] at [[Kitt Green]], near [[Wigan]], opened in 1959. Heinz also had an infant food factory in [[Kendal]], Cumbria. The site specialized in baby milks, previously under the brand of [[Farley's]], but then manufactured under the name Heinz Nurture.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Heinz produces oriental foods sold under the Amoy brand, once used under license from Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan. In 2018, [[Amoy Food]] was sold to the new owners, [[CITIC]] Capital Asian Foods Holdings Ltd.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ajinomoto to sell soy sauce brand Amoy Food |url=https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/gYr9mRmq0sp8xK3wVgzKhg2 |access-date=March 14, 2022 |website=www.spglobal.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

In July 2001, the [[Food Standards Agency]] of the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] found Heinz canned baked beans products to be contaminated with the [[hormone disruptor]] [[bisphenol A|bisphenol]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/20010508144446.html|title=Documents|work=Friends of the Earth|access-date=November 6, 2005|archive-date=May 17, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050517022509/http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/20010508144446.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2013, the Kitt Green facility was listed as one among the world's five largest manufacturing units by the [[Discovery Channel]] (the list comprised [[Reliance Industries|Reliance]]'s Jamnagar Refinery, [[Volkswagen]]'s car plant, Kitt Green Foods plant, [[NASA]]'s Kennedy Space Center and [[POSCO]]'s steel plant).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.groundreport.com/Business/RIL-s-Jamnagar-Refinery-Listed-Among-The-World-s-T/2948964 |title=RIL's Jamnagar Refinery Listed Among The World's Top Five Refineries |publisher=GroundReport |date=October 30, 2012 |access-date=February 14, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606064256/http://www.groundreport.com/Business/RIL-s-Jamnagar-Refinery-Listed-Among-The-World-s-T/2948964 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 }}</ref> It was Europe's largest food factory and supplied more than 1 billion cans every year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heinz.co.uk/ourcompany/aboutheinz/heinzintheukandireland |title=About Heinz – Heinz UK and Ireland |publisher=Heinz |access-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227112039/http://www.heinz.co.uk/ourcompany/aboutheinz/heinzintheukandireland |archive-date=December 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>