Editing Heinz (section)

===Foundation===
[[File:HenryJHeinz.jpeg|thumb|left|130px|Henry J. Heinz, founder]]
Heinz was founded by and is named for [[Henry J. Heinz]], who was born in the United States to German immigrants. His father was originally from [[Kallstadt]] (then part of the [[Bavaria]]n [[Palatinate region|Rhenish Palatinate]], now part of [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]). His mother Anna was from [[Haunetal]], [[Electorate of Hesse|Hesse-Kassel]], and they met in Pittsburgh.

[[File:Heinz Baked Beans with Tomato Sauce trade card back.jpg|thumb|150px|Heinz trade card from the 19th century, promoting various products. Features the Heinz pickle.]] [[File:Commercial. For Heinz Company. Tousignant & Frère, 4835, rue Wellington BAnQ P48S1P10257.jpg|thumb|right|Display of canned products of Heinz Company in the window of the store Tousignant & Frère, Wellington Street, [[Verdun, Quebec]], 1944]]
Henry J. Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at [[Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania]], in 1869.<ref name="colliers"/> There he founded Heinz Noble & Company with a friend, L. Clarence Noble, and began marketing [[horseradish]]. The first product in Heinz and Noble's new Anchor Brand (a name selected for its biblical meaning of hope) was his mother Anna Heinz's recipe for horseradish. The young Heinz manufactured it in the basement of his father's former house.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kendall|first1=Joshua|title=America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/americasobsessiv0000kend|url-access=registration|date=2013|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|isbn=9781455502363|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americasobsessiv0000kend/page/n311 304]}}</ref>

The company went bankrupt in 1875. The following year Heinz founded another company, F & J Heinz, with his brother John Heinz and a cousin, Frederick Heinz. One of this company's first products was [[Heinz Tomato Ketchup]]. The company continued to grow.

In 1888, Heinz bought out his two partners and reorganized the company as the H.&nbsp;J. Heinz Company. Its slogan, "57 varieties", was introduced by Heinz in 1896. Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City (a shoe store boasting "21 styles"), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting "7" specifically because, as he put it, of the "psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages".<ref name="valuewalk"/>