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Article: McIlhenny Company
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- International Directory of Company Histories
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McIlhenny Company
Highway 29
A very Island, Louisiana 70513
U.S.A.
(318) 365-8175
Fax: (318) 369-6326
Web site:
http://www.tabasco.com
Private Company
Incorporated:
c. 1907
Employees:
230
Sales:
$105 million (1996)
SICs:
2035 Pickled Fruits & Vegetables, Etc.
Mcllhenny Company is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce. Tabasco, perhaps the most famous of 150 pepper sauces available, actually started the pepper sauce industry. The company remains a leader in domestic pepper sauce with more than a 34 percent share of the market in the 1990s, as well as a longstanding provider of pepper sauce across the globe. As Mark Robichaux explained in the
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