page_title: C. F. Sauer Company
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: C. F. Sauer Company / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Choice recipes&#160;: Sauer's famous flavoring extracts. Other Title(s): Sauer's famous flavoring extracts Author/Creator: C.F. Sauer Company Subjects: C.F. Sauer Company; Flavoring essences; Cooking (Vanilla); Cooking Description: Note: Cover title. Note: Promotional literature for C.F. Sauer Co., manufacturer of Sauer's Vanilla and other "Sauer's Flavoring Extracts." Note: "Sauer's flavoring extracts have been awarded the grand prix at the Panama-Pacific Exposition [1915] also San Diego Exposition [1915-1917]."--Cover, page [2]. Note: Color illustrations on cover. Related name(s): Charles E. Brownell Collection (VCU) Publisher: Richmond, Va.&#160;: C.F. Sauer Co. Creation Date: 1915? Format: 24 p.&#160;: ill.&#160;; 15 cm.. Language: English Identifier: OCLC Number:79911120 Source: VCU ALMA
context_page_description: The C.F. Sauer Company is a cooking products business that makes extracts and other food products. It was founded in 1887 by C.F. Sauer in Richmond, Virginia, where it maintains its headquarters.
context_section_description: The C.F. Sauer Company was founded on October 13, 1887.
  In 1929, Sauer purchased Duke's Products Company and thus entered the mayonnaise industry. The recipe for Duke's Mayonnaise has not been altered since it went into production in 1917.
  In the 1950s and 1960s, C.F. Sauer Co. introduced Gold Medal spices and purchased Dean Foods (a margarine company). In recent decades, the company also purchased BAMA brand mayonnaise and Spice Hunter brand exotic spices. It was the first spice company to use plastic containers.
  Their condiment facility is located in Mauldin, South Carolina (southeast of Greenville). In 1967, the company acquired Alford's Barbecue sauce, a cider vinegar-based sauce, and rebranded it as Sauer's Barbecue Sauce.
  They acquired Pleasants Hardware in 1989. However, on December 28, 2015, the C.F. Sauer company informed the employees of Pleasants Hardware that they were no longer interested in owning hardware stores. C.F. Sauer then sold a number of Pleasants' smaller stores to a Do it Best group in Virginia Beach and gave the remaining 100+ employees in the flagship store sixty days' notice (required by law according to the WARN Act) that they would soon be unemployed. On February 27, 2016, the original Pleasants Hardware closed.
  In 2011, C.F. Sauer Co. sold its Dean Foods division to a subsidiary of Bunge Limited.
  After 132 years of private ownership, The C.F. Sauer Company is acquired in 2019 by Falfurrias Capital Partners of Charlotte, North Carolina. 
  {cite C.F. Sauer web site www.sauerbrands.com}
caption: Title: Choice recipes : Sauer's famous flavoring extracts c. 1915. Source: VCU ALMA
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