Cambridgeport is one of the neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts . It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, the Charles River , the Grand Junction Railroad , and River Street. The neighborhood contains predominantly residential homes, many of the triple decker style common in New England. Central Square , at the northernmost part of Cambridgeport, is an active commercial district and transportation hub, and University Park is a collection of renovated or recently constructed office and apartment buildings. The neighborhood also includes Fort Washington Park , several MIT buildings, and Magazine Beach .
33-523: The neighborhood is Area 5 of Cambridge. Once part of a more expansive marshland area associated with the Charles River basin, today many of the area's names are associated with its early history. Over time the area has become a center of municipal government for the city. The Fig Newton cookie (named after nearby Newton, Massachusetts ) was first manufactured in Cambridgeport in 1891 at
66-433: A Nabisco -trademarked version of a cookie filled with sweet fruit paste. "Fig Newtons" are the most popular variety ( fig rolls filled with fig paste). They are produced by an extrusion process. Their distinctive shape is a characteristic that has been adopted by competitors, including generic fig bars sold in many markets. The Newton was invented by Philadelphia baker Charles Roser , who likely took inspiration for
99-516: A row at Daytona International Speedway with Nabisco sponsorship. Kraft and Nabisco sponsored a part-time Sprint Cup effort in car #81 driven by Jason Keller and John Andretti and fielded by Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Nabisco also sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the 2010 Subway Jalapeño 250 at Daytona International Speedway in July 2010 with their Oreo/Ritz brands and Tony Stewart with the Ritz brand in
132-558: A variety of Peek Freans . The product line has since been discontinued. Nabisco Nabisco ( / n ə ˈ b ɪ s k oʊ / , abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company ) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey . The company is a subsidiary of Illinois -based Mondelēz International . Nabisco's 1,800,000-square-foot (170,000 m ) plant in Chicago
165-753: Is the largest bakery in the world, employing more than 1,200 workers and producing around 320 million pounds (150 million kilograms) of snack foods annually. Its products include Chips Ahoy! , Belvita , Oreo cookies, Ritz Crackers , Teddy Grahams , Triscuit crackers, Fig Newtons , and Wheat Thins for the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, and other parts of South America. All Nabisco cookie or cracker products are branded Christie in Canada, after Canadian baker William Mellis Christie . Christie's flagship bakery in Toronto
198-649: The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union , went on strike over disagreements regarding a new labor contract with Nabisco. The National Biscuit Company acquired the Shredded Wheat Company, maker of Triscuit and Shredded Wheat cereal , and Christie, Brown & Company of Toronto in 1928, but all of the Nabisco cookie and cracker products in Canada still use
231-504: The Boston University Bridge , although at least one other alignment was also considered. In 2010 the neighborhood had a population of 12,220 residents living in 5,391 households. In 1999, the median household income was $ 45,294, which has since risen to $ 86,800 in 2020. Cambridge Public Schools operates Cambridgeport School, which covers elementary school grades. The school opened in 1990. In 1997 Mary Lou McGrath,
264-931: The Cereal Partners Worldwide joint venture with Nestlé. Also in 1994, RJR acquired Rose Knox 's Knox gelatin and integrated the Shredded wheat franchise into the Post Foods portfolio. Post continues to sell the product today. In 1995, Nestlé agreed to buy the Ortega Mexican foods business from Nabisco Inc. That same year, RJR-Nabisco also acquired the North American margarine and table spreads business of Kraft foods. This purchase included Parkay, Touch of Butter and Chiffon. In 1998, Nabisco Holdings announced its sale of its margarine and egg substitute business to ConAgra . In 1997,
297-527: The F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery . Portions of the neighborhood would have been demolished as part of the Inner Belt highway project first planned in 1948 but canceled in 1971 after intense protests organized by community activists, and following Gov. Francis Sargent 's 1970 moratorium on highway construction inside Route 128 . The original plan called for the Interstate to parallel Brookline Street to
330-510: The nutritional facts of Planters peanuts to those of potato chips , Cheddar cheese chips, and popcorn . Technically, the commercials complied with United States Food and Drug Administration regulations, and they were allowed to continue. However, as requested by the National Advertising Division , Nabisco agreed to make fat content disclosure more conspicuous in future commercials. The company's A1 Steak Sauce
363-642: The "Newton" by the plant manager, James Hazen, using the name of the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts . The Kennedy Biscuit Company was one of eight bakeries bought out by William Moore in 1889 to create the New York Biscuit Company. This company merged with the American Biscuit Company in 1898 to form the "National Biscuit Company", or Nabisco . The recipe for Newtons along with the manufacturing machine were among
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#1732773210020396-565: The Baby Ruth and Butterfinger brands, to Nestlé . RJR also sold LU, Belin and other European biscuit brands to Groupe Danone , only reunited in 2007 after Nabisco's present parent, Kraft Foods , bought Danone's biscuit operations for €5.3 billion. In 1994, RJR sold its breakfast cereal business (primarily the Shredded Wheat franchise) to Kraft Foods Inc. and the international licenses to General Mills , which later became part of
429-593: The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus became concerned with an ad campaign for Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts. The initial commercial featured a man and monkey deserted on an island. They discover a crate of Planters peanuts and rejoice in the peanuts' positive health facts. Nabisco made a detailed statement describing how their peanuts were healthier than most other snack products, going as far as comparing
462-649: The National Biscuit Company introduced a snack in a sealed packet called the Peanut Sandwich Packet. They soon added the Sorbetto Sandwich Packet. These allowed salesmen to sell to soda fountains , road stands, milk bars , lunch rooms , and news stands. Sales increased, and the company started to use the name NAB in 1928. The term Nabs today is used to generically mean any type of snack crackers, most commonly in
495-568: The New York Biscuit Company. Chicago lawyer Adolphus Green (1843–1917) started the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company in 1890 after acquiring 40 different bakeries. Then Moore, Green, and John Gottlieb Zeller (1849–1939, founder of Richmond Steam Bakery) all merged in 1898 to form the "National Biscuit Company", and Green was named president. Zeller was president of National Biscuit Company from 1923–1931. Nabisco celebrated its golden anniversary in 1948, and Nabisco had become
528-514: The Newton, which, in addition to the original fig filling, include versions filled with apple cinnamon, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, blueberry and mixed berry. The Fig Newton also is sold in a 100% whole-grain variety and a fat-free variety. Fig Newton Minis have also been introduced. In 2011, a crisp cookie was introduced in the United States named Newtons Fruit Thins, after being successfully marketed by Kraft in Canada as Lifestyle Selections,
561-437: The assets brought into the new company, and the cookies were trademarked as "Fig Newtons". In 1991, Nabisco held a 100th-anniversary celebration of the cookie in the town of Newton. Since 2012, the "Fig" has been dropped from the product name (now just "Newtons"). According to Nabisco, one reason this was done is that the cookie had long been available in other flavors, like strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry. Another reason
594-463: The brands of Fleishmann's, Blue Bonnet and Parkay had sales of $ 480 million. It also sold its College Inn broth brand to HJ Heinz and its Venezuelan Del Monte operations to Del Monte Foods. In 1999, RJR Nabisco's food and tobacco empire fell apart when they sold its international tobacco division to Japan Tobacco for $ 7.8 billion. In 2000 Nabisco Holdings together with several investors (as Finalrealm) acquired United Biscuits , As part of
627-477: The corporate name by 1971. In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands to form "Nabisco Brands", which merged with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1985 to form RJR Nabisco . Kraft General Foods acquired the Nabisco cold cereals from RJR Nabisco in 1993, and the cereal brands are now owned by Post Holdings . In 1999, Nabisco acquired Favorite Brands International . In 2000, Philip Morris Companies Inc. acquired Nabisco and merged it with Kraft Foods in one of
660-590: The largest mergers in the food industry. In 2011, Kraft Foods announced that it was splitting into a grocery company and a snack food company. Nabisco became part of the snack-food business, which took the name Mondelēz International . The first use of the name Nabisco was in a cracker brand produced by National Biscuit Company in 1901. The firm later introduced Fig Newtons , Nabisco Wafers, Anola Wafers, Barnum's Animal Crackers (1902), Cameos (1910), Lorna Doones (1912), Oreos (1912), and Famous Chocolate Wafers (1924, which would be discontinued in 2023). In 1924,
693-529: The moral and spiritual over the evil and the material". A symbol previously used to represent Christ's redemption of the world. The current update of the familiar Nabisco trademark was designed by American typographer and graphic designer Gerard Huerta , who has created many famous logos for corporate identity and branding as well as the movie and music industries, such as AC/DC 's. From 2002–2005, Nabisco and Kraft jointly sponsored both Dale Earnhardt , Inc., and Roush Racing . Earnhardt Jr. won four races in
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#1732773210020726-552: The name Christie. It also acquired F.H. Bennett Company, maker of Milk-Bone dog biscuits, in 1931. In 1971, Nabisco bought J. B. Williams Co., a privately-owned pharmaceuticals manufacturer. Williams continued to operate as a separate subsidiary . Nabisco sold Williams to Beecham Group in 1982 after nearly a decade of slumping sales. In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands , maker of Planters Nuts, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars, Royal gelatin, Fleischmann's and Blue Bonnet margarines, amongst others. The company
759-470: The recipe from the fig roll , a baked good introduced to the U.S. by British immigrants. Roser used a machine invented by James Henry Mitchell which allowed for the extrusion of fig jam and cookie dough at the same time into a long, continuous roll. The recipe was sold to the Kennedy Biscuit company, and entered mass production at the F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery in 1891. The cookie was christened
792-422: The sale of "A.2." sauce as well as attorney's fees. Nabisco's trademark is a diagonal ellipse with a series of antenna-like lines protruding from the top ("Orb and Cross" or Globus cruciger ). It forms the base of its logo and can be seen imprinted on Oreo cookies, in addition to Nabisco product boxes and literature. The trademark is derived from a medieval Venetian printer's mark that represented "the triumph of
825-461: The southern US. As of July 16, 2021, parent company Mondelēz International made the decision to close the Fair Lawn plant after 63 years forcing the majority of the 600 employees to move on and/or retire, accept jobs with other businesses or transfer within the company. In August 2021, over 1,000 workers at several bakeries and distribution centers throughout the United States, organized under
858-414: The superintendent, proposed closing Cambridgeport School. The school stayed open, and since circa 2001 it occupies the ex-Fletcher School. 42°21′36″N 71°06′27″W / 42.3600°N 71.1075°W / 42.3600; -71.1075 This Middlesex County, Massachusetts geography–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fig Newton Newtons are
891-535: The transaction, United Biscuits acquired Nabisco's European businesses and divested Far East (China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) business to Nabisco. Nabisco became a leading shareholder in United Biscuits (the position that inherited by Kraft Foods until 2006). The Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris) acquired Nabisco (sans Bubble Yum which was sold to Hershey ) in 2000 for about $ 19.2 billion. Philip Morris then combined Nabisco with Kraft. That acquisition
924-439: Was a general negative perception of figs, and their association with "old" things. In 1991, Nabisco was producing around a billion Newtons per year, with the cookie generating $ 200 million in sales. The cookie is Nabisco's third best-selling product, with sales of more than 700 million bars a year as of 2018. Original Fig Newtons were the only variety available until the 1980s. As of 2012, Nabisco makes several varieties of
957-656: Was approved by the Federal Trade Commission subject to the divestiture of products in five areas: three Jell-O and Royal brands types of products (dry-mix gelatin dessert, dry-mix pudding, no-bake desserts), intense mints (such as Altoids), and baking powder. Kraft Foods, at the time also a subsidiary of Altria, merged with Nabisco. In 2006, Nabisco sold its Milk-Bone pet snacks to Del Monte Foods Co. for $ 580 million. Altria spun-off Kraft Food along with its Nabisco subsidiary in 2007. In January 2007, Kraft sold Cream of Wheat to B&G Foods . In 1997,
990-669: Was demolished after Mondelēz shut it down in 2013. Nabisco opened corporate offices as the National Biscuit Company in the Home Insurance Building in the Chicago Loop in 1898, the world's first skyscraper. Pearson & Sons Bakery opened in Massachusetts in 1792, and they made a biscuit called pilot bread for consumption on long sea voyages. In 1889, William H. Moore acquired Pearson & Sons Bakery, Josiah Bent Bakery, and six other bakeries to start
1023-906: Was in auction with two bidders: F. Ross Johnson , the company's president and CEO, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts , a private equity partnership. The company was sold to KKR in what was then the biggest leveraged buyout in history, described in the book Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco , and a subsequent film . In 1989, RJR Nabisco Inc. sold its Chun King foods division to Yeo Hiap Seng Limited and Fullerton Holdings Pte. Ltd for $ 52 million to reduce its debt from its $ 24.5 billion buyout by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. In December 1989, RJR Nabisco sold its Del Monte canned fruits and vegetables business in South America to Polly Peck International PLC . One year later, in 1990 RJR Nabisco sold Curtiss Candy, which owned
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1056-605: Was the subject of a suit filed against Arnie Kaye in US District Court on March 13, 1990. Kaye's delicatessen used a homemade sauce called "A2 Sauce," sold in both the International Deli and Stew Leonard's supermarkets in Westport, Connecticut . Summary judgement was rendered on March 18, 1991 by Judge Eginton who found in favor of Nabsico and ordered that they were entitled to recoup all profits from
1089-495: Was then renamed Nabisco Brands, Inc. At that time, it also acquired the Life Savers brand from the E.R. Squibb Company , makers of Bubble Yum & Care-free gum. Commercials were revised as a result of the merger by January 1983. In 1985, Nabisco was bought by R.J. Reynolds , forming "RJR Nabisco". After three years of mixed results, the company became one of the hotspots in the 1980s leveraged buyout mania. The company
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