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Indian Packing Company

Industry	Canned meat
Founded	July 22, 1919 (1919-07-22), in Delaware, US
Defunct	1943 (1943)
Successor	Acme Packing Company
Key people	Curly Lambeau Frank Jonet Frank Peck

The Indian Packing Company was a company that was involved in the canned meat industry and was incorporated in Delaware on July 22, 1919. Its canned meat sold as "Council Meats." When the company was absorbed by the Illinois-based Acme Packing Company in 1921, it had facilities in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Providence, Rhode Island; Greenwood, Indiana; and Dupont, Indiana. At the time of the sale it was controlled by New England Supply Company of Providence, Rhode Island, with F.P Comstock as its principal owner.

Among its slogans were "A meat market on your pantry shelf" and "From the Wisconsin country to you."

The Acme Meat Packing Company closed in June 1943 because of supply shortages related to World War II; it did not reopen after the war.

The company gave its name to the Green Bay Packers. The football team took its name after Curly Lambeau, a shipping clerk for the company, successfully asked the company's owner, Frank Peck, for money for jerseys and use of the company's athletic field in 1919.

References

1. ^ "Two Meat Packing Companies Merged". The American Food Journal. 16: 41. 1921. ISSN 0193-1792. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2015 – via Google Books.
2. "Acme Packers Absorb Another Firm" (PDF). The New York Times. January 11, 1921. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
3. Names, Larry D (1987). "The Myth". In Scott, Greg (ed.). The History of the Green Bay Packers: The Lambeau Years. Vol. 1. Angel Press of WI. p. 30. ISBN 0-939995-00-X.
4. Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office - Prints. United States Patent Office. May 20, 1919. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2019 – via Google Books.
5. "Seattle Meat Packers Close". Arizona Republic. Associated Press. June 16, 1943. p. 2. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved October 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Christl, Cliff (March 23, 2017). "The Acme Packers were short-lived". Packers.com. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
7. DeRusha, Jason (February 4, 2011). "Good Question: How Did The Packers Get Their Name?". CBSNews.com. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
8. Radcliffe, JR (September 9, 2022). "Why the Green Bay Packers don't have a mascot, and answers to 5 other questions about the team". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved October 9, 2022.

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