A. Schilling & Company
A. Schilling & Company was an American foodstuffs company founded in San Francisco, California, in 1881 by August Schilling and George F. Volkmann, a pair 27 year-old Bremen, Germany emigres. It dealt in coffee, tea, baking powder, extracts, and spices and was acquired by McCormick & Company in 1947 and merged into McCormick's business as its Western Division.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed the company's factory and office, which was quickly rebuilt afterwards.
McCormick continued to use the Schilling name until the 1990s, with the last product containers marked as Schilling produced in 2002; all of McCormick's products have been made under that name nationwide since. Between November 1991 and February 1992, McCormick/Schilling hosted a recipe contest in which contestants must use "at least two spices, seasonings and/or extracts, excluding salt and pepper". The Schilling and McCormick brands dominated the seasoning industry.
