SJM vs SOVO

The J.M. Smucker Company

The J. M. Smucker Company manufactures and markets branded food and beverage products worldwide. It operates in four segments: U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Consumer Foods, U.S. Retail Pet Foods, and International and Away From Home. The company offers mainstream roast, ground, single serve, and premium coffee; peanut butter and specialty spreads; fruit spreads, shortening and oils, and frozen sandwiches; pet food and pet snacks; and foodservice hot beverage, foodservice portion control, and flour products, as well as dog and cat food, frozen handheld products, juices and beverages, and baking ingredient. It provides its products under the Folgers, Café Bustelo, Dunkin' Donuts, 1850, Jif, Smucker's, Crisco, Smucker's Uncrustables, Meow Mix, Kibbles ‘n Bits, 9Lives, Nature's Recipe, Milk-Bone, Pup-Peroni, Rachael Ray Nutrish, Natural Balance, Robin Hood, and Five Roses brands. The company sells its products through direct sales and brokers to food retailers and wholesalers, club stores, pet specialty stores, discount and dollar stores, drug stores, military commissaries, mass merchandisers, natural foods stores and distributors, and online retailers; and through retail channels, and foodservice distributors and operators. The J. M. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio.

Sovos Brands Inc.

Sovos Brands, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes food products in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Dinners & Sauces, and Breakfast & Snacks. It provides Italian sauces, dry pastas, soups, yogurts, frozen ready-to-eat meals, pancake and waffle mixes, other baking mixes, and frozen waffles under the Rao's, noosa, Birch Benders, and Michael Angelo's bands. The company sells its products principally to traditional supermarkets, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, wholesalers, specialty food distributors, military commissaries, drug store chains, dollar stores, and e-commerce retailers. Sovos Brands, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.