Heinz
Shown at the company’s headquarters. It was mentioned on the show, but not as a specific place, so the pin marks its home base.
About Heinz
The H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz, was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactured food products on six continents, and marketed them in more than 200 countries and territories. The company claimed to have 150 number-one or number-two brands worldwide as of 2013. Heinz ranked first in ketchup in the US with a market share in excess of 50%; the Ore-Ida label held 46% of the frozen potato sector in 2003.
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Originally Heinz ketchup came with a big number one on the bottle, because they had only invented one variety.
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More facts about Heinz
The Heinz and Trump families are related: Henry Heinz was second cousin to Frederick Trump, Donald Trump's grandfather, and both families came from Kallstadt in Germany.
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Heinz chose 57 varieties just because 5 and 7 were his and his wife's favourite numbers, not because they had 57 products.
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A great-great-great-granddaughter of the Heinz family is married to John Kerry, who ran for US president.
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Heinz was ranked the eighth most popular thing in the UK, ahead of Lego and Google Maps.
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By 1882 Heinz ketchup already existed, so Charles Darwin could have had it on his chips.
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Coordinates: 40.4416, -79.9905