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Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur.
He started making baked beans in 1895. He advertised them as ‘oven baked beans in a pork and tomato sauce’. Heinz varieties first went on sale in Fortnum & Mason in 1886. After World War I, with a headquarters established in Hayes, London.
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