Smuckers

Some weeks back, Store Brand Scorecard took on creamy peanut butter for its weekly taste/price grocery store brand challenge, to see, once and for all, if the enigmatic "Choosy Moms" were right in declaring The J.M Smucker Company's Jif creamy peanut butter the best (according, suspiciously, to the...

Cash-strapped consumers are eating more meals at home and that's slathering J.M. Smucker's (SJM) bottom line in sweet, sticky profits. The packaged-food maker said Friday that fiscal second-quarter earnings boomed more than 170%, blowing past Wall Street's estimates by 18 cents a share, according...