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Cerebos
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryProcssed Foods
FounderMawson & Swan
Headquarters
Greatham Edit this on Wikidata
Area served
Worldwide
Products
  • Sauces
  • Food Flavouring's
  • Nutritional Supplements
ParentKraft Heinz (Asia Pacific)
Premier Foods (UK)
K+S (Western Europe)
Bud Group (South Africa)
Websitewww.cerebos.fr
www.cerebos.co.za

Cerebos is a brand of salt and, more recently, of other flavourings and nutritional supplements. Ownership of Cerebos brand is divided between Kraft Heinz in Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Premier Foods in UK, K+S in Western Europe, and Bud Group in South Africa. The product was developed by George Weddell, a Scottish chemist working at the British company Mawson & Swan, and sold under the Cerebos brand by a new partnership, Mawson, Swan & Weddell.[1]

The company Cerebos Ltd was later registered in 1894.[1] At the time of its introduction, salt was sold in large blocks from which the user would scrape what they needed. Free-running salt was a novelty because, left for any length of time, pure sodium chloride crystals would absorb sufficient moisture from the air to cause them to stick together, a phenomenon called caking. Its slogan was "See How It Runs", because the salt contained anti-caking agents.[2] The slogan was echoed in the product branding of a small boy chasing a chicken.[3]

It is sold in Western Europe (including France where it is spelt Cérébos), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Australian and New Zealand operations are part of Cerebos Pacific, which in turn is part of Kraft Heinz which acquired it from Suntory Holdings in 2018, and includes the well known local brands:

  • Greggs (NZ)
  • Robert Harris (NZ)
  • Bisto (NZ)
  • Raro (NZ)
  • atomic (NZ)
  • Whitlock's (NZ)
  • L'affare (NZ)
  • Bruno Rossi (NZ)
  • Gravox (Australia)
  • Fountain (Australia)
  • Toby Estate (Australia)
  • Saxa (Australia)
  • Foster Clark's (Australia)
  • Mocopan (Australia)
  • Asian Home Gourmet (Australia)

Branding

A boy chasing a chicken and pouring salt over it is an icon that has become synonymous with the brand.[3][4]

The Cerebos salt company invented 'Bisto' gravy powder product (a mixture of salt, flavourings and colourings), at its salt factory in Middlewich, Cheshire in the United Kingdom. It was acquired by RHM in 1968, which later sold its stake in Cerebos South Africa in the 1980s and Cerebos Pacific to Suntory in 1990.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Farrell, Thomas (2015-02-05). "Worth its salt: Cerebos". Let's Look Again. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  2. ^ Behm, Michael (19 September 2010). "Cerebos Ltd". A Blog for the Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain (COSGB). Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  3. ^ a b http://www.salines.com/maj/phototheque/photos/bnd_membres/cerebos.jpg Archived October 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ https://www.flickr.com/photos/totallymystified/23803182164


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