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Key facts
- Company type
- Privately held company
- Industry
- Food
- Founded
- 1868 (158 years ago) ( 1868 )
- Founder
- Edmund McIlhenny
- Key people
- Harold Osborn (CEO)
- Products
- Hot sauce and other condiments
- Brands
- Tabasco
- Owner
- McIlhenny family
- Number of employees
- c. 200 (per company website, August 2014)
- Heat
- Medium
- Scoville scale
- 2,500–5,000 SHU
- Website
- tabasco.com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Tabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from vinegar, tabasco peppers, and salt. It is produced by the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in southern Louisiana, having been created in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny. Originally, the tabasco peppers were grown only on Avery Island; they are now primarily cultivated in Central America, South America, and Africa. The Tabasco sauce brand also has multiple varieties, including the original red sauce, habanero, jalapeño, chipotle, sriracha, and scorpion. Tabasco products are sold in more than 195 countries and territories, and packaged in 36 languages and dialects.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tabasco sauce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.