the company was founded by William kolander in 1957 , kolander's father was a successful owner of several restaurants in the Boston were famous for their chowder, the young kolander convinced his father in 1956 that there was a market to sell the chowder to local institutions(restaurants hospitals etc)in the new England area, and he developed a canned chowder under his father's supervision, production facilities were acquired in the same year.
after losses in the first few years ,the business turned profitable in 1960,at this time ,kolander decided to enter the retail market with kolander's chowder brand. both the institutional and retail business grew rapidly during the 1960s,as did the firm's profitability, expanded production facilities were built in 1968,and two additional specialty soup lines were introduced in 1970, these lines experienced limited success at retail but were reasonably profitable in the institutional market
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