News Summary

• George Ball’s 150-year-old seed company invented iceberg lettuce, the Big Boy tomato and other groundbreaking vegetables.
• Burpee, which was founded 100 years after the country, in 1876, is still a mail-order business with some 35% of its estimated more than $110 million in annual revenue coming from mail and online sales.
• Its vegetable, herb and flower seeds are also sold at more than 24,000 locations in the u.s. and Canada including Walmart, Home Depot and Tractor Supply.