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Peanut is one of the best known icons in advertising,” said Hess. “But he also has been along for quite some time and isn't necessarily one of the most relevant and contemporary out there.” It was that thinking that led Planters to be open to the idea of killing off - and bringing back to life - its beloved mascot.

In 1916 Amedeo Obici held a contest asking people to draw a logo they thought best represented his company. A young Suffolk schoolboy, named Antonio Gentile, drew the winning character: a peanut with arms, legs, and a cane.

Mr. Peanut - full name Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe - was born in 1916, when schoolboy Antonio Gentile submitted his design for an anthropomorphic peanut mascot to a Planters contest. He served as the company's symbol up until his death, going through many iterations over the intervening decades.

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1916. The MR. PEANUT® character was born when schoolboy Antonio Gentile submitted his sketch to win the PLANTERS® brand contest for a brand icon. A commercial artist later added a top hat, a monocle and a cane.

On Thursday, Kraft Heinz said it had agreed to sell its nuts business, including the iconic Planters brand, to Hormel Foods for $3.35 billion in cash.

Gentry, also known as the "planter class," is a term associated with colonial and antebellum North Carolina and other southern states that refers to an upper middle class of wealthy gentlemen farmers who were well educated, politically astute, and generally came from successful families.

But it was with peanuts that he was most successful, earning himself the nickname the “Peanut Man”: he developed more than 300 food, industrial and commercial products from them, including milk, cooking oils, paper, cosmetics, soaps and wood stains.

Each peanut is finely seasoned with sea salt to enhance the natural roasted nut flavor. These perfectly roasted peanuts have 7 grams of protein and are a good source of vitamin E. Free of cholesterol and trans-fat, PLANTERS® Peanuts have 14 grams of fat per serving and are the perfect on-the-go salty snack.

Arachis hypogaea L., commonly known as peanut, groundnut, monkey nut, goober, or earth nut because the seed develop underground, is in the division Papiolionaceae of the family Leguminosae. The peanut is only one of a few hundred species of legumes that produces flowers above ground but develops the fruit below ground.

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