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((Infobox company
| name  = Mt. Olive Pickle Company
| logo  = Mt. Olive logo.gif
| logo_size = 150px
| type  = Private
| foundation = 1926
| founder    = Shikrey Baddour and George Moore
| location   = [[Mount Olive, North Carolina]], [[United States]]
| key_people =
| industry   = [[Food processing]]
| revenue    =
| products   = [[pickled cucumber]]s, [[mixed pickle]], [[relish]], and other [[pickling|pickled]] products
| homepage   = [http://www.mtolivepickles.com/ www.mtolivepickles.com]
))

The '''Mount Olive Pickle Company''' is an American [[food processing]] company located in [[Mount Olive, North Carolina]]. The company's primary product is [[pickled cucumber]]s, but it is also a large supplier of pepper, [[mixed pickle]], [[relish]], and other [[pickling|pickled]] products.  Mt. Olive is the largest independent pickle company in the United States and the top-selling pickle brand in the [[Southeastern United States]], where its market share approaches 70 percent.<ref name="mtolivepickles.com">((cite web|url=http://www.mtolivepickles.com/mtolive101/our-history/|title=About Mt. Olive Pickle Company - Mt. Olive, North Carolina|author=|date=|publisher=|access-date=14 August 2018))</ref><ref name="Mohan">Mohan, "Mt. Olive Packs and Prints Pickles and Peppers," ''Packaging Digest,'' September 2005.</ref>

Facilities are all located in Mt. Olive on ((convert|110|acre)) with ((convert|800000|sqft)) of production, office, and warehouse space.  The company has in excess of 1,200 brining vats and can store over ((convert|40000000|lbs)) of cucumbers. The company employs over 500 people which swells to over 800 during the busiest intake season each summer. In 1943, the company was one of the first in the country to offer profit sharing plans to their employees. In 1959, Mt. Olive established an employee community fund that helped support local community organizations.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/471/entry|title=Mount Olive Pickle Company - North Carolina History Project|date=|publisher=|access-date=14 August 2018))</ref> The Mt. Olive community fund also awards scholarships to employees' children. Each school year the company's community fund awards four scholarships for four different students at $1,500 each.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.clintonnc.com/features/lifestyle/20496/mount-olive-pickle-employees-community-fund-awards-4-scholarships|title=Mount Olive Pickle Employees Community Fund awards 4 scholarships|date=2017-05-28|website=Sampson Independent|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-13))</ref>

==History==
In the mid-1920s, Shikrey Baddour, a Lebanese immigrant from nearby [[Goldsboro, North Carolina|Goldsboro]], first saw opportunity in the wasted cucumber crops of area farmers. Baddour came up with the idea of buying the cucumbers, putting them in a brining tank, and selling the brined cucumbers, or brine stock, to other pickle firms. Baddour enlisted the aid of George Moore, a sailor from [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]] who had worked in a Castle Hayne pickle plant. The plan didn't work the way they had envisioned, however: they had no buyers for their product.
By January 1926, a new plan was put into place through the efforts of a group of Mount Olive business people, led by Headley Morris Cox, who formally established the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc. to pack and sell its own pickles. Thirty-seven original shareholders put forward $19,000 in capital to get the company started in what all viewed as a "community proposition." Many of today's stockholders are grandchildren and great grandchildren of the charter stockholders.
The board of directors hired H.M. Cox as President, Moore as factory superintendent and Baddour as salesman and gave them each shares of stock for their initial investments. The board also purchased ((convert|1|acre|m2|adj=on)) of land from farmer J.A. Westbrook for $1,000. The land is part of the current manufacturing site today. Westbrook's home still stands across from the plant.<ref name="mtolivepickles.com"/> Mt. Olive surpassed $500,000 in sales in 1942.  The company initiated a profit-sharing plan in 1943 and by 1947 its sales reached more than $1 million a year.<ref>''Growing An American Tradition,'' Mt. Olive Pickle Co., 2006.</ref>

In 1973, Mt. Olive food scientists, working in cooperation with researchers from the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA), discovered one of the secrets of [[Fermentation (food)|fermentation]].  The Mt. Olive and USDA researchers discovered that the [[bacteria]] ''[[Lactobacillus plantarum|L. plantarum]]'' was key to the fermentation process, and that purging [[carbon dioxide]] from brine with [[nitrogen]] led to minimal rot and waste.<ref>Etchells, et al., "Factors Influencing Bloater Formation in Brined Cucumbers During Controlled Fermentation," ''Journal of Food Science,'' 1975.</ref> In 1986, Mt. Olive Pickle co-founded the North Carolina Pickle Festival.<ref>"Thousands Turn Out for N.C. Pickle Festival," ''Goldsboro News-Argus,'' April 29, 2007.</ref> In 2005, the Mt. Olive plant had expanded to take up more than ((convert|970000|sqft|m2|-3)) of production space covering ((convert|110|acre|km2|1)).<ref name="Mohan" /> In 2008, the company introduced the first single-pack pickles. The intended markets are workers and schoolchildren.<ref>((cite web |author=Raskin, Hanna |title=Pickle Company Slows Down New Year's Eve Pickle Drop |url=http://www.slashfood.com/2009/12/30/pickle-company-slows-down-new-years-eve-pickle-drop/ |work=Slashfood.com |date=December 30, 2009 ))</ref><ref>((cite news|last=Fath|first=Rebecca|title=Mt. Olive continues pickle drop tradition on Dec. 31|url=http://triad.news14.com/content/local_news/651835/mt--olive-continues-pickle-drop-tradition-on-dec--31|newspaper=News 14 Carolina))</ref>

==Pickle drop==
[[File:2012 pickle drop.JPG|thumb|2012 pickle drop]]

On December 31, 1999, the Mt. Olive Pickle Company held the first [[New Year's Eve]] "pickle drop", in which a glowing green ((convert|3|ft|m|0|adj=on))-high pickle is lowered on a flagpole at 7 o'clock EST (midnight [[Greenwich Mean Time]]). Guests are provided with hats, noisemakers, and refreshments including cookies, hot chocolate and pickles. The event has turned into an annual occurrence and a source of pride for the community and also benefits the [[Food Bank of North Carolina]] through donations of canned goods from guests.<ref>((cite news|title=Giant Pickle Ready for Mt. Olive New Year's Celebration|url=http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2232833/|newspaper=WRAL))</ref> The Pickle Drop had its 20th anniversary on December 31, 2019.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.visitnc.com/event/XvGX/20th-annual-mt-olive-s-new-year-pickle-drop|title=20th Annual Mt. Olive's New Year Pickle Drop|website=www.visitnc.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-13))</ref>

==Controversy==
In October 1998, the [[Farm Labor Organizing Committee]] (FLOC), a [[trade union]], announced a boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle Company. The union targeted the pickle processor because it believed that growers would not raise wages unless Mount Olive agreed to pay more for growers' cucumbers.<ref>Lecker, "Major Pickle Firm Faces FLOC Boycott in March," ''Toledo Blade,'' October 11, 1998; Zagier, "Pickle Protest Planned," ''Charlotte News and Observer,'' October 11, 1998; Carmen, "Organizer of Union for Migrant Workers Takes on Pickle Giant," ''Columbus Dispatch,'' January 24, 1999; Sengupta, "Farm Union Takes Aim at a Big Pickle Maker," ''New York Times,'' October 26, 2000.</ref>

The union's five-year boycott of Mt. Olive Pickle was ultimately successful. In September 2004, FLOC signed a collective bargaining agreement with Mt. Olive and the growers. More than 6,000 of the state's 10,000 [[guest worker]]s joined FLOC. More than 1,000 growers agreed to form the North Carolina Growers Association to act as the employers' collective bargaining agent. The Association covered a number of cash crops, such as Christmas trees and tobacco, in addition to cucumbers.<ref>Franklin, "Farm Workers' Group Pushes for Better Pay, Rights," ''Chicago Tribune,'' April 8, 2006; Greenhouse, "North Carolina Growers' Group Signs Union Contract for Mexican Workers," ''New York Times,'' September 17, 2004.</ref>

In February 2017, according to a consent agreement, the EPA fined the Mt. Olive Pickle Company $131,856 for violating the [[Clean Water Act]] over a quarter-century. Mt. Olive was discharging water with extremely high levels of chloride, ammonia and/or nitrogen.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/02/24/week-pollution-big-fine-mt-olive-pickle-company/|title=This Week in Pollution: A big fine for the Mt. Olive Pickle Company|date=2017-02-24|website=The Progressive Pulse|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-13))</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
*“20th Annual Mt. Olive's New Year Pickle Drop.” ''Www.visitnc.com'', www.visitnc.com/event/XvGX/20th-annual-mt-olive-s-new-year-pickle-drop.
*Carmen, Barbara. "Organizer of Union for Migrant Workers Takes on Pickle Giant." ''Columbus Dispatch.'' January 24, 1999.
*Etchells, J.L.; Fleming, H.P.; Hontz, L.H.; Bell, T.A.; and Monroe, R.J. "Factors Influencing Bloater Formation in Brined Cucumbers During Controlled Fermentation." ''Journal of Food Science.'' 40:3 (1975).
*Feehan, Jennifer. "FLOC Claims Victory in North Carolina Arrest Case." ''Toledo Blade.'' August 15, 1998.
*Franklin, Stephen. "Farm Workers' Group Pushes for Better Pay, Rights." ''Chicago Tribune.'' April 8, 2006.
*Greenhouse, Steven. "North Carolina Growers' Group Signs Union Contract for Mexican Workers." ''New York Times.'' September 17, 2004.
*''Growing An American Tradition: Mt. Olive Pickle Company: 80 Years.'' Mt. Olive, N.C.: Mt. Olive Pickle Co., 2006.
*Kornegay Jr., George R. "Creating Public-Private Partnerships to Develop Rural and Small Town Infrastructure: USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural Development and Mount Olive, North Carolina." ''Agricultural Outlook Forum 2007.'' March 1, 2007.
*Lecker, Kelly. "Major Pickle Firm Faces FLOC Boycott in March." ''Toledo Blade.'' October 11, 1998.
*Mohan, Anne Marie. "Mt. Olive Packs and Prints Pickles and Peppers." ''Packaging Digest.'' September 2005.
*“Mount Olive Pickle Employees Community Fund Awards 4 Scholarships.” ''Sampson Independent'', 28 May 2017, www.clintonnc.com/features/lifestyle/20496/mount-olive-pickle-employees-community-fund-awards-4-scholarships.
*Sengupta, Somini. "Farm Union Takes Aim At a Big Pickle Maker." ''New York Times.'' October 26, 2000.
*Sorg, Lisa. “This Week in Pollution: A Big Fine for the Mt. Olive Pickle Company.” ''The Progressive Pulse'', 25 Feb. 2017
*"Thousands Turn Out for N.C. Pickle Festival." ''Goldsboro News-Argus.'' April 29, 2007.
*Zagier, Alan S. "Pickle Protest Planned." ''Charlotte News and Observer.'' October 11, 1998.

==External links==
*[http://www.ncpicklefest.org/ North Carolina Pickle Festival Web site]
*[http://www.mtolivepickles.com/ Mt. Olive Pickle Company]

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