Talk:TreeHouse Foods

Proposed merge with Sturm Foods
We normally include companies adsorbed by another, as part of the article on the main company  DGG ( talk ) 00:03, 6 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - I think it makes sense -- also there's a page for E.D. Smith and one for Naturally Fresh that could be merged at the same time. valereee (talk) 09:50, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - We can place them all under one "Subsidiaries" section or something to that effect. Mz7 (talk) 22:36, 11 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: We do not have a policy of always merging articles about companies into other companies that take them over, especially if that takeover happens after the first company's Wikipedia article existed. Rather, we evaluate each case on its own merits — sometimes we do merge, but sometimes we keep the existing article about the acquired company if it was notable in its own right. That said, as written Sturm Foods cites no reliable source at all, so redirecting it to this one is acceptable — but the redirect should be done because Sturm Foods' article fails to demonstrate its notability under WP:CORP in the first place, and not because we have any rule about automatically merging companies after a takeover. Bearcat (talk) 15:49, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with E. D. Smith
ED Smith was acquired by TreeHouse Foods, should be merged into that article. valereee (talk) 18:02, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. E. D. Smith, as written, is not an article about the company — it's a biography of the individual businessman who founded it. And Smith was also notable, separately from his business career, as a politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and later in the Senate of Canada — and those roles are why he actually has an article, because they get him past WP:NPOL as a topic who must be covered in a standalone article rather than a subsection of an article about a company he had only a tangential association with. Bearcat (talk) 15:43, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Weird...I would swear there was a separate entry for the food company. I agree the politician bio shouldn't be merged, but I would have sworn that when I wrote this article, there was a food company article that I linked to from within this article.  Maybe it's already been deleted?  valereee (talk) 16:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure there was — I can't find any evidence of a separate article either here or in the edit history of the politician's bio. Bearcat (talk) 18:40, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Naturally Fresh, Inc.
Has been acquired by TreeHouse Foods. valereee (talk) 18:37, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: unlike Sturm Foods, this one actually cites some reliable sources to attest to its notability in its own right. As I explained above, we do not have a blanket policy of always merging an article about a company into its purchaser after a takeover — we evaluate each case on its own merits, and quite frequently keep the existing article about the old company if its notability is properly demonstrated by reliable source coverage. That said, the Naturally Fresh article isn't so substantive or so well-sourced that we would have to keep it as a separate topic, so I'm not opposed to merging — but this isn't a thing that we automatically do whenever a company gets taken over by another one. Bearcat (talk) 15:57, 1 August 2014 (UTC)