— Orville Redenbacher. Popcorn has been around since early humans tossed ... said he is told by the company what varieties to plant each year, and a ConAgra field agent constantly checks his ...

The Omaha-based packaged foods company said it will spend $9 million on an expansion of the 122,000-square-foot plant, where its Orville Redenbacher's popcorn brand is processed.

VALPARAISO - Two new businesses have sprung from the shuttered Orville Redenbacher plant here. Joe Glusak has started Great Lakes Distributing & Storage Inc. in Building #5 and Fred Ehrstein, John ...

That’s ironic, too, because if folks like the Grubbs are giving local, homegrown popcorn back to the masses, its because Orville Redenbacher’s mega-branding took that away in the first place. His ...

VALPARAISO | The man who rose to become top of the poppers, Orville Redenbacher, was born in Brazil, Ind., on July 16, 1907 -- the youngest of four children.

Though Redenbacher’s background was in agronomy and plant genetics, he had dabbled in popcorn, and was friendly with the Chester family. Eventually, Carl Hartman was brought in to experiment.

My first “celebrity” interview as a newspaper reporter was in September 1988, when I was assigned to meet Orville Redenbacher at the Porter County Airport when he flew in on a small pri… ...

I wrote a column earlier this month about Orville Redenbacher and this year’s 40th Anniversary for the Valparaiso Popcorn Festival. I mentioned his faded memory with the festival following ...