Bama Company

Bama Company (originally ANCC, later Bama Foods division of Borden Company) was a Birmingham-based manufacturer of jams, jellies, peanut butter, mayonnaise and other products. The company was founded in 1921 by A. N. and S. M. Chappell, and originally specialized in products made from Alabama-grown blackberries.

In 1940 Ben Goltsman, head of the Montgomery-based Alabama Growers Association, began distributing "Bama Wine" made in Atlanta, Georgia from Chilton County-grown blackberries. The Chappells filed a trademark infringement suit, but were unsuccessful as the court ruled that the name was a common contraction for the name of the state.

The Chappell's sold the brand to the Borden Company in 1965. Borden continued to operate a Bama Foods plant at 3900 Vanderbilt Road until it sold the brand to Welch's Inc. of Concord, Massachusetts in 1994.