How much spam is sold in a year

Over 8 billion cans of Spam have been sold so far. As food prices started to rise during early , sales of Spam increased. During February, March and April of that year, Spam sales went up by In May , Hormel reported that strong Spam sales led to a 14 percent increase in profits.

Throughout the Great Recession, its sales continued to grow. In , Hormel sold million cans of Spam — up 11 percent from , according to Bloomberg. Most recently, according to Adweek , Spam made its way into a third of American households.

To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the company has launched 80 days of summer — er, I mean 80 days of Spam. The countdown started in April when the company gave away 1, cans of Spam to its employees.

The official 80th anniversary celebration will take place at the Spam Museum — yes, that is a thing that has existed since — on Friday July 7.

And finally, because you are probably wondering: What does Spam the meat have to do with spam the email? Hormel developed America's first canned ham ''Hormel Flavor-Sealed Ham'' in , and eleven years later developed the first canned meat product that did not require refrigeration. It was a ''distinctive chopped pork shoulder and ham mixture'' developed by Jay C. Hormel, son of Hormel founder George A.

Hormel, and marketed as ''Hormel Spiced Ham'' - not a terribly inspiring name for an innovative product fated to save lives, win wars, and balance diets of people world wide.

Hormel Spiced Ham got off to a slightly rocky start. Other meatpackers began to introduce their own canned luncheon meats, and Hormel lost its controlling share of the market. Soon, however, they came up with a cunning plan to rectify this situation - they would give Hormel's luncheon meat a truly catchy name. For example, in , Hormel fielded submissions from Spam fans to create a page recipe book featuring 50 ways of incorporating the canned meat into meals.

Homemakers readily embraced Spam, and it became a popular lunch and breakfast meat. But sales really took off during World War II. In each country where they were stationed, American soldiers introduced it to the locals, giving foreigners their first taste of Spam. Since then, Spam has become a sought-after product in many countries around the world, especially those that have faced economic hardship. Hormel seemed to intuitively understand these ideas.

In creative and humorous ways that went beyond traditional advertising, they appealed to consumers by positioning the brand as a patriotic food that reflected American ingenuity — with a streak of eccentricity. Today, the 15 available varieties of Spam are shipped to 44 countries around the world. But, they go on to explain that a contest was held in to give the promising new product a name.

If you live in a part of the world where U. The product is most popular in these areas, with the most extreme example being Hawaii.