Mars has said the face was originally modeled after a Chicago maitre d' named Frank Brown. In a short-lived 2007 marketing campaign, the company elevated Uncle Ben to chairman of a rice company.

An iconic rice brand is ... d’ named Frank Brown. The new packaging no longer has a face but still features an orange background with a similar blue font. Some Uncle Ben's products will remain ...

Frank Brown, a head waiter at an exclusive Chicago restaurant, later posed for the Uncle Ben’s portrait which has been seen on boxes of rice products for generations since. The company conceded ...

The company behind Uncle Ben’s rice has officially rebranded the ... was a beloved Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown.” The rice product was one of several prominent food products ...

Not for its more familiar products like M&Ms or Snickers.It’s pushing rice. Uncle Ben’s. Except he’s not just ... named Frank Brown. Sixty years later, Kern Foxworth says the image connotes ...

Michigan native, Janice Williams is a graduate of Oakland University where she studied journalism and communication. Upon relocating to New York City, she held internships at celebrity news ...

Earlier this year, the Uncle ... named Uncle Ben, but the brand’s image — a Black chef named Frank Brown — and marketing still drew on the historical labor of Black men as rice growers ...

Uncle Bens becomes the number one packaged long grain rice in the US in 1952. In 1988 Uncle Ben’s introduces its Boil-In-Bag line with pouches following in 2004. BAN FROM UNCLE ...

Mars Food announced the switch Wednesday, saying in a press release the name change aligns with “the brand’s ambition to create a more inclusive future while maintaining its commitment to ...

“Uncle Ben’s is voluntarily recalling Uncle Ben’s Brown Basmati 250g ready to heat rice pouches with the below best before dates. “This is a precautionary recall due to the possibility of ...