What Adams Extract & Spice does

Adams Extract & Spice, doing business as Adams1888, is a privately held, family-owned U.S. consumer packaged goods company founded in 1888 that manufactures and sells spices, extracts, seasoning blends, meat rubs, and food coloring. Its portfolio is organized around the legacy Adams core brand plus three sub-brands — For Real Blends (clean-label international seasoning blends), Butcher Block Provisions (premium meat rubs), and a Crayola-licensed food coloring line — with an additional Adams Organics line addressing the organic segment. Product positioning emphasizes clean-label attributes (Kosher, no gluten, no seed oil, no added MSG, no fillers).

The company operates a multi-channel distribution model combining a Shopify-powered direct-to-consumer e-commerce site (adams1888.com) offering free shipping on orders over $39 with brick-and-mortar retail distribution surfaced through a store locator. Go-to-market relies on a product-led content strategy in which an extensive recipe library on the website and an active social presence on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok (all @adamsbest1888) drive top-of-funnel discovery, with email newsletter capture supporting mid-funnel retention. There is no public disclosure of revenue, employee count, or institutional ownership, and the company shows no AI/ML, API, or platform-technology surface in the source data — the technology stack is a standard DTC e-commerce build on Shopify.

Name

Adams Extract & Spice

Legal name

Adams1888

Website

https://adamsextract.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1888

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Adams Extract & Spice (Adams1888) is a privately held, family-owned U.S. CPG company founded in 1888 that sells spices, extracts, seasoning blends, rubs, and Crayola-licensed food colors to home cooks through DTC e-commerce and retail.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Spices and Seasonings

NAICS

Spice and Extract Manufacturing (311942), Food Manufacturing (311)

SIC

Food And Kindred Products (2000), Miscellaneous Food Preparations & Kindred Products (2090)

akta.pro primary industry

Flavorings & Extracts (Natural & Artificial) (CRADAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Flavor Houses & Compound Flavor Manufacturing (AFAJADAA), Extracts, Oleoresins & Essential Oils (Spice Extracts for Flavoring) (AFAJANAJ), Natural Extracts & Essential Oils (Botanical/Citrus/Herb/Spice Extracts) (AFAJADAB)

Keywords

• Spices and seasonings
• Cooking extracts
• Meat rubs
• Food coloring
• Clean label seasonings

Headquarters

HQ city

Gonzales

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Consumer Packaged Goods Sales: Direct-to-consumer and retail sales of spices, extracts, seasoning blends, rubs, and food coloring products through e-commerce and physical retail locations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Adams Extract & Spice (operating as Adams1888) manufactures and sells spices, flavoring extracts, seasoning blends, meat rubs, and food coloring products under multiple sub-brands including the core Adams line, FOR REAL Blends, Butcher Block Provisions, and a licensed Crayola Food Colors line. Products are sold direct-to-consumer via a Shopify-powered e-commerce website and through physical retail stores across the United States, with a focus on clean-label formulations free from added MSG, fillers, seed oils, and gluten.

Product overview

Adams1888 operates as a diversified food seasoning and flavoring company with a portfolio of sub-brands and product lines. The core Adams Extract & Spice brand offers extracts, spices, rubs, blends, and organic products since 1888. FOR REAL Blends is a clean-label sub-brand featuring seasoning blends with no MSG, no fillers, no seed oil, and no gluten claims. Butcher Block Provisions is a sub-brand specializing in meat-specific rubs. The company also holds a licensing agreement with Crayola for food coloring products. All products are sold through their e-commerce platform built on Shopify with free shipping on orders over $39.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• For Real™: A line of all-natural seasoning blends featuring bold international flavors, marketed with clean-label positioning (no fillers, no added MSG, kosher, gluten-free, no seed oil). Products include Roma Aroma, Butcher's BFF, Black Gold, Sriracha-cha, Maple Magic, and Amazin' Asian.
• Butcher Block Provisions™
• Crayola Food Colors

Products and services

• Adams Extracts

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CrayolaminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerLicensing partnership to produce Crayola-branded food colors, leveraging the Crayola brand recognition in the baking and crafting segments. Products include food coloring products under the Crayola brand.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Strengths4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AdamsExtractandSpice
• Instagraminstagram.com/adamsbest1888
• TikToktiktok.com/@adamsbest1888
• Xx.com/AdamsExtract

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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