Group Tour

Spring 2013 • GroupTour.com
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M i CHi GAn
Mixing up
in Jiffyville
Chelsea Milling
Company’s roots
run deep
For more than 120 years, the family
that owns Chelsea Milling Company has
been turning grain into flour.
The company’s well-known Jiffy line
of prepared baking mix products came
about in spring 1930.
That’s when Mabel White Holmes,
grandmother of current company president
and CEO Howdy S. Holmes, developed
and introduced the first Jiffy mix.
The company currently produces a
variety of Jiffy mixes at its Chelsea plant
— everything from brownies and cake
mixes to various flavors of muffins and
frosting.
Groups can learn how Jiffy mixes are
made when they take a free tour.
The hour-long tour incorporates a
video, a walk through the company’s
packaging plant and refreshments.
The refreshments, naturally, are Jiffy
mix products.
“The tour is educational,” Holmes said.
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Photo: Chelsea Milling Company
Chelsea Milling Co. in Chelsea, the home of Jiffy mixes, has offered tours of its plant since the early 1960s.
“We’re proud of what we do. The tour is
the closest thing we do to advertising.
“It’s a way for people to see a manufacturing
facility in operation.”
The tours have been offered since the
early 1960s, with about 22,000 people
annually visiting, Holmes said.