Duke's Mayonnaise
Duke's Mayonnaise is a condiment created by Eugenia Duke in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1917. It is the third-largest mayonnaise brand in the United States behind Hellmann's and Kraft.
Early in its history, its popularity was largely limited to the South. It is used in regional favorites such as tomato sandwiches, cole slaw, deviled eggs, pimento cheese, and potato salad. Duke's Mayonnaise contains more egg yolks than other mayonnaise products and no added sugar.
In 1929, the C.F. Sauer Company in Richmond, Virginia purchased the Duke's products, and Duke's Mayonnaise became the company's flagship product.
By 2017, Duke's Mayonnaise was available throughout the United States, as well as in New Zealand, Australia and the Middle East. In 2017, Sauer announced that it was also starting sales to Latin America.
In 2019, Falfurrias Capital Partners acquired C.F. Sauer and the Duke's brand. Also in 2019, Duke Foods went to court seeking a restraining order trying to "keep former executive Wyatt Howard from using the purloined paperwork to help a competitor." The paperwork referred to included "recipes, formulas, pricing information and other proprietary trade secrets to his personal email account when he was fired in May."
