History

Backyard operations in the early '60s

In the beginning, Growers was literally a backyard operation. It all started with a bakeshop salesman with a passion for peanuts.
In the early 1960s, long before fastfood restaurants and potato chips became a staple of Filipino snacking, one of the more popular snack time favorites were peanuts, especially adobong mani or peanuts roasted in garlic and oil. Usually wrapped in a small paper bag, adobong mani was quite the savory treat due to its aroma and flavor.

Mr. Shu Too Thip, then a successful bakeshop salesman, was no stranger to adobong mani. In fact, his passion for peanuts was so strong, that he began experimenting on various peanut processing methods with a specific product idea in mind-less-grease peanuts.

It was the only one of its kind at the time when roasted peanuts were often too messy to handle and too oily to be considered a healthy snack. Mr. Shu Too's secret formulation blended well with the peanut's natural flavor and his roasting process enabled Filipinos to enjoy peanuts without feeling messy and oily. Less-grease peanuts became such an instant hit that it soon gave birth to one of the Philippines' most loved household brands-Growers!