Chemical Products

Getz bros. & co.- america's largest non-commodity international marketing and services company-traces its beginnings to 1860 and a place called lower lake, california, a frontier area one hundred miles north of san francisco. Joseph getz, a prussian immigrant, opened a general store there that served farmers in the area, selling dry goods and groceries.
by the early 1880s getz bros. Was exporting food products to customers in shanghai and hong kong, which later led to the opening of the first getz overseas office, in shanghai. The company did well shipping foodstuffs to china, its reach soon extending beyond shanghai into northeast china, a populous region with an appetite for the cheese, oils, chemical products and meat products getz exported.