Nearly a decade ago, a Minnesota company took on the biggest name in the spice aisle when Watkins Inc. accused McCormick & Co. of false advertising for under-filling its black pepper tins.

A small Minnesota producer, Watkins Inc., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against giant spice maker McCormick & Co., claiming it has misled consumers by secretly cutting the amount of pepper in its tins ...

Watkins' suit claims consumers and retailers became conditioned to several sizes of McCormick black pepper tins that had for decades held 2 ounces, 4 ounces and 8 ounces of the spice. When ...

not just tins of ground pepper, Watkins Inc. claims. The Winona-based company sued McCormick & Co. earlier this month, alleging the spice giant "deceived" consumers by stealthily slashing the ...

The Star Tribune reports that Watkins says McCormick has cut the amount of pepper in its spice tins by one-half to 2 ounces. McCormick “gave the false impression that nothing had changed ...