The J. M. Smucker Company (SJM)
Coffee, pet food and snacks maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026, filed June 9, 2026. Ranked 41 of the 62 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
Not stated
Leading staffing pattern
Other Food Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 75%
- Becomes checking a model's work 18%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A packaged foods maker whose excerpt carries no employee count, so the headcount is not stated and its four segments are split by revenue with coffee and other foods leading.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 15% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 10% people work and 66% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 75% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 18% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
Not stated in the filing. Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the data service's 96% United States and 4% Canada is revenue.
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Food Manufacturing | 50% | By segment revenue (c): U.S. Retail Coffee (46%) and the peanut butter and other products in U.S. Retail Consumer Foods are coffee roasting and other food manufacturing (NAICS 3119), with no count by segment. |
| Animal Food Manufacturing | 20% | By segment revenue (c): the U.S. Retail Pet Foods segment, 20% of revenue, makes pet food and snacks (NAICS 3111), with no count stated. |
| Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing | 15% | By segment revenue (c): fruit spreads and frozen Uncrustables sandwiches in the consumer foods segment are preserved and frozen specialty foods (NAICS 3114), with no count stated. |
| Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing | 15% | By segment revenue (c): the Sweet Baked Snacks segment, 12% of revenue, bakes Hostess snack cakes (NAICS 3118), with no count stated. |
What the filing says about the workforce: The human capital excerpt carries no employee count; the data service shows 8,000 as of April 30, 2025 and nothing for fiscal 2026. The collector's 3,000 are the employees who transitioned with the pet food brands the company sold. Products are sold across North America.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Food Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- PepsiCo (PEP, 306,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC-V, 14,100 employees)15% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among the emerging technologies it must recruit expertise for and leverage for operating efficiencies, and says content produced by artificial intelligence could damage its brands on social media.
- “Negative or untrue posts or comments about us, partners who we work with, our brands or products on social or digital media, including content produced by artificial intelligence, could damage our brands and reputation.”
- “In addition, our ability to achieve our strategic and operating goals depends on our ability to identify, recruit, hire, train, and retain qualified individuals, including, for example, all levels of skilled labor in our manufacturing facilities or expertise related to emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.”
- “However, if we are unable to effectively compete in the expanding e-commerce market, adequately leverage technology to improve operating efficiencies (including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented reality), or develop the data analytics capabilities needed to generate actionable commercial insights, our business performance may be impacted, which may negatively impact our f...”
- “Additionally, we are routinely subject to new or modified securities regulations, other laws and regulations (including new laws and regulations governing the use of artificial intelligence), and accounting and reporting standards.”
- “Furthermore, the rapid evolution of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20255median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | not read | 2026-06-09 | 10-K |
| 2025-04-30 | 8,000 | 2025-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-04-30 | 9,000 | 2024-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-04-30 | 5,800 | 2023-06-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-04-30 | 6,700 | 2022-06-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-04-30 | 7,100 | 2021-06-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-04-30 | 7,300 | 2020-06-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-04-30 | 7,400 | 2019-06-17 | 10-K |
| 2018-04-30 | 7,000 | 2018-06-18 | 10-K |
| 2017-04-30 | 7,140 | 2017-06-19 | 10-K |
| 2016-04-30 | 6,910 | 2016-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-04-30 | 7,370 | 2015-06-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-04-30 | 4,775 | 2014-06-23 | 10-K |
| 2013-04-30 | 4,875 | 2013-06-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-04-30 | 4,850 | 2012-06-25 | 10-K |
| 2011-04-30 | 4,500 | 2011-06-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-04-30 | 4,850 | 2010-06-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-04-30 | 4,700 | 2009-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-04-30 | 3,250 | 2008-06-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-04-30 | 3,025 | 2007-06-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-04-30 | 3,500 | 2006-06-30 | 10-K |
| 2005-04-30 | 3,700 | 2005-07-12 | 10-K |
| 2004-04-30 | 2,950 | 2004-07-13 | 10-K |
| 2003-04-30 | 2,775 | 2003-07-24 | 10-K |
| 2002-04-30 | 2,300 | 2002-07-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-04-30 | 2,250 | 2001-07-24 | 10-K |
| 2000-04-30 | 2,250 | 2000-07-11 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-04-30 | 2,100 | 1999-07-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-04-30 | 2,000 | 1998-07-24 | 10-K |
| 1997-04-30 | 1,950 | 1997-07-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-04-30 | 1,925 | 1996-07-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-04-30 | 2,600 | 1995-07-25 | 10-K |
| 1994-04-30 | 2,600 | 1994-07-15 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Headcount not stated in the excerpt (rule 12): the data service's 8,000 as of April 30, 2025 is in the notes; the collector's 3,000 is a divested business's count.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- No count by segment: the split among coffee and foods, pet food, preserved foods and baked snacks is by segment revenue (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000091419-26-000050, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of The J. M. Smucker Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The J. M. Smucker Company's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does The J. M. Smucker Company employ?
- Its annual report for the period ending April 30, 2026 does not state a headcount the reading could take.
- What kinds of work make up The J. M. Smucker Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Food Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 10% people work and 66% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The J. M. Smucker Company's annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 2 and 5 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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