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Ralston Purina also owned Jack in the Box fast food restaurants from 1968 to 1985, [10] along with several high-end restaurants. [11] [12] Ralston Purina owned Van Camp Sea Food Company from 1963 to 1988, a tuna cannery with Chicken of the Sea as its main product. [13] Ralston Purina owned an animal pharmaceutical company in the 1970s and 1980s.
Ralcorp can trace its ancestry to 1898 when William H. Danforth of Purina Mills, which made animal feeds, began making breakfast cereal. He sought and received the endorsement of Webster Edgerly (Dr. Ralston) who founded the Ralstonism social movement. [3] Ralston cereal became so successful that Purina Mills was renamed Ralston Purina in 1902. [4]
Ralston Purina sold Purina Mills, the U.S. animal feed business, to British Petroleum in 1986, while retaining the pet food and international animal feed businesses. In 1993, the Sterling Group of Houston led a leveraged buyout of Purina Mills. In 1998, it was purchased by Koch Industries, but a U.S. bankruptcy court cancelled out all equity ...
3 General Mills. 4 Kellogg Company. 5 Nestlé. 6 Post Cereals. 7 Quaker Oats Company. 8 Ralston Purina Company. 9 Weetabix Food Company. 10 See also. 11 References ...
Chex is an American brand of breakfast cereal currently manufactured by General Mills. It was originally known as Shredded Ralston, first produced in 1936 and owned by Ralston Purina of St. Louis, Missouri, then later renamed Chex in 1950. [1] The Chex brand went with corporate spinoff Ralcorp in 1994 and was then sold to General Mills in 1997. [2]
Ralston Purina (1894−2001) was an American food and drink company, and pet food manufacturer. Acquired by Nestlé and merged into Nestlé Purina PetCare . Subcategories
William H. Danforth (September 10, 1870 – December 24, 1955) was an American businessman known for founding Ralston Purina in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894. He was a co-founder of the American Youth Foundation (AYF) and the author of the book, I Dare You! .
Ralston Purina, an American pet food company that was acquired in 2001; Nestlé Purina PetCare, the pet food division of Swiss-based Nestlé S.A., and the acquirer of Ralston Purina Company in 2001 (subsequently merged with Nestlé's Friskies PetCare Company) Purina Mills, a farm animal feed company that was spun off from Ralston Purina Company