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At that time, both Kent Feeds and Blue Seal Feeds were operating as subsidiaries of Varied Investments. [14] In 2001, Kent Feeds president Jack May resigned and was replaced by Gage A. Kent, the grandson of the company's founder. [15] Kent sells commercial animal and show feeds primarily in the Midwest and nearby regions. [16] [17] [18] [19]
The checkerboard trademark, intended to make their burlap bags of feed stand out from competitors, was introduced in 1904. [6] Ralston Purina's headquarters was called Checkerboard Square . At one point, Ralston Purina owned an interest in the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League team; during this period, the arena they then used was referred ...
Ridley Inc. is an American-based company that manufactures and markets a broad range of complete feed rations, nutritional supplements, feeding blocks and vitamin/mineral premixes directly to livestock producers and through dealer organizations from 29 production plants in the United States.
Nestlé Purina PetCare continued integrating the two companies through 2002. [10] It cut back dry dog food manufacturing at facilities inherited from Friskies PetCare Company in Jefferson, Wisconsin, St. Joseph, Missouri and Arden Hills, Minnesota, then moved those operations to manufacturing facilities acquired from Ralston.
Dale Wilmore McMillen (January 27, 1880 – April 21, 1971) [1] was a leading proponent of the use of feed supplements in animal husbandry. He founded Wayne Feeds and Central Soya. He was known as Mr. Mac to friends, family, and coworkers. McMillen was born January 27, 1880, near Van Wert, Ohio. [1]
Brad Maurice Kelley (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the 9th largest landowner in the U.S., [1] with an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion in 2018. [2] He founded the Commonwealth Brands tobacco company in 1991 and sold the company in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. [3]
Miles Reiter is the grandson of Joseph "Ed" Reiter, co-founder along with R.O. Driscoll of the Driscoll's berry company, with a networth of 28 Billion dollars . [4] [5] The Reiter family owns around 70 percent of the company, which (aside from berry production) develops and licenses the fruits’ proprietary breeds. [6]
At this time the company produced farm animal feed, dog food and horse meat for human consumption, processing 500 head of horse per week. [6] The meat was shipped to markets in Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands. Much of the horse meat was sold to the east coast as a product called Chopped and Cured and shipped to Europe as barreled ...