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C. W. Post. Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was an American innovator, breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. He was the founder of what is now Post Consumer Brands.
C.W. Post, founder. C. W. Post established his company in Battle Creek, Michigan, having lived there since 1891, when he was a patient at a holistic sanitarium operated by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. [1] [2] Dr. Kellogg, with his brother W. K. Kellogg, had developed a dry corn flake cereal that was part of their patients' diet.
Father. C. W. Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Marjorie Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States. [1][2]
In the same town of Battle Creek, C.W. Post, sharing the philosophy of the Kellogg brothers, began producing Postum, a cereal beverage in 1895. Food historians consider Graham ...
C.W. Post was a granola-type breakfast cereal introduced in the United States by General Foods in July 1975 (49 years ago) (). [1] It was named after C. W. Post , the founder of the Postum Cereal Company that later became General Foods.
LIU Post, formally the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C. W. Post, [1] is a private university in Brookville, New York, on Long Island. It is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest university in the LIU system. The campus is named after C. W. Post, father of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who ...
General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William (C. W.) Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895.. The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions, by Marjorie Merriweather Post after she inherited the established cereal business from her father, C. W. Post.
Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Post's original product was baked as a rigid sheet, then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder.