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In 1981, Nabisco merged with Standard Brands to form "Nabisco Brands", which merged with R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1985 to form RJR Nabisco. Kraft General Foods acquired the Nabisco cold cereals from RJR Nabisco in 1993, and the cereal brands are now owned by Post Holdings. In 1999, Nabisco acquired Favorite Brands International.
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.
Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co., 305 U.S. 111 (1938), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the Kellogg Company was not violating any trademark or unfair competition laws when it manufactured its own Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal, which had originally been invented by the National Biscuit Company (later called Nabisco).
In Canada, production began in 1939 at Lewis Avenue, Niagara Falls, Ontario. [1] As of 2024, this plant was still in operation. [2]Shreddies were produced under the Nabisco name until the brand in Canada was purchased in 1993 by Post Cereals, [3] [4] whose parent company in 1995 became Kraft General Foods, which sold Post to Ralcorp in 2008 and is now Post Foods Canada Corp., a unit of Post ...
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1875 and changed its name to R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. in 1970.It became RJR Nabisco on April 25, 1986, after the company's $4.9 billion purchase, and earlier 1.9 billion stock swap, of Nabisco Brands Inc. in 1985.
At Kellogg, workers allowed a one-time concession in 2015, granting the company the ability to temporarily institute a two-tiered system with tight caps for how many workers could be considered ...
Kraft Foods Inc. (/ ˈ k r æ f t /) was a multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. [4] It marketed many brands in more than 170 countries. Twelve of its brands annually earned more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, and Tang. [5]
This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies, such as Kellanova, WK Kellogg Co, General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nestlé, Quaker Oats and Post Consumer Brands, but similar equivalent products are often sold by other manufacturers and as store brands. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can ...