Post Holdings, Inc. is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with businesses operating in the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice, and food ingredient categories. Its Post Consumer Brands business manufactures, markets, and sells both branded and private label products, mainly breakfast cereals. Its Michael Foods Group business supplies value-added egg products and refrigerated potato products to the foodservice and food ingredient channels. Through its Post Refrigerated Retail business, Post offers potato, egg, sausage, and cheese refrigerated side dishes products. Post participates in the private brand food category through its investment in 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a leading, private brand centric, consumer products holding company.
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History
Predecessor: Post Cereals Company
C. W. Post established his company, "Postum Cereals" in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1895. Post's first product was not a cereal, however, but a roasted, cereal-based beverage, Postum.
Postum's main ingredients were naturally caffeine-free wheat grain, bran, and molasses. Initially, Postum had to be brewed like coffee, but in 1911, Post introduced a powdered, instant formulation. This version of the product was manufactured in Battle Creek until it was discontinued in 2007. As of January 2013, Eliza's Quest Food had succeeded in returning Postum to many grocery stores across the United States and Canada.
History of Post Holdings
On December 31, 2012, Post Holdings acquired Attune Foods, a marketer of premium organic cereals and snacks under the Attune, Uncle Sam and Erewhon brands.
On May 28, 2013, Post Holdings purchased the branded and private label cereal, granola and snacks business of Hearthside Food Solutions, which included the Golden Temple, Peace Cereal, Sweet Home Farm and Willamette Valley Granola Company brands, originally Yogi Bhajan's Sikh Dharma International's Golden Temple of Oregon's cereal division. Post combined this business with Attune Foods.
On September 1, 2013, Post Holdings acquired Premier Nutrition Company, a marketer of premium protein shakes and bars under the Premier Protein brand and nutritional supplements under the Joint Juice brand.
On January 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired private label pasta manufacturer Dakota Growers Pasta Company.
On February 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired Golden Boy Foods and Dymatize Enterprises. Golden Boy Foods is a manufacturer of private label peanut and other nut butters, as well as dried fruits and snacking nuts. Dymatize Enterprises is a manufacturer and marketer of premium protein powders, bars and nutritional supplements.
In August 2014, Post Holdings acquired Honey Ohs! cereal from PepsiCo.
On October 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired PowerBar, Musashi and related worldwide assets from Nestlé.
On June 2, 2014, Post Holdings acquired Michael Foods, a producer of value-added food products and service solutions to customers across the foodservice, retail and food ingredient channels including egg products, refrigerated potato products and cheese and other dairy case products through the Papetti's, AllWhites, Better‘n Eggs, Easy Eggs, Abbotsford Farms, Simply Potatoes and Crystal Farms brands.
On November 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired American Blanching Company, a manufacturer of private label peanut butter.
Brands
Post Consumer Brands
9Lives
Grape-Nuts
Gravy Train
Great Grains
Honey Bunches of Oats
Honeycomb
Kibbles 'n Bits
Pebbles
Peter Pan peanut butter
Premier Protein
Raisin Bran
Shredded Wheat
Three Sisters Cereal Brands
Malt-O-Meal
Marshmallow Mateys
Following Post Holdings' acquisition of the parent company in 2015, MOM Brands were merged with Post's existing cereal business and are now branded as Post Consumer Brands.
Weetabix brands
Alpen
Barbara's
Ready Brek
Weetabix
Weetos
UFIT High Protein Drinks
Michael Foods brands
Abbotsford Farms – Foodservice
BEF Foods
Davidson's Safest Choice – Foodservice
Michael Foods
Papetti's HyGrade Egg Products
Pineland Farm Potato Company – Foodservice
Simply Potatoes – Foodservice
Post Refrigerated Retail brands
Abbotsford Farms
Better'n Eggs
Bob Evans Farms
Country Creek Farms
Crystal Farms
Davidson's Safest Choice
Egg Beaters
Owens
Pineland Farms Potato Company
Simply Potatoes
8th Avenue Food & Provisions (private brands)
Dakota Growers Pasta Company
Golden Boy Foods
Attune Foods brands
American Blanching Company
Ronzoni Pasta
Bright Future Foods
Airly Foods