General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA

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 by Charles William Post

C. W. Post

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 as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895. The name General Foods was adopted in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions. In November 1985, General Foods was acquired by Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group, Inc.) for $5.6 billion, the largest non-oil acquisition to that time.