Nature's Path
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Nature's Path is a privately owned and family operated organic food
company in North America
. Nature's Path is North America's largest organic cereal brand and also sells certified organic breads, cookies, and snack bars in 42 countries around the world.
, the CEO and co-founder with his wife Ratana, of Nature's Path opened Canada's first large organic supermarket in 1971. Called Lifestream, the supermarket had an electric-powered 20” stone-buhr mill which ground tons of fresh whole-grain flour every day. The Lifestream brand was eventually sold to Kraft
/Phillip Morris and in 1985 the Stephens' started a new company: Nature's Path.
The first product produced by Nature's Path was called Manna Bread®. Based on a passage from The Essene Gospel, the bread was a sprouted bread. Eventually, the brand grew to 140 cereal and breakfast products with $300 million in annual sales. Andrew Weil
teamed up with Nature's Path to introduce cobranded fruit and nut bars. The company owns 2240 acres of farmland in Saskatchewan used for organic farming.
Organic food
Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers, do not contain genetically modified organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.For the...
company in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. Nature's Path is North America's largest organic cereal brand and also sells certified organic breads, cookies, and snack bars in 42 countries around the world.
History
Arran StephensArran Stephens
Arran Stephens is a Canadian CEO, entrepreneur and author. He hails from a farming family on Vancouver Island. He and his wife Ratana cofounded food businesses that became Nature's Path in Vancouver after he visited India in the 1960s...
, the CEO and co-founder with his wife Ratana, of Nature's Path opened Canada's first large organic supermarket in 1971. Called Lifestream, the supermarket had an electric-powered 20” stone-buhr mill which ground tons of fresh whole-grain flour every day. The Lifestream brand was eventually sold to Kraft
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...
/Phillip Morris and in 1985 the Stephens' started a new company: Nature's Path.
The first product produced by Nature's Path was called Manna Bread®. Based on a passage from The Essene Gospel, the bread was a sprouted bread. Eventually, the brand grew to 140 cereal and breakfast products with $300 million in annual sales. Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil
Andrew Thomas Weil is an American author and physician, who established the field of integrative medicine which attempts to integrate alternative and conventional medicine. Weil is the author of several best-selling books and operates a website and monthly newsletter promoting general health and...
teamed up with Nature's Path to introduce cobranded fruit and nut bars. The company owns 2240 acres of farmland in Saskatchewan used for organic farming.