Quaker Oats Company
Overview
United States
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food conglomerate
Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...
based in Chicago. It has been owned by Pepsico
PepsiCo
PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
since 2001.
Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 by the merger of four oat mills
Rolled oats
Rolled oats are traditionally oat groats that have been rolled into flat flakes under heavy rollers and then steamed and lightly toasted. The oat, like the other cereals, has a hard, inedible outer husk that must be removed before the grain can be eaten. After the outer husk has been removed from...
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- The Quaker Mill CompanyQuaker Mill CompanyThe Quaker Mill Company was a 19th-century American oat mill company in Ravenna, Ohio. After merging with three other companies in 1901, the company became the Quaker Oats Company, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo.-History:...
of Ravenna, OhioRavenna, Ohio* Chris Bangle; automobile designer* Bill Bower, last surviving pilot of the Doolittle Raid* David D. Busch; best-selling author* William Rufus Day; U.S. Supreme Court justice* Calvin Hampton; Classical organist* Robert B...
, which held the trademark on the Quaker name and was founded by Henry Parsons CrowellHenry Parsons CrowellHenry Parsons Crowell was an American businessman, founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a philanthropist.At the end of the 19th century, steam engines, telegraph and telephone systems, electricity and typewriters were part of the explosion of technology in America.- Character :Henry Parsons...
, who bought the bankrupt Quaker Oat Mill Company, also in Ravenna. He was holding the key positions between the general manager, president and chairman of the company from 1888 until late 1943.
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