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The Quaker Oats Company ( / ˈkweɪkər oʊts / ), known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill Company, the company was founded in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1881, Henry Crowell bought the company and launched a national advertising campaign for Quaker Oats. In 1911, the company acquired the Great ...
In 1873, three families started an oats milling operation originally called the North Star Mill. [3] In 1888 seven of the largest American oat millers united to form the American Cereal Company. In 1906 The American Cereal changed its name to The Quaker Oats Company. [4] On March 7, 1905, an explosion occurred in the mill and much of it was ...
The Quaker Oats company was formed by the merger of several businesses, one was the Akron-based German Mills American Oatmeal Company founded by Ferdinand Schumacher. Schumacher's facility, first built in 1872, was destroyed by fire in 1886, then was rebuilt at the same location. Those buildings formed the basis of the Quaker Oats Cereal Factory.
A local historian took residents back into Ravenna's history, through the ups and downs of the city's first 100 years. Wayne Enders discussed the founding of Quaker Oats, the loss of 10 townships ...
Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944) was an American businessman and philanthropist. In 1881, Crowell purchased the Quaker Mill Company, and subsequently the brand name Quaker, and launched the first breakfast cereal advertising campaign in a magazine. [1] He also purchased the bankrupt Quaker Oat Mill Company.
Quaker Oats bought 19.11 acres (7.73 ha) of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada for the price of US$1000 and printed up 21 million deeds for one square inch (6.5 cm 2) of land. On advice of counsel, Quaker Oats set up and transferred the land to the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company to make the company the registered owner and manager of ...
On December 15, the Quaker Oats Company announced that it was recalling specific granola bars and granola cereals due to the potential for Salmonella contamination. Quaker has not received any ...
In 1901, the American Cereal Company was renamed the Quaker Oats Company. At that time, the Quaker Oats Company was doing $16 million of sales annually, selling wheat cereals, farina, hominy, cornmeal, baby food, and animal feed. By 1918, the company did $123 million in sales. Personal life, death and legacy Stuart's grave at Rosehill Cemetery