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Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was an American innovator, breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. He was the founder of what is now Post Consumer Brands.
C.W. Post was a granola -type breakfast cereal introduced in the United States by General Foods in July 1975 (49 years ago). [1] It was named after C. W. Post, the founder of the Postum Cereal Company that later became General Foods.
C.W. Post (born October 26, 1854, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.—died May 9, 1914, Santa Barbara, California) was an American manufacturer noted for his development of breakfast cereals.
The company, founded in 1895 by C. W. Post, owns a large portfolio of cereal brands that include Bran Flakes, Honey Bunches of Oats, Golden Crisp, Grape-Nuts, Honeycomb, Oreo O's, Pebbles, and Waffle Crisp, among others.
Introduced in 1974. See the Top 100 Breakfast Cereals. This was granola-type cereal named after Charles William Post, the founder of Post cereals (original called Postum Cereals). C. W. Post cereal was available in two varieties - one with raisins and one without raisins.
Marjorie Merriweather Post transformed the Postum Cereal Company into one of America’s largest food corporations in the early 1900s. Read about her pioneering business achievements.
Among the most successful was C. W. Post, a one-time patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium who adapted Kellogg’s cereal recipe into his own mass-produced version, Grape-Nuts, to tremendous...