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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.
Eleanor Post Hutton (granddaughter) Dina Merrill (granddaughter) Signature. 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 .
Post Consumer Brands (previously Post Cereals and Postum Cereals; also known as simply "Post") is an American consumer packaged goods food manufacturer headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota . 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 ...
In the same town of Battle Creek, C.W. Post, sharing the philosophy of the Kellogg brothers, began producing Postum, a cereal beverage in 1895. Food historians consider Graham ...
Post Toasties. Post Toasties was an early American breakfast cereal made by Post Foods. It was named for its originator, C. W. Post, and intended as the Post version of corn flakes. [ 1][ 2] Post Toasties were originally sold as Elijah 's Manna [ 3] (c. 1904) until criticism from religious groups (and consequent loss of sales) led to a change ...
Marjorie Merriweather Post was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter and only child of C. W. Post and Ella Letitia Merriweather. At age 27, following her father's death in 1914, she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company, founded in 1895.
C. W. Post established his company, "Postum Cereals" in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1895. [5] [6] Post's first product was not a cereal, however, but a roasted, cereal-based beverage, Postum. Postum's main ingredients were naturally caffeine-free wheat grain, bran, and molasses. Initially, Postum had to be brewed like coffee, but in 1911, Post ...
Side note: C.W. Post suffered from appendicitis shortly before he killed himself. Apparently the cereal hadn't helped him. The cereal's newest ad campaign suggests the stuff makes men more virile.