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3 de oct. de 2023 · At Post Consumer Brands, we carry on the legacy of Marjorie Merriweather Post every day. As the only child of our founder C.W. Post, she inherited the Postum Cereal Company in 1914 at just 27 years old, becoming one of America’s first prominent female business leaders.. Marjorie’s forward-thinking leadership and values continue to inspire our relentless efforts to make quality food ...
2 de feb. de 2006 · In 1906 W.K. founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company. He spent heavily on advertising, including a campaign telling the reader to ‘wink at your grocer and see what you get’. What you got was a free sample of W.K.’s cornflakes. The campaign increased sales by a factor of fifteen in New York City and the company was rapidly ...
Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist.She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation.For much of Marjorie Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States.
26 de oct. de 2020 · On this day, October 26 in the year 1854, one of the few men who achieved great success against all odds was born in Illinois, United States. His name was Charles William Post, the founder of Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. which later became General Foods Corporation. Charles Post was the son of an itinerant laborer and a poet.
C. W. Post: (Charles William Post), 1854–1914, American food manufacturer and developer of breakfast cereals, b. Springfield, Ill. He worked (1872–86) selling agricultural machines and invented a number of farm implements. Plagued by nervous breakdowns, he stayed at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek, Mich., sanitarium; the foods used there to promote health inspired him to start his own ...
9 de dic. de 2019 · On May 9, 1914, 60-year-old C.W. Post shot himself and was buried in Battle Creek. His arch rival, John Harvey Kellogg, outlived him by 29 years and died at age 91, in 1943. Kellogg’s enterprises became the Kellogg’s cereal company, while Post’s company ballooned into General Foods, which continued to make ridiculous, incredibly ...
8 de sept. de 2019 · Charles William "C. W." Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was an American inventor, breakfast cereal a
