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Primeros años C. W. Post con su hija Marjorie. Marjorie Merriweather Post nació en Springfield, en el estado de Illinois, hija única de C. W. Post, propietario de la empresa alimentaria Postum cereals, fundada en 1895, y Ella Letitia Merriweather.A los 18 años, Marjorie se casó con el banquero de inversiones Edward Bennett Close, con quien tuvo dos hijas, Adelaide y Eleanor.
William Post (June 27, 1927 – February 10, 2024) was an American businessman and inventor. Born to Dutch immigrants and raised in Michigan, Post became the plant manager for Hekman Biscuit company, a cookie company he worked for since he was sixteen years old.As plant manager, he was approached by Kellogg's to create a toaster pastry which later became known as the Pop-Tart, gaining credit ...
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-Nuts, Honeycomb, Oreo O's, Pebbles, and Waffle ...
Charles William Post, or C W Post as he preferred, was an industrious & inventive young man. After attending the University of Illinois for two years, he became a farm equipment salesman & invented and patented several farm implements, including a plow, a harrow, and a hay-stacking machine. The stress of his career caused him to have a mental ...
In 1906, C.W. Post had to move his latest breakfast product--corn flakes--from store shelves into cereal bowls nationwide. Post genuinely believed his corn flakes and other breakfast foods would make people well. Through sampling and other innovative sales and marketing techniques, ...
1 de may. de 1995 · Other members of the family, including Post's brother Rollin, followed C. W. (as he signed his name) to Fort Worth. In 1888 the Posts acquired a 200-acre ranch on the outskirts of the city and began the development of a subdivision on their property; they laid out streets and lots for homes and constructed a woolen mill and a paper mill.
C.W. Post. George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-16071) (1854–1914). American manufacturer C.W. Post was noted for his development of breakfast cereals. He founded the Postum Cereal Co. Ltd., which in 1922 became General Foods Corporation. Charles William Post was born on October 26, 1854, in ...
