Post Holdings
Post Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in the center-of-the store, foodservice, food ingredient, private label, refrigerated and active nutrition food categories. Its Post Consumer Brands business manufactures, markets and sells branded and private label cereal products. Its Michael Foods Group business supplies value-added egg products, refrigerated potato products, cheese and other dairy case products and dry pasta products to the foodservice, food ingredient and private label retail channels. Its active nutrition business markets and distributes protein beverages, bars and gels. Its Private Brands business manufactures private label peanut butter and other nut butters, dried fruits, baking and snacking nuts, cereal and granola.
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| Traded as | NYSE: POST |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S. (1895) |
| Headquarters | St. Louis, Missouri |
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Key people
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C. W. Post, William Stiritz,[1] Rob Vitale[2] |
| Products | Breakfast cereals, granola, granola snacks, probiotic bars, egg substitutes, refrigerated potatoes, cheese, protein bars, protein shakes, protein powders, dry pasta, peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, dried fruits, baking nuts, snacking nuts |
| Subsidiaries | Post Foods, PowerBar |
| Slogan | POST |
| Website | postholdings.com |
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Post Holdings acquisitions
On December 31, 2012, Post Holdings acquired Attune Foods, a marketer of premium organic cereals and snacks under the Attune, Uncle Sam and Erewhon brands.[3]
On May 28, 2013, Post Holdings purchased the branded and private label cereal, granola and snacks business of Hearthside Food Solutions, which included the Golden Temple, Peace Cereal, Sweet Home Farm and Willamette Valley Granola Company brands.[4] Post combined this business with Attune Foods.
On September 1, 2013, Post Holdings acquired Premier Nutrition Company, a marketer of premium protein shakes and bars under the Premier Protein brand and nutritional supplements under the Joint Juice brand.[5]
On January 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired private label pasta manufacturer Dakota Growers Pasta Company.[6]
On February 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired Golden Boy Foods and Dymatize Enterprises.[7] Golden Boy Foods is a manufacturer of private label peanut and other nut butters, as well as dried fruits and snacking nuts. Dymatize Enterprises is a manufacturer and marketer of premium protein powders, bars and nutritional supplements.
On February 3, 2014, Post Holdings announced it has reached an agreement to acquire PowerBar, Musashi and related worldwide assets from Nestlé.[8] Post completed the acquisition on October 1, 2014.[9]
On June 2, 2014, Post Holdings acquired Michael Foods, a producer of value-added food products and service solutions to customers across the foodservice, retail and food ingredient channels including egg products, refrigerated potato products and cheese and other dairy case products through the Papetti’s, AllWhites, Better‘n Eggs, Easy Eggs, Abbotsford Farms, Simply Potatoes and Crystal Farms brands.[10]
On November 1, 2014, Post Holdings acquired American Blanching Company, a manufacturer of private label peanut butter.[11]
On January 27, 2015, Post Holdings announced that it was purchasing competitor MOM Brands, makers of the Malt-O-Meal line of cereals, for $1.15 billion ($1.05 billion cash and 2.5 million shares of Post Holdings stock). Post completed the acquisition on May 4, 2015.[12]
Attune Foods cereals, granola and snack brands
- attune probiotic bars
- Erewhon Organic Cereal
- Erewhon organic graham crackers
- Peace Cereal
- Sweet Home Farm granola
- Uncle Sam Cereal
- Willamette Valley organic granola
Michael Foods brands
- Papetti’s
- AllWhites
- Better‘n Eggs
- Easy Eggs
- Abbotsford Farms
- Simply Potatoes
- Crystal Farms
Active Nutrition brands
- Dymatize gainer powder
- Dymatize protein bar
- Dymatize protein powder
- Dymatize recovery/amino acids
- Joint Juice supplement drink
- Joint Juice supplement drink mix
- PowerBar
- Premier Protein bar
- Premier Protein FIBER bar
- Premier Protein shake
- Premier Protein mixed berry smoothie
- Supreme Protein Accelerate Morning protein bar
- Supreme Protein high protein bar
- Supreme Protein high protein milkshake
- Supreme Protein whey & casin protein shake mix
Private Label brands
- Dakota Growers Pasta Company
- Golden Boy Foods
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