While the story of Post Holdings begins in 2012, our heritage dates back more than 100 years through our cereal and egg businesses. In 2012, Post Holdings separated from Ralcorp Holdings through a tax-free spin-off with the Post cereal brands forming our only operating segment. Since then, Post Holdings has completed several acquisitions which have transformed the company into a diversified consumer products holding company. Read through the timeline below to learn more about the milestones in our history.
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Post acquires the assets of Perfection Pet Foods, LLC, a leading manufacturer and packager of private label and co-manufactured pet food and baked treat products.
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Post acquires pet food and snack brands Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Nature’s Recipe®, 9Lives®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and Gravy Train®, as well as private label dog and cat food business in the U.S. and Canada from The J. M. Smucker Company.
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Post completes spin-off of 80.1% of Post’s interest in BellRing to Post shareholders and fully divests the remainder of its interest by the end of the year. Click here to read the BellRing Brands story.
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Post acquires the Peter Pan® peanut butter brand. Post acquires the Egg Beaters® brand. Post acquires the ready-to-eat (“RTE”) cereal business of TreeHouse Foods.
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Post’s Active Nutrition business is spun-off through an initial public offering (IPO) and named BellRing Brands. After the IPO, Post retained approximately 71% of the newly formed company and approximately 29% of the business was sold to the public.
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Post acquires Bob Evans Farms, producer of refrigerated dinner sides, including mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, and distributor of sausage and bacon products, potato products, and egg products including liquid eggs.
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Post combines its private brands businesses of Attune Foods, Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Golden Boy Foods and American Blanching Company to create 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, and separately capitalizes the newly formed business with Thomas H. Lee Partners, a private equity firm.
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Post acquires Weetabix, a United Kingdom based packaged food company that produces ready-to-eat cereal products spanning branded and private label.
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Post acquires National Pasteurized Eggs, a producer of pasteurized shell eggs under the Davidson’s Safest Choice® brand.
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Post acquires MOM Brands Company, a manufacturer of ready-to-eat cereal, and combines it with Post Foods to form Post Consumer Brands. Post acquires Willamette Egg Farms, a producer, processor and wholesale distributor of eggs and egg products.
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Post acquires: Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc.; Golden Boy Foods Ltd., a manufacturer of private label nut butter and dried fruit and nuts; Dymatize Enterprises, LLC; Michael Foods, a manufacturer of egg products, refrigerated potato and cheese/dairy case products; the PowerBar® brand and American Blanching Company, a private label peanut butter manufacturer.
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Post acquires the predominantly private label cereal and granola business of Hearthside Food Solutions and combines it with Attune Foods. Post acquires Premier Nutrition Corporation, a marketer of high protein shakes and bars.
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Post spins off from Ralcorp and emerges as a standalone publicly traded company. Our sole operating segment consists of Post Foods. Post acquires assets of Attune Foods, Inc., a natural and organic platform of cereal and snack brands.
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Post Foods, a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded ready-to-eat cereal, splits-off from Kraft and merges with Ralcorp in a tax-free Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
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Premier Nutrition launches its first Premier Protein® shake product.
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Attune Foods is founded and later acquires the Uncle Sam® and Erewhon® cereal brands in 2009.
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Malt-O-Meal Company purchases the Quaker Bagged Cereal Business, transforming its cereal portfolio to one concentrated on large, value-sized bags. Malt-O-Meal Company later changes its name in 2012 to MOM Brands Company.
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Bob Evans Farms launches its first refrigerated side dishes in grocery stores.
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Dymatize Nutrition is founded and begins marketing nutritional supplements to athletic programs.
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A grower-owned cooperative founded by farmers was established in the early 1990s, which later developed into Dakota Growers Pasta Company.
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Michael Foods is formed by North Star Universal and goes public through an IPO, its business comprised of refrigerated potato products.
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PowerBar is founded and introduced as the first energy bar.
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General Foods Corporation is purchased by The Philip Morris Companies and, after Kraft was acquired by The Philip Morris Companies in 1989, is combined with Kraft to become Kraft General Foods.
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Golden Boy Foods is founded as a family owned company selling roasted nuts, raw nuts and dried fruit.
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M.G. Waldbaum introduces the first extended shelf-life liquid egg. M.G. Walbaum was later acquired by Michael Foods in 1988.
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Bob Evans began making sausage on his southeastern Ohio farm to serve at a 12-stool diner he owned in Gallipolis, Ohio. Bob Evans Farms was later officially established in 1953.
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British and African Cereal Co, predecessor to Weetabix, was formed and soon after purchased a disused flour mill in Burton Latimer to start production of Weetabix cereal.
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Derby Foods / E.K. Pond Company renames their peanut butter brand Peter Pan, after a popular theatrical production on Broadway. The Peter Pan peanut butter brand is later acquired by Post in 2021.
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Nathan’s Produce Company, predecessor to Crystal Farms, is founded. Crystal Farms was later acquired by Michael Foods in 1987.
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Campbell Cereal Company, predecessor to Malt-O-Meal Company and MOM Brands Company, is founded by John Campbell with $900 of poker winnings.
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Following C.W. Post’s death in 1914, the Postum Cereal Company parent corporation name is changed to General Foods Corporation. It goes on to significantly expand its product line through acquisitions and new product introductions.
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Papetti’s, Michael Foods’ egg foodservice business, is founded as a poultry business. Papetti’s was later acquired by Michael Foods in 1997. Uncle Sam cereal is introduced by a predecessor of Attune Foods.
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The Postum Cereal Company, predecessor to Post Foods, is founded by C.W. Post, who introduces Grape-Nuts® cereal, one of the first ready-to-eat cold cereals, in 1897.
