Quaker Oats Company

Quaker Oats Company

Company type	Operating Division
Industry	Food
Founded	1901
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois , United States
Key people	Robert S. Morrison, CEO
Parent	PepsiCo
Website	QuakerOats.com

The Quaker Oats Company is an American food division business headquarted in Chicago. Quaker's products include, oatmeal, cereal, and granola bars. Since 2001, Quaker Oats Company is owned by PepsiCo, Inc..

History

Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 as the four oat mills merged:

• The Quaker Mill Company of Ravenna, Ohio
• A cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• The German Mills American Oatmeal Company
• The Rob Lewis & Co. American Oats and Barley Oatmeal Corporation.

In 1969 Quaker got Fisher-Price, a toy business. Fisher-Price stopped being owned by Quaker in 1991.

In 1983, Quaker bought Stokely-Van Camp, Incorporated. The company makes Gatorade.

In 1994, Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion. Quaker sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million.

In August 2001, Quaker was bought out by Pepsico because Pepsi wanted to own Gatorade and be in the sports beverage market.

Since the late 1980s, actor Wilford Brimley has appeared in television commercials.

United States Brands

The brands in the United States:

United Kingdom Brands

The brands in the United Kingdom:

Notes

1. ↑ "History of The Quaker Oats Company – FundingUniverse". www.fundinguniverse.com.
2. ↑ Graney Brian (2000-09-18). "Triarc Sells Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes". The Motley Fool. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
3. ↑ Quaker: UK Trade Site. Quaker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2006. Retrieved 16 August 2010.

Other websites

• QuakerOats Company Website Archived 2017-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Quaker Oats Company from the Summit Memory Project
• The Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Quaker Oats Page on PepsiCo UK & Ireland Archived 2019-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Story about the radioactivity experiments Archived 2013-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Quaker Oats Company Canada Archived 2019-04-29 at the Wayback Machine