Defunct food company, absorbed into Kraft Foods Inc
Not to be confused with General Mills.
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General Foods Corporation
Industry
Food
Predecessor
Postum Cereal Company (1895–1929)
Founded
1929; 95 years ago (1929)
Defunct
1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Fate
Merged into Kraft Foods Inc.
Successor
Mondelez International Kraft Heinz JDE Peet's Post Consumer Brands
Headquarters
Rye Brook, New York, U.S.
Products
Breakfast cereals, cereal coffee
Brands
List
Burger Chef
Calumet
Dream Whip
Gravy Train
Maxwell House
Oscar Mayer
Rax Restaurants
Shake 'n Bake
Stove Top
Parent
Philip Morris (1985–1990)
General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895.
The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions, by Marjorie Merriweather Post after she inherited the established cereal business from her father C. W. Post. In November 1985, General Foods was acquired by Philip Morris Companies (now Altria) for $5.6 billion, the largest non-oil acquisition at the time. In December 1988, Philip Morris acquired Kraft Foods Inc., and, in 1990, combined the two food companies as Kraft General Foods. The "General Foods" name was dropped in 1995 with the corporate name being reverted back to Kraft Foods; a line of caffeinated hot beverage mixes continued to carry the General Foods International name until 2010.
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