Dakota Growers
Dakota Growers Pasta Company is an American brand of pasta and food processing, currently owned by 8th Avenue, a company of Post Holdings. The former Dakota Growers agricultural processing company was located in Carrington, North Dakota, having started in 1990 as a wheat-growers cooperative. In 2002, Dakota Growers became a public company.
Type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Food |
Founded | 1990[1] |
Fate | Acquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Edward Irion (President) |
Products | Pasta |
Owner | Post Holdings (2014–pres.) |
Website | 8avepasta.com |
Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, 'Dakota Growers Pasta Company' was sold to the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra, Inc.[2] Following Viterra's acquisition by Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to Post Holdings on January 1, 2014.[3]
Television
Vice President David Tressler and the plant were featured on the Food Network show Unwrapped. The episode focused on the manufacture of Dakota Growers Pasta's Dreamfields low-carb pasta line.
Products
- dry pasta
- semolina
- durum wheat
- mill feed by-products
References
- Who We Are - Dakota Growers
- Viterra to Acquire Dakota Growers Pasta Company on PR News, 10 Mar 2010
- "Post Holdings Completes Acquisition of Dakota Growers Pasta Company". Post Holdings, Inc. January 2, 2014. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
External links
- Official website (archived, 2 Feb 2010)
- Unwrapped YouTube video
- Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc (Google Maps)