update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . november 2014 ralcorp holdings inc. type subsidiary of treehouse foods industry food production founded 1994 1994 in st. louis missouri spun off from ralston purina headquarters bank of america plaza st. louis missouri united states key people richard koulouris vp and president products private brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery mass merchandise and drugstore retailers and frozen bakery products sold to in store bakeries restaurants and other foodservice customers . website www.ralcorp.com ralcorp holdings is a manufacturer of various food products including breakfast cereal cookies crackers chocolate snack foods mayonnaise pasta and peanut butter . the company is based in st. louis missouri . the majority of the items ralcorp makes are private label store brand products . it has over 9 000 employees . 1 ralcorp has its headquarters in the bank of america plaza in downtown st. louis . 2 contents 1 history and description 1.1 purchase by conagra 2 subsidiaries 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history and description edit a 1922 newspaper advertisement for ralston whole wheat cereal originally part of ralston purina the ralston name was more associated with food for humans ; soda crackers and a farina cereal among other products were marketed under this name . ralcorp can trace its ancestry to 1898 when william h. danforth of purina mills which made animal feeds began making breakfast cereal . he sought and received the endorsement of webster edgerly dr. ralston who founded the ralstonism social movement . 3 ralston cereal became so successful that purina mills was renamed ralston purina in 1902 . 4 ralston purina also for many years produced the familiar line of chex and cookie crisp cold breakfast cereals . the animal and human food businesses were seemingly only tenuously related . in 1994 the human food business was spun off to ralcorp holdings operating as ralston foods which then sold its branded breakfast cereal lineup to general mills and its continental baking division wonder bread and twinkies to interstate bakeries . the purina part of the company is now split . the pet food company sold to nestl is now called nestl purina petcare . the livestock feed company is called purina mills llc and is a unit of land o lakes . ralcorp manufactures many store brand foods that are sold in grocery outlets across the united states under the retailers private labels . in late 2007 ralcorp signed an agreement with kraft foods to acquire the post cereals brands thus returning to the major branded cereal business . the acquisition was completed august 4 2008 . 5 another brand name product ralcorp makes and markets is ry krisp crisp bread . purchase by conagra edit in 2011 ralcorp received an offer for the company from conagra foods . ralcorp resisted the attempt . ralcorp also announced it was spinning off its post foods unit . 6 the spinoff was completed in 2012 . 7 on november 27 2012 conagra officials announced they were purchasing ralcorp pending ralcorp shareholder approval for about 4.95 billion . stockholders of ralcorp holdings inc. would receive 90 per share . the acquisition was completed in january 2013 . 8 as a result conagra is the largest private label packaged food business in the united states . 9 subsidiaries edit american italian pasta company acquired 2010 ralcorp frozen bakery products 10 bakery chef acquired 2003 11 cottage bakery acquired 2006 12 earl of sandwich frozen breads 13 14 krusteaz frozen products 15 acquired from continental mills in 1999 by bakery chef 16 lofthouse foods acquired 2002 17 panne provincio ralcorp snacks sauces and spreads bremner food group acquired 1978 carriage house companies formed 2000 ralston foods 18 bloomfield bakers lovin oven llc 19 acquired 2009 see also edit list of food companies references edit symbol lookup from yahoo finance . treehouse foods welcome . hoolihan christopher ; atwater edward c. an annotated catalogue of the edward c. atwater collection of american popular medicine and health reform volume 1 a l university of rochester press 2002 p. 223 . isbn 1 58046 098 4 http www.nestlepurina.com wholegrain.aspx ralcorp announces completion of post cereals merger . ralcorp holdings inc. retrieved 2008 09 08 . boyle matthew july 14 2011 . ralcorp to spin off post foods after failing to find buyer . bloomberg . ralcorp completes separation of post cereals business . ralcorp holdings inc. february 6 2012 . retrieved september 6 2012 . conagra foods completes acquisition of ralcorp news room conagra foods . conagrafoods . conagra foods to make big purchase . associated press via ktvo tv . 27 november 2012 . retrieved 28 november 2012 . treehouse foods frozen home . the deal ralcorp holdings inc. acquires bakery chef . st. louis business journal . december 14 2013 . reed fujii . lodi s cottage bakery sells for 170.8 million . recordnet.com . ralcorp frozen premium deli breads . earl of sandwich premium deli breads pdf . ralcorpfrozen.com . ralcorp frozen home . bakery chef acquistions fuel growth . st. louis business journal . january 10 2000 . treehouse foods welcome . ralston foods . ralston foods . http bloomfieldbakers.com external links edit official website ralcorp frozen bakery products ralston foods v t e conagra foods brands and divisions act ii american italian pasta company mrs. grass mueller s andy capp s banquet bertolli frozen foods only blue bonnet chef boyardee crunch n munch david sunflower seeds del monte canada and mexico egg beaters fiddle faddle fleischmann s yeast gulden s healthy choice hebrew national hunt s hunt s snack pack jiffy pop kid cuisine la choy libby s manwich marie callender s orville redenbacher s p. f. chang s home menu pam parkay peter pan poppycock reddi wip ro tel ry krisp slim jim swiss miss van camp s wesson wolf brand chili acquisitions beatrice foods international home foods lincoln snacks company ralcorp retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ralcorp & oldid 743638399 categories companies formerly listed on the new york stock exchangefood manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in st. louisfood and drink companies established in 1994conagra foods brandsbaking mixeshidden categories wikipedia articles in need of updating from november 2014all wikipedia articles in need of updating navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 14 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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