Dakota Growers

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Dakota Growers Pasta Co.
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Food
Founded1990;35 years ago (1990) [1]
FateAcquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand
Headquarters
Carrington, North Dakota
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U.S.
Key people
Mike Ness (Plant Manager)
Jack Dalrymple (Chairman)
Products Pasta
Owner Post Holdings (2014–pres.)
Website 8avepasta.com

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. [2] As per media reports, Dakota Growers Pasta Company was the third largest pasta manufacturer in North America in 2002, processing about 1.5 million pounds of pasta daily. [3]

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Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, Dakota Growers Pasta Company was sold to the Canadian-based agribusiness, Viterra, Inc. [4] Following Viterra's acquisition by Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to Post Holdings on January 1, 2014. [5]

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.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Who We Are - Dakota Growers
  2. ↑ "USA: Dakota Growers Pasta Co to sell stock to the public". Just Food. 24 May 2002.
  3. ↑ "Dakota Growers Pasta Company members approve corporate change". AgUpdate. 30 May 2002.
  4. ↑ Viterra to Acquire Dakota Growers Pasta Company on PR News, 10 Mar 2010
  5. ↑ "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.
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