Dakota Growers

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Dakota Growers Pasta Co.
TypePublic
IndustryFood
Founded1990; 32 years ago (1990)
FateAcquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand
Headquarters
Carrington, North Dakota
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U.S.
Key people
Edward Irion (President)
ProductsPasta
OwnerPost Holdings (2014–pres.)
Website8avepasta.com

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is a 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.

Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, 'Dakota Growers Pasta Company' was sold to the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra, Inc.[1] Following Viterra's acquisition by Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to Post Holdings on January 1, 2014.[2]

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ Viterra to Acquire Dakota Growers Pasta Company on PR News, 10 Mar 2010
  2. ^ "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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