28 Facts About Kellogg Company

Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.

Kellogg Company's produces cereal and convenience foods, including crackers and toaster pastries, and markets their products by several well known brands including Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Pringles, Eggo, and Cheez-It.

Kellogg Company's products are manufactured and marketed in over 180 countries.

Kellogg Company's holds a Royal Warrant from Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales.

In 1876, John Harvey Kellogg became the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and his brother, W K Kellogg, worked as the bookkeeper.

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Years, W K Kellogg assisted his brother in research aimed at improving the vegetarian diet of the Battle Creek Sanitarium's patients, especially in the search for wheat-based granola.

In 1931, the Kellogg Company announced that most of its factories would shift towards 30-hour work weeks, from the usual 40.

From 1969 to 1970, the slogan “Kellogg Company's puts more into your day” was used on Sunday morning TV shows.

From 1969 to 1977, Kellogg Company's acquired various small businesses including Salada Foods, Fearn International, Mrs Smith's Pies, Eggo, and Pure Packed Foods; however, it was later criticized for not diversifying further like General Mills and Quaker Oats were.

Kellogg Company's introduced new products including Crispix, Raisin Squares, and Nutri-Grain Biscuits and reached out internationally with Just Right aimed at Australians and Genmai Flakes for Japan.

Kellogg Company's owns the Bear Naked, Natural Touch, Cheez-It, Murray, Austin cookies and crackers, Famous Amos, Gardenburger, and Plantation brands.

Presently, Kellogg Company's is a member of the World Cocoa Foundation.

In 2018, Kellogg Company's decided to cease their operations in Venezuela due to the economic crisis the country is facing.

The Kellogg's Company considers it as an illicit use, and the company stated they would take legal action.

Kellogg Company's kept the Keebler cracker line and replaced the Keebler name on their crackers with the Kellogg Company's name.

In June 2019, Kellogg Company's announced their next-generation Kellogg Company's® Better Days global commitment, focusing on hunger, children, and farmers, with specific targets to reach by 2030.

In January 2020, Kellogg Company's has decided to work with suppliers to phase out the use of glyphosate by 2025, which has been used by some farmers as a drying agent for wheat and oats supplied to Kellogg Company's.

Kellogg Company's is a sponsor of USA Gymnastics and produced the Kellogg Company's Tour of Gymnastics, a 36-city tour held in 2016 after the Olympic games and featured performances by recent medal-winning gymnasts from the United States.

In 1945, Kellogg Company's inserted a prize in the form of pin-back buttons into each box of Pep cereal.

Kellogg Company's placed Dale Earnhardt on Kellogg Company's Corn Flakes boxes for 1993 six-time Winston Cup champion and 1994 seven-time Winston Cup champion, as well as Jeff Gordon on the Mini Wheats box for the 1993 Rookie of the Year, 1995 Brickyard 400 inaugural race, 1997 Champion, and 1998 three-time champion, and a special three-pack racing box set with Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Terry Labonte, and Dale Jarrett in 1996.

Kellogg Company's once released Mission Nutrition, a PC game that came free with special packs of cereal.

Some of Kellogg Company's marketing has been questioned in the press, prompted by an increase in consumer awareness of the mismatch between the marketing messages and the products themselves.

Kellogg Company's said about 20 people complained about the cereals, including five who reported nausea and vomiting.

Kellogg Company's issued a voluntary recall of some of its "Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size Original" and "Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size" products due to the possibility of flexible metal mesh fragments in the food.

Kellogg Company's donated around US$2 million opposing California Proposition 37, a 2012 ballot initiative that, if enacted, would have required compulsory labeling of genetically engineered food products.

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In 2016, Kellogg Company urged President-elect Donald Trump to "continue the Paris Climate Agreement".

Kellogg Company's has donated to notable groups opposing voter-ID laws, such as the Applied Research Center .

Kellogg Company decided to remove their advertisements from the Breitbart News website.