The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg’s, is an American multinational cereal pizza manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Kellogg’s products are manufactured and marketed in over 180 countries. Kellogg’s largest factory is at Trafford Park in Trafford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom, which is also the location of its UK headquarters.

First Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. 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. The Kelloggs are best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal corn flakes. Kellogg persuaded his brother to serve the food in flake form. Soon the flaked wheat was being packaged to meet hundreds of mail-order requests from guests after they left the Sanitarium. John Harvey forbade his brother Will from distributing cereal beyond his consumers. As a result, the brothers fell out, and W.

Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906. Convincing his brother to relinquish rights to the product, Will’s company produced and marketed the hugely successful Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes and was renamed the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1909, taking on the current name of the Kellogg Company in 1922. By 1909, Will’s company was producing 120,000 cases of Corn Flakes a day. John, who resented his brother’s success, filed suit against Will’s company in 1906 for the right to use the family name. The resulting legal battle, which included a trial that lasted an entire month, ended in December 1920 when the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in Will’s favor. In 1931, the Kellogg Company announced that most of its factories would shift towards 30-hour work weeks, from the usual 40. Kellogg stated that he did this so that an additional shift of workers would be employed in an effort to support people through the depression era.

From 1969 to 1977, Kellogg’s acquired various small businesses including Salada Foods, Fearn International, Mrs. Over the years, it has also gone on to acquire Morningstar Farms and Kashi divisions or subsidiaries. 7 billion in a cash deal. Earlier that year, Kellogg’s also opened new corporate office space in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart for its global growth and IT departments. In 2018, Kellogg’s decided to cease their operations in Venezuela due to the economic crisis the country is facing. Their factories were taken by the Venezuelan state under the Nicolás Maduro administration.

Better Days global commitment, focusing on hunger, children, and farmers, with specific targets to reach by 2030. 50,000 to support GLAAD’s anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy efforts”. The All Together cereal combined six mini cereal boxes into one package to bring attention to anti-bullying. In January 2020, Kellogg’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’s. On June 21, 2022, Kellogg’s announced that the company will spin-off three of its cereal, snacks, and plant-based food divisions. The cereal and plant-based food spin-off companies will keep Battle Creek as their headquarters and the new snack company will be based in Chicago.