Dakota Growers

Dakota Growers Pasta Co.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Food
Founded	1990; 35 years ago
Fate	Acquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand
Headquarters	Carrington, North Dakota, 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]

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]}

Products

Dry pasta
Semolina
Durum wheat
Mill feed by-products

References

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

External links

Official website (archived, 2 Feb 2010)
Unwrapped YouTube video
Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc (Google Maps)

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[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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v t e Post Holdings, Inc.
Post Consumer Brands	Bran flakes Chips Ahoy! Cereal CoCo Wheats Dunkin' Cereal Golden Crisp Grape-Nuts Honeycomb Honey Bunches of Oats Honey Ohs! Malt-O-Meal Marshmallow Mateys Oreo O's Pebbles Peter Pan peanut butter Postum Raisin bran Shredded wheat Shreddies Uncle Sam Waffle Crisp
Weetabix Ltd.	Alpen Ready Brek Weetabix Weetos
Private brands	Attune Foods Dakota Growers
Other	Bob Evans (grocery) PowerBar
Former	Alpha-Bits Birds Eye Crispy Critters Cröonchy Stars C.W. Post (cereal) Erewhon Jell-O Post Toasties Walter Baker
Related	General Foods C. W. Post Marjorie Post Clarence Birdseye
Category

v t e City of Carrington
Topics	Carrington Public School Central Dakota Telecommunications Consortium Dakota Growers Pasta Daktel Northern Plains Electric Cooperative
Media	Foster County Independent Daktel KDAK
Transportation (highway)	U.S. 52 U.S. 281 North Dakota Highway 200
Transportation (railroad)	Canadian Pacific Red River Valley & Western
Notable residents	Jim Kleinsasser Larry Woiwode