Dakota Growers

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.

Products

  • Dry pasta
  • Semolina
  • Durum wheat
  • Mill feed by-products

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, retrieved February 12, 2014^