Corporate Profile
Cereal
Ralston Foods
Ralston Foods remains the nation’s largest supplier of high quality private label cereal, producing both ready-to-eat (RTE) and hot cereals. Its extended product line includes organic cereals, snack mixes, cereal and nutrition bars, and other custom products. The company offers more than 40 RTE varieties, including emulations of over 30 of the top national brands and more than 20 hot cereals.
With over 100 years in the cereal business, the company delivers the product consistency and service excellence its customers demand. Using only quality ingredients in its modern, efficient plants, Ralston Foods upholds strict production standards while maximizing operations and logistics capabilities to meet the growing needs of its customers. A team of 1,500 plus employees across seven locations ensures high quality products, customer satisfaction, and competitive pricing.
The company also leads the industry by providing value-added services to enhance the consumer experience. Ralston Foods partners with retailers to grow their in-store categories through custom package design, in-store marketing, couponing, promotions, and more.
Snacks, Sauces, and Spreads
Bremner Food Group, Inc.
Ralcorp’s Snack businesses, each an industry leader in its category, include Bremner Food Group, Inc., Nutcracker Brands, Inc., Medallion Foods, Inc., and Linette Quality Chocolates. Producing primarily value and store brand products in the grocery, mass merchandise and drug trades, they also have a small presence with branded products in selected categories. These businesses were combined into a single operating unit in 2008 to leverage sales and marketing opportunities.
Bremner has seven facilities in the U.S. and produces a full line of cracker products, enrobed and wire cut cookies, sugar wafers and sandwich crème cookies. Nutcracker Brands produces a variety of snack nuts and trail mixes. Its newly expanded facility in Alabama now also handles capacity from a Massachusetts plant which was closed this year, thus reducing costs and increasing production capabilities. Medallion Foods, with its facility located in Arkansas, produces a variety of corn based salty snacks including tortilla chip and extruded corn meal snacks. Linette Quality Chocolates produces a variety of high quality specialty chocolate products at its manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania. Harvest Manor Farms, based in El Paso Texas, produces Hoodys® Branded Snack Nuts.
Carriage House Companies
Carriage House is the nation’s largest supplier of store brand preserves and jellies, peanut butter, table syrups and dressings. It is a leading maker of private label sauces, and also offers a variety of cocktail mixers in the beverage channel. Most of its products are available in several brand emulations, providing top quality alternatives to the national brands. Customers include leading grocery retailers, wholesalers, mass merchandisers, drug chains and foodservice companies. Carriage House products are prepared in its four plants, located in New York, Kentucky and Illinois.
A number of process improvements and capital investments have been made in the manufacturing network to drive efficiencies and maximize superior quality. With a focus on new product development as well, sugar free offerings in preserves, jellies and syrup reflect an ongoing commitment to provide even more healthy products. Through numerous marketing and merchandising programs, Carriage House helps its customers market their brands to their shoppers through vehicles such as Display Shippers, for secondary locations in their stores, and Band Packs, where two complementary items are banded together for consumer value and convenience.
Frozen Bakery Products
Ralcorp Frozen Bakery produces branded and custom, value-added bakery products, and markets them to leading customers in the foodservice, in-store bakery, retail, and club channels. Major customers include both national and regional quick service and casual dining restaurants, supermarket chains, mass merchandisers, and foodservice distributors. The company is a national leader in frozen griddle products (pancakes, French toast and waffles) for foodservice and retail; a private-brand leader in the refrigerated dough category; one of the largest providers of pre-baked cookies and artisan breads to in-store bakery; and also a major provider of premium frozen biscuits for foodservice.
Frozen Bakery also is a leader in the artisan bread category, offering a comprehensive line of frozen, pre-baked breads and rolls, plus signature products for major customers. Recent introductions include whole grain and ancient grain artisan breads, nutritionally enhanced frozen griddle products, thaw-and-serve Danish and sliced biscuits, and holiday cookies. From its ten facilities in the U.S. and Canada, the company utilizes sophisticated equipment and processes to reduce time, labor and cost for operators and retailers, while providing consistently high quality for consumers.
Dry Pasta
American Italian Pasta Company is the leading supplier of private label and store brand dry pasta, and markets several of the top regional pasta brands in the U.S. The company serves retail and foodservice customers and provides high-quality ingredients for food manufacturers. As the largest producer of dry pasta in North America, AIPC makes over 300 pasta shapes for consumption in the U.S. and abroad.
All of AIPC's manufacturing plants are vertically integrated with milling and manufacturing, and all of the U.S. facilities have adjacent distribution centers as well. Taking into account AIPC's lean operations structure, modern facilities, and strict production standards, AIPC is a true leader in the U.S. dry pasta market.
Founded in 1988 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, AIPC has grown to include manufacturing plants in Columbia, South Carolina, Tolleson, Arizona and Verolanuova, Italy.