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Kellogg's Cereals

With its headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan, the Kellogg's Company is the world's largest manufacturer of packaged, ready-to-eat breakfast cereals and related snack products. Many of the company's products, like Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, and Rice Krispies, have become familiar breakfast foods around the globe. In 2001, the company reported more than $6 billion in sales worldwide.

Kellogg's evolved from the religiously based "health industry" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The company can trace its roots to the work of two brothers, John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) and Will Keith Kellogg (1860–1951). Both men were Seventh.....

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