Quaker Oats Company makes many types and flavors of oatmeal.
The Quaker Oats Company is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois founded in 1901 by the merger of three separate companies, all of whom sold products made of oats, such as oatmeal. The company expanded into numerous areas, including other breakfast cereals and other food and drink products, and even into non-related fields such as toys.
In the 1970s, the company financed the making of the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and allowed the company to use a number of the product names mentioned in the movie for candy bars.
In August 2001, Quaker merged with PepsiCo, who primarily wanted the company for its Gatorade brand of soft drink. The merger created the fourth-largest consumer goods company in the world.
QuakerOats has no connection to the Religious Society of Friends also known as the Quakers.
The antiquated image used by QuakerOats looks nothing like a modern Quaker as that form of dress has been abandoned by the religious movement for quite some time.
In the 1950s, researchers from QuakerOats Company, MIT and Harvard University carried out experiments to determine how the nutrients from cereals travelled through the body.
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