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The Quaker Oats Company is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 by the merger of four oat mills:
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 August 2001, Quaker merged with PepsiCo.
In 1969, Quaker acquired Fisher-Price, a toy company and spun it off in 1991.
In the 1970s, the company financed the making of the film Willy Wonka and the...
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