| Dakota Growers Pasta Co. | |
| Type: | Subsidiary |
| Industry: | Food |
| Predecessors: | --> |
| Founded: | [1] |
| Founders: | --> |
| Fate: | Acquired by Viterra in 2010, becoming a brand |
| Successors: | --> |
| Hq Location City: | Carrington, North Dakota |
| Hq Location Country: | U.S. |
| Areas Served: | --> |
| Key People: | Mike Ness (Plant Manager) |
| Products: | Pasta |
| Owner: | Post Holdings (2014–pres.) |
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.
Announced as a joint press release on March 10, 2010, 'Dakota Growers Pasta Company' was sold to the Canadian-based agribusiness Viterra, Inc.[2] Following Viterra's acquisition by Glencore Xstrata, Dakota Growers was sold to Post Holdings on January 1, 2014.[3]
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.