What is Quaker Oats Company?
{{Infobox Company | name = Quaker Oats Company | logo = | caption = | type = Operating Division | genre = | foundation = 1901 | founder = | location_city = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] | location_country = [[United States]] | location = | locations = | area_served = | key_people = [[Robert S. Morrison]], [[CEO]] | industry = Food | products = | services = | market cap = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = [[PepsiCo]] | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = [http://www.quakeroats.com/ QuakerOats.com] | footnotes = }} The '''Quaker Oats Company''' is an [[United States|American]] food division business headquarted in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]]. Quaker's products include, oatmeal, cereal, and granola bars. Since 2001, Quaker Oats Company is owned by [[PepsiCo|PepsiCo, Inc.]]. == History == [[File:Quaker Oats advertisement 1905.jpg|thumb|1905 advertising magazine of Quaker Oats]] Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 as the four oat mills [[wikt:merged|merged]]: * The Quaker Mill Company of [[Ravenna, Ohio|Ravenna]], [[Ohio]] * A cereal mill in [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa|Cedar Rapids]], [[Iowa]] * The German Mills American Oatmeal Company * The Rob Lewis & Co. American Oats and Barley Oatmeal Corporation. In 1969 Quaker got [[Fisher-Price]], a toy business. Fisher-Price stopped being owned by Quaker in 1991. In 1983, Quaker bought Stokely-Van Camp, Incorporated. The company makes [[Gatorade]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/the-quaker-oats-company-history/|title=History of The Quaker Oats Company – FundingUniverse|website=www.fundinguniverse.com}}</ref> In 1994, Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion. Quaker sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million.<ref>{{cite web|author=Graney Brian|title=Triarc Sells Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes|url=http://www.fool.com/news/breakfast/2000/breakfast000918.htm|publisher=The Motley Fool|date=2000-09-18|accessdate=2010-08-16}}</ref> In August 2001, Quaker was bo