WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following
is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census
Bureau:
A STORIED CEREAL
Profile America — Saturday, August
1st. If you shop the cereal aisle in your supermarket,
you'll see dozens of brands on display, from the sugary and
candy-like to high-fiber organic products. One of them has been
available for over 120 years, an early entrant in the cereal
business. It was on this date in 1893 that Denver restaurant owner Henry Perky received a
patent for a "Machine for the Preparation of Cereals for Food."
That food was shredded wheat. By 1901, he had set up an
ultra-modern plant at Niagara Falls called "the Palace of Light" to
make shredded wheat, and the falls became the familiar logo of the
cereal, which continues as a Nabisco product. In the U.S. today,
there are 69 breakfast cereal manufacturing establishments,
employing 13,500 workers. The business earns a combined
$11 billion in annual sales.
Profile America is in its 19th year as a public
service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources:
Kane's Famous First Facts, 3924
Perky story:
http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/technology/home/cookery/perky.htm
Breakfast cereal manufacturing/NAICS 31123:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2013_00A1&prodType=table
Breakfast cereal value of shipments/NAICS 31123:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2013_31GS101&prodType=table
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