Who owns Malt-O-Meal?
Malt-O-Meal is owned by Post Holdings (the United States, NYSE: POST), which has owned the brand since 4 May 2015.[1]
Evidence: Post Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-21, SEC EDGAR, 21 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Post Holdings, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, St. Louis, Missouri
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Northfield, Minnesota
- Founded
- 1919
- Category
- Food › Breakfast cereal › Hot cereal & oats
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: POST
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Malt-O-Meal
Malt-O-Meal is a hot wheat cereal founded in 1919, and the name also covers a large value cereal business selling brand equivalents in bags rather than boxes. Post acquired the company in 2015 for $1.15 billion. Selling in resealable bags rather than boxes cuts packaging cost, which is how the range undercuts the brands it imitates.
How often Post Holdings names Malt-O-Meal in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Ownership timeline of Malt-O-Meal
- 2015 – present Post Holdings [1] verified
Where Malt-O-Meal sits in Post Holdings
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Post Holdings
Post Holdings controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in food.
Also in food
- Grape-Nuts (1897)
- Honey Bunches of Oats (1989)
- Pebbles (1971)
- Post Raisin Bran (1942)
- Weetabix (1932)
Other brands in hot cereal & oats, and who owns them
The 13 brands in hot cereal & oats on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Raisio, with 2.
About the owner: Post Holdings
Post Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: POST.
Post Holdings was spun out of Ralcorp in 2012 with the Post cereal business and has since bought aggressively across cereal, eggs, pet food and nutrition. The cereal brand itself dates to 1895, when C. W. Post created Postum as a coffee substitute after a stay at the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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🇺🇸 Malt-O-Meal and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Malt-O-Meal is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Malt-O-Meal?
The parent company of Malt-O-Meal is Post Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Malt-O-Meal American?
Yes. Malt-O-Meal originated in the United States in 1919 and its owner, Post Holdings, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Post Holdings owned Malt-O-Meal?
Post Holdings has owned Malt-O-Meal since 4 May 2015.
Is Malt-O-Meal still owned by Post Holdings?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Malt-O-Meal is still owned by Post Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Post Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-21 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 21 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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