Gus Barber started Barber Foods with one employee, a butcher knife and an old truck. He had a 1,000 square foot facility and delivered beef to restaurants and markets in Portland, Me.
Five years ago, Kellogg Company and its agency, Leo Burnett Worldwide, devised the Special K Challenge diet plan, which boosted Special K to become the company's No. 1 brand with an estimated $500 million in global sales.
Church & Dwight Co. Inc. and ACNielsen U.S. form a long-term arrangement designating ACNielsen as its primary provider of marketing information services on a global basis.
