What is Post Holdings?
Post is a public consumer packaged foods, cereal, pet food, foodservice, refrigerated retail, and protein shakes company with $7.9B fiscal 2025 net sales, headquartered in St. Louis, MO.
- Category
- Consumer packaged foods, cereal, pet food, foodservice, refrigerated retail, and protein shakes
- Headquarters
- St. Louis, MO
- Founded
- 2012 spin-off; Post cereal roots date to 1895
- Employees
- About 11,000
- Total funding
- Public company; no VC funding
- Status
- NYSE: POST
What is Post Holdings?
Post Holdings is a public company in consumer packaged foods, cereal, pet food, foodservice, refrigerated retail, and protein shakes. Its latest public reporting shows $7.9B fiscal 2025 net sales and Q1 fiscal 2026 net sales of $2.2B; adjusted EBITDA outlook raised to $1.55B-$1.58B.
Post Holdings operates at public-company scale in agriculture, food ingredients, or food production rather than as a venture-backed startup. Its core business spans Post Consumer Brands cereal, Weetabix, Michael Foods egg products, Foodservice egg and potato products, Bob Evans refrigerated foods, and related commercial programs serving growers, food manufacturers, retailers, foodservice accounts, industrial customers, or consumers.
The company is large enough that buying decisions are usually distributed across corporate functions, plants, farms, processing sites, quality teams, logistics networks, finance, procurement, IT, legal, sustainability, and commercial leadership. Current scale is anchored by $7.9B fiscal 2025 net sales, About 11,000, headquarters in St. Louis, MO, and a public listing as NYSE: POST.
For sellers, Post should be mapped as a multi-threaded account, not a single executive sale. The strongest pitches tie directly to measurable outcomes such as yield, uptime, food safety, quality, margin expansion, working-capital efficiency, supply-chain resilience, customer service levels, sustainability reporting, or lower cost to serve.
What does Post Holdings offer?
Post Holdings offers Post Consumer Brands cereal, Weetabix, Michael Foods egg products, Foodservice egg and potato products, Bob Evans refrigerated foods, Premier Protein, and related commercial, operating, or distribution services.
- Post Consumer Brands cereal· Offering
- Weetabix· Offering
- Michael Foods egg products· Offering
- Foodservice egg and potato products· Offering
- Bob Evans refrigerated foods· Offering
- Premier Protein· Offering
- Dymatize· Offering
- Pet food and private label foods· Offering
How does Post Holdings make money?
Post Holdings makes money by producing, processing, sourcing, formulating, merchandising, branding, or distributing agricultural and food-related products through negotiated commercial channels.
Post Holdings's pricing is not a public SaaS-style price list. Revenue generally comes from commodity-linked contracts, customer programs, branded and private-label products, ingredient specifications, supply agreements, processing margins, distribution services, retail or foodservice channels, and project or plant-level operating economics.
Growth depends on volume, price/mix, crop and protein cycles, commodity spreads, customer wins, innovation, channel execution, plant productivity, sourcing reliability, freight, inventory discipline, and the company's ability to convert raw agricultural inputs into higher-value products. In the latest reporting period, the scale marker was $7.9B fiscal 2025 net sales, with performance context of Q1 fiscal 2026 net sales of $2.2B; adjusted EBITDA outlook raised to $1.55B-$1.58B.
Vendors should expect procurement discipline, food-safety or supplier-quality reviews, legal and data-security review for software, plant or site pilots, and regional stakeholder maps. Practical sales language should quantify ROI by facility, farm, route, product line, SKU family, ingredient system, retailer, foodservice account, or customer segment.
Who leads Post Holdings?
Post Holdings is led by Robert V. Vitale, President and Chief Executive Officer, with finance, operations, technology, legal, commercial, and business-unit leaders shaping major buying decisions.
- Robert V. VitalePresident and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2014Leads portfolio, M&A, and operating strategy across Post's food platforms.
- Matthew J. MainerSenior Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerCFOLeads finance, reporting, leverage, acquisitions, and investor communications.
- Nicolas CatoggioPresident and Chief Operating OfficerOperating leaderOversees operating execution across Post's business units.
- Bradly A. HarperChief Accounting OfficerAccounting leaderLeads accounting, controls, and public reporting support.
- Jennifer MeyerGeneral Counsel and Corporate SecretaryLegal leaderLeads legal, governance, compliance, and transaction support.
How do you contact Post Holdings's leadership?
Post Holdings publishes official corporate, investor, media, supplier, or customer contact routes. Use those official channels; do not treat inferred personal executive addresses as verified unless the company has published them.
investorrelations@postholdings.com is a public official contact route; personal executive email format not verified- Matthew J. MainerSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officerinvestorrelations@postholdings.com
How much funding has Post Holdings raised?
Post Holdings is a public company (NYSE: POST), so its capital profile is public equity, debt, operating cash flow, acquisitions, divestitures, and shareholder returns rather than venture funding rounds.
Post Holdings does not have a startup-style funding-round history to enumerate. Its relevant capital base is the public market listing (NYSE: POST), operating cash flow, debt capacity, dividends or repurchases where applicable, and major acquisition, divestiture, plant, farm, capacity, technology, and supply-chain investments.
The current budget signal is operating scale, not runway. Post Holdings's latest public reporting shows $7.9B fiscal 2025 net sales, About 11,000, and Q1 fiscal 2026 net sales of $2.2B; adjusted EBITDA outlook raised to $1.55B-$1.58B, which means enterprise buying normally moves through annual planning, procurement, capital committees, IT/security, supplier qualification, operations leadership, and executive sponsorship.
For sales teams, funding should be interpreted as capital allocation. Strong opportunities attach to documented cost savings, risk reduction, plant throughput, agricultural yield, safety, quality, compliance, automation, traceability, sustainability, customer service, logistics efficiency, or measurable gross-margin improvement.
How did Post Holdings get here?
Post Holdings's history runs from founding and public-market scale through portfolio expansion, operational milestones, leadership transitions, and current 2025-2026 priorities.
- 1895Post cereal rootsC.W. Post launches the cereal business that becomes the Post brand.
- 2012Post Holdings spin-offPost separates from Ralcorp and begins trading as an independent public company.
- 2014Michael Foods acquiredPost expands into egg products and foodservice.
- 2017Weetabix acquiredPost adds the UK-based Weetabix cereal platform.
- 2025$7.9B fiscal net salesPost reports fiscal 2025 net sales near $7.9B across consumer brands, Weetabix, foodservice, refrigerated retail, and pet food.
- 2026Q1 outlook raisedPost reports Q1 fiscal 2026 net sales of $2.2B and raises adjusted EBITDA outlook.
Who are Post Holdings's competitors?
Post Holdings competes with large agriculture, food-ingredient, fertilizer, crop-input, fresh-produce, or packaged-food companies depending on the product line and customer channel.
- General MillsPackaged food and cereal competitor.
- KellanovaGlobal snacks and cereal competitor formerly Kellogg Company.
- WK KelloggNorth American cereal competitor.
- TreeHouse FoodsPrivate-label food and co-manufacturing competitor.
- Cal-Maine FoodsEgg and prepared-foods competitor through Michael Foods overlap.
- BellRing BrandsProtein shake and sports-nutrition company spun out of Post and still commercially adjacent.
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