The Food Disruptors

The Food Disruptors


#44 Henry Crowell: The Quaker Oats Man Makes Marketing History

June 20, 2019

Henry Crowell (1855-1944) gave us Quaker Oats for breakfast. Before he began mass-marketing a commodity, oats were generally regarded as horse food. The occasional immigrant housewife (Irish, Scottish, or German) might cook chopped oats into a porridge...