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Simple Mills

https://www.simplemills.com/

Last activity: 28.05.2025

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We make nutritious snacks that never slow you down, so you can #LiveFull. ☀️

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Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago

Employees: 51-200

Founded date: 2012

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28.05.2025	University Of Chicago: New Venture Challenge Features 10 Finalists Competing For Over $1 Million	The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced that 10 teams have advanced to the finals of the 29th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), the University of Chicago’s signature startup accelerator for M...
03.04.2025	Hershey to buy healthier snacks maker LesserEvil	Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Hershey is buying LesserEvil, a maker of organic snacks that prioritize bold flavors with better-for-you ingredients. The purchas...
21.02.2025	40-летняя женщина потратила $25 тыс., чтобы превратить подработку на кухне в бизнес с прибылью $97 млн в год	Когда в 2006 году Лорен Касл окончила Университет Южной Калифорнии, у нее не было определенной карьерной перспективы. Она получила диплом в области коммуникаций и знала, что ей нравятся здоровье, благополучие и бизнес, но понятия не имела, ...
13.02.2025	Flowers Foods: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Consumer Preferences	In the world of baked goods, Flowers Foods Inc. is like a ship navigating through turbulent waters. The company, known for its iconic brands like Wonder Bread and Dave’s Killer Bread, is adjusting its sails to catch the winds of change. As ...
13.02.2025	Lifeway secures profit from Simple Mills deal	MORTON GROVE, ILL. — Lifeway Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of fermented dairy products, said it expects to realize approximately $5 million in net profit following the recent sale of Simple Mills to Flowers Foods, Inc. Lifeway, which was an e...
12.02.2025	Wonder bread owner Flowers Foods positioned to weather GLP-1 uncertainty, CEO says	Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Flowers Foods is positioning the bread and pastry maker’s portfolio to withstand an uncertain future tied to consumer use of GLP-...
10.02.2025	Flowers Foods shifting its focus to premium offerings	THOMASVILLE, GA. — Margin growth translated into strong earnings gains for Flowers Foods Inc. in its 2024 fourth quarter and fiscal year, despite continued top-line sluggishness in traditional loaf breads and sweet baked foods. “Financial r...
03.02.2025	Девушка запустила стартап на своей кухне, а позже продала его за $800 млн	Предпринимателям, не имеющим личного состояния или поддержки со стороны инвесторов, часто приходится идти на крайние меры, чтобы удержать новое предприятие на плаву. Они тратят свои сбережения, отказываются от зарплаты или продают имущество...
09.01.2025	Wonder bread owner buys Simple Mills for $795M	Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Wonder bread manufacturer Flowers Foods is buying better-for-you snacks maker Simple Mills for $795 million. The purchase of Simp...
25.04.2024	From almond crops to BIPOC communities, Daily Harvest aims to transition more farms to regenerative-organic	Food companies and farmers alike often see regenerative and/or organic farming as a risky venture, so despite both phrases being common in food vernacular now, actual practices aren’t widespread. Just 1% of all US farmland is organic; acrea...
27.08.2020	Amazon’s 2020 Prime Day Is Full Of Unknowns. Here’s How Brands Are Approaching It.	This year, Amazon’s Prime Day will look very different to the events of the past five years. Each year, Amazon tinkers with the formula slightly: making the event longer, introducing new promotional vehicles for brands, and highlighting spe...
20.02.2018	How Illinois Universities Power the Chicago Startup Ecosystem	Ten years ago, Chicago was not a major player in the startup ecosystem. Now, it’s one of the most important cities in tech.
22.08.2017	Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding	The well-documented gap in venture capital funding also exists in Chicago. In the last five full years, Chicago startups with at least one woman founder never received more than 20 percent of the venture capital funding or deal flow in the ...
22.08.2017	Female founders in Chicago still struggle to secure funding	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The well-documented gap in venture capital fundin...
03.06.2016	Lessons Learned from the 20th Annual New Venture Challenge	For the last ten years, Hyde Park Angels has been an active partner of the New Venture Challenge, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the University of Chicago. Our members and Managing Directors have served as judges,...
08.04.2016	The Biggest Opportunities in Food Entrepreneurship and Investing in Chicago	The Food and Beverage landscape is a behemoth, and one that until recently has remained relatively unchanged, creating enormous opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors to innovate, disrupt, and technologize its vast subcategories. In ...
09.03.2016	A Comprehensive List of Women Founders In Chicago Tech	The tech and startup world has long been a boys club. Despite making up half the population and almost 60% of the labor force, women only account for 30% of the US tech industry. And the number of female startup founders is even lower. Only...
03.02.2016	Learn When to Raise Venture Capital or Bootstrap	Join Hyde Park Angels at 1871 on Thursday, March 3 from 6:00 pm — 8:00 pm to learn from the seasoned entrepreneurs and investors behind Chicago’s biggest startups, including SkinnyPop, dough, cleverbridge, Geofeedia, and others. Hear how th...
07.08.2015	These Are Your 10 Winners of the Coolest Companies Competition!	At Chicago Fest, our summer celebration for the entrepreneurs, workers, students, and thinkers that are driving the city's innovation economy forward, we announced the 10 winners of the Coolest Companies Competition. For this friendly chall...
23.03.2015	Here are your top accelerators of 2014	Topping the list is AngelPad, along with TechStars, 500 Startups and DreamIt Ventures (Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylock and Javelin ...
-	36-year-old sold her car and maxed out her credit cards to launch a startup from her kitchen—the company just sold for $800 million	Entrepreneurs who don’t have limitless investor funding, or personal wealth, often have to go to extremes to keep a new venture afloat: Depleting their savings, forgoing a salary, even selling off assets. So it’s no surprise that Katlin Smi...

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