is planning to have crackers made in suburban Chicago by a contract food manufacturer.
“We made a bid to buy everything including the physical plant, but we had different views on the value of the plant,” Leavitt told the Star Tribune. ConAgra has since sold the RyKrisp trademark for an undisclosed price to an investor group led by Ted Leavitt.
announced in January it would discontinue the hearty cracker and close the 1920s-vintage RyKrisp factory in southeast Minneapolis. They hope to return it to market this fall, though RyKrisp would no longer be produced in Minneapolis, its home for a century.ĬonAgra Foods Inc. Hoping to breathe new life into an old cracker, three erstwhile Pillsbury executives have bought the abandoned RyKrisp brand.
