While developing this year’s Top 50 Snack & Bakery Companies list, I dug into the story behind Quest Nutrition and its stratospheric rate of growth over the years.
Founded in 2010, by 2014 sales of its bars in the nutritional/intrinsic health value segment had reached around $2,881,800—an impressive start. This year, Quest Nutrition sales in that same segment hit over $209,716,800. That’s over 7,000 percent growth in four years—and that just represents Quest Nutrition’s business in one bar segment as tracked by IRI. Today, the company is hitting global sales north of $1 billion—and it’s sitting at the No. 32 slot on our Top 50 list.