Quest Nutrition was founded by Ron Penna, Mike Osborn, and Tom Bilyeu, software industry veterans who grew frustrated that nutrition bars on the market were loaded with sugar. Penna’s wife Shannan, then a fitness trainer, made nutrition bars without sugar and with truly healthy ingredients.
The founders faced a huge obstacle when they could not find an industrial machine that could make the bars without sugar, which was needed to help the bars slide easily through the machine. They ended up having to reengineer the equipment, a time that the founders now describe as the “birth of the Quest spirit.”
Today the company engineers, manufactures, and markets healthy snacks made of truly nutritious and natural ingredients.
Today Quest Nutrition is #2 on the INC list of Fastest- Growing Private U.S. Companies. The company had $143,863 in revenue in 2010 and in 2013 revenue of $82.6 million, growth of 57,348%. The company is also INC’s #1 Top Food & Beverage Companies and INC’s #2 Top California Company.
Quest Nutrition
Quest Nutrition was founded by Ron Penna, Mike Osborn, and Tom Bilyeu, software industry veterans who grew frustrated that nutrition bars on the market were loaded with sugar. Penna’s wife Shannan, then a fitness trainer, made nutrition bars without sugar and with truly healthy ingredients.
The founders faced a huge obstacle when they could not find an industrial machine that could make the bars without sugar, which was needed to help the bars slide easily through the machine. They ended up having to reengineer the equipment, a time that the founders now describe as the “birth of the Quest spirit.”
Today the company engineers, manufactures, and markets healthy snacks made of truly nutritious and natural ingredients.
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Today Quest Nutrition is #2 on the INC list of Fastest- Growing Private U.S. Companies. The company had $143,863 in revenue in 2010 and in 2013 revenue of $82.6 million, growth of 57,348%. The company is also INC’s #1 Top Food & Beverage Companies and INC’s #2 Top California Company.
