BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Kellogg’s, a 119-year-old mainstay in Battle Creek, is in talks to sell its cereal company for $3 billion to an Italian company.

Various media reports indicate the Ferrero Group could purchase Kellogg’s as early as this week. The company owns Nutella, Butterfinger, and Keebler, among others.

Kellogg’s began pouring cereal, particularly corn flakes, into bowls across America in 1906. Over the years, Kellogg’s produced products like Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and Raisin Bran.

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One reason for the sale can be laid at Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s feet. She may talk a good game about building more products in America, but the statistics say otherwise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Michigan boasted 628,900 manufacturing jobs in January 2019 when Whitmer took office. As of February 2025, the state marked a 4.4% decline of those same jobs, with the total coming in at 601,300.

In addition, Whitmer has admitted her COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 didn’t make much sense. Those comments don’t do any good after the lockdowns forced thousands of businesses to shutter permanently. The Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association reported in 2021 that one in six businesses failed to survive the governor’s orders.

Whitmer has also plunked down hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to go on international business trips to the United Arab Emirates, Spain, and Australia this year to try and bring foreign businesses back to Michigan. However, she’s done little to help cut the red tape for already established businesses in Michigan.

Whitmer is rumored to be a presidential contender in 2028.