A. E. Staley

The AE Staley Company, based in Decatur ( Illinois), processed cereals and oil seeds to various products that are used in food, beverage, industrial and food products worldwide. It is now a subsidiary of the British company Tate & Lyle LLC.

Augustus Eugene Staley founded in 1898 in Baltimore, a distribution company for food starch. In 1909 he bought a factory in Decatur, to enter themselves in the production of starch, and started operations in March 1912, the production on.

Staley was a supporter of the idea of ​​pro football and founded in 1920 a football league, which was also his Decatur Staley took part, working as semi-professionals in his factory. From the Decatur Staley today's Chicago Bears have become.

• Food manufacturers