Nestled in the flat farmlands of southern Acadia Parish is a company that is responsible for most of the nutrients you’ll find in breakfast cereal, sports drinks and supplements.

The Wright Group has grown to become a global leader in nutritional blends and enriched products 135 years after it was founded in Crowley by an Indiana rice farmer.

Ask current president and CEO Salmon L. “Sam” Wright IV about the company’s history, and he’ll show you a museum-type display inside. Wright, the great-grandson of founder Salmon L. “Sol” Wright, bought the company 21 years ago.

“We’re very unique,” Wright said. “We’re actually the last original family with a business like this. All the other families we competed against over the years have sold out to foreign corporations. We’re the last homegrown

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