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Vital Farms company history timeline

2009

Then, in 2009, he heard about a Texas startup called Vital Farms that wanted to produce pasture-raised eggs and sell them across the country. “Here were guys doing something completely different,” Cox remembers. “It was just crazy enough to work.” He signed on to raise 5,000 chickens.

In 2009, Whole Foods offered a low-interest $100,000 loan to buy feed bins, a tractor and other equipment.

2013

After a 2013 flood destroyed O'Hayer's Austin farm, he focused on marketing, eventually selling the land.

2014

She shared in a 2014 Best in Business award in government reporting by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for a Financial Times A1 investigation detailing the United States government’s then-running price tag for its conflict in Afghanistan.

In 2014, Americans ate an average of 263 eggs per capita, a 30-year high, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

2016

The company, which employs 110, hit sales of $100 million last year, up nearly a third from 2016.

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Founded
2007
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Headquarters
Austin, TX
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Founders
Matthew O'Hayer,Catherine Stewart
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