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Rold Gold refers to first a company and then a remaining brand of pretzels now owned by Frito-Lay. The company originally named the American Cone and Pretzel Company was founded in 1917 by prominent Philadelphia businessman L.J. Schumaker.Run for its first half century as a family business Rold Gold expanded its operations to St. Louis Missouri and El Segundo California and established a reputation for producing pretzels.