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Kelloggs' biggest factory is in the UK, but it has something of a strange American history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelloggs#History

for more in depth history, check out this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville

and the quality film.

well, we can't get spotted dick here (really we can if you look hard enough(also, i only take pictures of the can to send to friends)), but heinz was founded in Pittsburgh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Heinz_Company

Which has interesting results when the parent company changes a name from Marathon to Snickers.

(I agree about the Britishness of Heinz and Kelloggs. It's only in the past ten years that I realised they weren't.)

As an aside, I grew up very close to a Scottish castle owned by a member of the Heinz family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle

We do eat something like 95% of all baked beans they produce, however.