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Market Trade in food and beverage
Prominent Food Companies
- Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company.
- PepsiCo is the largest U.S.-based food and beverage company.
- Unilever is an Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the world’s consumer product brands in foods and beverages.
- Kraft is apparently the world’s second largest food company, following its acquisition of Cadbury in 2010.
- DuPont and Monsanto Company are the leading producers of pesticide, seeds, and other farming products.
- Both Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill process grain into animal feed and a diverse group of products. ADM also provides agricultural storage and transportation services, while Cargill operates a finance wing.
- Bunge is a global soybean exporter and is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.
- Dole Food Company is the world’s largest fruit company. Chiquita Brands International, another U.S.-based fruit company, is the leading distributor of bananas in the United States. Sunkist Growers, Incorporated is a U.S.-based grower’s cooperative.
- JBS S.A. is the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork. Smithfield Foods is the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.
- Sysco Corporation, mainly catering to North America, is one of the world’s largest food distributors.
- General Mills is the world’s sixth biggest food manufacturing company.
- Grupo Bimbo is one of the most important baking companies in brand and trademark positioning, sales, and production volume around the world.
See also
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Market Trade in food and beverage
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