Prominent Food Companies
- Nestlé: world's largest food and beverage company.
- PepsiCo:largest U.S.-based food and beverage company.
- Unilever: Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods and beverages.
- Kraft: apparently the world's second largest food company, following its acquisition of Cadbury in 2010.
- DuPont and Monsanto Company: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 Limited: global soybean exporter and is also involved in food processing, grain trading, and fertilizer.
- Dole Food Company: 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.: world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork. Smithfield Foods is the world's largest pork processor and producer.
- Sysco Corporation: mainly catering to North America, one of the world's largest food distributors.
- General Mills: world's sixth biggest food manufacturing company.
- Grupo Bimbo: one of the most important baking companies in brand and trademark positioning, sales and production volume around the world.
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