Industry

Food and Beverage Industry

Also Known As Food Industry

Consumer Staples

The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. It has become highly diversified, ranging from small, traditional, family-run operations that are labor-intensive to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes, covering the full chain from agriculture and processing to packaging, distribution and retail. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Food and Beverage Industry

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FAQs

Does the food industry include more than farming and food manufacturing?

It covers the whole chain from farm to retail and the support services around it.

Yes. Wikipedia's account counts a long list of activities as part of the food industry, including marketing, wholesale distribution, food service, retail, regulation, education, research and development, and financial services such as credit and insurance. Only subsistence farmers, who survive on what they grow, and hunter-gatherers are described as outside the scope of the modern food industry.

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Agriculture Industry

Agricultural output is the primary raw-material input for the food and beverage industry's processing and manufacturing.

Source Wikipedia, Agriculture

Alcoholic Beverage Industry

Alcoholic beverages are a recognized subset of the broader food and beverage industry.

Source Wikipedia, Alcoholic Drink

Anheuser-Busch InBev-SABMiller Merger

Bean-to-Bar

Bean-to-bar chocolate makers control the process from sourcing raw cacao beans through finished bar production themselves, a vertically controlled production model within the food and beverage industry.

Franchising

The Coca-Cola bottling arrangement the source names as one of the earliest and most successful franchising operations in the United States began as a beverage maker licensing others to bottle and sell its drink, a food and beverage industry origin for the practice.

Source Wikipedia, Franchising

Horizontal Integration

Illustrated by the 2015 Heinz-Kraft merger, a $46 billion horizontal integration within food and beverage.

Source Wikipedia, Horizontal Integration

Horizontal Integration

The 2015 Heinz-Kraft merger, both companies already linked to this industry, is the source article's own recent example of horizontal integration in food and beverage: two same-level processed-food producers combining into one company.

Source Wikipedia, Horizontal Integration

Kraft Foods-Mondelez Split

Kraft Heinz Merger

Source Wikipedia, Kraft Heinz

Companies In Industry

Wilmar International

Source Wikipedia: Wilmar International

WK Kellogg Co

Source Wikipedia, WK Kellogg Co

Showing 101 to 102 of 102 in Companies In Industry, page 3 of 3.

In Sector

Consumer Staples

Additional Source Wikipedia: Global Industry Classification StandardGICS: Food, Beverage & Tobacco

Sources

1. Wikipedia, Food Industry

Wikipedia

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The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes.
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The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.