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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Associated With

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 Heinz Merger

Source Wikipedia, Kraft Heinz

Companies In Industry

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

BUA Foods

Source Wikipedia: BUA Foods

Bunge Global SA

Source Wikidata: Bunge Global SA

Charoen Pokphand Group

Source Wikipedia: Charoen Pokphand

Coca-Cola HBC AG

Source Wikipedia: Coca-Cola HBC

Conagra Brands, Inc.

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Danone S.A.

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Florida Ice and Farm Company

Source Wikidata: Florida Ice and Farm Company

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

GEA Group

Source Wikidata: GEA Group

General Mills

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

George Weston Limited

Source Wikipedia: George Weston Limited

Greggs

Source Wikidata: Greggs

Grupo Bimbo

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Hormel Foods Corporation

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Israel Beer Breweries

Source Wikidata: Israel Beer Breweries

Kerry Group

Source Wikidata: Kerry Group

Kraft Foods Group

Source Wikidata: Kraft Foods Group

Land O'Lakes

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's is a global fast food restaurant chain, the food service side of the food and beverage industry.

Additional Source Wikipedia, McDonald's CorporationLead section

Mondelez International, Inc.

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Nestle

Source Nestle (Wikipedia)

Orkla ASA

Source Wikipedia: Orkla ASA

Parmalat

Source Wikidata: Parmalat

Pivara Tuzla

Source Wikidata: Pivara Tuzla

Quaker Oats Company

Source Wikipedia: Quaker Oats Company

San Miguel Brewery

Source Wikidata: San Miguel Brewery

Schwarz Gruppe

Source Wikidata: Schwarz Gruppe

Sysco Corporation

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Tata Consumer Products

Source Wikipedia: Tata Consumer Products

The Clorox Company

Source Wikidata: The Clorox Company

The Hershey Company

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

The J. M. Smucker Company

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

The Kraft Heinz Company

Source Wikipedia, Kraft Heinz

Tyson Foods, Inc.

A major food and beverage company; classified in the atlas food-and-beverage-industry.

Ulker

Source Wikidata: Ulker

Upland Brewing Company

Source Wikidata: Upland Brewing Company

Whole Foods Market

Source Wikipedia: Whole Foods Market

Wilmar International

Source Wikipedia: Wilmar International

Sources

1. Wikipedia, Food Industry

Wikipedia

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has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are labor-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.