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/

Facts

Sector

Consumer 1

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.

Connections

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 Foods-Mondelez Split

Kraft Heinz Merger

Source Wikipedia, Kraft Heinz

Companies In Industry

Ambev

Source Wikipedia, Ambev

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

Source AB InBev (Wikipedia)

Apatin Brewery

Source Wikipedia, Apatin Brewery

Arca Continental

Source Arca Continental (Wikipedia)

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company

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

Arnott's Group

Source Arnott's Group - Wikipedia

Bacardi Limited

Source Wikipedia, Bacardi

Backus and Johnston Brewery

Source Wikipedia, Backus and Johnston Brewery

Banjalučka Pivara

Source Wikidata: Banjalucka Pivara

Baskin-Robbins

Source Wikipedia, Baskin-Robbins

Bavarian Brewing Company

Source Wikipedia, Bavarian Brewing Company

Belgh Brasse

Source Wikipedia, Belgh Brasse

Bico Limited

Source Wikipedia: Bico Limited

Brasil Kirin

Source Wikipedia, Brasil Kirin

Brasserie de Tahiti

Source Wikipedia, Brasserie de Tahiti

Brown-Forman Corporation

Source Wikipedia, Brown-Forman

BUA Foods

Source Wikipedia: BUA Foods

Budweiser Brewing Company APAC Limited

Source Budweiser APAC (Wikipedia)

Bunge Global SA

Source Wikidata: Bunge Global SA

Campari Group

Source Campari Group (Wikipedia)

Central de Cervejas

Source Wikipedia, Central de Cervejas

Ceylon Cold Stores

Source Wikipedia, Ceylon Cold Stores

Charoen Pokphand Group

Source Wikipedia: Charoen Pokphand

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc

Source Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (Wikipedia)

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.

Coors Brewing Company

Source Wikipedia, Coors Brewing Company

Danone S.A.

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

Del Monte Kenya

Source Wikipedia, Del Monte Kenya

Desnoes and Geddes

Source Wikipedia, Desnoes & Geddes

Earthbound Farm

Source Wikipedia, Earthbound Farm

Feldschlösschen

Source Feldschlösschen - Wikipedia

FEMSA

Source FEMSA (Wikipedia)

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.

Foster's Group

Source Wikipedia, Foster's Group

Fred Koch Brewery

Source Wikipedia, Fred Koch Brewery

Fredrikstad Bryggeri

Source Wikipedia, Fredrikstad Bryggeri

Fukushima Galilei

Source Fukushima Galilei (Wikipedia)

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

Grans Brewery

Source Wikipedia, Grans Brewery

Greggs

Source Wikidata: Greggs

Grupo Bimbo

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

Heineken Asia Pacific

Source Wikipedia, Heineken Asia Pacific

Heineken N.V.

Source Wikipedia, Heineken N.V.

Hijos de Rivera Brewery

Source Wikipedia, Hijos de Rivera Brewery

Hormel Foods Corporation

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

Interbrew

Source Wikipedia, Interbrew

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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.