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Lesson 9: Food Processing
Food Processors and Manufacturers
The largest food companies in the US, as of 2007, include:
- Anheuser-Busch
- Tyson
- Dean Foods
- Nestlé
- Kraft
- Cadbury
- ConAgra Foods
- PepsiCo
- General Mills
- Mondelēz
- Smithfield
As a point of reference, Kraft, which recently split into two companies, has joined with Heinz to form KraftHeinz with about 43,000 employees. Mondelēz employs about 100,000 people. So you can see that some of these companies are very large indeed.
Food processors do not get mentioned often in discussions of manufacturing. In Figure 9.4, you can see that food, beverage, and tobacco products are a major source of employment and among the top when it comes to economics. The only segments bigger in terms of dollars in are computers/electronics and chemical products.
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