Top 100: Corporate Profiles 1-25

The 2007 top 100 food and beverage processing companies in the U.S. and Canada are profiled in this annual feature. Find company contact information, major brands, key executives and main product areas.

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Major Product Areas: Cereals, refrigerated & prepared foods, dough products, baking products, snacks, yogurt


7. Dean Foods Co.

Address: 2515 McKinney Ave., Ste. 1200, Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: 214-303-3400; Fax: 214-303-3499; www.deanfoods.com

Executives: Chrmn. & CEO: Gregg Engles; Vice Chrmn: Pete Schenkel; EVP, Chief Admin. Officer & General Counsel: Michelle Goolsby; EVP & CFO: Jack Callahan; Pres.-Dairy Group: Alan Bernon; SVP/COO, Dairy Group: Harrald Kroeker; COO-east region: Rick Fehr; COO-private label & Morningstar: John Robinson; SVP-Corporate Development: Ronald H. Klein; VP & Treas.: Timothy Smith; Pres./CEO-WhiteWave: Joseph Scalzo

Subsidiaries, Divisions: Alta Dena Dairy, Amboy Specialty Products, Amboy of Michigan, Barber Dairy, Bell Dairy Products, Berkeley Farms, Coburg Dairy, Cream O’Weber Dairy, Creamland Dairies, Dean Dairy Products Co., Dean Foods Co. of California, Dean Milk Co., Fairmont Products Inc., H. Meyer Dairy, Hillside Dairy, Horizon Organic, Kohler Mix, Maplehurst Dairy, Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc., Meadow Brook Dairy, Meadow Gold, Meadows Distributing, Melody Farms, Purity Dairies, Reiter Dairy, Sani-Dairy, T.G. Lee Foods, Verifine Dairy Products Corp., Wengert’s Dairy, White Wave

Brands: Alta Dena, Arctic Splash, Barbers, Barbe’s, Berkeley Farms, Borden*, Broughton, Brown Cow, Brown’s Dairy, Bud’s Ice Cream, Chug, Country Charm, Country Churn, Country Delite, Country Fresh, Country Love, Creamland, Dairy Fresh, Dean’s, Dipzz, Foremost*, Fieldcrest, Garelick Farms, Gandy’s, Hershey’s*, Horizon Organic, Hygeia, International Delight, Kohler, Land O’Lakes*, Land-O-Sun, Lehigh Valley, Louis Trauth, Maplehurst, Mayfield, McArthur, Meadowbrook, Meadow Gold, Melody Farms, Mile High, Mountain High, Nature’s Pride, Oak Farms, Over the Moon, Pet*, Price’s, Purity, Reiter, Robinson, Saunders, Sealtest*, Schenkel’s All Star, Schepps, Shenandoah’s Pride, Silk, Skinny Cow, Sealtest*, Stroh’s, Swiss, Swiss Premium, TG Lee, Tuscan, Turtle Tracks, Verifine, Viva, Wengert’s, White Wave

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Major Product Areas: Dairy


8. Smithfield Foods Inc.

200 Commerce St., Smithfield, VA 23430
Phone: 757-365-3000; Fax: 757-365-3017; www.smithfieldfoods.com

Executives: Chairman: Joseph Luter III; Pres/CEO: C. Larry Pope; VP-Rendering: Douglas Anderson; VP, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary: Michael Cole; VP & Controller: Jeffrey Deel; VP & CFO: Carey Dubois; VP-Operations Analysis: Bart Ellis; VP and Senior Counsel: Michael Fleming; VP_Investor Relations & Corp. Comms: Jerry Hostetter; VP-Livestock Procurement: Jeffrey Luckman; EVP: Robert Manly IV; VP-Operations: Henry Morris; EVP & Dir.-Mergers & Acquisitions and Govt. Affairs: Richard J.M. Poulson; VP-Sales & Mktg: James Schloss; VP & Chief Accounting Officer: Kenneth Sullivan; VP-Price-Risk Management: Dhamu Thamodaran; VP-Environmetnal & Govt. Affairs: Dennis Treacy

Subsidiaries, Divisions: Smithfield Packing Co. Inc., Smithfield, Va.; Gwaltney of Smithfield Ltd., Smithfield, Va.; Carroll’s Foods, Inc.; John Morrell & Co., Cincinnati; Patrick M. Cudahy Inc., Cudahy, Wis.; Lykes Meat Co. Inc., Plant City, Fla., Murphy Family Farms

Brands: Dinner Bell, First Prize, Great, Gwaltney, Jamestown, John Morrell, Kretschmar, Lykes, Patrick Cudahy, Patrick's Pride, Peyton's, Realean, Smithfield Lean Generation Pork, Smithfield Premium, Tobin's, Valleydale


9. ConAgra Inc.

One ConAgra Drive, Omaha, NE 68102-5001
Phone: 402-595-4000; Fax: 402-595-4707; www.conagra.com

Executives: Chairman: Steven Goldstone; CEO: Gary Rodkin; Pres/COO-Consumer Foods: Dean Hollis; Pres/COO-Commercial Products: Greg Heckman; Pres.-ConAgra Food Sales: Doug Knudsen; EVP-Product Supply: Jim Hardy Jr.; EVP-Research, Quality & Innovation: Al Bolles; EVP & CFO: Andre Hawaux; EVP & Chief  Administrative Officer: Owen Johnson; EVP-Legal & External Affairs: Rob Sharpe Jr.; EVP & CMO: Joan Chow; EVP-Business Transformation: King Puow; EVP-Human Resources: Pete Perez

Subsidiaries/Divisions: Snacks, Grocery, Dairy, Frozen Foods, Specialty Potato Prods., Gilroy & Spicetec, Intl. Fertilizer, ConAgra Mills, Agricultural Commodities, J.M. Swank, Lamb Weston

Brands: Act II, Andy Capp’s, Armour, Banquet, Beatrice, Blue Bonnet, Chef Boyardee,  Country Pride, County Line, David, Decker, Eckrich, Egg Beaters, Fleischmann's, Gilroy, Golden Cuisine, Gulden, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Hunt's Snack Pack, Kid Cuisine, Knott’s Berry Farm, La Choy, Lamb-Weston, Libby’s, Lightlife, Louis Kemp, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, Pam, Parkay, Pemmican, Peter Pan, Reddi-Wip, Ro-Tel, Rosarita, Singleton, Slim Jim, Swift Premium, Swiss Miss, Van Camp's, Wesson

Major Product Areas: Canned, frozen and preserved foods, grain mill products, bakery, fats/oils, miscellaneous


10. Cadbury Schweppes

25 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6HB, UK
Phone: +(44) (0) 20 7409 1313; www.cadburyschweppes.com

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