2008 Readers' Choice Awards: The Food Industry's Best Suppliers

Ingredients:
*Differences of 2% or less are a statistical tie

Beverage flavors
1. Givaudan 13%
2. Firmenich 5%
Flavors of North America/FONA 5%
Robertet 5%
Wild Flavors 5%

Cheese & cheese ingredients
1. Kraft Food Ingredients 24%
2. Sargento 11%
3. Kerry 7%

Chocolate/cocoa
1. ADM 24%
2. Barry Callebaut 20%
3. Blommer 8%
Cargill 8%

Colorants
1. Sensient 24%
2. D.D. Williamson 7%
Chr. Hansen 7%
Sethness 7%

Dairy flavors & ingredients
1. Edlong Dairy Flavors 13%
Kerry 13%
3. Butter Buds 7%

Emulsifiers
1. Danisco 21%
2. Caravan 9%

Enzymes
1. Danisco 13%
Novozymes 13%

Fats & oils
1. Cargill 21%
*Bunge 20%
3. ADM 7%
Loders Croklaan 7%

Fruits/dried fruits
1. Van Drunen Farms 11%
*Dole 9%

Grain products
1. ConAgra 18%
2. Cargill 11%
3. ADM 5%

Gums & hydrocolloids
1. TIC Gums 36%
2. CP Kelco 11%
3. FMC 8%

Nuts
1. Diamond Foods 12%
2. Blue Diamond Growers 6%

Salt
1. Morton 41%
2. Cargill 22%

Savory flavors
1. McCormick 8%

Stabilizers
1. Danisco 15%
TIC Gums 15%

Starches
1. National Starch 53%
2. Tate & Lyle 9%
3. Cargill 6%

Sugar
1. Domino 39%
2. Imperial 9%
*United Sugars 7%

Sweeteners (not sugar)
1. Tate & Lyle 24%
2. Cargill 16%

Sweet flavors
1. Bell Flavors 10%
*Givaudan 8%
*IFF 8%

Vanilla
1. Virginia Dare 16%
2. David Michael 6%

Vegetables/dried vegetables
1. Van Drunen Farms 18%

Equipment & Services
*Differences of 2% or less are a statistical tie

Control systems
1. Rockwell Automation 43%

Conveying equipment
1. Azo 8%

Dryers & ovens
1. Heat and Control 11%
*Aeroglide 9%

Extrusion
1. Coperion Werner & Pfleiderer 12%
*Wenger 10%

Flooring
1. Stonhard 35%

Flow measurement
1. Emerson Process Management 16%

Form/fill/seal equipment
1. Bosch 16%

Heat transfer equipment
1. APV 29%

Lubricants
1. Chevron 15%
2. Jax 11%
Lubriplate 11%
Shell 11%

Metal detection/X-ray/inspection
1. Mettler Toledo 35%
2. Fortress 12%
Loma 12%

Mixing & blending
1. SPX 18%
2. Breddo Likwifier 14%
*Admix 12%

Motors & drives
1. Baldor 45%

Packaging machinery
1. Multivac 9%
2. Cryovac div. Sealed Air 6%
Bosch 6%

Packaging materials
1. Cryovac div. Sealed Air 14%

Pest management
1. Copesan 34%
2. Ecolab 19%
3. Orkin 5%

Pumps
1. SPX 17%
2. Goulds 13%

Refrigeration & freezing
1. FMC FoodTech 16%
Johnson Controls 16%

Size reduction
1. Urschel Laboratories 30%

Uniform services
1. Aramark 36%
2. Cintas 29%
3. G&K 11%

Weighing/checkweighing
1. Mettler Toledo 23%
2. Ishida 16%