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Top 100 Food Companies: Profiles 1-25
The 2008 top 100 food and beverage processing companies in the U.S. and Canada are profiled in this annual feature.
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North America Convenient Meals
Convenient Meals: DiGiorno, Tombstone, Jack’s, Delissio, and California Pizza Kitchen (under license) frozen pizzas; Lunchables lunch combinations; Oscar Mayer and Louis Rich cold cuts, hot dogs, and bacon; Boca soy-based meat alternatives; Kraft macaroni & cheese dinners; South Beach Living (under license) pizzas and meals; Taco Bell Home Originals (under license) meal kits; Stove Top stuffing mix; and Deli Creations complete sandwiches.
Grocery: Back to Nature crackers, cookies, cereals, and macaroni & cheese dinners.
North America Grocery
Grocery: Jell-O dry packaged desserts; Cool Whip frozen whipped topping; Jell-O refrigerated gelatin and pudding snacks; Handi-Snacks shelf-stable pudding snacks; Kraft and Miracle Whip spoonable dressings; Kraft and Good Seasons salad dressings; A.1.steak sauce; Kraft and Bull’s-Eye barbecue sauces; Grey Poupon premium mustards; Shake N’ Bake coatings; and Kraft peanut butter.
North America Snacks & Cereals
Snacks: Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, Newtons, Nilla, Nutter Butter, SnackWell’s, and Peek Freans cookies; Ritz, Premium, Triscuit, Wheat Thins, Cheese Nips, Honey Maid Grahams, and Teddy Grahams crackers; South Beach Living (under license) crackers, cookies, and snack bars; Planters nuts and salted snacks; Handi-Snacks two-compartment snacks; Terry’s and Toblerone chocolate confectionery products; Back to Nature bars; and Balance nutrition and energy snacks.
Cheese: Easy Cheese aerosol cheese spread.
Grocery: Post ready-to-eat cereals.
Kraft International
European Union
Snacks: Milka, Suchard, Côte d’Or, Marabou, Toblerone, Freia, Terry’s, Daim/Dime, Figaro, Karuna, Lacta, Pavlides, Twist, Merenda, Meurisse, Prince Polo/Siesta, Mirabell, Pyros Mogyoros, Alpen Gold, Sport/Smash/Jazz, 3-Bit, and Belvita chocolate confectionery products; Estrella and Maarud salted snacks; and Oreo, Dorada, Digestive, Chiquilin, Tuc, Mini-Star, Mikado, Ourson, Petit Déjeuner, Cracotte, Belin, Heudebert, Grany, Petit Écolier, Pepito, Saiwa, Oro, Fonzies, Prince, Vitalinea, Opavia, and Gyori biscuits.
Beverages: Jacobs, Gevalia, Carte Noire, Jacques Vabre, Kaffee HAG, Grand’ Mère, Kenco, Saimaza, Meisterroestung, Maxwell House, Onko, Splendid, and Karat coffees; Tassimo hot beverage system; Tang powdered beverages; and Suchard Express, O’Boy, and Kaba chocolate drinks.
Cheese: Kraft, Dairylea, Sottilette, Osella, Mama Luise, and El Caserío cheeses; and Philadelphia cream cheese.
Grocery: Kraft pourable and spoonable salad dressings; Miracel Whip spoonable dressings; and Mirácoli sauces.
Convenient Meals: Lunchables lunch combinations; Kraft and Mirácoli pasta dinners and sauces; and Simmenthal canned meats.
Developing Markets
Snacks: Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, Ritz, Club Social, Express, Kraker/Honey/Aveny Bran, Marbu, Dorada, Pepitos, Variedad, Pacific, Belvita, Cerealitas, Lucky, Trakinas, Tuc, Mini-Star, Mikado, Ourson, Petit Déjeuner, Cracotte, Bolshevik, Prichuda, Jubilee, Start, Major, Merendina, Jacob’s, Chipsmore, Twisties, Biskuat, Milk Biscuit, Hi Calcium Soda and Tuc & Tiki biscuits; Milka, Toblerone, Lacta, Côte d’Or, Shot, Terrabusi, Suchard, Alpen Gold, Karuna, Korona, Poiana, Svoge, Ukraina, Vozdushny, Chudny Vecher, Terry’s, and Gallito chocolate confectionery products; and Estrella, Maarud, Kar, Lux, and Planters nuts and salted snacks.
Beverages: Maxwell House, Maxim, Nova Brasilia, and Jacobs coffee; Tang, Clight, Kool-Aid, Verao, Frisco, Q-Refresh-Ko, Royal, and Fresh powdered beverages; Maguary juice concentrate and ready-to-drink beverages; and Capri Sun (under license) aseptic juice drinks.
Cheese: Kraft, Velveeta, and Eden process cheeses; Kraft and Philadelphia cream cheese; Kraft natural cheese; and Cheez Whiz process cheese spread.
Grocery: Royal dry packaged desserts; Post ready-to-eat cereals; Kraft spoonable and pourable salad dressings; Miracle Whip spoonable dressings; Jell-O dessert toppings; Kraft peanut butter; and Vegemite yeast spread.
Convenient Meals: Kraft macaroni & cheese dinners.
Major Product Areas: Biscuits/crackers, cheese, grain products, meat and poultry, confectionery, packaged meals, miscellaneous
4. Nestle (U.S. & Canada)
Avenue Nestlé 55, CH-1800 Vevey, Switzerland
800 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203
Phone: 818-549-6000; Web site: www.nestle.com
25 Sheppard Avenue West, North York, Ontario M2N 6S8
Phone: 800-387-4636; Web site: www.nestle.ca
Executives: Chairman: Peter Brabeck-Letmathe; CEO-Nestlé S.A.: Paul Bulcke; EVP-Strategic Business Units, Marketing and Sales: Lars Olofsson; EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Head of Innovation, Technology, Research and Development: Werner J. Bauer; EVP & Zone Director for U.S., Canada, Latin America, Caribbean: Paul Polman; EVP, Chrmn & CEO-Nestle Waters: John J. Harris; EVP & CEO-Nesle Nutrition: Richard T. Laube; Chairman & CEO-Nestle USA Inc.: Brad Alford; Pres./CEO-Nestlé Canada: Bob Leonidas; SVP & CFO-Nestlé Canada: Bill Broughton
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