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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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

Subsidiaries, Divisions: (USA & Canada) Nestlé Nutrition, Nestlé Purina PetCare Co., Nestlé Waters North America, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Inc.

Brands: Acqua Panna, Aero, Alfare, Alpo, Aquarel, Aquari-Yums, Arrowhead, Baby Ruth, Beggin’ Strips, Beneful, Buitoni, Busy Bone, Butterfinger, Calistoga, Carnation, Cat Chow, Chase & Sanborn, Chew-Eez, Chew-Riffic, Coffee Crisp, Coffee Mate, Contadina, Contrex, Deer Park, Deli-Cat, Dog Chow, Drumstick, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Goobers, Haagen-Dazs, Hills Bros., Ice Mountain, Juicy Juice, Kerns, Kit Kat, Libby’s, Maggi, Mighty Dog, Milo, MJB Coffee, Nescafe, Nescau, Nesquik, Nestle, Nestle Good Start, Nestle Real Dairy, Nestle Noir, Nutren, O’Henry, Ortega, Ozarka, Perrier, Poland Spring, PowerBar, Pro Plan, Puppy Chow, Pure Life, Raisinets, San Pellegrino, Smarties, Stouffer’s, Stouffer’s Lean Cuisine, Sweet Success, SweeTarts, T Bonz, Taster’s Choice, Tidy Cats, Toll House, Turtles, Valvert, Vera, Vittel, Willy Wonka, Zephyrhills

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