The Top 100 for 2025: Just (Meh) An OK Year

Our research indicates 2024 was a great year for poultry and most animal proteins, just so-so for most other food and beverage categories; 2025’s challenges are just starting to show up in financial reports.
July 27, 2025

If you add up the columns on our Top 100© chart, the numbers say 2024 was a fair-to-good year for the food & beverage industry. Not great – unless you were in the meat & poultry or egg businesses.

Looking at the 100 companies on the table on pp24-25, sales in 2024 (or the most recent fiscal year available) increased at least 5% for 28 of them. Only 15 saw decreases that big. Net income was more of a wash: up for 22, down for 19.

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