0 Consumer Products Industry

Since its founding in 1837, Procter & Gamble has become the world's largest consumer product manufacturer. It operates with a lineup of leading brands, including 21 that generate more than $1 billion in annual global sales such as Tide laundry detergent, Charmin toilet paper, Pantene shampoo, and Pampers diapers. P&G sold its last remaining food brand, Pringles, to Kellogg in 2012. Sales beyond its home turf represent around 55% of the firm's consolidated total, with around one third coming from emerging markets.

The Coca-Cola Company is the largest nonalcoholic beverage company in the world, with over $30 billion in annual revenue. Its portfolio includes a variety of carbonated and noncarbonated brands, including Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, Powerade, and Dasani. The firm has both concentrate and finished product operations, with concentrate sales contributing nearly two thirds of revenue. Trademark Coca-Cola contributes 45% of unit case volumes worldwide. Coca-Cola generates the majority of its revenue outside of the United States. The acquisition of Costa, closed in January 2019, should bolster its presence in the coffee category, particularly in the U.K., where Costa has more than a one third share of coffeehouses.

PepsiCo manufactures and distributes nonalcoholic beverages, grain-based foods, and a variety of snacks. Its key brands include Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Tropicana, Quaker, Lay's, Doritos, and Cheetos. The firm receives a slight majority of revenue from food, with Frito-Lay North America (around one fourth of sales) contributing above 40% of operating profit. It distributes its products through direct-store-delivery and customer warehouse systems, as well as third-party networks. Pepsi generates 57% of its revenue in the United States.

Mondelez has operated independently since October 2012, following the split from the former Kraft Foods North American grocery business. The firm is a leading player in the global snack arena with a presence in the biscuit (43% of sales), chocolate (31.5%), gum/candy (13.5%), beverage (5%), and cheese and grocery (7%) aisles. Mondelez's portfolio includes well-known brands like Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Halls, Trident, and Cadbury, among others. The firm derives almost 40% of revenue from developing markets, a similar level from Europe, and the remainder from North America.

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc is a leading global manufacturer of skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. In addition to its namesake brand, its portfolio includes Clinique, Origins, MAC, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, and Aveda. The firm also licenses fragrances and cosmetics sold under designer brand names, like Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and Tom Ford. In fiscal 2018, Estée Lauder generated 41% of sales and over two thirds of its operating income in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and 37% of sales in the Americas.

Founded in 1806, Colgate-Palmolive is now a leading global consumer product company. In addition to its namesake oral care line, the firm manufactures shampoos, shower gels, deodorants, and home care products that are sold in over 200 countries around the world (international sales account for about 70% of its consolidated total, including approximately 50% from emerging regions). It also owns specialty pet food maker Hill's, which sells its products through veterinarians and specialty pet retailers.

Kimberly-Clark is a leading manufacturer of personal care (around half of sales) and tissue products (roughly one third of sales). Its brand mix includes Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Depend, Kleenex, and Cottonelle. The firm also operates K-C Professional, which partners with businesses to provide safety and sanitary products for the workplace. Kimberly-Clark generates just over of half its sales in North America and more than 10% in Europe, with the rest primarily concentrated in Asia and Latin America.

Constellation Brands produces beer, wine, and spirits and is one of the largest multicategory alcoholic beverage suppliers in the U.S. The firm has the exclusive right to import and market several Mexican beer brands in the U.S., including the Corona, Modelo, and Pacifico brand families, and it acquired Ballast Point, a craft beer brand, in 2015. Constellation Brands' wine and spirits portfolio includes the Robert Mondavi, Black Box, and Clos du Bois wine brands and Svedka vodka. The firm generates over 90% of its revenue in the U.S.

In July 2015, Kraft merged with Heinz to create the third-largest food and beverage manufacturer in North America behind PepsiCo and Nestle and the fifth-largest player in the world. Beyond its namesake brands, the combined firm's portfolio includes Oscar Mayer, Planters, Ore-Ida, and Philadelphia. Outside of North America, the firm's global reach includes a distribution network in Europe and emerging markets that drive around one fifth of its consolidated sales base, as its products are sold in more than 190 countries and territories around the world.

General Mills is a leading global packaged food company that produces snacks, cereal, convenient meals, yogurt, dough, baking mixes and ingredients, pet food, and superpremium ice cream. Its largest brands are Nature Valley, Cheerios, Old El Paso, Yoplait, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Blue Buffalo, and Haagen-Dazs. In 2019, 74% of its revenue was derived from the United States, although the company also operates in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. While most of General Mills' products are sold through retail stores to consumers, the company also sells products into the food-service channel and commercial baking industry.

Hershey is a leading confectionery manufacturer in the U.S. (nearly a $25 billion market), controlling around 45% of the domestic chocolate space. Beyond its namesake label, the firm's mix has expanded over the last 85 years and now consists of more than 80 brands, including Reese's, Kit Kat, Kisses, and Ice Breakers. Hershey's products are sold in about 80 countries, with just 10%-15% of total sales coming from markets outside the United States, including Brazil, China, India, and Mexico. The firm has sought inorganic opportunities to extend its reach beyond its core confection business, with deals to add Amplify Snack Brands and its Skinny Pop ready-to-eat popcorn to its mix and Pirate Brands (including the Pirate's Booty, Smart Puffs, and Original Tings brands) over the past few years.

Monster Beverage is a holding company that develops and markets energy drinks through its subsidiaries. The firm derives above 90% of its sales from the Monster Energy Drinks product family. It also sells concentrates for brands acquired from Coca-Cola in 2015, including NOS and Full Throttle, to bottlers. Above 70% of the company's sales are to customers in the United States.

Brown-Forman produces and sells alcoholic beverages, including the Jack Daniel's family of products, which contribute around 60% of the firm's annual depletion volume. Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is the fourth- largest spirits brand in the world and has the dominant market share of the domestic bourbon and Tennessee whiskey category. Brown-Forman also sells several other spirits brands, including Woodford Reserve, Old Forester, Finlandia, el Jimador, and Herradura, as well as Sonoma-Cutrer wine, and generates nearly half of its revenue in the United States.

Tyson Foods is the largest U.S. producer of processed chicken and beef. It's also a large producer of processed pork and protein-based products under the brands Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Sara Lee, Aidells, and State Fair, to name a few. Tyson sells 90% of its products through various U.S. channels, including retailers, foodservice distributors, restaurants, and noncommercial foodservice establishments, such as schools, healthcare facilities, and military bases. In addition, 10% of the company's revenue comes from exports to Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Europe, China, and Japan.

Hormel Foods is a protein-focused branded food company. Its brands include its namesake Hormel, Spam, Jennie-O, Dinty Moore, Applegate, and Skippy. The vast majority of the company's revenue is U.S.-based: 63% U.S. retail, 30% U.S. food service, and 7% international. By product type, 19% of revenue is shelf-stable foods, 19% is poultry (branded and commodity), 56% is other perishable food, and 6% is other shelf-stable, primarily nutritional products. The company holds the number-one market position in turkey, shelf-stable meat, pepperoni, natural/organic deli meat, guacamole, and canned stew and the number-two position in bacon and peanut butter.

Archer Daniels Midland is a major processor of oilseeds, corn, wheat, and other agricultural commodities. Additionally, the company owns an extensive network of logistical assets to store and transport crops around the globe. Its end products include vegetable oil and meal, corn sweeteners, flour, feed ingredients, ethanol, and natural flavors.

Founded in 1906, Kellogg is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of cereal, cookies, crackers, and other packaged foods. Its offerings are manufactured in 21 countries and marketed in more than 180 countries. Its product mix includes well-known brands such as Special K, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies, Pop-Tarts, Eggo, Kashi, and Morningstar Farms. The firm added the Pringles brand to its mix in 2012. Sales outside its home turf account for around one third of Kellogg's consolidated sales base.

In its nearly 130-year history, McCormick has become the leading global manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of spices, herbs, extracts, seasonings, and other flavorings. McCormick's customer base includes top quick-service restaurants, retail grocery chains, and other packaged food manufacturers, with about 45% of sales generated beyond its home turf to include 150 other countries and territories. Beyond its namesake brand, the firm's portfolio includes Old Bay, Zatarain's, Thai Kitchen, and the recently acquired Frank's RedHot and French's brand.

Clorox Co sells a variety of consumer staples products, including cleaning supplies, laundry detergents, trash bags, cat litter, charcoal, food dressings, water-filtration products, and natural personal-care products. Beyond its namesake brand, the firm's portfolio includes Liquid-Plumr, Pine-Sol, SOS, Tilex, Green Works, Kingsford, Fresh Step, Glad, Hidden Valley, KC Masterpiece, Brita, and Burt's Bees.

Church & Dwight is the leading producer of baking soda in the world. Around one dozen of its products are sold under the Arm & Hammer brand umbrella, such as baking soda, toothpaste, cat litter, and carpet cleaner. Its mix also includes Xtra, Trojan, OxiClean, First Response, Nair, L'il Critters/Vitafusion, and Orajel--together constituting more than 80% of its annual sales and profits. About two years ago, the firm announced the addition of Water Pik, which manufactures oral water flossers and replacement showerheads, to its mix. Church & Dwight derives about 85% of its sales from its home turf.

Conagra Brands is a packaged-food company that operates predominantly in the United States (92% of revenue and 94% of profits). The firm has a significant presence in the freezer aisle, with brands such as Marie Callender's, Healthy Choice, Banquet, and Birds Eye. Popular center-of-store brands include Duncan Hines, Hunt's, Slim Jim, Vlasic, Orville Redenbacher, and Chef Boyardee. While the majority of revenue is sold into the U.S. retail channel, 11% of sales were sold into the food-service channel.

With a history that dates back around 150 years, Campbell Soup is now a leading global manufacturer and marketer of branded convenience food products, most notably soup. The firm's product assortment includes well-known brands like Campbell's, Pace, Prego, Swanson, V8, and Pepperidge Farm. Once the sale of its international snacking operations is complete, the firm will derive nearly all of its sales from its home turf. Campbell has made a handful of acquisitions to reshape its product mix the past few years, including the tie-up with Snyder's-Lance (completed in March 2018), which is poised to enhance its exposure to the faster-growing on-trend snack food aisle, complementing its Pepperidge Farm lineup.

J.M. Smucker is a packaged food company that primarily operates in the U.S. retail channel (85% of revenue), but also in U.S. food service (7%), Canada (6%), and exports (2%). Its largest category is pet food and treats (38% of revenue), with popular brands such as Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits, Nature's Recipe, Natural Balance, and Rachael Ray Nutrish. Its second-largest category is coffee (32%) with the number-two brand Folgers and number-six Dunkin' Donuts. Other large categories are peanut butter (10%), with number-one Jif and number-three Smucker's, fruit spreads (4%) with number-one Smucker's, and oils (3%) with number-two Crisco.

Molson Coors is the second largest brewer by volume in the U.S., and holds a 24% volume share through its subsidiary, MillerCoors. Its portfolio of beer brands includes Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian, Carling, Staropramen, Blue Moon, and Leinenkugel. The firm also sells hard cider and flavored malt beverages, including the Crispin, Smith & Forge, and Henry's Hard brands. While the firm's U.S. business, MillerCoors, contributes about two thirds of sales and the majority of operating profits, it also possesses significant share in Canada (32%) and Europe (20%).

Beyond Meat Inc is a food company based in the United States. It offers a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats. The company has developed three core plant-based product platforms including beef, pork and poultry. Its flagship product is The Beyond Burger, is designed to look, cook and taste like traditional ground beef. It generates revenues primarily from sales of its products, including The Beyond Burger, Beyond Sausage, Beyond Chicken and other plant-based meat products. Its customers include mainstream grocery, mass merchandiser and natural retailers, as well as restaurants and other foodservice outlets mainly in the United States.

Village Farms International Inc, along with its subsidiaries owns and operates agricultural greenhouse facilities. It produces, markets, and sells tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers. It also produces power. The company operates its business through segments that are Produce Business and Energy Business. The Produce Business segment generates maximum revenue for the company. Geographically, the company exports the products to the United States of America only.

Bridgford Foods Corporation manufactures, markets, and distributes frozen and snack food products in the United States.The business segments are processing and distribution of frozen products, and processing and distribution of snack food products. It includes product such as biscuits, bread dough items, roll dough items, dry sausage products, and beef jerky. The company offers frozen food products to food service and retail customers through wholesalers, cooperatives, and distributors; and snack food items to supermarkets, and mass merchandise and convenience retail stores through customer-owned distribution centers, as well as a direct store delivery network. Geographically it operates through the market of United States and derives majority of its revenue from snack food products.