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A merger between Astra of Sweden and Zeneca Group of the United Kingdom formed AstraZeneca in 1999. The company sells branded drugs across several major therapeutic classes, including gastrointestinal, diabetes, cardiovascular, respiratory, cancer, immunology, and neuroscience. The majority of sales come from international markets with the United States representing close to one third of its sales.

NextEra Energy's regulated utility, Florida Power & Light, distributes power to roughly 5 million customers in Florida. Florida Power & Light contributes over 60% of the group's operating earnings. Gulf Power also operates in Florida. The renewable energy segment generates and sells power throughout the United States and Canada. Consolidated generation capacity totals over 45 gigawatts and includes natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar assets.

The Southern Company is one of the largest utilities in the U.S. The company distributes electricity and natural gas to approximately 9 million customers in nine states. It owns 50 gigawatts of generating capacity, primarily for serving regulated customers in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Wholly owned unregulated Southern Power Company owns over 11 gigawatts of mostly renewable energy capacity and sells the electricity primarily under long-term power sales agreements. The solar and wind farms are located in Southern's regulated jurisdictions, but also in Texas, California, and other states.

RELX, formerly known as Reed Elsevier, is a FTSE 100 diversified information and analytics company. The firm operates across four main areas: scientific, technical, and medical (34% of 2018 sales); risk solutions and business information (28%); legal (23%); and exhibitions (16%). RELX Group has three listings: its primary one in London and two more in New York and Amsterdam.

ICICI Bank Ltd is India's second- largest bank with more than INR 9 trillion in assets. Over the years, the group has shifted from a bank offering only project finance to a consumer-oriented financial services provider. Today, it offers an array of banking, securities, and asset management as well as insurance services to a wide spectrum of clients in both urban and rural areas through more than 4,450 branches. The bank's life and general insurance are complemented with securities and asset management arms.

Sempra Energy serves one of the largest utility customer bases in the United States. It distributes natural gas and electricity in Southern California and owns 80% of Oncor, a transmission and distribution business in Texas. SoCalGas and San Diego Gas & Electric distribute gas to more than 20 million customers, while Oncor serves over 10 million Texas customers. The firm's other affiliates own and operate liquefied natural gas facilities in North America and infrastructure in Mexico.

WEC Energy Group's electric and gas utility businesses serve electric and gas customers in its Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin service territories. WEC Energy Group also owns a 60.0% stake in American Transmission Company. WEC Energy Group's business mix is approximately 56% electric generation and distribution, 29% gas distribution, and 15% electric transmission.

Eversource Energy is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries that provide regulated electric, gas and water distribution service. With the addition of NStar's Massachusetts utilities in 2012 and Aquarion in 2017, the company's utilities now serve 4 million customers in the region.

Entergy is an integrated utility with over 25 gigawatts of power generation capacity. However, it is shrinking its merchant generation business and plans to retire its three remaining operating merchant nuclear units by 2022. Its five regulated integrated utilities generate and distribute electricity to about 3 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

Hormel Foods is a protein-focused branded food company. Its brands include its namesake Hormel, Spam, Jennie-O, Dinty Moore, Applegate, Wholly Guacamole, and Skippy. The vast majority of the company's revenue is U.S.-based: 62% U.S. retail, 31% U.S. food service, and 7% international. By product type, 19% of revenue is shelf-stable foods, 19% is poultry (branded and commodity), 57% is other perishable food, and 5% is other, 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.