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List Of Food Companies
This is a list of food companies, current and past businesses involved in food production or processing. Africa * All Joy Foods * Bakers * BOS Ice Tea * Cevital * Choppies * Clover * Colcom Foods * Distell Group Limited * Famous Brands * Golden Web * Kenya Wine Agencies Limited * Les Domaines Agricoles * Meat Corporation of Namibia * Melcom * Nile Breweries Limited * Pioneer Foods * SOMED * Spur Corporation * Tiger Brands * Tilda Uganda * Tongaat Hulett Argentina * Grupo Arcor * Havanna * La Serenísima * Molinos Río de la Plata * SanCor Australia * The a2 Milk Company * Baiada Poultry * Bakers Delight * Balfours * Baskin-Robbins Australia * Beerenberg Farm * Bega Cheese * Bellamy's Australia * Bickford's Australia * Boost Juice * Breadtop * Bulla Dairy Foods * Bundaberg Brewed Drinks * Camperdown Dairy International * Canberra Milk * Darrell Lea * Dick Smith Foods * Ernest Hillier Chocolates * Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses * Fros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Production
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labor-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes. Many food industries depend almost entirely on local agriculture, produce, or fishing. It is challenging to find an inclusive way to cover all aspects of food production and sale. The UK Food Standards Agency describes it as "the whole food industry – from farming and food production, packaging and distribution, to retail and catering." The Economic Research Service of the USDA uses the term ''food system'' to describe the same thing, stating: "The U.S. food system is a complex network of farmers and the industries that link to them. Those links include makers of farm equipment and chemicals as well as firms tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOMED
SOMED (french: Société Maroco-Emiratie de Développement) is a Conglomerate (company), conglomerate company based in Morocco. Its active in a range of sectors such as mining, construction material dealership, tourism, real estate development, food processing and Car dealership. Its capital is composed of Mohammed VI of Morocco, Mohammed VI's holding company Société Nationale d'Investissement, SNI, Emirati private funds and the Moroccan state. Ownership In February 2008, the Société Nationale d'Investissement, SNI entered in the capital of the company, buying an equivalent of 1.24 billion Dirhams of shares. The partition then became: * 32.9% SNI * 33.9% Private Emirati funds * 33.25% Trésor Marocain (Moroccan state) Former Morocco's Minister of the Interior, Mostapha Sahel was the CEO of the firm. Activities The SOMED developed the ''Mazagan Beach Resort, Casino, Golf and Spa'' which it sold to the state-owned institution Caisse de dépôt et de gestion, CDG in 2010 for an u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balfours
Balfours is an Australian bakery which produces pies, pasties and cakes for sale in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales. History Balfours began when Scottish immigrant James Calder and Margaret née Balfour opened a bakery at 130 Rundle Street, Adelaide, South Australia in 1853. As Calder's bakery became very successful, he opened the City Steam Biscuit Factory in Twin Street, Adelaide in 1872. Balfours became a household name and in 1867, when Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited South Australia, James Calder was made the official biscuit baker for the royal visit. Around this time, Calder took on his nephew John Balfour and began trading as Calder & Balfour. Margaret Balfour died on 1 November 1887 and James Calder died two years later on 1 October 1889, aged 71. In the 1890s a new factory was built off Carrington Street. From 1914 Balfours expanded their business to cake shops, cafes and tearooms. They acquired Jackman's Grand Cafe in the T&G Building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakers Delight
Bakers Delight is an Australian-owned multinational bakery franchise chain, with franchisors in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. There are 20 stores in New Zealand, including 13 in Auckland alone. History Bakers Delight was established in May 1980 by husband and wife team, Roger and Lesley Gillespie. Roger, a third-generation baker, opened a single bakery on Glenferrie Road in Hawthorn, Victoria Hawthorn is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Hawthorn recorded a population of 22,322 at the 2021 census. Glenferr .... Bakers Delight operates over 700 bakeries globally. In 2000, the franchise had 12 stores in New Zealand and was planning further expansion. Bakers Delight entered the Canadian market in 2003, under the name COBS Bread, and now has over 130 bakeries in 5 provinces. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baiada Poultry
Baiada Poultry is a privately owned company that produces poultry products throughout Australia. Its operations include broiler and breeder farms, hatcheries, processing plants, feedmilling and protein recovery. Its head office is at Pendle Hill, New South Wales with plants in Beresfield, Tamworth, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. According to the company, it employs approximately 2,200 people. Baiada is one of Australia's largest poultry processing companies with a market share of more than 20%, producing the Lilydale Select and Steggles brand to retailers including Coles, Woolworths, IGA, Aldi, McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Red Rooster, Nando's and Subway. The company has been embroiled in scandals involving deceptively selling chicken products as free range and the exploitation of migrant workers. Misleading free to roam labelling scandal In September 2011 the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) commenced federal court action against Baiada Poult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A2 Milk Company
The a2 Milk Company Limited (previously known as A2 Corporation) is a dual listed NZX and ASX 50 public listed company that commercialises intellectual property relating to A1 protein-free milk that is sold under the a2 and a2 Milk brands, as well as the milk and related products such as infant formula. History The a2 Milk Company is the successor of A2 Corporation Limited, a New Zealand company founded in 2000 by Dr Corran McLachlan, who was researching health effects of A1 beta-casein, and Howard Paterson, who was one of New Zealand's richest men, a significant dairy farmer, and a stakeholder in Fonterra, a dairy cooperative. The company commercialised a genetic test to determine whether a cow will produce milk without the A1 protein, and to market A1 protein-free milk.Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 31 March 200Transcript of "White Mischief" Initially, A2 Corporation focused on dairy farm breeding programs to develop herds that would produce only A1 protein-free milk. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SanCor
SanCor is one of the leading dairy producers in Argentina (along with competitor La Serenísima). It holds one fifth of the total production in the country, and 90% of the Argentine exports of dairy products. It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba. SanCor produces milk, powdered milk, cream, cheeses, butter dulce de leche (milk caramel) which are sold under various brand names: SanCor, San Regim, Santa Brígida, Angelita, Granja Blanca and Chelita. After a long financial crisis, which forced the company to sell several plants and brands, and losing 3,200 employees, SanCor is now producing 10% of its 2015 output. It processes of milk a month. History The cooperative was founded on 17 September 1938 as an association of many cooperative producers in the central area of the country, and grew as its success attracted more members. Its first industrial plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molinos Río De La Plata
Molinos Río de la Plata ( BCBA: MOLI) is Argentina's largest branded food products company. The company is a large exporter of sunflower processed oil and is one of Argentina's main exporters of bottled oil. Molinos also produces a wide range of packaged foods for domestic consumption, including bottled oil, margarine, pasta, pre-mixes, packaged flours, yerba mate, rice, cold cuts, and frozen foods. Overview Molinos Río de la Plata (Molinos) originated with the 1899 establishment of ''Centenera'', a food processing plant, by Bunge y Born, then a prominent local wheat milling company established by Belgian immigrants in 1884. They had one of the largest wheat mills in the country built on a Puerto Madero lot in 1902, and with it, established ''Molinos Río de la Plata'' (later a leader in the local retail foods market). Bunge & Born divested itself of almost all its retail foods interests in 1998, however, and was reorganized as Bunge Limited, upon which a controlling stake in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Serenísima
Mastellone Hermanos S.A. (mostly known for its trade name: La Serenísima) is an Argentine dairy company headquartered in the city of General Rodríguez in Buenos Aires Province. The company, founded by Antonino Mastellone in 1929, is partially owned by Grupo Arcor and Bagley, which purchased 25% of the firm in 2015. Starting as a small firm to produce cheese, the company expanded until becoming the leader in the Argentine dairy market and one of the largest companies in the country. The name ''La Serenísima'' was taken from an Italian aviation squadron that fought in the World War I. Pascual Mastellone, son of founder Antonio, had a long tenure of chairman of the company taking over ''La Serenísima'' for more than 50 years from 1952 until 2013, when he retired due to health problems. Mastellone died in 2014. By 2018, the company had sales for US$900 million, processing more than 3,2 million liters of milk per day. History Development Italian immigrant Antonino Mastellone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havanna (Argentine Company)
Havanna Holding S.A. (mostly known for its trade name Havanna) is an Argentine manufacturer of food products, mostly known for its alfajores. The firm was founded in 1948 by Benjamín Sisterna, Demetrio Elíades, and Luis Sbaraglini and began its activities as a producer of alfajores in the city of Mar del Plata. The company also operates its own system of franchise coffee stores and exports its products to Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Israel, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.Havanna, en manos del Excel '''', 1997-12-08 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Arcor
Arcor is an Argentine food company specialized in confectionery. The firm was founded on July 5, 1951 in the city of Arroyito, Córdoba. It specializes in the production of foodstuff, sugar and chocolate confectionery, cookies and ice cream in 39 industrial plants throughout Latin America. It is the world's top producer of hard candies and the tenth-biggest confectionery manufacturer overall. In Argentina, Arcor is the largest producer of processed foods, and its products are exported to over 120 countries. In 2012 Arcor ranked 1st amongst the 100 most valuable companies of Argentina, according to the opinion of CEOs, financial analysts and journalists specialised in economics. History Arcor was created on 5 July 1951 when a group of entrepreneurs, sons of Italian immigrants, opened the first candy factory in Arroyito, a city in Córdoba Province. The partners and buyers of the 10,000 m2 factory were members of the Pagani Family: Amos, Renzo, Fulvio, and Elio, who decided to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tongaat Hulett
Tongaat Hulett is an agriculture and agri-processing business, focusing on the complementary feedstocks of sugarcane and maize. The company had its origins on the North coast of KwaZulu-Natal, specifically the town of Tongaat. The company was formed as a result of a merger between the Tongaat Sugar Company founded by Edward Saunders and Hulett's Sugar founded in 1892 by Liege Hulett. Company stock is listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. Its core businesses are sugar, starch and property management. Operations South Africa * The company head office is located at Amanzimnyama, Tongaat near Durban. * Sugar mills are located at Maidstone, Darnall, Amatikulu and Felixton. * A central refinery is in Durban * Animal feeds operation (Voermol Feeds) Mozambique * Tongaat Hulett Açucar, Maputo * Açucareira de Xinavane Xinavane Mill, Xinavane, Manhiça District, Maputo Province * Açucareira de Moçambique Mafambisse Mill, in Mafambisse, Dondo District, near Beir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
