I recently spoke with a director of one of Canada's
largest food companies about risk, which is particularly pertinent with an E. coli crisis now unfolding in Alberta.
Not exact matches
Wrote Credit Suisse in a late - April report on Nestlé: «We and investors are
about to find out whether the biggest
food company can turn around one of the largest categories in «Big Food.»&ra
food company can turn around one of the
largest categories in «Big
Food.»&ra
Food.»»
Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet
food market; Energizer batteries and the
largest car rental
company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want
about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of
food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.
Other new questions
about environmental issues include
large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of
food companies and related human rights problems.
A study of Australia's
largest food firms shows nine out of 10 are at least partly owned by foreign
companies... but with Murray Goulburn
about to be sold to Canadian rival Saputo, that number will soon be zero.
Australian Country Choice's David Foote, who exports
about $ 100 million in beef to countries other than China, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with one of China's
largest food manufacturing
companies Bright Foods.
Although the effects of
company sponsors on the conclusions of pharmaceutical research have been extensively examined, little is known
about the effects of industry sponsorship on nutrition research, even though
large commercial entities are increasingly involved in global
food and drink production.
Marc Gunther, editor of Guardian Sustainable Business USA talks to Walmart's sustainability executive Kathleen McLaughlin
about how the world's
largest grocer is exerting its influence on
food companies to reduce their environmental impacts.
ABOUT KRAFT
FOODS GROUP Kraft
Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT) is one of North America's
largest consumer packaged
food and beverage
companies, with annual revenues of more than $ 18 billion.
About Tyson Foods Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, is one of the world's
largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork, the second -
largest food production
company in the Fortune 500 and a member of the S&P 500.
ABOUT KRAFT FOODSERVICE Kraft Foodservice is a division of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT), one of North America's
largest consumer packaged
food and beverage
company.
ABOUT DEAN
FOODS Dean
Foods ® is a leading
food and beverage
company and the
largest processor and direct - to - store distributor of fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case products in the United States.
This adds to the concern that Chartwells, whose parent
company recently settled a $ 18 million court case for its failing to pass on rebates to NYC schools, is more concerned
about earning a
large profit margin than
about the quality of the
food it serves.
About Tyson Foods Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is one of the world's
largest food companies and a recognized leader in protein.
Activist Mark Dunlea works with the Campaign For A Real Minimum Wage Increase: «We do agree his [Cuomo's] idea of trying to do it just for fast -
food workers but particularly only for fast -
food workers for certain
large companies, 30 franchises, does raise some legal questions
about his strategy.»
Using research
about genetically modified
foods and trans fats, study participants were randomly assigned to evaluate one of 15 different partnership scenarios that included varying combinations of scientists from a university, a government agency, a non-governmental organization and a
large food company.
In April of last year, the US
Food and Drug Administration invited three
large biotech
companies - Geron, Advanced Cell Technology, and Novocell - to testify
about how to safely test human embryonic stem cell (ESC) products in patients.
LOBLAW
COMPANIES LTD. $ 56 (Toronto symbol L; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 413.5 million; Market cap: $ 23.2 billion; Price - to - sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 1.8 %; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada's
largest food retailer, with
about 1,200 stores.
LOBLAW
COMPANIES $ 66.80 (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 412.4 million; Market cap: $ 27.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.5 %; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada's
largest food retailer, with
about 1,200 supermarkets.
LOBLAW
COMPANIES $ 61.92 (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 412.5 million; Market cap: $ 25.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.6 %; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada's
largest food retailer, with
about 1,200 stores.
LOBLAW
COMPANIES (Toronto symbol L; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada's
largest food retailer, with
about 1,200 stores.
They're not officially human grade and are less transparent
about the process than The Honest Kitchen (but then who isn't), but are much more open
about the manufacturing and sourcing of products than a
large majority of other pet
food companies out there.
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Furthermore, many veterinary schools and practices are financed by
large processed dog -
food companies, and therefore are taught the
company line
about the «benefits» of kibble and other processed dog
foods.
A small shelf - talker and a
larger, more detailed shelf - hanger are available to inform customers
about the
company's full line of dry kibble, canned and raw - frozen pet
food.
Simplot, one of the nation's
largest privately held
companies with annual sales of
about $ 4.5 billion, wields considerable clout in its home state, where its products range from turf grass seed to frozen French fries for fast -
food chains like McDonald's.