The top global and EU food and drink companies in 2010-2011

Ranking of World Agri-food companies by Food and Drink sales

Name Headquarter
US CH US US US US BE US NL/UK US UK JP NL FR JP FR JP UK UK NZL US US NL NL US US US US IT US

Ranking of European Agri-food companies by European Food and Drink sales

Name Headquarter
CH NL FR FR UK NL/UK NL DK DK DE NL DE NL BE IT UK UK IR FR FR CH IT ES UK

Fiscal year end

May11 Dec11 Jun11 Dec11 Dec11 Dec11 Dec11 Oct11 Dec11 Dec11 Mar11 Dec10 Dec11 Dec10 Dec10 Dec10 Dec10 Sep11 Jun11 Jul11 May11 Dec11 Dec10 Dec10 May11 Apr11 Dec10 Apr11 Aug11 Jun11

Cargill Nestl Archer Daniels Midland PepsiCo Inc. Kraft Foods Inc. The Coca-Cola Company Anheuser-Busch InBev Tyson Foods Inc. Unilever Plc/Unilever NV** Mars Inc. SABMiller Plc Kirin Brewery Company Ltd Heineken N.V. Groupe Danone Suntory Ltd. Lactalis Asahi Breweries Ltd. Associated British Food Diageo Plc Fonterra General Mills Inc. Kellogg Company FrieslandCampina NV Vion ConAgra Foods Inc. Smithfield Foods Inc. Dean Foods Company HJ Heinz Company Ferrero Sara Lee Corporation

Sales Net growth Employees Main sectors in to previous (x1000) billion year (%) 130 multi-product 88.8 18.0 328 multi-product 67.8 7.5 31 cereal processing 60.2 24.0 285 beverages, snacks 47.8 15.0 127 dairy, snacks, beverages 39.1 1 6.6 146 beverages 33.4 114 beer 28.6 4.6 115 meat 23.2 13.6 171 multi-product 22.8 6.5 65 prepared foods, confectionery 21.6 70 beer 20.3 7.4 32 beer, alcoholic beverages 18.7 4.9 64 beer 17.1 6.1 81 dairy, waters, baby & med. nutrition 17.0 6.9 25 alcoholic beverages 15.0 12.4 52 dairy products 14.7 17 beer, alcoholic beverages 1.2 13.4 102 sugar, starch, prepared foods 9.0 12.8 3.0 24 alcoholic beverages 11.4 19.0 17 dairy products 11.3 2.0 35 prepared foods 10.7 6.5 31 breakfast cereals, convenience food 9.5 10.0 19 dairy products 9.0 -2.0 27 multi-products, ingredients 8.9 1.8 23 prepared foods 8.8 46 meat, processed foods 8.8 3.3 26 dairy products 8.7 2.8 35 prepared foods 8.1 9.1 22 confectionery 7.2 4.1 21 prepared foods 6.5
Source: FoodDrinkEurope, data available upon request

Fiscal year end

Dec11 Dec11 Dec10 Dec10 Sep11 Dec11 Dec10 Dec10 Oct11 Feb11 Dec10 Dec10 Dec11 Dec11 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Dec10 Jun11 Dec10 Aug11 Dec11 Dec10 Mar11

Nestl Heineken N.V. Lactalis Groupe Danone Associated British Food Unilever Plc/Unilever NV Vion Carlsberg Danish Crown Sdzucker FrieslandCampina Oetker Group Nutreco Anheuser-Busch InBev Barilla SABMiller Plc Diageo Plc Kerry Group Pernod Ricard Bongrain Barry Callebaut Parmalat Ebro Foods Tate&Lyle

Sales Net growth Employees Main sectors in to previous (x1000) billion year (%) 95 multi-product 12.4 4.0 36 beer 11.0 0.0 31 dairy products 9.4 46 dairy, waters, baby & med. nutrition 9.4 1.9 sugar, starch, prepared foods 8.7 10.1 29 multi-product 8.2 0.0 multi-products, ingredients 8.0 -2.0 14 beer 7.6 24 meat products 14.0 7.0 18 sugar, multi-product 8.0 6.2 13 dairy products 3.5 5.9 13.7 26 multi-product 5.8 5 meat products 4.7 beer 4.6 4.1 14 beverages, confectionery 3.9 14 beer 3.5 3.0 3 alcoholic beverages 3.1 9.7 23 multi-product 3.0 2.0 3 alcoholic beverages 2.9 8.9 14 dairy products 2.8 -5.3 3 confectionery 1.8 4.4 2 milk, fruit-based drink 1.2 3.6 rice, sugar, dairy 1.0 2 ingredients, prepared foods 0.6 1
Source: FoodDrinkEurope, data available upon request

For fiscal years (Jan-Dec) the exchange rates are from the ECB (2012) bilateral annual exchange rates time series. For fiscal years that span two calendar years, the average for the daily exchange rate in the exact fiscal period is taken. (1) due to printing error, consider that last year's figure was 1.6 bn

For fiscal years (Jan-Dec) the exchange rates are from the ECB (2012) bilateral annual exchange rates time series. For fiscal years that span two calendar years, the average for the daily exchange rate in the exact fiscal period is taken. (1) $ 54.4 billion

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