List of food companies - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This article is a list of notable companies involved in food production or processing.

For individual brands see List of brand name food products

Australia

Sanitarium
Sanitarium Health Food Company
The Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company is the trading name of two sister food companies . Both are wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church....

:Category:Food companies of Australia

Canada

Maple Leaf Foods
Maple Leaf Foods
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a major Canadian food processing company, founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers.-History:The company was originally known as Canada Packers...
McCain Foods Limited
McCain Foods Limited
McCain Foods Limited is a privately owned company established in 1957 by four brothers—Harrison McCain, Wallace McCain, Robert McCain, and Andrew McCain—in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada...
Nature's Path
Nature's Path
Nature's Path is a privately owned and family operated organic food company in North America. Nature's Path is North America's largest organic cereal brand and also sells certified organic breads, cookies, and snack bars in 42 countries around the world....
Canyon creek food company
Canyon Creek Food Company
Canyon Creek Food Company is a food processing company based in Edmonton, Alberta that provides fresh soups and other prepared food products geared towards health conscious consumers...

China

:Category:Food companies of China

Amoy Food
Amoy Food
Amoy Food Limited is a cooking sauce and condiments manufacturer in Hong Kong, China. Its products, which now includes foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in a microwave oven, are sold around the world...

:Category:Food manufacturers of Hong Kong

Europe

Bakkavör
Bakkavör
Bakkavör Group hf. is an Icelandic international food manufacturing company specialising in fresh prepared foods and produce. The group operates 66 factories and employs over 20,000 people in nine countries with a pro-forma turnover in 2007 of £1.5 billion. The group’s head office is in Reykjavík...
C&C Group plc
Nestlé
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
Barilla Group
Unilever
Unilever
Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
Danone
Ferrero SpA
Ferrero SpA
Ferrero SpA is an Italian manufacturer of chocolate and other confectionery products, founded by confectioner Pietro Ferrero in 1946 and based in Alba, Piedmont, Italy. The company achieved success headed by Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, then Michele's son Pietro , who oversaw global business...
Parmalat
Parmalat
Parmalat SpA is a multinational Italian dairy and food corporation. Having become the leading global company in the production of ultra high temperature milk, the company collapsed in 2003 with a €14 billion hole in its accounts in what remains Europe's biggest bankruptcy...
Yoplait
Yoplait
Yoplait is a brand of yogurt produced by a company owned by two French holdings, SODIAAL and PAI Partners.-History:In 1964, 100,000 French farmers merged their regional dairy cooperatives to sell nationally. In 1965, two co-ops, "Yola" and "Coplait", merged, becoming "Yoplait"...
European Drinks & Foods
European Drinks & Foods
European Drinks & Foods is one of the largest Romanian holding companies located in Ştei, Bihor County. The holding is formed by three companies European Drinks, European Foods and Scandic Distilleries specialised in producing food and drink products....

India

Amul
Amul
Amul , formed in 1946, is a dairy cooperative in India. It is a brand name managed by an apex cooperative organisation, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd...
Britannia Industries
Dabur
Dabur
Dabur derived from Daktar Burman) is India's largest Ayurvedic medicine manufacturer. Dabur's Ayurvedic Specialities Division has over 260 medicines for treating a range of ailments and body conditions-from common cold to chronic paralysis.-Sustainable Development Society:Sustainable Development...
Haldiram's
Haldiram's
Haldiram's is one of India's largest sweets and snacks manufacturers, based in Nagpur And now in many City, India.-History:It was founded in 1937 by Shivkisan Agrawal, as retail sweets and namkeens shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.-Products:...
Marico
Marico
Marico is a leading Indian group providing consumer products and services in the areas of Health and Beauty based in Mumbai.During 2009-10, the company generated a Turnover of about Rs.26.6 billion , in respect of its food, hair care and skin care related activities...
Heritage Foods
Heritage Foods
Heritage Foods Ltd is one of the largest private sector dairy enterprises in Southern India. The company has recently expanded into food and grocery retailing under the brand "Heritage Fresh".- History :...
Hindustan Unilever
Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy
Mother Dairy, set up in 1974, is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board of India.-Products:Mother Dairy's range of products include the brands Mother Dairy , Dhara and Safal .Mother Dairy Fruit and Vegetable...
Mavalli Tiffin Room
Parle Agro
Parle Agro
Parle Agro is an Indian private limited company. It owns the brands like Frooti, Appy, LMN, Hippo and Bailley.- History :Parle Products was founded in 1929 in British India. It was owned by the Chauhan family of Vile Parle, Mumbai...
ITC Limited

Japan

Ajinomoto
Ajinomoto
Ajinomoto Co. Inc. , is a Japanese food and chemical corporation which produces seasonings, cooking oils, TV dinners, sweeteners, amino acids and pharmaceuticals...
Toyo Suisan
Toyo Suisan
, or just , is a Japanese company specializing in ramen noodles. Toyo Suisan is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. It owns the brand Maruchan and operates two companies in the United States: Maruchan, Inc. in Irvine, California and Maruchan Virginia, Inc. in Richmond, Virginia.It was established in...
Nissin Foods
Ezaki Glico
Ezaki Glico
is a Japanese confectionery company headquartered in Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka.The company manufactures the traditional Glico caramel candy, as well as Pocky and many others. The company name, Glico, is derived from a shortening of the word glycogen. The first candy produced by the company was known...
Morinaga
Morinaga & Company
is a confectionery company in Tokyo, Japan, in operation since August 15, 1899. Their products include candy and other confectioneries. Morinaga has Ayumi Hamasaki and Mao Asada appear in their commercials....
Meiji Seika
Meiji Seika
is the trade name of a pharmaceutical company in Japan, , until March 31, 2011.It was the confectionery and pharmaceutical company that manufactures a wide range of products including Hello Panda and Yan Yan...
Kikkoman
Kikkoman
is an international company based in Japan.Founded in 1917, it is based in Noda, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is a combination of 8 family-owned businesses founded as early as 1603 by the Mogi and Takanashi families....

New Zealand

Emerson's Brewery
Emerson's Brewery
Emerson's Brewery Limited is a microbrewery located in Dunedin, New Zealand established in 1993.Emerson's produces eight year-round beers and three seasonal beers. -Richard Emerson:...
Griffin's Foods
Griffin's Foods
Griffin's Foods Limited is an Australasian owned biscuit, snack food and confectionery manufacturer operating in New Zealand. The company has sales of approximately $NZ300 million...
McCashins Brewery
McCashins Brewery
McCashin's Brewery is a microbrewery based in Nelson, New Zealand. It was founded in 1981 by former All Black and farmer Terry McCashin. Terry has been credited as starting the mico-brewery renaissance in New Zealand. Prior to the opening McCashin's Brewery in 1981, there were only two breweries...
Monteith's
Monteith's
Monteith's Brewery Company was originally a family-owned brewing company until it was bought by DB Breweries. It continued to brew its beers on the West Coast of New Zealand until DB decided that the cost of keeping production there was no longer viable...
Speight's
Speight's
Speight's is a brewery in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is famous for its promotional branding based on being 'a real southern man' and being 'the pride of the south'. Speight's also gave rise to a series of Speight's Ale Houses across New Zealand.- History :...
Whitestone cheese
Wigram Beer
Wigram Beer
Wigram Brewing company was established in 2003 and is situated near Wigram Aerodrome in Wigram, Christchurch, New Zealand.Its range includes Dakota Dark, Propeller Lager, Munchner Dunkel, Bristol Best Bitter, Harvard Honey Ale, Kortegast Sparkling Red Ale made from wild West Coast hops , Bavarian...

Pakistan

Mitchell's Fruit Farms Limited
Mitchell's Fruit Farms Limited
Mitchell's Fruit Farms Limited or Mitchell's is a Pakistani food company. It is considered as one of the largest and oldest food company that has started its operations in 1933 under the name of Indian Mildura Fruit Farms Limited in the British Indian region that has now been administered by...
National Foods Limited
National Foods Limited
National Foods Limited is a Pakistani company founded in 1970 which started out as a Spice company. In 1988, National Foods became the certified vendor of McCormick, USA...
Unilever Pakistan
Unilever Pakistan
The Unilever Pakistan Limited , formerly Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited was established in Pakistan in 1948. The town of Rahim Yar Khan was the site chosen for setting up a vegetable oil factory. Unilever Pakistan is the largest fast-moving consumer goods company in Pakistan, as well as one of...
Dalda
Dalda
Dalda is a brand of hydrogenated vegetable oil popular in South Asia. Hindustan Lever Limited wanted to brand it, the trader, who still retained a commercial connection with the product, said it had to be named after his company. HLL wanted to include the letter 'L' in it for Lever , and thus was...
Fauji Foundation
Fauji Foundation
The Fauji Foundation , is one of the largest conglomerates in Pakistan, with interests in fertilizer, cement, food, power generation, gas exploration, LPG marketing and distribution, financial services, employment services, and security services...
Engro Corporation
Engro Corporation
Engro Corporation is one of the leading Pakistani business conglomerates with stakes in the fertilizer, food, power generation, petrochemicals, automation and terminal storage industries...
Shezan International
Shezan International
The Shezan International Limited was incorporated on May 30, 1964 as a Private Limited Company. Shezan International Limited was conceived as a joint venture by the Shahnawaz Group, Pakistan and Alliance Industrial Development Corporation, U.S.A. in 1964...
Murree Brewery
Murree Brewery
Murree Brewery is the maker of Pakistan's beer brand, Murree Beer. Its products are only legally available in Pakistan owing to a prohibition on the exportation of alcohol from Pakistan. The brewery has two manufacturing units located in Rawalpindi and Hattar .- History :The Murree Brewery Company...
Shan Food Industries
OMORÉ
OMORÉ
OMORÉ Ice Cream is a famous ice cream brand in Pakistan. It is manufactured by Engro Foods Limited. As a brief introduction, Engro Foods Limited is a multipurpose manufacturing company...

South Korea

:Category:Food manufacturers of South Korea

Gyeonggi Snack Company
Gyeonggi Snack Company
Gyeonggi Snack Company is a Korean food company established in 2004 and headquartered in Paju Gyeonggi-do, Korea. It manufactures snack fruit food products and produced food company brand is SnackBox.-See also:*Gyeonggi-do*Economy of South Korea...
Lotte Confectionery
Lotte Confectionery
Lotte Confectionery is a South Korean company headquartered in Yangpyeong-dong Yeongdeungpo-gu Seoul, Korea. It was established in 1967 and its plants are located in Seoul, Daejeon, Yangsan, Pyeongtaek and Siheung. It manufactures and sells more than 200 products to more than 70 countries. It is...
Ottogi
Ottogi
Ottogi Co, Ltd. is a South Korean food company headquartered in Daechi-dong Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and Pyeongchon-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang, Gyeonggi-do...

Taiwan (Republic of China)

:Category:Food companies of Taiwan

Uni-President Enterprises Corporation
Uni-President Enterprises Corporation
Uni-President Enterprises Corporation is an international food conglomerate based in Tainan, Taiwan. It is the largest food production company in Taiwan as well as Asia, and has a significant market share in dairy product, foods and snacks, and beverages markets. It is also responsible for...
Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation
Hsin Tung Yang
Hsin Tung Yang
Hsin Tung Yang is a food service company and retailer based in Taipei, Taiwan.-Overview:Hsin Tung Yang specializes primarily in meat and pork products such as rousong , and rougan . In recent years the company has expanded production into dried mullet roe and various Chinese tea snacks...
Dachan Food (Asia)
Dachan Food (Asia)
Dachan Food Limited is one of the largest chicken meat products and feeds suppliers in China. It is a Mainland China-based subsidiary of Taiwan-based Dachan Great Wall Enterprise. It engages in feeds production, chicken meat processing and supply of processed food...
HeySong Corporation
HeySong Corporation
HeySong Corporation is a famous beverage producer in Taiwan. It was founded in 1925 as a family business, and later on grew into a large corporation.-History:...
Want Want
Want Want
Want Want Holdings Limited, or Want Want, is a food manufacturer from Taiwan. It is the largest rice cake and flavored drinks maker in Taiwan. It engages in the manufacturing and trading of snack foods and beverages...
Wei-Chuan Food Corporation
Wei-Chuan Food Corporation
Wei-Chuan Food Corporation is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of Chinese condiments, canned goods, drinks, and frozen goods. Its more popular, widely recognized products include canned pickles, soy sauce and oyster sauces, and frozen dumplings and wontons....

United Kingdom

:Category:Food manufacturers of the United Kingdom

Premier Foods
Premier Foods
Premier Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
United Biscuits
United Biscuits
__FORCETOC__United Biscuits is a British multinational food manufacturer, makers of the BN biscuits, McVitie's biscuits, KP Nuts, Hula Hoops, The Real McCoy's crisps, Phileas Fogg snacks, Jacob's Cream Crackers, and Twiglets...

United States

Atkins Nutritionals
Atkins Nutritionals
Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. produces low-carbohydrate packaged foods. It is owned by Roark Capital Group.-History:The company was started in 1989 by Dr. Robert Atkins, the founder of the Atkins Diet. Following the death of its founder, a sale to Parthenon Capital and Goldman Sachs, and a reduction in...
Annie's Homegrown
Annie's Homegrown
Annie's Homegrown is a Berkeley, California-based maker of natural and/or organic pastas, meals and snacks. The company, founded in Hampton, CT, is perhaps best known for its macaroni and cheese product line, which comes in shell form and bunny rabbit shapes, and is the second best selling macaroni...
Appalachian Brewing Company
Appalachian Brewing Company
The Appalachian Brewing Company, commonly known as ABC, is an American brewery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded in January 1997...
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's
Auntie Anne's, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is an American chain of pretzel bakeries founded by Anne F. Beiler and her husband, Jonas, in 1988. Auntie Anne's serves products such as pretzels, dips, and beverages...
Blackjack Pizza
Blackjack Pizza
Blackjack Pizza is a Westminster, Colorado-based pizza delivery chain founded in 1983 by a former Domino's Pizza employee, Vince Schmuhl, because Domino's Pizza was the only major pizza delivery company in the Rocky Mountain region...
Boston Market
Boston Market
Boston Market, known as Boston Chicken until 1995, headquartered in Golden, Colorado, is a chain of American fast casual restaurants. It is owned by private equity firm Sun Capital Partners, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.-History:...
ConAgra Foods
ConAgra Foods
ConAgra Foods, Inc. is an American packaged foods company. ConAgra's products are available in supermarkets, as well as restaurants and food service establishments. Its headquarters are located in Omaha, Nebraska...
Campbell Soup Company
Campbell Soup Company
Campbell Soup Company , also known as Campbell's, is an American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey...
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...
Dean Foods
Dean Foods
Dean Foods is an American food and beverage company with two operating divisions: Fresh Dairy Direct and WhiteWave-Morningstar. The company maintains plants and distributors in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dean Foods products are sold throughout the USA.-History:In 1925, Samuel E...
Frontier Natural Products Co-op
Frontier Natural Products Co-op
Frontier Natural Products Co-op is a wholesaler of natural and organic products, founded in 1976 and based in Norway, Iowa. It sells products under the Frontier, Simply Organic and Aura Cacia brands. Products include culinary herbs, spices and baking flavors; bulk herbs and spices; and natural and...

General Mills
General Mills
General Mills, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation, primarily concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets many well-known brands, such as Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totinos, Jeno's, Pillsbury, Green...
H.J. Heinz
Hormel
Hormel
Hormel Foods Corporation is a food company based in southeastern Minnesota , perhaps best known as the producer of Spam luncheon meat. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U.S., by George A. Hormel in 1891. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods...
Kellogg Company
Kellogg Company
Kellogg Company , is a producer of cereal and convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles, and vegetarian foods...
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...
McCormick & Company
McCormick & Company
McCormick & Company manufactures spices, herbs, and flavorings for retail, commercial, and industrial markets. The company began in 1889 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. One hundred years later, McCormick moved from downtown Baltimore to the suburb of Hunt Valley, Maryland. McCormick has...
Mars
Mars, Incorporated
Mars, Incorporated is a worldwide manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products with US$30 billion in annual sales in 2010, and is ranked as the 5th largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,...
Ocean Spray
Ocean Spray (cooperative)
Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit headquartered in Lakeville/Middleborough, Massachusetts. It currently has over 600 member growers . The cooperative employs about 2,000 people, with sales of $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2005...
Odwalla
Odwalla
Odwalla Inc. is an American food product company that sells fruit juice, smoothies and food bars. It was founded in Santa Cruz, California in 1980 and is headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California....
PepsiCo
PepsiCo
PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
Pinnacle Foods
Pinnacle Foods
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC is a leading packaged foods company headquartered in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, owned by The Blackstone Group. Pinnacle Foods is a key player in the shelf stable and frozen food categories and their products can be found in more than 85% of American households.The company...

Ralcorp
Ralcorp
Ralcorp Holdings is a manufacturer of various food products, including breakfast cereal, cookies, crackers, chocolate, snack foods, mayonnaise, pasta and peanut butter. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri. The majority of the items Ralcorp makes are private label, store brand products. It...
Richelieu Foods
Richelieu Foods
Richelieu Foods is a private label food manufacturing company founded in 1862, headquartered in Randolph, Massachusetts, and owned by investment group Brynwood Partners of Greenwich, Connecticut....
Sara Lee Corporation
Stonyfield Farm
Stonyfield Farm
Stonyfield Farm, also simply called Stonyfield, is an organic yogurt maker located in Londonderry, New Hampshire, USA. Stonyfield Farm was founded by Samuel Kaymen in 1983, in Wilton, New Hampshire, as an organic farming school...
Tabatchnick
The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company, known until April 2005 as the Hershey Foods Corporation and commonly called Hershey's, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hershey's Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S...
The J.M. Smucker Co.
The J.M. Smucker Co.
The J. M. Smucker Company is a manufacturer of fruit spreads, ice cream toppings, beverages, shortening, natural peanut butter and other products in North America. Smucker's headquarters are located in Orrville, Ohio.- History :...
Tröegs Brewing Company
Tröegs Brewing Company
Tröegs is an American brewery originating in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. John and Chris Trogner founded the company in 1996. The name Tröegs is a combination of a nickname derived from the surname Trogner and the Dutch word kroeg . Tröegs is a craft-brewery, or microbrewery focusing their production...
United States Bakery
United States Bakery
United States Bakery, better known as Franz Family Bakeries, is located in Portland, Oregon. Franz Bakery was founded in 1906. U.S. Bakery also owns the Northwest regional bread brands Williams, Gai's, and Snyder's.-History:...
U.S. Mills
U.S. Mills
U.S. Mills is a packaged food products company specializing in natural, organic, and specialty cereals, cookies, and crackers. Their products are sold through supermarkets, wholesale grocers, and natural food distributors nationwide. Their brands include Uncle Sam Cereal, Erewhon, New Morning,...
Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
Utz Quality Foods, Inc. , based in Hanover, Pennsylvania, is the largest independent privately held snack brand in the United States. The company was founded in 1921 and distributes a variety of potato chips and other snack foods throughout the United States....
Vanee Foods
Vanee Foods
Vanee Foods Company, Inc. is a manufacturer of a variety of food prodcuts, from canned entrees and gravies to dry mixes and soup bases. The company's products are marketed primarily through the foodservice and club store channels. Founded by Joseph and Adriana VanEekeren in 1950 in downtown...