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Expert: - 7/18/2007


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Hi Eric
I am after the Top 10 Food and Beverage Companies:
1. In Europe
2. In the US
3. In the World

Answer
That's not easy to answer...  Is it, as of today, what limits food and beverage, is alcohol included, based upon what measurements, is taking into account special accounting situations, do you include EVERYTHING in the group even if they also do things like cars and washing machines?  Forbes for example separates out Conglomerates (see http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/18/biz_07forbes2000_The-Global-2000_IndName_9.h...)


I went to Wikipedia and looked up the Global Fortune 500, and picked out those that I THINK fall into the category, but hey, it's just my definition, and Fortune Magazine's rating system...  So here it goes:-

Nestle (CH) overall world ranking 29 on 1 Wikipedia page, and 50 on the next...  (Go figure)
Coop Norden (Scandi) - they have own brands, like Irma butter, so I guess they count, no?
Koc (Turkey) 136  (they make some biscuits and frozen foods)
Unilever (Dutch/UK) 96
PepsiCo (US) 83 on 1 lsit, 141 on another
Coca-Cola (US) 97
Mars (US) 114
Danone (FR) 281
Cadbury Schweppes (UK) 329
General Mills (US) 426
Kellogg (US) 526
Orkla (Norway) - never heard of them.
Altadis
Bunge (never heard of them)
Femsa (do beer and Coca-cola)
HJ Heinz
Assoc British Foods
COnAgra
Campbell Soups
Sara Lee
PBG...

You can sort the list to see it by industry and then inspect further to see if they meet your criteria.


Other references:-
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Global_2000

Enjoy!

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Over 27 years experience, with 17 in international FMCG in back office operations and in field sales and data collection, including design, development and deployment of Handhelds, Marketing Equipment (Service, Tracking and Return on Investment), reporting and Vending management. Have participated on the launch of operations in new markets, and re-engineered the back office in several countries.

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Designed and led the development and deployment internal ERP system for Pepsi used in On-Premise/Vending in 13 markets. Designed 2 handheld systems, the latest is now deployed in 4 markets internationally. Re-engineered the back office functions (settlements, despatch, invoicing, credit control, etc) for over 20 snack, confectionary and beverage operators. Developing software: Progress, VB, Access, C, Sybase, SA

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Innovative-Selling Solutions; SalesSuite

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Education/Credentials
State University of New York - BA Economics NYU - Courant - Graduate work - Computing

Awards and Honors
Moderator of LinkedIn CEE Group

Past/Present Clients
PepsiAmericas PepsiCola International PepsiCola Company British Steel British Telecom Britvic (Pepsi's bottler in the UK) AT&T BellSouth Mars Overseas Bottling Pepsi France Matutano (Frito-Lay Spain) Frito-Lay Pepsi Foods International Chase Manhattan Bank Kidder Peabody National Power SmithKline Beecham Mars Overseas Bottling (Pepsi Azerbaijan) A&P Bottling (Pepsi Serbia & Montenegro) Iberia Bottlers (Pepsi Georgia)

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