largest food companies in world
By many measures, NestlÃ© is the largest of the 10 food companies, with more than 92 billion Swiss francs in revenue last year â net profit and total asset figures that dwarf other food companies â and roughly 333,000 employees.
Employees: 60,000. Mars is the only one of the worldâs 10 largest food companies that is privately owned. Mars owns several well-known chocolate brands, such as M&Ms, Milky Way, Snickers and Twix. Mars also owns a range of food brands such as Uncle Benâs rice, as well as chewing gum and candy-maker Wrigley.
Its largest market, by sales, is Russia, followed by France, the U.S., China, and Indonesia. According to the company, Danone DANOY, +0.00% is the worldâs largest seller of fresh dairy products, which accounted for 11.8 billion euros in revenue, or over half of the companyâs total sales in 2013.