Who owns your shopping?

Next time you go shopping...

....see who's pockets you are lining! Print out and take this guide with you and find out how few corporations dominate all the shelf space at your local supermarket!

NESTLE

Shredded Wheat
Shreddies
Clusters
Golden Grahams
Ski Yoghurt
Maxibon
Rowntrees
Wonka
Lifesavers
Milky Bar
Maggi
Milo
Buxton Water
Perrier Water
Vittel
Felix
Go-Cat
Cheerios
Nescafe
Nesquik
Rowntree Fruit Gums
Kit Kat
Aero
Quality Street
Smarties
Rolo
Based in Switzerland EUROPE
Chairman Rainer E.GUT he also has fingers in the following pies: Lazard Freres & Co New York, Swiss American Corporation, Credit Suisse, L Oreal


KRAFT

Maxwell House
Lunchables
Birds Custard
Vegemite
Carte Noire
Kenco
Cote d'Or Belgian chocolate
Suchard
Dairylea
Kraft Mayonnaise
Philadelphia
Terrys
Angel Delight
Toblerone
Based in USA
Chairman Roger K. Deromedi also has Gillette Company and is on the board of EAN international (the people who define barcode standards)




MARS

Mars
M&Ms
Maltesers
Galaxy
Bounty
Milky Way
Twix
Snickers
Celebrations
Whiskas
Snickers
Twix
Pedigree
Uncle Bens
Privately owned company originally American. The company was started when Frank Mars in 1911 with his wife Ethel created the Milky Way bar which we all know now as the Mars bar.

Mars Incorporated



CADBURYSCHWEPPES

Wispa
Halls
Sunkist
Slush Puppies
Cadburys
Schweppes
Roses
Orangia
Trident Gum
Snapple
Maynards
Trebor
Milk Tray
Heroes
Wispa


PEPSICO INC

Sensations
Monster Munch
Quavers
Wotsits (Ex Golden Wonder)
Sugar Puffs
Scotts Porage Oats
Tropicana
Quaker Qats
Pepsi
Smiths Chips
Niknaks (Ex Golden Wonder)
Doritos
Walkers Crisps

FERRERO LTD

Ferrero Rocher
Tic Tac
Nutella

UNITED BISCUITS

Mini Cheddars
Skips
Jaffa Cakes
Hula Hoops
McVities
Penguin
McCoys Crisps
KP Nuts

CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY

OXO
Campbells Soup
Homepride
Batchelors
Fray Bentos

UNILEVER

Birdseye
Cif
Lux
Colmans
PG Tips
Pot Noodle
I Cant beleive its not butter
Bovril
Peperami
SlimFast
Go-Organic
Bertolli Olive Oil
Scottish Blend
Omo
Dove
Domestos
Surf
Sunsilk
Comfort
Walls Ice Cream
Signal
Lipton iced tea
Findus
Flora
Marmite
Bovril
Hellmanns
Knorr
Chairman Antony Burgmans born in Rotterdam in 1947 enjoys the African Bush and has fingers in these pies: ABN AMRO Bank, Allianz AG, BP and chairman of the Global Commerce Initiative and on the Supervisory Board of the Mauritshuis Museum and he received a nice Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Lancaster.


RHM (Doughty Hanson & Co)

Mr Kipling Cakes
Robertsons
Cadburys Cakes (Under License)
McDougalls cooking mixes
Ormo Breads
Paxo
Granary
Atora
Frank Coopers Marmalade
Lyons
Rombouts Coffee
Saxa Salt
Hovis
Be-Ro flour
Sharwoods Curry Sauces
Bisto
Mothers Pride
Elephant Atta
Nible
Cerebos
They also supply the buns to McDonalds in the UK, food to Marks & Spencer, and pizza dough to you guessed it Pizza Hut!
Chairman Richard Hanson an investment banker gobbled up the compnay in 2000 as part of his investment portfolio! So it seems that Mr Hanson makes exceeding good profits! This private company is soon on it's way to go Dogfood (i.e become public)


KELLOGGS

Rice Crispies
Frosties
Coco Pops
Nutri-Grain

NORTHERN FOODS

Dalepak
Goodfellas
Fox Biscuits
own label foods
Pork Farms
Bowyers

JORDANS

Country Crisp
Jordans Crunch
Natural Muesli
Frusli
Began in Biggleswade Bedfordshire where you can still visit the very mill that appears on their packaging. One of the few surviving UK independent businesses in the food industry!

Jordans Cereals website

ONKEN DAIRY

Biopot
Fromage frais
Founded by Hermann Onken in Germany and remains a family concern.

MULLER DAIRY UK

Mullerice
Muller Yoghurts
Yogz
Squeezers
Muller Corners
Amore
MullerPuds
Appears to be a family run business (i.e. good candidate for takeover). The company was founded by Ludwig Muller in 1896 and is now run by his grandson Theo.


GENERAL MILLS

Yoplait Yoghurt
Old El Paso
Haagen-Dazs
Green Giant
This American company has close ties with Nestle and produces some of their popular cereals. They also have ties in PepsiCo so it's one big happy family! They were the original inventor of Cheerios and Wheaties. They were also created the American Doughboy icon.

YAKULT HONSHA

Yakult Yogurt
Japanese company Founded by Dr Shirota (Its not Spanish as the name might suggest!)

PROCTER & GAMBLE

Bounty Kitchen rolls
Charmin toilet paper
Pringles
SunnyD
Vicks
Olay
Tampax
Secret
Always
MaxFactor
Crest Toothpaste
Febreze
Old Spice
Hugo Boss
Pampers
Head & Shoulders
Sure Deoderant


ALBA

ALBA
Goodmans
HiNARi
Breville
BUSH
Ministry of sound Audio
NTL
Nicky Clarke
Roadstar
Carllewis
Betacom
Dirt Devil
Harvard
Cable and Wireless
VIVA
PowerDevil
JCB
Answercall




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