Philip Morris is a holding company whose principal subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of various consumer products, including cigarettes, packaged and processed foods and beverages. Kraft Foods Inc., is engaged in the manufacture and sale of various consumer products, including cigarettes, foods and beverages and beer. Philip Morris Capital Corporation, another wholly owned subsidiary, is primarily engaged in leasing activities. Miller is a brewing company in the United States. In July 2002, the Company merged Miller Brewing Company into South African Breweries plc.

On April 25, 2002, the shareholders of Philip Morris Companies Inc. granted the Company's Board of Directors the authority to change the name of the holding company to Altria Group, Inc. The Board will retain the discretion to determine when to effect the name change.

Product Divisions:

	Former subsidiary company, see entry under Kraft Foods for more information.
	Miller Brewing (Beer): MGD, Miller Lite, SAB Miller, etc.
	Philip Morris cigarette brands (partial list): Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic Cambridge,Bristol, Bucks Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals, Lark, L&M, Saratoga, Superslims.

Cadbury Schweppes plc manufactures, markets, and distributes internationally branded confectionary and beverage products through wholesale and retail outlets. Cadbury is the worlds third largest soft-drink maker.

Cadbury Brands

Cadbury Brands include:
7UP, Dr.Pepper, Beldent (gum), Cadbury (all), Canada Dry, Clamato, Dairy Milk, Energade, ibc root beer, loys, mini-eggs, mini heroes, mistic, motts, nantucket nectars, orangina, slushpuppie, sunkist soda, treborallan, wispa, yowie.

The Company operates in three business segments: Soup and Sauces, Biscuits and Confectionery, and Away From Home. The Soup and Sauces segment includes the Company's worldwide soup businesses. The Biscuits and Confectionery segment includes the Pepperidge Farm cookies and crackers business, and the Arnotts biscuit business. The Away From Home segment represents products, including Campbell's soups, Pace picante sauce and Campbell's Specialty Kitchens entrees.

In North America, the top five brands in 2001 were Coca-Cola Classic, Diet Coke, Sprite, caffeine free Diet Coke and Dasani, and, in Europe, the top five brands in 2001 were Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coke Light, Fanta, Schweppes and Sprite.

Some major Coke beverage brands:
Aquarius, Bibo, Barq's root beer, Bonaqua, Cappy, Ciel, Coca-Cola, DASANI, diet Coke/Coca-Cola light, Dr Pepper, Fanta, Fioravanti, Fresca, Fruitopia, Georgia Coffee, Hi-C, Hit, Imperial Orchid Tea, Joy, Juggy, Kapo, Kinley, Kuat, Lift, Limca, Maaza, Manzana Mia, Marocha Tea, Mello Yello, Mr Pibb/Pibb Xtra, Minute Maid (all), Nalu, Play, POWERADE, Qoo, Samurai, Shock, Simply Orange, Smart, Sokenbicha, Sparletta, Sprite, TaB, Thums Up, Tian Yu Di, Wannabe.

All Coke Brands

ConAgra Foods aims for the top shelf. It is the #2 US food company (behind Kraft Foods). ConAgra Foods is #2 in US frozen foods (behind Nestlé USA), and with brands including Butterball and Armour, is a top player in US meat and poultry sales. It is one of the country's largest food service suppliers and offers shelf-stable foods, seafood, and dairy products. More than 30 of its brands, including Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Healthy Choice, and Van Camp's, each top $100 million in annual sales. ConAgra also makes and distributes agricultural products and food ingredients; mills flour and corn; and trades food commodities.

ConAgra has four segments - packaged foods, food ingredients, meat processing and agricultural products but food accounts for 87% of net sales.

Danette, Danino, Dany, Dannon -- no matter how it's sold, it's all from Groupe Danone, one of the world's largest food producers and the world leader in dairy products (including yogurt, cheese, and dairy desserts) and biscuits (cookies, crackers, and snacks). Its Evian and other brands make it #2 in bottled water (behind Nestlé). Danone has dozens of regional and international brands, including Dannon yogurt (US), Jacob's and LU cookies and crackers, and HP and Lea & Perrins sauces. Refocused on a core of dairy, beverage, and biscuit businesses, Danone has sold off many of its grocery products and beer operations. It owns almost 45% of BSN Emballage, a maker of glass containers.

Danone claims that just four brands represent over 50% of sales. These are:
Danone - fresh dairy products.
LU - world's second largest biscuit and cracker brand.
Evian and Volvic - bottled water.

Other major bottled water brands include Wahaha (China), Aqua (Indonesia), and Villa del Sur (Argentina). Danone produces Italian cheeses under the Galbani brand name and infant food sold under the Bl´edina brand name. Danone grocery products inlcude HP Sauce (UK), Lea & Perrins (US) and Amoy in China.

Diageo plc is a worldwide consumer goods company whose subsidiaries include UDV (spirits and wines), Guinness (brewer and marketer of Guinness stout and other brands).

Guinness UDV produces and distributes a wide range of brands, including Johnnie Walker Scotch whiskies, Guinness stout, Smirnoff vodka, J&B Scotch whisky, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, Tanqueray gin and Malibu specialty spirit. Through the acquisition of Seagram, Diageo also offers Captain Morgan rum, Crown Royal Canadian whisky, Seagram's 7 Crown American whisky, Seagram's VO Canadian whisky and Barton & Guestier wines.

The Company's principal products include ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, pet products, soups, beans and pasta meals, tuna and other seafood products, infant food and other processed food products.

Major trademarks include Heinz, College Inn, StarKist, Classico, Quality Chef, Yoshida, Jack Daniels, Catelli, Wyler's, E-Z Squirt, Diana Sauce, Bell 'Orto, Bella Rosa, Pablum, Chef Francisco, Domani, Omstead, 9-Lives, Kibbles n' Bits, Ken-L-Ration, Reward, Gravy Train, Skippy, Nature's Recipe, Pounce, Snausages, Jerky Treats, Pup-Peroni, Wagwells, Techni-cal, Medi-cal, Meaty Bone, Ore-Ida, Bagel Bites, Moore's, Rosetto, Weight Watchers, Boston Market, Smart Ones, Hot Bites, Poppers, TGI Friday's and Delimex.

The principal products of the Company are fruit spreads, dessert toppings, peanut butters, frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, industrial fruit products, fruit and vegetable juices, beverages, syrups, condiments and gift packages. On June 1, 2002, the Company merged with the Jif peanut butter and Crisco shortening and oils businesses of The Procter & Gamble Company. With the addition of the Jif and Crisco businesses in fiscal 2003, fruit spreads, peanut butter and shortening and oils are together expected to make up approximately 75% of the Company's business.

J.M. Smucker purchased Folgers coffee from Procter & Gamble for $2.95 billion in June 2008.

Smucker brands

Folgers Coffee

Kellogg Company is a producer of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods such as cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, frozen waffles, meat alternatives, pie crusts and ice cream cones. The Company also markets cookies, crackers and other convenience foods of its Keebler Foods Company subsidiary under other brands such as Kellogg's, Keebler, Cheez-It, Murray and Famous Amos, and manufactures private label cookies, crackers and other products.

Products include,

Cereal: Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes, All-Bran (all), Apple Jacks, Cinnamon Crunch Crispix, Cocoa Rice Krispies, Complete (all), Corn Pops, Cracklin' Oat Bran, Crispix, Disney cereals (all), Froot Loops, Honey Crunch Corn Flakes, Just Right Fruit & Nuts, Marshmallow Blasted Froot Loops, Mini-Wheats (all), Mueslix, Pokemon, Product 19, Raisin Bran Crunch, Raisin Bran Crunch, Rice Krispies Treats, Rice Krispies, Smacks, Smart Start, Special K (all), Raisin Bran, Low-Fat Granola (all). Other: Pop-Tarts (all), Eggo (all), Nutri-Grain (all), Rice Krispies Treats (all) and Special K Bar (all), Stuffing Mix, Corn Flake Crumbs. < Product Info page >