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Who owns our Food
Top companies according to Food & Drink Magazine 2014
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Company
Fonterra
HALAL CERTIFIED
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Lion Nathan
HALAL CERTIFIED
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Coca Cola
Halal Certified
(unknown)
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JBS
HALAL CERTIFIED
Products l
Woolworths Milk Home Brand,
Anchor,
Bega,
Owned by: (Researched)
NZ: 42% foreign owned shares (Major concern)
Mainland, Perfect Italiano, Western Star, , Tamar Valley, Diploma Instant Milk,
CalciYum, Nestle Soleil, Riverina Fresh, Ski Activ, Ski Yoghurt, Western Star
Butter.
Pura; Dairy Farmers; Moove; Farmers Union; Dare; Big M; Masters M; Yoplait;
Fruche; Yogo; Divine Classic; Berri; Daily Juice; Just Juice; Mildura; Prima;
Sunnyboy; Zooper Dooper; Summit; Kyneton Springs; Coon; King Island Diary;
Tasmanian Heritage; Mersey Valley; South Cape; Cracker Barrel; Australian
Gold; Mil Lel; Heidi Farm; and Vitasoy.
Lion also owns dozens of alcohol brands including Tooheys, XXXX, Heineken and
James Squire.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10850648
Drinks: Coca-Cola; Fanta; Lift; Deep Spring; Mother; Appletiser; Grapetiser;
Kirks; Bisleri; Mount Franklin; Pump; Peats Ridge; Vitamin Water; Powerade;
Nestea; Neverfail; Goulburn Valley; Fruit Box; and Grinders Coffee.
Food: SPC; Goulburn Valley; Ardmona; IXL; and Taylor’s.
CCA also has interest in several alcohol brands including Jim Beam, Canadian
Club, Galliano and Maker’s Mark.
Largest meat processor of beef and lamb (chicken and pork)
AMH, King Island Beef, Royal, Swift Premium Beef, Beef City Black, Friboi Beef,
Tasmanian Premium Beef and Lamb
March 2015 purchased Primo Smallgoods (Pork)
Fonterra Co-operative group - Founded in 2001
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10850648
Japan: Kirin Holdings/Mitsubishi MEGA COMPANY
(see attached)
Lion Nathan merged with National Foods (owned by Kirin 2007) to form Lion Nathan National
Foods
http://www.smh.com.au/business/sad-farewell-for-australasias-lion-nathan-20090917fsvt.html
Owned by (shareholding) Mitsubishi: Shareholders who???
https://www.mitsubishi.com/php/users/category_result_member.php?company_id=00000001
&lang=1
USA: Muhtar Kent – Muslim CEO (MAJOR CONCERN)
http://www.todayszaman.com/business_coca-cola-ceo-in-us-group-torenew-ties-with-muslims_222609.html
http://saportareport.com/muhtar-kent-coca-cola-a-bridge-between-world-and-atlanta/
Warren Buffet owns major shares in both Coke and Pepsi through his company, Berkshire
Hathaway. Shareholding
Brazil: (shareholding) JBS SA formerly Friboi Ltda, MEGA COMPANY
(see attached)
This Company is a monopoly not only meat but food, finance, power
generation, metal cans, cleaning equipment. Who are the major
shareholders?
http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?symbol=JBSS3.SA
https://australianabattoirs.wordpress.com/tag/jbs-ownership/
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Murray
Goulburn
Devondale Milks, spreads and cheeses
Liddells – Lactose free
Canadian: Owned by Saputo Inc (Shareholding)
HALAL CERTIFIED
Table Cove Milk
Wants to purchase more Australian/NZ Companies
http://www.maxumfoods.com.au/saputo-seeks-expansion/
http://www.just-food.com/companies/saputo_id31
87.920% owns Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Holding
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Top 10 largest Dairy processor in world
http://www.saputo.com/investors-and-medias/companyprofile/default.aspx?id=818&langtype=4105
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Bidvest
Distributes
HALAL CERTIFIED
Largest Distributor foodservice. 56,000 food products sold to hospitality,
catering and leisure markets including hospitals.
Bidvest has subsidiaries in food service, distribution services and trading.
Assets are in Africa, Europe and Asia. It has a market cap of R103.7 billion a
price to earnings ratio of 17.41 and a dividend yield of 2.77 percent.
South Africa: Shareholding - Bidvest Group is an investment holding
company with subsidiaries operating in services, trading and distribution.
Founded in 1988 and listed on the JSE Limited in 1990.
Owns or has significant holdings in over 300 companies and is active across
5 continents. Corporate office Johannesburg
http://www.bidvest.com/
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Teys
Second largest Australian meat processor.
Teys Australia formed 2011 (Cargill)
HALAL CERTIFIED
Food, agriculture, financial and industrial products worldwide
6 Abattoris Beenleigh, Biloela, Rockhampton, Tamworth,Wagga Wagga and
Naracoorte. 2 feedlots
Goodman Fielder
HALAL CERTIFIED
USA/Australia? Cargill 50% share ENORMOUS COMPANY
Products: Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Personal Care, Food Service,
Animal nutrition and feed, Meat, Industrial/Bio Chemical, Salt
Wage Dispute: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-24/teyspromise/6568840
Received $7 Million Grant from Government
http://archive.fortune.com/2011/10/24/news/companies/cargill_food_busi
ness.fortune/index.htm
http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/40/Cargill-Inc.html
Largest food manufacturer
Bread: Meadow Lea, Helga’s, Wonder White, Country Life, Mighty Soft,
Vogel’s, Lawson’s, La Famiglia, Freya’s, Nature’s Fresh, Molenberg,
Owned by Wilmar Intl’l Singapore and Hong Kong First Pacific CHINA 100%
ownership
http://media.corporateir.net/media_files/IROL/16/164878/WilmarAnnual_Report_2013_Final.pdf
Baking Ingredients:White Wings, Pampas, Edmonds
Biscuits:
Paradise, Veri Deli, White Wings
Dairy:
Activate, Bouton d’or, Chesdale, Meadow Fresh, Naturalea, Ornelle, Puhoi
Valley, Tararua
Dressings, Sauces, and Vinegars:
Asia at Home, Cornwell’s, Eta, Holbrooks, Paul Newmans Own, Praise
Asia’s leading agribusiness group – founded 1991
http://ausfoodnews.com.au/tag/goodman-fielder
Owns CSR sugar and ALL sugar in Australia is now Halal Certified
Pastry, Cakes & Desserts:
Edmonds, Ern
Crisco, ETA, Gold’N’Canola, Meadowlea, Olivani est Adams, Pampas, Puhoi
Valley, White Wings
Spreads & Oils:, Olive Grove
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Nestle
HALAL CERTIFIED
Products: Nescafe, Maggi; Milo; Nespresso; Uncle Toby’s; Movenpick; Nescafe;
Nan (baby formula); Musashi; Kit Kat; Aero; Allen’s lollies; Anticol; Butter
Menthol; Chokito; Club; Lifesavers; Crunch; Milky Bar; Rolo; Smarties; Violet
Crumble; Golden Rough; XXX Mints; Soothers; Coffee Mate; Nesquik; Nestlebranded products; Country Cup; Crosse & Blackwell Branston; Starz Space Food
Sticks; Sustagen; Optifast; and Carnation.
Petcare: Purina; Fancy Feast; One; ProPlan; Felix; Friskies; Lucky Dog; PetLife;
Supercoat; Beneful; Bonnie; Ruffs; and Totalcare.
Swiss Owned but Shareholding diverse.
Institutions hold 80% of shares
http://the-european.eu/story2234/nestle-shareholder-dialoguein-a-diversified-ownershipstructure.html
442 factories in 86 countries
including many closer and in Muslim
countries yet in all products Halal
Certified?
Rolled out near-field communication (NFC) technology (PAY PASS) in
Woolworths to support launch of Uncle Toby’s Oats & Strawberries and
launched recycleable Nescafe Dolce Gusto coffee capsules.
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George Weston
Foods
HALAL CERTIFIED
Tip Top, Burgen and Abbott’s, Golden, Don KRC (purchased 1999), Jasol
(cleaning products Domestic and Commercial), KR Castlemaine, Watsonia,
Global AB Mauri anz (purchased 2014) (flour milling, yeast, premix
manufacturing, livestock animal nutrician)
Bread, baking products, small goods, cakes and ingredients
Owned by: UK: Associated British Foods Group / Sugar; Agriculture; Retail; Grocery; and
Ingredients. (shareholding)
http://www.abf.co.uk/about_us/our_group/our_businesses Associated British Foods Group
http://www.georgewestonfoods.com.au/who-we-are/gwf-fast-facts.html
Wage Dispute: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/driver-say-bread-company-notso-tip-top-20120827-24vkh.html
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Inghams
Enterprises
Poultry processor
Woolworths supplier
Owned by USA: TPG Capital owns 312 companies (shareholding)
TPG Capital Reportedly Acquired Telecom Office Portfolio July 2015
HALAL CERTIFIED
2014 Inghams sold
WP Carey 31 properties purchased
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=23307
http://www.smh.com.au/business/tpg-buys-inghams-with-880m-bid-20130310-2fu1a.html
http://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/recipe-to-riches/meet-the-suppliers/inghams
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Corval 6 properties purchased
Charter Hall 6 properties
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/inghams-portfolio-carved-up/storyfnko7zi0-1227122366693
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Carlton & United
Breweries
SAB Miller
VB, Cascade, Crown, Melbourne Bitter, Foster’s, Miller’s, Resch’s, Pure Blonde,
Pilsner, Peroni, Great Northern, Matilda Bay, Abbotsford, Sheaf, Grolsch, NT
South Africa Owned: Sold in 2011 to SAB Miller
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Sucrogen
Sugar,(old CSR) owns 7 sugar mills
Wilmar expanded into the sugar business in 2010 through the acquisition of
Sucrogen Limited (known today as Wilmar Sugar) in Australia – one of the
world’s largest sugar companies, and PT Jawamanis Rafinasi – a leading sugar
refiner in Indonesia. In 2011, Wilmar went on to acquire PT Duta Sugar
International, one of eight licenced sugar refineries in Indonesia. In the same
year, through Sucrogen, we added Proserpine Mill, fifth largest sugar mill in
Australia to its sugar business.
Owned by Subsidiary of Singapore Wilmar Int’l
http://www.canegrowers.com.au/icms_docs/74862_Wilmar_announcement_re_CSR.pdf
HALAL CERTIFIED
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Mondolez
HALAL CERTIFIED
Palms & Laurics
Speciality Fats
Olechemicals
Biodiesel
Edible Oils
Meals
Rice
Rice Bran Oil and Meal
Flour
Sugar
Consumer Products
Fertiliser
Formerly Kraft, Australian subsidiary of the worlds second largest food
producer. Cadbury (which includes Dairy Milk, Time Out, Cherry Ripe and
more); Toblerone; Terry’s Chocolate; Cote D’or, Suchard, Green & Blacks; The
Natural Confectionary Company; Pascall; Belvita; Oreo; Captain’s Table; Ritz;
Premium; In-a-biskit; Vegemite; Kraft Peanut Butter; Easy Cheese; Easy Mac;
Mac N Cheese; Bonox and Philadelphia.
The company, a division of Mondelez International, one of the world's top 10 food companies, paid
a dividend of $174 million, its first for two years.
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Treasury Wine
Estates
Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Yellowglen, Lindeman;s Coldstream Hills, Seppelt,
Beringer,
http://www.wilmar-international.com/our-business/sugar/
Founded in 1991 – Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Ranked among the largest listed companies
on the Singapore Exchange. Headquarters: Singapore
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World’s largest processor and merchandiser of palm and lauric oils, as well as largest in edible
oils refining and fractionation, oleochemicals, specialty fats and palm biodiesel
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Largest merchandiser of consumer pack oils worldwide
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One of the largest oilseed crushers, edible oils refiners, specialty fats and oleochemical
manufacturers, and flour and rice millers in China
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Amongst the top 10 global raw sugar producers as well as the largest raw sugar producer and
refiner, and a leading merchandiser of consumer brands in sugar and sweetener market in
Australia
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A leading branded consumer pack oils producer, oilseed crusher and edible oils refiner in India
One of the largest oil palm plantation owners and the largest palm oil refiner in Indonesia and
Malaysia
Largest supplier of edible oils in Africa
One of the largest edible oils refiners in Ukraine
USA owned: Has had enormous issues with unfair practices employment
Australia’s largest R & D facility at Ringwood, Victoria. After taking into
account a $30 million tax credit, an adjustment related to accounts in
a previous year, Mondelez's bottom-line profit from continuing
operations jumped 43 per cent in 2014 to $168.1 million.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/mondelez-australia-profit-soars-after-tax-credit-201504301mwm4a.html#ixzz3fishKYem
Shareholders: Sahttp://www.smh.com.au/business/treasury-wine-estates-to-sell-australian-uswineries-20150331-1mbleg.html
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The business is divided into four global regions: Australia and New Zealand;
The Americas; Europe; Middle East & Africa and Asia. Globally the company
manages over 12,000 hectares of vineyards with 4,000 employees in 12
countries, with sales totalling over 35 million cases of wine annually,
generating revenues of A$2 billion.
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Asahi Holdings
Halal Certified
(unknown)
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Unilever
Australia
HALAL CERTIFIED
Schweppes, (old P&N) beverages and Mountain H20 water. Cricketers Arms
Beer
Also involved in Confectionaries, Baby Food, Pharmaceuticals, Freeze Dried
Food, Coffee, Tea, Fruit and Vegetable Drinks
Subsidiary of Asahi Japan - Schweppes Australia formed April 3 2009
July 1, 2011 formed a holding company called Asahi Group.
Shareholding
http://www.asahigroup-holdings.com/en/
They have a partnership agreement with their customers
Food: Bertolli; Bushells; Continental; Choya; Flora; Pro-Active; Lipton; Streets;
and Lan-Choo.
Grocery: Clear shampoo; Dove; Sunsilk; VO5; Tresemme; Vaseline; Comfort;
Omo; Surf; Domestos; Drive; Impulse; Rexona; Lynx; Radox; St Ives; Simple; Jif;
Persil; and Pond’s.
Anglo-Dutch owned – Shareholding
WORLDWIDE
http://www.unilever.com/
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PFD Food
Services
HALAL CERTIFIED
Distributor for Mondelez, Nestle and Goodman Fielder.
Australian Owned
Distributes to restaurants, hotels and commercial kitchens throughout
Australia. 61 branches and also owns now Kosmos Foods Wholesalers NT
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Mars
HALAL CERTIFIED
Food: Dolmio; KanTong; Masterfoods; Uncle Ben’s; Promite; Mars; Snickers;
Maltesers; Milky Way; Pods; Twix; 5 Gum; Airwaves; Eclipse; Extra; Hubba
Bubba; Juicy Fruit; Kenman; PK; Skittles; and Starburst.
Petcare: Pedigree; Whiskas; Schmackos; Advance; Catsan; Chum; Dine; Excelpet;
Goodo; Golden Cob; Greenies; Harmony; Kitekat; My Dog; Nutro; Optimum;
Royal Canin; and Trill.
American – family owned
7 Manufacturing sites across Australia
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Baiada Poultry
Poultry processor
Australian – family owned
Primo smallgoods, largest producer of ham, bacon and smallgoods.
Owned by Asian Affinity Equity partners. Company operates abattoirs as well
as food manufacturing and processing facilities and distribution warehouses.
SOLD to JBS Australia March 2015
Flour, pre-mixes, starches, proteins, glucose, fats and oils and sugar.
Australian,
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HALAL CERTIFIED
Australian
Consolidated
Food
Investments
Manildra Group
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Canola Oils
HALAL CERTIFIED
http://www.manildra.com.au/
Healthy Baker brand
Sugar
Manildra value adds to create a diversified product range from flour to
starches, gluten, glucose and ethanol.
Meat – Lamb supplier exports and supplies one of the major supermarkets all
its lamb.
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