Food & Agriculture

Archer Daniels Midland

Ian Elwood — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:43:09 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Decatur, Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is one of the world's largest agricultural conglomerates, with its share of controversy around environmental and other issues. Operating 270+ facilities world-wide, ADM is in the business of agricultural processing, storage and transportation. It is also rapidly moving into biofuel production, particularly ethanol and biodiesel -- a development that led Corporate Accountability International to induct ADM into its 2008 Corporate Hall of Shame.

Burger King

liamk — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:07:29 -0400

Review:

Burger King had hired Diplomatic Tactical Services to spy on the groups. After the story was picked up by Florida newspapers, the New York Times, and The Nation, Burger King released a statement saying it had fired vice president Steven Grover and spokesman Keva Silversmith for comments they had made about the activists online. They also claimed to have stopped using DTS because of violations to the Burger King Code of Conduct.

Dole Food

Ian Elwood — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:11 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Dole Food Company, Inc. is the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables such as bananas and pineapples, and also produces cut flowers and nuts. Dole has a history of operating plantations in the US and across the globe, often creating poor working conditions and unsafe environmental conditions such as pesticide use, soil erosion and deforestation.

Sodexho Alliance

Bodhi Harnish — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:39:41 -0400

Company Snapshot:

'''Sodexo''' (Sodexho Alliance prior to 23 January 2008, Euronext: SW) is a French multinational corporation and one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world. It is present in 29,000 sites within eighty countries, earning revenue in 2007 of €13.385 million. Sodexo has two major lines of business: food and facility management services, and service vouchers and cards.

Monsanto

Aman Sidhu — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:51:36 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Monsanto is the biggest seller of genetically modified (GM) crop seeds in the world, holding at least 70% market share for most major GE crop seeds. Since acquiring Seminis Inc. in March 2005, Monsanto has also been the largest conventional seed company in the world. Most of the GM-seeds the company sells are designed to be co-sold with RoundUp (glyphosate), the world’s biggest selling herbicide.

Scotts

Ian Elwood — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:33:25 -0500

Company Snapshot:

The Scotts Company is the world's leading supplier and marketer of consumer products for do-it-yourself lawn and garden care. It also supplies a range of products for professional horticulture. Scotts owns the leading brands in every major category in virtually all of the countries where it has a significant presence.

AFC Enterprises

Dung Nguyen — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:44:27 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Headquartered in Atlanta Georgia, AFC Enterprises operates the #2 fast food chain specializing in chicken, the infamous "Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits". Currently, there are over 1,900 Popeye's locations in the United States and and over 2 dozen locations in other countries. AFCE owns 55 locations themselves and franchises the rest.

CSAV

Tonya Hennessey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:04:28 -0500

Company Snapshot:

CSAV, Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores, is a Chilean shipping company that is currently the largest in Latin America. CSAV, one of the oldest shipping companies in the world, was founded in 1872. The company’s business initially consisted exclusively of coastal shipping services but these were rapidly extended along the whole west coast of South America to the Panama Canal before this was opened to regular traffic.

Sadia

Tonya Hennessey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:27:56 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Sadia S.A. is a major Brazilian food producer. It is among the world’s leading producers of frozen foods, and is Brazil’s main exporter of meat-based products. As of 2006, Sadia has about 12 industrial plants in Brazil that together produce over 1.3 million tons of meat-based products raning from chicken, turkey, pork and beef, as well as pasta, margerines, desserts, and other products. The company manages to provide to over 70 thousand direct points of sale in Brazil and around 200 foreign clients in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadia

JBS-Friboi

Tonya Hennessey — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:58:14 -0500

Company Snapshot:

JBS-Friboi operates in the Food segment (fresh meat, processed and canned products), Cattle Raising (cattle raising ranches), Transportation and the Hygiene and Cleaning industry. The brands Friboi, Maturatta, Swift and Anglo are available in supermarkets all over Brazil. There are more than 70 types of meat cuts and different types of canned and processed food, from the very Brazilian "feijoada" (black bean stew with different kinds of meat), corn, peas, canned vegetables, to ready-prepared beef cuts and industrialized products.