ConAgra

ConAgra, with $27 billion in yearly sales, is second only to Phillip Morris in word-wide food sales. ConAgra, while not a name that is familiar to most consumers, owns more than 35 of the most popular food brands including:

• Act II->Popcorn
• Armour->Meat and Meat Packing
• Banquet->frozen microwave dinners
• Blue Bonnet->Butter and Dairy
• Bumble Bee->Canned Tuna
• Butterball->Turkey
• Chef Boyardee->Prepared Pasta
• Clover Leaf->Canned Seafood
• Cook’s->Ham
• Country Pride->Chicken
• County Line->Cheese
• David & Sons->Sunflower Seeds
• Eckrich->Sausage
• Healthy Choice->Diet Foods
• Hebrew National->Kosher Foods
• Hunt’s->Tomatoes, and Ketchup, Sauces, and Snacks
• Kid Cuisine->Microwave dinner for kids
• La Choy->Chinese Food products
• Libby’s->Canned Meat
• Longmont->Foodservice Turkey
• Louis Kemp->Seafood, Artificial Crab
• Marie Callender’s->Salad Dressing
• Orville Redenbacher->Popcorn
• PAM->Cooking Spray
• Parkay->Butter-like spread
• Peter Pan->Peanut Butter
• Slim Jim->Beef Jerky
• Swift Premium->Prepared Meat Products
• Swiss Miss->Drink Mixes
• Van Camp’s->Frozen Fish
• Wesson->Cooking Oil
• Wolfgang Puck->Prepared Gourmet Foods

The above is just a listing of their retail arm. ConAgra is also very large in foodservice, meat packing and agriculture.

ConAgra Foods was founded by Alva Kinney in 1919 as Consolidated Mills. Over the years, Consolidated Mills, through mergers and acquisitions came to be quite large. In 1971, Consolidated Mills became ConAgra which derives itself from Latin, “with the Earth”. Through the 1980s, Con Agra acquired many of the brands it is most known for today. During that decade, ConAgra mushroomed from a $1 billion to a $20 billion company.

ConAgra is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CAG.