Power brokers: our picks for the 11 most influential people in the food industry don't believe in the status quo.(Cover Story)

Food Processing, May, 2005 by Toops, Diane

Influence. Power Clout. There are various definitions and measures of these seemingly intangible assets. When the new president of Ukraine takes your meeting because you knew him in his banker days (1), you've got it. When President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev visit out-of-the-way Decatur, Ill., (2) you flaunt it. When your company's stock goes up 55 percent in one year, you've earned it. (3)

Financial success is one clear but seldom easy route to power. At this time last year, Smartmoney.com reported investors who filled their carts with food and beverage stocks whipped up some nice gains, particularly if they held shares of Tyson Foods (up 55 percent), Hershey Foods (15 percent), McCormick & Co. (18 percent), Kellogg (10...

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