An invisible torch has been passed: Tyson foods, no longer just a chicken company, is now the largest food processor in North America.(EDITOR'S PLATE)(Editorial)

Food Processing, August, 2005 by Fusaro, Dave

Kraft probably hasn't always been North America's largest food company. But you can't prove it by us. When we created our first Top 100[c] Food Companies report in 1975, Kraftco was at the top of that list. (In an interesting historical note, Greyhound Corp. was No. 7 by virtue of its ownership of Armour & Co.)

Over the next 29 years, some predecessor, future sibling or parent of the current Kraft Foods Inc. was perennially at the top of that list, whether the name was Dart & Kraft, General Foods or Philip Morris. Thirty years is quite a run. But the run is over.

I don't like to make too much of a horse race out of lists because I don't think any company sets a corporate strategy to make a list. Lists usually are subjective. Despite all our efforts at...

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