They are currently owned by the Italian food conglomerate, Parmalat.

The biggest food conglomerates were Nestle and Unilever, and they are both foreign.

In a world of truly global automakers, banks and food conglomerates, airlines remain distinctly national.

At a time when giant food conglomerates are being formed through mergers, Wrigley continues to make one product - chewing gum.

The company has long been considered a takeover candidate because it is the smallest major food conglomerate.

Last year, it bought Beatrice Foods, the largest food conglomerate in America, for $6.1 billion.

The food conglomerate Conagra Inc. said today that its fourth-quarter profit rose 41 percent from a year earlier.

Between 1970 and 1984 he was finance director of, the European subsidiary of the Chicago based food conglomerate.

The kind of imagery that once marked a brand as an alternative to corporate food conglomerates has now been incorporated into Lay's potato chips.

Vertical integration by food conglomerates, as in the poultry industry, has moved with great speed in the last quarter of the twentieth century.