General Mills markets some of the world's best-known brands, including Betty Crocker, H agen-Dazs, Pillsbury, Green Giant, Old El Paso and Cheerios. Its brand portfolio includes more than 100 leading United States food brands. Its major business divisions include Big G cereals, which produces Cheerios, Wheaties, Lucky Charms and others; the meals division, which produces Progresso soup and Green Giant vegetables; the baking products division; the yogurt division, which offers Yoplait yogurts; the Health Ventures division, the bakeries and foodservice division and the international division. General Mills traces its roots to the 1860s and a pair of flourmills on opposite banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, where the company remains headquartered. General Mills maintains production and distribution facilities throughout the U.S., including one in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cargill Corn Milling is a subsidiary of Cargill, a developer, processor and marketer of science-based healthy ingredients for food and dietary supplements worldwide. The company produces and distributes crop nutrients and feed ingredients to farmers, livestock producers and animal feeders. It originates and processes grain, oilseeds and other agricultural commodities for distribution to makers of food, feed and other products. It also offers a range of food ingredients and value-added services for food manufacturers that include starches, oils, flours and sweeteners. The company produces a variety of products used in pharmaceutical applications that include mannitol, xylitol, sorbitol, maltitol and malodextrins.
PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler, with operations in the United States, central Europe and the Caribbean. The company manufactures, distributes and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in 19 U.S. locations, as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. In total, the company serves a population of more than 122 million people. PepsiCo holds a 41.1 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. PepsiAmericas is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PAS. The company is based in Minneapolis, and has an additional location in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
