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The Consumer Brands Association (CBA), formerly the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), [1] is a United States-wide trade association for manufacturers of consumer packaged goods (CPG). The CBA represents companies that manufacture food, beverages, household, and personal care products.
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The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) is a food lobby group. It has existed since at least 1946. [1] GMA "was the largest contributor of honoraria to US Senators in 1976". [2] It was referred to as "the (American) food industry's power broker" in 1979, when its membership roll included 134 large corporations. [2]
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Packaged food aisles at an American grocery store Parmigiano Reggiano cheese produced in a modern factory Battery cages in Brazil, an example of intensive animal farming. The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become ...
General Mills was ranked #181 on the 2012 Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations, [27] 161 in 2015 and was the third-largest food consumer products company in the United States. [28] During June 2012, the company's vice-president for diversity stated that General Mills opposes a Minnesota amendment banning gay marriage, stating that ...
In deciding what type of new food products a consumer would most prefer, a manufacturer can either try to develop a new food product or try to modify or extend an existing food. For example, a sweet, flavored yogurt drink would be a new product, but milk in a new flavor (such as chocolate strawberry) would be an extension of an existing product.
The U.S. manufacturing industry employed 12.35 million people in December 2016 and 12.56 million in December 2017, an increase of 207,000 or 1.7%. [3] Historically, manufacturing has provided relatively well-paid blue-collar jobs, although this has been affected by globalization and automation.