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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.
Pages in category "Food manufacturers of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 208 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Often a food manufacturer may hire a food brokerage company to represent the manufacturer in a local market. The broker helps the food manufacturer market its products through the food service distribution system, which ranges from getting items stocked at the distributor to working with operators to purchase items from the distributor.
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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 ...
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]
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.