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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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The food system, including food service and food retailing supplied $1.24 trillion worth of food in 2010 in the US, $594 billion of which was supplied by food service facilities, defined by the USDA as any place which prepares food for immediate consumption on site, including locations that are not primarily engaged in dispensing meals such as recreational facilities and retail stores. [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.
Manufacturing output recovered from the Great Recession, reaching an all-time high in 2021, but manufacturing employment has been declining since the 1990s, giving rise to what is known as a "jobless recovery," which made job creation or preservation in the manufacturing sector an important topic in the 2016 United States presidential election.
Menu Foods Limited, [2] based in Streetsville in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, [3] was the largest maker of wet cat and dog food in North America, with its products sold under 95 brand names, [4] which the company identifies as supermarkets, big box and pet product retailers and wholesalers. [2] It was bought out by Simmons Foods in August 2010 ...