TOP 10

The number of Doritos chip varieties may be on the rise , but the number of companies that own our favourite food brand is shrinking . A new map from Oxfam America ’ s “ Behind the Brands ” campaign shows the world ’ s top 10 food companies and what they own , and not surprisingly , they own almost everything .

PepsiCo Inc . is an American multinational food and beverage corporation headquartered in New York , United States , with interests in the manufacturing , marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods , beverages , and other products . PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi- Cola Company and Frito-Lay , Inc . PepsiCo has since expanded from its namesake product Pepsi to a broader range of food and beverage brands , the largest of which includes an acquisition of Tropicana in 1998 and a merger with Quaker Oats in 2001 , which added the Gatorade brand to its portfolio .

As of January 26 , 2012 , 22 of PepsiCo ’ s brands generated retail sales of more than $ 1 billion a piece , and the company ’ s products were distributed across more than 200 countries , resulting in annual net revenues of $ 43.3 billion . Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has been the chief executive of PepsiCo since 2006 , and the company employed approximately 274,000 people worldwide as of 2013 . The company ’ s beverage distribution and bottling is conducted by PepsiCo as well as by licensed bottlers in certain regions .

22 June 2015