The Campbell Soup Company, also known as just Campbell’s, is an American-headquartered multi-national processed food company. As the name implies, the company is most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products, however it has through mergers and acquisitions grown to become one of the largest processed food companies in the U.S., with a wide variety of products under its flagship Campbell’s brand as well as such well-known brands as Pepperidge Farm, Snyder’s of Hanover, V8, and Swanson. Under these brands and many others, Campbell’s produces not only soups and broths, but other canned meals such as SpaghettiOs, baked goods such as cookies and crackers, beverages, and salty snacks such as pretzels and potato chips. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.[3] The classic red-and-white can design used by many Campbell’s branded products has become an American icon, and its use in pop art was typified by Andy Warhol’s series of Campbell’s Soup Cans prints.

The Hershey Company, commonly known as Hershey, is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. It also manufactures baked products, such as cookies, cakes, milk shakes, drinks and many more. Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hersheypark and Hershey’s Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1894 as the Hershey Chocolate Company, a subsidiary of his Lancaster Caramel Company. The Hershey Trust Company owns a minority stake, but retains a majority of the voting power within the company. Hershey’s chocolate is available across the United States, and in over 60 countries worldwide. They have three large distribution centers, with modern technology and labor management systems. In addition, Hershey is a member of the World Cocoa Foundation. It is also associated with the Hersheypark Stadium and the Giant Center.

The J. M. Smucker Company, also known as Smucker and Smucker’s, is an American manufacturer of jam, peanut butter, beverages, shortening, ice cream toppings, oils, and other products in North America. Smucker’s headquarters are located in Orrville, Ohio.[2] It was founded in 1897.

The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz is an American food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz with co-headquarters in Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2][3] Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America and the fifth-largest in the world with $26.2 billion in annual sales as of 2018.[4][5] In addition to Kraft and Heinz, over 20 other brands are part of the company’s profile including Boca Burger; Gevalia coffee; Grey Poupon; O, That’s Good!; Oscar Mayer; Philadelphia Cream Cheese; Planters; Primal Kitchen; and more, of which eight have total individual sales of over $1 billion.[6] Kraft Heinz ranked No. 114 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

TreeHouse Foods Inc. — located in Oak Brook, IL—is a multinational food processing company specializing in producing private label packaged foods.[2][3][4] Created in 2005[5] and consisting entirely of acquisitions,[5] in 2010 the company had sales of $2 billion[5] and employed over 4,000 people at 20 facilities.[5] Food Processing magazine named them their 2010 Processor of the Year,[5] calling them “the biggest company you never heard of.”[5][6] The company is a component of the S&P 400[7] and in 2015 was the 37th-largest food and beverage company in North America.[8] In 2018, TreeHouse Foods was ranked #446 on the Fortune 500 list.