FORTUNE 500 2006
Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations
Industry: Food Consumer Products
REVENUES PROFITS
1 PepsiCo 61 32,562 11 4,078 -3
2 Sara Lee 111 19,727 1 719 -44
3 ConAgra Foods 143 15,516 -15 642 -21
4 General Mills 206 11,244 2 1,240 18
5 Dean Foods 216 10,900 1 328 15
6 Kellogg 233 10,177 6 980 10
7 H.J. Heinz 262 8,912 6 753 -6
8 Land O'Lakes 301 7,567 -2 129 502
9 Campbell Soup 302 7,548 6 707 9
10 Dole Food 365 5,871 10 46 -66
11 Hormel Foods 401 5,414 13 254 9
12 Hershey 442 4,836 9 493 -17
13 Wm. Wrigley Jr. 482 4,159 14 517 5
14 Del Monte Foods 581 3,209 0 118 -28
15 McCormick 670 2,592 3 215 0
16 J.M. Smucker 765 2,180 54 129 16
17 Flowers Foods 889 1,716 11 61 21
18 Ralcorp Holdings 906 1,675 8 71 10
From the April 17th, 2006 issue
Footnote:
Due to slight differences in rounding, industry data online may not exactly match the FORTUNE 500 magazine version.
How the states stack up
Texas 56
New York 55
California 52
Best employers
These companies appear on both the FORTUNE 500 and our 2006 ranking of the Best Companies to Work For.
FedEx 212,241
Intel 48,655
Starbucks 91,056
Most profitable companies
Exxon Mobil 36,130.0
Citigroup 24,589.0
Bank of America Corp. 16,465.0
Best investments
Best Investments By Industry: Total Return to Shareholders (1 Year)
Petroleum Refining 60.7%
Mining, Crude-Oil Production 53.6%
Oil and Gas Equipment, Services 51.6%
Women CEOs of FORTUNE 500 companies
Andrea JungThere are more women running FORTUNE 500 companies this year than there were last year. Currently, 10 FORTUNE 500 companies are run by women (up from 9 last year), and a total of 20 FORTUNE 1000 companies have women in the top job (up from 19). (more)

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