Organic Industry
Structure:
July 2007
Seeds of
Change
Lightlife
1997
July 2000
Acquisitions by the Top 25 Food
Processors in North America
M&M
Mars
General
Mills
ConAgra
#21
December
1999
#7
#9
Cascadian
Farm
March
1998
Muir Glen
Boca
Foods
Millina's
Finest
Fruitti di
Bosca
February 2000
Earth's Best
#24
Walnut
Acres
September 2003
White
Wave/Silk
May 2002
$189 M
Horizon
April 1999
Dean
#6
July 1998
13% Equity
January 2004
100% Equity
$216 M
The Organic
Cow of
Vermont
TofuTown
Bearitos
October 1997
$23.5 M
Westsoy
Little Bear
March 2000
$390 M
Breadshop
April 1999
$80 M
December
2002
Casbah
Imagine/Rice
Dream/Soy
Dream
Celestial
Seasonings
#14
Pepsi
#3
Dagoba
Phil Howard, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Community, Agriculture,
Recreation and Resource Studies
Michigan State University
Food
Processors#
Kellogg
#15
June 2000
October
2001
$181 M
Odwalla
Cargill
Health Valley
#23
Coca-Cola
May
2002
#19
August 2003
Hershey
Foods
October 2006
April 1998
$80 M
Arrowhead
Mills
#85
Westbrae
French
Meadow
DeBole's
Hain
Celestial
June 2007
From Dean
Garden of
Eatin'
August
2005
$33 M
September 1999
$100 M
19.5% Equity;
December 2005
0% Equity
ShariAnn's
May 1999
Spectrum
Organics
June 2003
Mountain
Sun
October 2001
Alta Dena
December 1998
Heinz
#2
Back to
Nature
Nile Spice
September 1999
From Heinz
June 2001
Kraft
November 2006
Naked
Juice
Kashi
November 1999
$307 M
Morningstar
Farms/Natural
Touch
Organic
Brand
Acquistions
Strategic
Alliances
# Numbers refer to
rank in North
American food sales
according to Food
Processing, August,
2006