Conagra Brands, Inc.(CAG)
HQ US15% share
US packaged-foods major; owns Birds Eye — a leading US frozen-vegetable brand.
agricultural · input
Processing Tomatoes / Tomato Paste
Field tomatoes bred for paste/sauce. California grows ~95% of US processing tomatoes and ~1/3 of the world's — a single-state concentration for ketchup, pasta sauce and salsa.
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What depends on it
Goods that need this input
1 essential American goods rely on processing tomatoes / tomato paste somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Who makes it
Supplier companies
4 companies produce processing tomatoes / tomato paste.
COFCO International Ltd.
HQ CH
COFCO International Ltd. (Geneva Switzerland; wholly-owned subsidiary of COFCO Corporation — Chinese state-owned grain conglomerate; ~$40B revenue FY2023) is China's primary vehicle for controlling South American agricultural commodity supply chains. COFCO International was formed through COFCO Corporation's 2014-2015 acquisition of Nidera (Dutch grain trader) and Noble Agri (Hong Kong-based South American agricom) — giving the Chinese state direct soybean origination in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. COFCO International crushes soybeans in China (Tianjin, Qingdao, Zhangjiagang) — primarily processing imported Brazilian and Argentine soybeans. COFCO Corporation's domestic Chinese crush operations are among the largest in China, processing an estimated 25-30 million MT of soybeans annually for China's domestic soybean meal demand. COFCO International's South American origination assets allow China's state-owned grain apparatus to originate, ship, and crush soybeans entirely within Chinese state-controlled or state-linked entities — reducing dependence on ABCD Western grain traders. This vertical integration from Brazilian farm to Chinese crusher is the culmination of China's 'grain security' strategy implemented since 2014.
The Kraft Heinz Company(KHC)
HQ US
Maker of Heinz ketchup and tomato products; major processing-tomato buyer.
The Morning Star Company
HQ US
World's largest tomato processor (~40% of US paste); famous bossless self-management model.