10 Corporations Create Almost All Your Stuff

You probably knew some of these connections already, but the size and scope of these Russian-doll like corporations is hard to imagine.

Although many have heard of Nestle, fewer have heard of Unilever, which sells to two billion people around the world and can attribute the majority of its success to its ownership of Q-tips and Skippy peanut butter.

The confusion lays in companies like Yum! Brands, which owns KFC and Taco Bell. The company itself was actually a spin-off of Pepsi.

 All Yum! Brands restaurants sell only Pepsi soft drinks because of this special partnership with the soda-maker.

The Separated Infographics of 10 Corporations (Coca-Cola, General Mills, Johnson + Johnson, Kellogg’s, Kraft, MARS, Nestle, P&G, Pepsico, Unilever)

Coca-Cola

General Mills

Johnson & Johnson

Kellogg’s

Kraft

MARS

Nestle

P&G

PepsiCo

Unilever

Really, the flowchart is not quite so simple, as almost all of these corporations are themselves partially owned by other interests and corporations. These intertwined relationships make displaying “who owns who” incredibly difficult, if possible at all. At the end of the day, around 67 people have as much money as half of the human population.

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