Top 10 Brands That Controls Your Grocery Shopping

BENGALURU: Ever wondered how much we rely on buying processed and semi-processed food items these days? Look around you, observe the chips packet on your table, the cola can in your hand, the tetra-packed juice in your fridge, and the noodles in your kitchen, they might have different names, yet they come from the house of some of the biggest brands that controls everything you buy at the grocery store.

Oxfam International has come up with an infographic depicting 10 of the world’s most powerful food and beverage brands. Oxfam’s selection is based on the largest overall revenues globally, as well as brand’s position in the Forbes 2000 annual ranking.

Oxfam also keeps a scorecard on the environmental impact of these brands through its nonprofit "Behind The Brands" campaign. The scorecard has 7 equally weighed themes namely, Transparency at a corporate level, Women farm workers and small-scale producers in the supply chain, Workers on farms in the supply chain, Farmers (small-scale) growing the commodities, Land - both rights and access to land and sustainable use of it, Water - both rights and access to water resources and sustainable use of it, Climate - both relating to reducing green house gas emissions and helping farmers adapt to climate change. Below is the list of brands with their %score as reported by Oxfam.

Unilever, 71%

The brand has scored the best on climate change, supporting small scale farmers and workers rights, and has overtaken Nestle in the no. 1 spot.

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