Posted on 11/03/2013 6:51:15 AM PST by Kaslin
PolicyMic has a very interesting chart that shows how 10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy.
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The chart was posted on Reddit as illusion of choice. I could not locate the original source.
PolicyMic explains ...
Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to batteries.
These corporations create the chain of supplies that flow from one another. Each chain begins at one of the 10 super companies.
Here's just one example: Yum Brands owns KFC and Taco Bell. The company was a spin-off of Pepsi. All Yum Brands restaurants sell only Pepsi products because of a lifetime deal with the soda-maker.
$84 billion company Proctor & Gamble owns companies that produce everything from detergent to toothpaste. Unilever produces everything from Dove soap to Klondike bars.
It's not just the products you buy and consume, either. In recent decades, the very news and information that you get has bundled together: 90% of the media is now controlled by just six companies, down from 50 in 1983, according to a Frugal Dad infographic from last year.
It gets even more macro, too: 37 banks have merged to become just four — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and CitiGroup in a little over two decades, according to this Federal Reserve map.
The nation's 10 largest financial institutions hold 54% of our total financial assets; in 1990, they held 20%. As MotherJones reports, the number of banks has dropped from more than 12,500 to about 8,000.
Media Consolidation
Everything You Think, Read, or Say
I always try to find a link to the original source, but none of the links to a Frugal Dad article work.
Regardless anything you read, watch, or buy is in the hands of fewer and fewer companies. The same applies to banks.
This is another reason we need an independent news network. One is actually in the works, started by Jeremy Scahill, National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine, and Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA spy story.
For details, please see War Against Journalists; "We Hit the Jackpot"
Question of the Day
How long will it be, before everything to think read or say is in the pill you took today?
Link if video does not play: Zager And Evans
Budweiser is not on the list.
“In a fascist society, of course, the new ventures cannot overcome the regulatory advantages enjoyed by the government approved monopolies.”
Capitalism and small business thrived in the 18th and 19th centuries before the federal government assumed primacy over the governments of the individual states. The federal government’s expanded definition of the Constitution’s commerce clause in the 20th and 21st centuries has allowed it to bestow national monopoly or oligopoly status to favored companies through the regulatory process.
While the chart is pretty and enlightening, I would much rather have a list that can be searched. If I am looking for who owns a certain fast food chain, it is going to take a while to find it.
Also, the implication of this chart is that Mrs. RWA and I buy mostly food, especially fast food, snacks, soft drinks, and bathroom supplies. Not the reality. It also doesn’t give any idea of market share.
It needs to be updated to show Mondelez.
http://www.mondelezinternational.com/Brands/index.aspx
If they’re gonna be AFL-CIO jobs then I’d just as soon not bring them back.
Larger less diverse units are easier to control from outside.
Obamacare should do a wonderful job of strangling new businesses before they ever have the chance to become household names.
I don’t see Chef Boyardee on that chart! (LOL— it’s owned by ConAgra).
Hard to tell whether this is helpful information, or just another stab at big business. The chart doesn’t show how much autonomy the smaller brand companies have, how many of their employees are U.S. residents and/or citizens, how much or how little they import from China and elsewhere, who they get their resources from, et cetera.
Budweiser, one of the major food groups for under-40s, is owned by Anheuser-Busch, which is owned by InBev, a Belgian-Brazilian holding company.
Just go to Bing.com and enter the name of the brand with the word "wiki" after it, such as "Burger King wiki." Chances are you will get the answer in one click, or at most you will have to do one more click to the Wikipedia page, which in most cases tells the ownership history on each major brand's page.
Mondelez is a division of Kraft.
OUTSTANDING post BUMP!
I don’t see Berkshire Hathaway on that chart. They own too much not to be included.
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What idiots. What utter clowns.
‘Can’t see the forest for the trees’ is an understatement.
The consolidation of media companies is patently no problem.
The consolidation of the media’s paymasters IS. These “10 corporations” are the media’s audience. The advertisers that determine what the media will be paid to show.
So their soluton is more regulation to reduce competition and more non-commercial, government-directed, media.
Why are you hyping leftist agitprop and planned ant-American media?
The chart is all “consumer products”.
BH is more into insurance, industrial, etc although they do have Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, and some others.
But consumer products is a fairly small slice of BH.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
“This is another reason we need an independent news network. One is actually in the works, started by Jeremy Scahill, National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine, and Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA spy story. “
So you are hyping ultra leftist anti-American planned “independent” media?
I know, right? Thankfully, I had to look really hard to find any brand I use, and those are not a commitment. There is little there that I use, and none of it that I couldn't do without.
What about Smucker’s? In addition to items with their label they own Jif, Wesson, Pilsbury, Martha White, and several other divisions like this.
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