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.
click on chart for huge image
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
Words of reality re the fascists, who control so much of America and the rest of the world.
“In a FREE market within a FREE society, such consolidation opens the door for upstart competition.
In a fascist society, of course, the new ventures cannot overcome the regulatory advantages enjoyed by the government approved monopolies.”
I was startled years ago when Clintoon invited the Chicom leader over to mingle with our top CEO’s.
It was an eye opener to see these guys fawning over the Clintoons and clamoring to get in line to kiss the head Chicom’s butt.
Most of these CEO’s then and now are card carrying rats and many have deep pockets to finance the elections for their rat buddies.
There's certainly a good reason why these ten companies might dominate their markets: They're very, very good at what they do.
Having worked extensively with both Procter & Gamble and Frito-Lay (PepsiCo), I can attest to their commitment to product quality/performance and consumer value. They have justifiably earned their position in the marketplace by doing a better job than their competitors.
Correct. In the olden days of feudalism, the monarch granted individuals charters for large business endeavors. Financial success bred loyalty to the monarch. We do a similar thing today with regulation. History continuously repeats itself.
The article is not entirely accurate, but why/how can these corporations alledgedly do this? It would be impossible without the assistance of the federal government. Our state and locals are often equally complicit.
Try selling baked goods without an approved industrial kitchen. Try selling any food goods without such investment. I cannot sell meat except on the hoof, unless I have a federally approved slaughter facility with a federal meat inspector paid for at my expense. And, technically, according to the new food safety bill I should not be doing that. Funny how electric cars do not have to comply with the same safety requirements as the rest of the vehicles and nearly any idiot can produce an electric vehicle for sale, but not an internal combustiun vehicle. And corporations love this, because they have the resources to have laws written that are in line with their way of doing business. They essentially legislate out the competition.
Abolish the FDA, EPA, the Fed reserve, wipe all the laws off the books that prevent small business form competing and you’ll see a turn around in the economy and employment.
Budweiser is owned by Stella Artois Breweries of Belgium.
And Unilever is a Dutch company.
I don’t want to sound too harsh on you. This is a great graphic and I appreciate you posting it.
See okie01’s post #42.
The chart is concerned with consumer goods -- i.e., brands you'd find in a supermarket.
Berkshire Hathaway is not a consumer goods company.
Private corporations making money is the least of our problems. The largest business conglomerate in America is the federal govt.
Limit and control the feds properly and the problem of govt interfacing too closely with private industry can be handled easily.
“Eat real food and you barely encounter those corporations at all.”
My wife and I go into a mild depression at about this time every year, and it “ain’t” just going off daylight savings time back to standard time.
We are hooked on our great farmer’s market, and when it closes on the last Saturday in October, we really miss it.
Fortunately, we and others have convinced a couple of the bigger growers to open stands on their farms and to sell their produce until our first hard freezes, usually right after Thanksgiving.
My wife before and after her recent full retirement has gotten into the container/water troughs, small garden crops. We will be eating our last home grown tomatoes this week. We have a Blackjack miniature fig tree that is still producing, our persimmon tree will get new cousins this coming spring, and our Myer Lemon tree is going full bore.
My wife raises most of the herbs, she uses, in pots on our deck and around my charcoal grill.
It is amazing how much fresh and great produce, she raises each spring and summer with 1 large trough and 2 smaller ones.
My wife has been consulting with local experts what to plant for late fall winter re root vegies/greens in her soon be crop vacant watering troughs.
One of our younger relatives is a great bow hunter. Yesterday, he dropped off over a 100 #’s of elk, to go with the venison and wild boar he gave us earlier this year, which is in our small freezers. He keeps us supplied with wild duck and geese in Dec/Jan. We will probably share some more wild boar early next year, when he hunts wild pig again.
Besides be incredibly delicious, the wild game is extremely filling. About 4 ounces for her and 6 ounces for me is enough for a meal, and we stay satisfied until the next meal time.
Besides being the center piece/entrée for a meal. We use the game for tacos and fajitas and Asian dishes. I make stews with the meats that would be a little on the tough side if grilled or fired in the ovens.
Our Thanksgiving Turkey, Christmas prime rib and Easter Lamb is fresh and comes from local producers. A good local super market pre orders it and does the butchering that is needed.
In closing we are thankful for what we have to eat and are amazed at so many locals saying the farmers markets are too expensive. These people are stunned when we tell them that we buy about $50+ twice a week. The produce/fruit becomes the center piece and often desert with the game or local critters becomein side orders.
Agenda 21 is now in place. It is only downhill from here on.
Agenda 21 is now in place. It is only downhill from here on.
You have got it wrong. These companies pay the majority of the reelection costs of the legislators and they in turn make the laws that the companies lobbyists want.
Yeah
You mean like tofu? I have never touched that stuff and never will
“You have got it wrong. These companies pay the majority of the reelection costs of the legislators and they in turn make the laws that the companies lobbyists want.”
Over 900,000 companies have closed since 1990. I’d think that if they got the laws they wanted that wouldn’t be the case. No company wants the EPA, OSHA or publically financed lawsuits brought by minority employees.
Meaningless canard.
Buying American is passe
The economy is global
Buy American.
It is not meaningless.
Bring back American jobs.
They have A&W both under craft and Pepsi. Very few of those logos appear in my home, I buy weird stuff.
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