Article: Weighing success: the biggest trend of recent years naturally took its toll on the food industry's top 100 manufacturers. While the low-carb trend had a significant impact on companies primarily operating in the U.S., the story has been quite different elsewhere.(top 100)

In gathering its list of the Top 100 food and beverage companies, Food Engineering, sister publication of Prepared Foods, found the low-carb trend benefited far more than just the purveyors of those diets. Indeed, some of the largest growth rates were found among companies offering products that needed little reformulation to fit with those diets, protein in particular. Tyson Foods (Springdale, Ark.) took advantage of its diversified protein offerings to register a year-on-year sales gain of $1.2 billion. Similarly, Smithfield Foods' (Smithfield, Va.) meat lines propelled the company's sales $1.4 billion over the previous year. Rounding out the protein-rich rush, Swift & ...

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