Maple Leaf Foods Inc. · Toronto, ON Canada ·(Toronto: MFI)

Maple Leaf Foods makes hot dogs and the buns to put them in. The company is Canada's largest pork processor and produces fresh and processed pork and poultry products under its flagship Maple Leaf brand. Its agribusiness group raises swine and poultry and includes Canada's largest rendering operation, Rothsay. The company owns almost 90% of leading bakery business, Canada Bread, which produces fresh and frozen baked goods, pasta, and pasta sauces. Maple Leaf owns and operates 37 bakeries and 34 fresh and packaged meat plants. A branch of the McCain family owns 32% of Maple Leaf Foods' voting stock; the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan fund holds 33%. To read the full description, subscribe now.