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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Major multinational food and beverage companies and informal sector contributions to global food consumption: implications for nutrition policy | Alexander et al. Globalization and Health 2011 7 26 http content 7 1 26 H2 globalization 7 AND HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access Major multinational food and beverage companies and informal sector contributions to global food consumption implications for nutrition policy Eleanore Alexander 1 Derek Yach1 and George A Mensah2 Abstract Background In recent years 10 major multinational food and beverage companies have worked together within the International Food and Beverage Alliance IFBA to increase their commitments to public health. Current IFBA commitments include initiatives to improve the nutrition quality of products and how these products are advertised to children. The impact and magnitude of IFBA member contributions to the total market share of packaged foods and beverages consumed remain incompletely understood however. Methods In order to evaluate this impact we examined packaged food and soft drink company shares provided by Euromonitor an international independent market analysis company. Packaged foods include baby food bakery canned preserved food chilled processed food confectionery dairy dried processed food frozen processed food ice cream meal replacement noodles oils and fats pasta ready meals sauces dressings and condiments snack bars soup spreads and sweet and savoury snacks. Soft drinks include carbonates packaged fruit vegetable juice bottled water functional drinks concentrates ready-to-drink tea ready-to-drink coffee and Asian specialty drinks. We calculated the market shares for IFBA companies globally and within nine countries-the US China India Egypt South Africa Brazil Mexico Turkey and the UK. Results Worldwide the top ten packaged food companies account for of sales with each individual company contributing less than . The top ten soft drink companies account for of sales worldwide Coca-Cola and PepsiCo lead with and of sales respectively. Conclusions Although the top ten soft drink .