Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
(GMCR)
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. engages in the specialty coffee
and coffeemaker businesses in the United States and Canada. It sources,
produces, and sells approximately 225 varieties of coffee, cocoa,
teas, and other beverages in K-Cup and Vue single serve packs; and
coffee in traditional packaging, including whole bean and ground
coffee selections in bags, and ground coffee in fractional packs.
The company sells these products to supermarkets, club stores, and
convenience stores; restaurant and hospitality industries; and office
coffee distributors, as well as directly to consumers through its
Website. It also sells at-home and away-from-home single cup brewers;
accessories; brewing equipment; and coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and
other beverages in single serve packs to retailers, department stores,
and mass merchandisers, as well as directly to consumers. In addition,
the company produces and sells other specialty beverages, including
hot apple ciders, hot and iced teas, iced coffees, iced fruit brews,
hot cocoa, and other dairy-based beverages in single serve packs.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is
based in Waterbury, Vermont. http://www.gmcr.com
Coca-Cola (KO)
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, engages in the manufacture,
marketing, and sale of nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company
primarily offers sparkling beverages and still beverages. Its sparkling
beverages include nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages with carbonation,
such as carbonated energy drinks, and carbonated waters and flavored
waters. The company’s still beverages comprise nonalcoholic
beverages without carbonation, including noncarbonated waters, flavored
and enhanced waters, noncarbonated energy drinks, juices and juice
drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffees, and sports drinks. It also
provides flavoring ingredients, sweeteners, powders for purified
water products, beverage ingredients, and fountain syrups. The Coca-Cola
Company sells its products primarily under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke,
Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Powerade,
Aquarius, Dasani, Glacéau Vitaminwater, Georgia, Simply,
Del Valle, Ayataka, and I Lohas brand names. The company offers
its beverage products through a network of company-owned or controlled
bottling and distribution operators, as well as through independently
owned bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers.
The Coca-Cola Company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www.coca-cola.com
Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures
and markets consumer products worldwide. The company operates in
two segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. It
offers oral care products, including toothpaste, toothbrushes, and
mouth rinses, as well as dental floss and pharmaceutical products
for dentists and other oral health professionals; personal care
products comprising liquid hand soaps, shower gels, bar soaps, deodorants,
antiperspirants, shampoos, and conditioners; and home care products,
such as laundry and dishwashing detergents, dishwashing liquids,
household cleaners, oil soaps, bleaches, and fabric conditioners.
The company provides its oral, personal, and home care products
primarily under the Colgate Total, Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief,
Colgate Max Fresh, Colgate Optic White, Colgate Luminous White,
Colgate 360°, Colgate Plax, Palmolive, Protex, Softsoap, Sanex,
Irish Spring, Speed Stick, Lady Speed Stick, Caprice, Ajax, Axion,
Fabuloso, Murphy’s, Suavitel, Soupline, Sorriso, Kolynos,
elmex, Tom’s of Maine, and Mennen brand names to wholesale
and retail distributors. It also offers pet nutrition products for
dogs and cats. The company markets its pet foods through pet supply
retailers and veterinarians for everyday nutritional needs under
the Hill’s Science Diet brand name; and a range of therapeutic
products through veterinarians and pet supply retailers to manage
disease conditions in dogs and cats under the Hill’s Prescription
Diet brand name. Colgate-Palmolive Company was founded in 1806 and
is headquartered in New York, New York. http://www.colgatepalmolive.com
Visa (V)
Visa Inc., a payments technology company, engages in the operation
of retail electronic payments network worldwide. It facilitates
commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial
institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses, and government entities.
The company owns and operates VisaNet that provides fraud protection
for consumers and assured payment for merchants. It also offers
a range of payments platforms that enable credit, debit, prepaid,
and cash access programs, as well as digital, mobile, and eCommerce
payments for individuals, businesses and government entities. The
company provides its payment platforms under the Visa, Visa Electron,
Interlink, and PLUS brands. In addition, it offers risk management,
issuer processing, loyalty, dispute management, value-added information,
and CyberSource-branded services. The company has a strategic partnership
with @UK plc to launch cloudBuy, an Procure-to-Pay and business
planning tool. Visa Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
http://www.visa.com
Facebook (FB)
Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide.
It builds various tools that enable users to connect, share, discover,
and communicate with each other on mobile devices and computers.
The company’s Facebook Platform is a set of development tools
and application programming interfaces that enables developers to
integrate with Facebook for creating social apps and Websites. As
of December 31, 2012, it had 1.06 billion monthly active users and
618 million daily active users. The company has a strategic partnership
with Trend Micro Inc. for educating and protecting users' digital
lives against malicious sites and malware. Facebook, Inc. was incorporated
in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. http://www.facebook.com
Google (GOOG)
Google Inc., a technology company, builds products and provides
services to organize the information and make it universally accessible
and useful. It provides Search, a service that delivers relevant
search results in response to user queries; Product Listing Ads
that offer product information; Search plus Your World; Google Now,
a predictive search feature; and Google Knowledge Graph, which enhances
Search service. The company also offers AdWords, an auction-based
advertising program; AdSense, a program which enables Websites that
are part of the Google Network to deliver ads; Google Display, a
display advertising network; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a marketplace
for the trading display ad space; and YouTube that provides video,
interactive, and other ad formats. In addition, it provides Google
Mobile that extends its products and services to mobile device users;
Google Local, which provides local information; Android, an open
source mobile software platform; Google Chrome OS, an open source
operating system; Google Chrome, a Web browser; Google+ for sharing
various things online with different people; Google Play, a cloud-based
digital entertainment destination; Google Drive, a place for users
to create, share, collaborate, and keep their stuff; and Google
Wallet, a virtual wallet for in-store contactless payments. Further,
the company offers Google TV, a platform for consumers to use television
and the Internet on a single screen; Google Apps, a cloud computing
suite of message and collaboration tools; Search Appliance, a search
technology for use within enterprises; Google Site Search, a custom
search engine; Google Commerce Search for online retail enterprises;
Google Maps Application Programming Interface; and Google Earth
Enterprise, a software solution for imagery and data visualization.
Additionally, it offers mobile wireless devices, and related products
and services. Google Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered
in Mountain View, California. http://www.google.com
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