Corporate growth benchmarking in the food industry

Abstract

This study presents results of benchmarking of corporate growth of public companies in food industry. Security and profitability parameters from growth financing were selected as the main benchmarks. For the benchmarking have been selected results of the best public industrial companies in other sectors. For information were used audited annual reports on an individual basis. The comparative analysis shows that parameters of corporate growth management in food industry are significantly inferior to those of leading industrial companies.