These 16 companies control almost everything you buy
Oct 17, 2015, 18:04 IST
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Companies' signature brands add to their annual revenues and provide an edge to competition.
To determine how powerful each company is, we factored together fiscal 2014 revenue, the number of employees, and press mentions on Google News over the past year.
Here is a list of retail companies that own brands and products that we use every day.