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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has over 65,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. Abbott Laboratories was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888. In 2003, Abbott had nearly $20 billion in sales.

Amgen is a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. For more than 25 years, the company has tapped the power of scientific discovery and innovation to advance the practice of medicine.

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McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the world's largest chain of fast food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts. More recently, it also offers salads, fruit, snack wraps, and carrot sticks.

PepsiCo, Incorporated (NYSE: PEP) is a global American beverage and snack company. The company manufactures, markets and sells a variety of carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, as well as salty, sweet and grain-based snacks, and other foods. Besides the Pepsi-Cola brands (including Mountain Dew), the company manufactures Quaker Oats, Gatorade, Frito-Lay, SoBe, and Tropicana. The company formed for distribution and bottling is The Pepsi Bottling Group (NYSE: PBG). PepsiCo is a SIC 2080 (beverage) company.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment management, and other financial products and services to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and in over 30 other countries. Principal products and services provided include life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, pension- and retirement-related investments, administration and asset management, and commercial and residential real estate in many states of the U.S. In 1981, the company acquired Bache & Co., a stock brokerage service now operating as a wholly owned subsidiary. Prudential has organized its principal operations into the Financial Services Businesses and the Closed Block Business.

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is one of the largest manufacturers, distributors and marketers of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and one of the largest corporations in the United States. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers nearly 400 brands in over 200 countries or territories. The company operates a franchised distribution system dating back to 1889 where TCCC only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory.

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), formerly two separate companies as Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. before the Time-Warner merger in 1990, is the world's second largest media and entertainment conglomerate, right behind News Corporation, headquartered in New York City, with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. Among its subsidiaries are AOL, Home Box Office, New Line Cinema, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Cartoon Network, CNN, and DC Comics.