Fruit of the Loom Inc. and Sara Lee Corp.
Two firms, Fruit of the Loom Inc. and Sara Lee Corp., dominated the U.S. men's and boys' underwear industry in the 1990s. Sara Lee sold underwear under the Hanes brand.
In the late 1990s, 4,201 companies were involved in the U.S. sheet metal work industry.
In the late 1990s the trend in the industry was a continued shift from the small, "family-run" mining operations toward consolidation of industry activities among a few large companies.
In 1993, for example, 3,500 companies comprised this industry segment, but as of the late 1990s, a mere 750 remained.
In the late 1990s, the electromedical and electro-therapeutic apparatus industry had 458 establishments.
Biotechnology companies were the target of buyouts, mergers, and joint ventures in the 1980s and 1990s.
There were no major work stoppages in the pulp and paper industry during the 1990s
About 90 U.S. companies produced automatic vending machines or parts for them in the 1990s. Although a vast majority of vending machines were manufactured by large companies, the industry did sustain quite a few smaller firms.
The largest manufacturer in the electromedical industry during the 1990s, General Electric's Medical Systems Group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
Mergers and acquisitions reduced the number of companies in the industry from more than 900 to about 700 over the course of the early 1990s. The top three companies produced 45 percent of output.
About 320 U.S. companies competed in the commercial lighting fixture industry in 1997, with about half of all establishments employing 20 or more workers.
The canned foods industry generated more than $14.5 billion in sales in the late 1990s