SIC Industry Description

Industry: 2079—Shortening, Table Oils, Margarine, and Other Edible Fats and Oils, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing shortening, table oils, margarine, and other edible fats and oils, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in producing corn oil are classified in Industry 2046.

Baking and frying fats (shortening)Oil, partially hydrogenated: edible
Cottonseed cooking and salad oilOil, vegetable winter stearin
Margarine butter blendOlive oil
Margarine oil, except cornPeanut cooking and salad oil
Margarine, including imitationShortenings, compound and vegetable
Nut margarineSoybean cooking and salad oil
Oil, hydrogenated: edibleVegetable cooking and salad oil, except corn oil: refined
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
2079Edible Fats and Oils736
207900Edible fats and oils101
20790000Edible fats and oils101
207901Margarine and margarine oils9
20790100Margarine and margarine oils1
20790101Margarine oil, except corn0
20790102Margarine-butter blends4
20790103Margarine, including imitation1
20790104Nut margarine3
207902Shortening and other solid edible fats16
20790200Shortening and other solid edible fats5
20790201Compound shortenings2
20790203Vegetable shortenings (except corn oil)9
207999Edible fats and oils, nec610
20799901Cooking oils, except corn: vegetable refined29
20799902Cottonseed oil, refined: not made in cottonseed oil mills1
20799903Edible oil products, except corn oil26
20799904Oil, hydrogenated: edible10
20799905Oil, partially hydrogenated: edible2
20799906Olive oil517
20799907Peanut oil, refined: not made in peanut oil mills1
20799908Salad oils, except corn: vegetable refined0
20799909Soybean oil, refined: not made in soybean oil mills9
20799910Vegetable refined oils (except corn oil)15