Fig. 1

Food industry business associations and their membership links to the four largest, multinational ultra-processed food corporations. This figure shows food industry BAs who participated in the included consultations and their links to the four largest packaged food and soft drinks corporations (based on Euromonitor data for packaged food [46] and soft drinks [47]). Dashed lines between companies and BAs indicate an indirect link through a member organisation (* = ‘umbrella’ BA without direct corporate members). † indicates that a company was a member for at least part of the study period (Sept 2015 – Sept 2018) but has since left. More information in Additional file 1. This visualisation was created using PowerPoint [58]