Top 5 Supermarket Stocks To Watch For 2014

LONDON -- Unilever (LSE: ULVR  ) (NYSE: UL  ) is an Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant. The company was formed in 1930 and today employs more than 100,000 people. It is the seventh-largest company in the FTSE 100 by market capitalization.

The largest part of Unilever is its personal-care business, owning brands such as Brylcreem, Lynx, Dove, and Timotei. Second is the foods division: Hellmann's, Knorr, and Pot Noodle are all Unilever brands. Then there are household products such as Persil, Cif, and Domestos.

These brands are a crucial part of Unilever's success. For supermarkets, they are must-stock products. This helps to secure favourable terms for Unilever.

For consumers, Unilever's brands are well known and loved. This makes it very difficult and expensive for other products to compete.

Top 5 Supermarket Stocks To Watch For 2014: Almost Family Inc(AFAM)

Almost Family, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home health services. The company operates in two segments, Visiting Nurse Services and Personal Care Services. The Visiting Nurse Services segment provides a range of Medicare-certified home health nursing services to patients in need of recuperative care, following a period of hospitalization or care in another type of inpatient facility. It also offers special clinically-based protocols, including frail elderly care management, optimum balance, cardiocare, orthopedic, and urology programs. This segment provides its services to patients in lieu of additional care in other settings, such as long term acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, or skilled nursing facilities. The Personal Care Services segment provides services, such as personal care, medication management, meal preparation, caregiver respite, and homemaking services in patients? homes primarily on an as-needed and hourly basis. Th e company offers its services through its service locations in Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. It operates approximately 47 Medicare-certified home health agencies with a total of 106 locations, as well as operates 60 personal care locations. Almost Family, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.

Top 5 Supermarket Stocks To Watch For 2014: LandMark White Ltd(LMW.AX)

LandMark White Limited operates as a valuation and property consultancy company in Australia. The company primarily focuses on commercial, industrial, residential, retail, special use, and tourism and leisure properties. It provides valuation services for mortgage security, ownership restructuring, rating objections and appeals, rental assessments and determination, purchase and sale, and asset value. The company offers reports, which consist of executive summary detailing the property and business; site appraisal related to land particulars, improvements, market comments, income analysis, sales evidence, and rationale; and valuation reporting summing up the analysis. LandMark White Limited also provides advisory services, including mortgagee and receiver services and strategic asset reviews based on market intelligence from an independent base. It serves trading banks, lending institutions, developers, ASX listed and unlisted property trusts, government, liquidators and a dministrators, lawyers, accountants, and private investors. LandMark White Limited was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

Best Up And Coming Stocks To Buy For 2014: TUI TRAVEL PLC ORD GBP0.10(TT.L)

TUI Travel PLC operates as an international leisure travel company. It provides distribution, tour operating, and airlines services; and destination services to tour operators, travel agencies, corporate clients, and direct to the consumer, which include hotel accommodation, transfers, excursions, round trips, organizing meetings, incentives, conferences and events, and cruise handling. It also engages in marine, adventure, ski, student, and sport trips; and marine charter business. The company is headquartered in Crawley, the United Kingdom. TUI Travel PLC operates as a subsidiary of TUI AG.

Top 5 Supermarket Stocks To Watch For 2014: California First National Bancorp(CFNB)

California First National Bancorp operates as the holding company for California First National Bank and California First Leasing Corp. that provide leasing and banking services in the United States. It leases and finances capital assets used by businesses and organizations, including computer systems and networks; automated manufacturing and distribution management systems, production systems, printing presses, and warehouse distribution systems; digital private branch equipment and switching equipment, voice over Internet protocol systems, wireless networks, and satellite tracking systems; retail point-of-sale and inventory tracking systems; and other electronic equipment, such as ultrasound and medical imaging systems, computer-based patient monitoring systems, testing equipment, and copying equipment. The company also leases non-high technology property, including oil and gas production equipment, machine tools, school buses, trucks, exercise equipment, and office and dormitory furniture; and re-markets leased assets at lease expiration. In addition, it provides deposit products, such as interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, and three month to three year certificates of deposits. California First National Bancorp gathers deposits through the Internet, direct mail, telephone campaigns, and print advertisements. Further, it offers business loans to fund the purchase of assets leased by third parties; and commercial loans to businesses that include commercial loan syndications, commercial real estate loans, and revolving lines of credit. The company serves middle-market companies and corporations, private and state-related educational institutions, municipalities, and other not-for-profit organizations and institutions, as well as individuals. California First National Bancorp was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Orange County, California.

Top 5 Supermarket Stocks To Watch For 2014: MFRI Inc.(MFRI)

MFRI, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of piping systems, filtration products, and industrial process cooling equipment. The company?s Piping Systems segment engineers, designs, manufactures, and sells specialty piping leak detection and location systems. This segment?s piping systems include industrial and secondary containment piping systems for transporting chemicals, hazardous fluids, and petroleum products; insulated and jacketed district heating and cooling piping systems; and oil and gas gathering flow and long lines. MFRI?s Filtration Products segment manufactures and sells various filter elements for cartridge collectors and baghouse air filtration and particulate collection systems; markets air filtration related products and accessories; and provides maintenance services comprising dust collector inspection, filter cleaning, and filter replacement. This segment?s products and services are used primarily by operators o f utility and industrial coal-fired boilers; incinerators and cogeneration plants; and producers of metals, cement, and chemicals. Its Industrial Process Cooling Equipment segment engineers, designs, manufactures, and sells cooling and temperature control equipment, such as chillers; cooling towers; plant circulating assemblies; hot water, hot oil, and negative pressure temperature controllers; water treatment equipment; specialty cooling devices for printing presses and ink management; and replacement parts and various accessories for industrial applications. This segment offers its products primarily to the thermoplastics processing and the printing industries. The company also involves in the installation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. It sells its products in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, India, Canada, other Asian countries, Mexico, South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Africa. MFRI, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is base d in Niles, Illinois.