Del Monaco Specialty Foods, Inc. was founded in 1964 by its namesakes, the late Mike Del Monaco and his wife Ernestine. Del Monaco Specialty Foods cooks up and freezes Italian-style food items for the foodservice industry. Del Monaco's certified-organic food products include pastas, sauces, ravioli, tortellini, gnocchi, polenta, pestos, and desserts. It offers American-style foods as well, including barbecue sauce, pot pies and New England clam chowder. It makes its own Del Monaco products and also offers services such as recipe creation, duplication, and enhancement, plus the manufacture of custom products.

H. J. Heinz Company was founded in 1869 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. H. J. Heinz Company together with its subsidiaries is engaged in manufacturing and marketing a range of food products globally. H. J. Heinz Company’s principal products include ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, infant nutrition and other food products. H. J. Heinz Company’s principal products include ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, infant nutrition and other food products. H. J. Heinz Company’s products are manufactured and packaged to provide safe, wholesome foods for consumers, as well as foodservice and institutional customers. H. J. Heinz Company manufactures and contracts for the manufacture of its products from a range of raw foods. H. J. Heinz Company operates in five segments: North American Consumer Products, Europe, Asia/Pacific, U.S. Foodservice and Rest of World.

Spectrum Organic Products claims to be fat's better half. Using natural products such as olives, fish, seeds, and soybeans, the company makes cooking oils, shortenings, and margarine; fatty acid nutritional supplements; condiments (mayonnaise, vinegar); and nutritional supplements (flaxseed oil). It sells its products to the retail and foodservice markets under the Spectrum Naturals, Spectrum Essentials, and Spectrum Ingredients brand names. Spectrum Organic benefits from consumers' aversion to hydrogenated oils and their preference for healthier alternatives. Its consumer products are sold in health-food and grocery stores in the US and Canada.

At one point, Swedish confectioner Cloetta and Finnish confectioner Fazer went together like chocolate and peanut butter. The two companies melted into Cloetta Fazer for eight years until 2008, when the relationship went sour and they broke back into separate entities. Now Cloetta is once again on its own, producing some 20,000 tons of chocolate and candy per year from its two production plants in Sweden. Its products are only sold in the Nordic countries; however, Cloetta buys cocoa exclusively from the Ivory Coast. As part of the demerger settlement with Fazer, Cloetta kept Sweden's third-largest throat-lozenge and lollipop manufacturer, Karamellpojkarna.

Boyd Coffee Company is a fourth generation family owned business founded by Percival Dewe Boyd. P.D. Boyd, born in New Zealand in 1879, came to the United States with his family in 1882. Landing in the great Northwest, PD Boyd worked in grocery and sales until he decided to go off on his own and start a business. Located in downtown Portland, Boyd peddled his wares from a red, horse-drawn wagon he had purchased for $5 and thus, founding the "Boyd Importing Tea Company." By 1910, the horse-drawn wagons were replaced with trucks. With the spread of the automobile, the business took a new direction, and by 1920, home delivery was terminated. As his business grew, and Boyd gained in popularity, his reputation as a perfectionist followed. His greatest passion was for quality coffee. He also proved to be an ingenious businessman. Boyd was the first US coffee distributor to loan coffee brewing equipment to restaurants and the food service industry, a tradition that spread throughout the industry. By 1939, PD Boyd had a branch office in Yakima, Washington and soon other distribution points were established. The "Boyd Blend" of coffee was in demand.

we're proud to say that as an American family-owned and run company, our chocolates have been made solely in New York and have been part of the American family life for 60 years. From holidays and birthdays, to Easter, Valentines and graduations - The Madelaine Chocolate Company has always been there. Madelaine commemorates the holidays with foil-wrapped chocolate snowmen, bunnies, pumpkins, turkeys, and hearts. Madelaine Chocolate Novelties manufactures formed chocolate candies in seasonal and special occasion shapes. It also makes "every day" chocolates including, foil-wrapped chocolate coins, cigars, and fruits and nuts covered in chocolate. Madelaine Chocolate Novelties, Inc., which also offers private-label services, distributes confections through retailers across the US, as well as in Canada and Puerto Rico.

Mars knows chocolate sales are nothing to snicker at. Mars, Incorporated makes such worldwide favorites as M&M's, Snickers, and the Mars bar. Its other confections include 3 Musketeers, Dove, Milky Way, Skittles, Twix, and Starburst candy; Combos and Kudos snacks; Uncle Ben's rice; and pet food under the names Pedigree, Sheba, and Whiskas. It also owns the world's largest chewing gum maker, the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. The Mars family (including siblings and retired company CEO Forrest Mars Jr., chairman John Franklyn Mars, and VP Jacqueline Badger Mars) owns the highly secretive firm, making the family one of the richest in the US.

Bell & Evans® is a pioneer in the natural foods market. For four generations, beginning in the 1890's, we have been providing the highest quality poultry to the upscale market. Our chickens are raised and processed in the heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, in our modern facility, using only the latest technology. Today Bell & Evans is a leading producer of chickens raised without antibiotics. Our chickens are fed an all-natural diet of hexane-free soy bean meal and corn, supplemented with vitamins and minerals.Unlike companies run by conglomerates, where the day-to-day operating decisions are made by managers in remote locations and management strategies are based on the bottom line, we are a family owned and operated company. In fact, we're part of a network of family owned companies, our growers, our feed producers, and our hatchery operators, just to name a few.

Blendex Company produces custom-made breading, batters, coatings, marinades, pizza crusts, sauce and seasoning mixes, flavored sugars, dry rubs and beverage mixes for commercial and private-label food manufacturers. It manufactures more than 200 products and provides custom formulation, packaging, storage, and shipping services as well. Blendex was founded in 1975 and was acquired by the late Eugene Pottinger, father of CEO Ronald Pottinger, in 1981.

Family owned and operated, Brothers Produce was established in 1980 as a full service fresh produce distributor. Through the years Brothers has established themselves as one of the largest produce distributors in the state of Texas. Brothers covers the greater Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth areas as well as all areas surrounding. Brothers Produce distribute a full line of fresh fruits and vegetables, specialty items, and processed items to meet the customers needs. Offering only high quality products and service brothers produce supply a broad range of foodservice and retail customers with a fleet of over 75 refrigerated trucks.

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