Renshawnapier (formerly Napier Brown Foods) has found a sweet spot in the food biz. The Liverpudlian company is a supplier of sugar (Whitworths and nbf), marzipan and other baking ingredients (Renshaw), as well as icings (Regalice), and jams (R&W Scott). Renshawnapier company also makes caramel, cooking chocolate, sauces, and syrups, as well as dairy ingredients (milk powders, stabilizers, emulsifiers, boxed fats, and dextrose, glucose, and fructose). It serves customers in the food manufacturing, retailing, wholesaling, and foodservice sectors throughout the UK. It also exports its products to mainland Europe and the US. Renshawnapier is owned by The Real Good Food Company.

Nodine's Smokehouse smokes and sells bacon and other meats, poultry, fish, and cheeses to wholesale customers throughout the US. Its products have been sold at well-known outlets such as Dean & DeLuca and Zabar's. In addition, Nodine's Smokehouse operates a retail store in Goshen, Connecticut, and sells its products online. The family-owned company, which also offers fundraising opportunities, is run by Johanne Nodine and her husband, Ronald. Nodine's Smokehouse was founded in 1969.

Robert Colescott founded Southern Specialties in 1990. Southern Specialties is really something special. The Pompano Beach, Florida-based company imports and markets regular and tropical fruits and vegetables. It offers white and green asparagus, specialty lettuces, hot peppers, baby vegetables, berries, papayas, mangoes, avocados, star fruit, and more, sourced from North, Central, and South America. Southern Specialties company serves retail and wholesale food companies, big box stores, and foodservice operators in the US and Canada. Southern has offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Florida, Texas, Mexico, and Peru. Southern Specialties company's retail products are sold under the brand names Paradise and Southern Selects.

Sourced and bottled on Viti Levu, the largest of the Republic of Fiji's islands, the water has garnered the attention of celebrity chefs and also made its way to the set of many popular television programs and movies, including ABC's soapy dramedy. In real life, the premium water, which comes from an artesian aquifer at the edge of a rainforest, is available at retail food merchants and in luxury hotels, spas, and restaurants worldwide. The company, which sells genuine silver sleeves for the water bottles on its Web site, also offers home delivery of its water throughout the continental US. FIJI Water is part of Roll International's holdings.

Meat and potato lovers avoid D'Arrigo Bros. The family-owned business does business as Andy Boy and is best known for its green vegetables, such as broccoli, fennel, hearts of romaine, and cauliflower. The fresh produce grower and distributor also supplies radicchio, cactus pears, and several varieties of lettuce. D'Arrigo Bros. serves customers in the retail food, foodservice, and the food wholesale sectors. The company, which farms some 24,000 acres, was founded by brothers Andrea and Stefano D'Arrigo in 1923. It began using the Andy Boy brand name, featuring Andrea's three-year-old son, Andrew "Andy" D'Arrigo, in 1927.

Everson Spice Company was founded in 1987 by brothers Tom and Kim Everson. Tom and Kim wanted to create the highest quality custom blends available while at the same time focusing on consistency and food safety. They started with one 500 lb. blender and the expertise of Ken Hopkins, a veteran of the seasoning business. From helping to start the value added revolution with the "Meals in Minutes" line for supermarkets to working with packing houses and restaurants from coast to coast, Everson Spice has been a leader in the seasoning industry. For more than 20 years, Everson Spice has been an innovator in creative flavor profile concepts. Let us design a custom marinade, stuffing mix, dry rub, soup base, breading, glaze or snack seasoning for you.

As far as volume is concerned, the Garden of Eden had nothing on Dovex Fruit Company. The company processes, packages, and ships some 6 million cartons of conventional and organic apples, pears, cherries and other stone fruits every year. Most of the company's fruit comes from sister company Dovex Orchards (3,900 acres, 30% of which is certified organic); it also purchases fruit from other Washington State growers. Additional company operations include Dovex Marketing and Dovex Export. The company was established in 1982 by the DeNadai family and is part of the Dovex group of companies, or Dovex Corp.

The Real Good Food Company has made a successful meal out of what larger food companies pushed off their plates. The Real Good Food company has been built up by the acquisition of smaller manufacturers that belonged to high-end convenience food makers who sold them off since they were no longer considered "core operations" -- some six since 2003. It's been a sweet tasty ride. Real Good Food's sugar products are made by subsidiary Renshawnapier. Its baking ingredients operations are under the purview of its Haydens Bakeries subsidiary, which makes yeast-dough products. Real Good's large retail customers include Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.

Russell Stover Candies, life really "is" a box of chocolates. It is the largest maker of boxed chocolates in the US. Boxed chocolates, such as the Whitman Sampler, are its, well, bread and butter. However, Russell Stover Candies Inc. also sells bagged and individually wrapped hard candies and jellies. It offers sugar-free candy, including a sugarless version of Pangburn's Millionaires. Russell Stover's candies are sold by more than 70,000 retail outlets in all 50 US states and Puerto Rico, and in more than 20 other countries, including Canada and the UK. Russell Stover Candies Inc. also operates some 40 Russell Stover Candies retail candy shops and kiosks in the US and Canada. Co-presidents and brothers, Tom and Scott Ward, own the company.

One of the leading meat processors in Finland, Atria Group supplies meat and poultry products and value-added convenience foods. The group, through flagship subsidiary Atria Oy and several other subsidiaries, provides packaged beef and pork products, ready-to-cook steaks, and chicken and turkey products in Finland and the Baltic region. It also offers pre-made meals, fresh salads, and restaurant and catering products. The group, founded as a co-op in 1903, manufactures under brand names such as Atria, Forssan, Arboga, Maks & Moorits, and Sibylla. Its primary subsidiaries include AB Sardus, Liha-Pouttu Oy, and OOO Pit-Product.

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