Elizabeth Shaw won't mind if you eat that after-dinner mint before dinner. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd. manufactures premium liquor and mint-laced chocolates. Its product line includes truffles and liqueur-filled, as well as its best known -- chocolate mint crisps -- all sold under the Elizabeth Shaw brand. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd.'s boxed confections are sold in supermarkets in the UK and exported widely to other countries The company is owned by Icelandic confectionery company, Nói Síríus. From humble beginnings of Elizabeth Shaw chocolate in a Teddington kitchen, the brand has gone from strength to strength and is now a major household name, on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the UK and exported widely throughout the World.

Van Drunen Farms company manufactures air-, sun-, freeze- and drum-dried organic and conventional food ingredients made from fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Van Drunen company also offers sugar-infused, individually-quick-frozen, and fire-roasted products. It grows herbs on its farms in Illinois and California and also procures produce from growers throughout the US and in Europe. Van Drunen company's also processes grains, legumes, dairy, and specialty food ingredients, such as freeze-dried cheeses, miso, surimi, and tofu. Van Drunen's products are sold wholesale to other food processors and packers. Van Drunen company is owned and operated by the Van Drunen family.

Founded in 1926, Jel Sert is still owned by the Wegner family; Charles Wegner (grandson of the founder) is chairman. Jel Sert Co. made its name in the early 1960s with its popular Pop-Ice "stick 'em in the freezer and squeeze 'em out of the tube" treats. Since then it has expanded its product line to include Flavor-Aid and Wyler's powdered drink mixes; Fla-Vor-Ice, Otter Pops and Wyler's Italian Ice freezer pops; and MONDO Fruit Squeezers fruit drinks. As a result of a 2000 purchase from Nabisco, Jel Sert also makes My*T*Fine and Royal pudding mixes. Jel Sert Co. offers contract manufacturing services. Its products are available throughout the US and Canada.

Newly Weds Foods, Inc. engages in the research and development, and production of food coating ingredients for food processing and foodservice industries in the United States and internationally. The company offers marinades, batters, breadings, formulated seasonings, glazes and rubs, sauces, capsicums, retail and foodservice packaging, food safety and functional ingredients, various natural and organic seasonings, functional batters, cures, custom blends, deli and sausage seasonings, functional mustard, stuffing crumbs, dry soups, and English muffin products. It also offers falvortrak, sensory panel, process consulting, packing/private and control label, and culinary services.

Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines (DC&E) is part of Diageo (Dee-AH-Gee-O); the world’s leading premium drinks business. DC&E produces and markets premium wines from around the globe including Napa Valley, Sonoma, the California Central Coast, Washington, France, New Zealand and Australia. Brands include: Beaulieu Vineyard, Sterling Vineyards, Sterling Vintner's Collection, Rosenblum Cellars, Chalone Vineyard, Acacia Vineyard, Edna Valley Vineyard and Provenance Vineyards as well as the French wines of Barton & Guestier. DC&E is also a leading importer of classified Bordeaux and Burgundy estate-bottled wines and F.E. Trimbach.Diageo's broader business includes an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, wine and beer including Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Smirnoff, J&B, Baileys, Cuervo, Tanqueray, Captain Morgan and Crown Royal. Diageo is a global company, listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE).

The Allen family counts its chickens before and after they're hatched. Allen Family Foods is a vertically-integrated poultry operation that includes breeding, hatching, feed milling, and processing of its chickens. The Delaware-headquartered company operates its 28 of its own "growout" farms and contracts with more than 500 independent farmers, who raise the rest of the company's chickens. Allen offers whole frying, roasting, and rotisserie chickens, chicken parts, and tray packs It sells 600 million pounds of chicken a year to food retailers in the US and throughout the rest of the world. The company's fresh and frozen chicken is distributed in the US by Allen's 400-vehicle truck fleet.

Daffin's Candies has gained a national name for its delectable milk and semi-sweet chocolate candy. In addition to offering its regular line of yummy chocolates Daffin's provides gourmet chocolates through its Jean Marie Collection. This scrumptious collection offers unique hand-molded chocolates with extra special insides containing such things as whole nuts, truffles and their famous Opera Cream. Chocolate has an interesting history, as it didn’t catch on with the public until the 192Os. This wasn't a matter of people not enjoying the delicious taste of chocolate. Rather, it was the debut of air conditioning - which helped prevent chocolate from melting - that pushed chocolate sales through the roof. Prior to that it was uncommon for stores to carry chocolate past April because of the warm temperatures.

Since 1924, Ocean Mist Farms has pioneered the commercial planting and shipping of Artichokes in Castroville (a town that has become synonymous with the thorny, odd-looking little vegetable), and today it is recognized as the largest Artichoke operation in the United States. Through the Depression, labor strikes, wars, floods and freezes, Ocean Mist Farms' commitment to high quality and superior service has never wavered. Commitment to its customers has always dictated a continuous emphasis on quality assurance from soil to consumer.In 1924, Daniel Pieri, Amerigo and Angelo Del Chiaro, Alfred Tottino and James Bellone launched the California Artichoke & Vegetable Growers Corporation, renamed Ocean Mist Farms in January of 1995. Pieri had been in the produce business in San Francisco since 1908 and had considerable experience in growing Artichokes and Brussels Sprouts in the San Gregorio and Half Moon Bay areas, having earlier formed the San Francisco Artichoke Association and the Santa Cruz Vegetable Company.

The current Stock Spirits Group was established in 2007 from the combination of Stock and Polmos Lublin, under the control of Oaktree Capital Management. Our beginnings, however, date back to the 19th century, in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Stock up the liquor cabinet with bottles from Stock Spirits Group. The company sells almost 40 brands of vodka, brandy, and liqueur in Central and Eastern Europe and the US. Vodka brands include Czysta de Luxe, Kegelvich, Orzel, and Poland's most popular brand, W�dka Zoladkowa Gorzka. Brandy and vermouth are sold under the Stock brand, while Limonc� limoncello and the orange liqueur GranGala are popular liqueurs. Stock Spirits Group has distilleries in the Czech Republic, Italy, and Poland, and distributes its brands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the UK. In the US it does business as Heritage Brands, Inc. Stock Spirits Group is owned by Oaktree Capital Management.

We didn’t set out to become the nation’s leading natural frozen food brand. All we wanted to do was create a business that would allow us to earn a living by providing convenient and tasty natural vegetarian meals for people like ourselves, who appreciated good food, but were often too busy to cook "from scratch." We started on a "shoestring," using our own house and barn as headquarters. The founding meetings were held in the same room where we were married and where our daughter Amy was born.This was in 1987, before the idea of "organic" food had become well known, and when there were very few frozen meals available for vegetarians to eat, either in health food stores or supermarkets. We were, however, very fortunate in being in the right place at the right time. The number of vegetarians had increased dramatically, as had consumer awareness of the harmful effects on their health and the environment of chemicals in the food supply.

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