This is a company you ought to link up with. Johnsonville Sausage makes a wide array of top-selling fresh, pre-cooked, and smoked sausage products, including bratwurst, breakfast links and bulk rolls, and smoked and Italian sausage. Its link and bulk meats are sold primarily through retail grocery stores and foodservice operators, but Johnsonville also operates an online store that offers gift packs, cheeses, breads and rolls, and company ephemera in addition to sausage. Johnsonville's sausage is available in about 30 countries worldwide. In the US Johnsonville products can be found on the menu at more than 4,000 McDonald's restaurants.

Sunwest Fruit grows and ships about 3 million cartons of fresh produce per year, including hundreds of varieties of oranges, peaches, plums, and nectarines, to retailers all over the world under the Ripe 'N Ready brand. Sunwest Fruit company controls all aspects of production including farming (9,000 acres), picking, packing, and shipping. It has been owned and operated since 1988 by the Britz family, including company president, Martin Britz. In addition to thousands of acres of cropland, the family also owns several packinghouses, a fertilizer company, and a cotton gin.

Fresh Kist Produce is the marketing company for Byrd Farms, Gold Coast Packing, and Teixeira Farms. The grower/members' acreage is located in in Huron, Salinas, and Santa Maria, California, and the desert regions of Arizona and southern California. Fresh Kist's full line of fresh vegetables are available worldwide to retail food chains and food service institutions. Produce is grown, produced, preserved, and shipped using state-of-the-art systems including modern coolers, drip irrigation, and a high-tech transplant operation.

Culinaire International, Inc. was founded by CEO Richard Gussoni in 1993. Culinaire International makes trips to the zoo, university food court, and music venue a little more palatable. Culinaire International is a leading contract foodservice operator that provides dining and hospitality services at entertainment venues, hotels and convention centers, and private clubs. Its foodservice and concessions operations include the Fort Worth Zoo, Meyerson Symphony Center, UT Southwestern, and Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach. Culinaire International also offers catering and corporate dining services, and it operates Dallas area restaurants Ristorante Nicola, Sea Change, and Omaha Steakhouse

Victory Brewing Company makes European-style craft beers. The company's colorfully named brands -- among them HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Golden Monkey, St. Boisterous, and Old Horizontal -- are also sold in taverns and retail outlets in its home state, Pennsylvania, as well as in about a dozen other states. It also operates an onsite brewpub that serves up sandwiches, salads, pizza -- and Victory's beers. Boyhood friends Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet founded the company in 1996.

Discovery Foods was founded by chairman James Beaton in 1989. Discovery Foods aims to stamp out dull food by allowing home cooks and foodservice operators to discover the power of chilies. The UK company makes spice-rich sauces, seasonings, condiments, and meal kits based on mainly Mexican cuisine (with some Cajun, Creole, and Texan selections available as well). Its also makes tortillas, wraps, and chips. The company's Discovery-branded (consumer) and Santa Maria-branded (foodservice) products are sold in the UK and mainland Europe.

MRRM Inc. Company is incorporated with articles of Continuance issued under the Canada Business Corporations Act in 1979 at which time the name was changed to MRRM Inc. The Company was originally founded by Mr. Robert Reford in 1882 as Mount Royal Milling and Manufacturing Company. In 1946 the Company made its initial public offering and its name was changed to Mount Royal Rice Mills Limited. At the time of Continuance (July 1979) there were 16,501 preferred shares and 253,500 common shares outstanding. By 1987 the preferred shares were fully redeemed. Effective July 18, 2003 the common shares were split on a ten (10) for one (1) basis increasing the outstanding number to 2,535,000. The Company's common shares were transferred from the Montreal Exchange to the Canadian Venture Exchange on October 1, 2001, and trade under the symbol MRR. Trading is now under the TSX-Venture exchange where the Company is listed in the Tier-1 category.MRRM Inc. is the parent company of MRRM (Canada) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, with two operating divisions which are engaged in the food industry and ship agency services. The Company also has a portfolio of marketable securities. Les Aliments DAINTY Foods is the only rice mill in Canada. It has been milling and processing rice for over a century and generates over 90% of the consolidated aggregate revenues of the Company. The Company is engaged in the ship agency business through Robert Reford. This business was acquired from the Robert Reford Company, Limited on April 1, 1978.

The market for vegetarian-fed, hormone-free beef is quite the cash cow for Meyer Natural Angus. After acquiring Coleman Natural Foods' beef division and Laura's Lean Beef, Meyer Natural Angus is now one of the top producers of natural beef (i.e., fed a grass- and grain-only diet, using no hormones or antibiotics) in the US. Its meat comes from the 43,000-acre Meyer Company Ranch in Montana and 200 contracted Red Angus cattle ranchers across the US. Processing about 10,000 head of cattle every month, Meyer's sells its fresh and frozen ground beef, bulk and pre-formed patties, fresh and frozen steaks and cuts, and dry-aged steaks throughout the country.

The Seafood Company operates through subsidiaries, MacRae Foods, Cromer Crab, and Pinneys of Scotland. MacRae makes value-added smoked fish and shellfish, such as smoked salmon appetizers and terrines, smoked haddock gratins, and kippers with butter. Cromer Crab processes local and imported crab, lobster, prawn, and other shellfish and offers chilled seafood specialties. Pinneys smokes salmon and whitefish; its value-added products include chilled pates, terrines, and other party food. The Seafood Company is also a major UK supplier of fresh seafood; its customers include grocery stores, catering businesses, and other food manufacturers.

Angostura doesn't mind taking the bitter along with the sweet. In addition to producing cognac, rum, gin, and vodka, the company is best known for its line of bitters, a liquid ingredient used in many cocktail recipes. The company also produces Bloody Mary seasoning and a line of soy, Teriyaki, and Worcestershire sauces. In addition, Angostura manufactures fuel ethanol. Company founder Dr. Johann Siegert developed the recipe for aromatic bitters in the Venezuelan town of Angostura in the first half of the 19th century; it was originally used to treat stomach ailments.

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