Ralcorp Holdings reminds us that you can't judge food by its cover. The company is a top US maker of private-label or "store-brand" ready-to-eat and hot breakfast cereals. Ralcorp has also stocked its pantry with a variety of private-label cookies, crackers, peanut butter, ketchup, snack nuts, candy, and breakfast cereal. In addition, the company makes branded products: Ralston Hot Cereal, Post dry cereals, Ry Krisp crackers, and Rippin' Good cookies. Its Carriage House unit produces private-label dressings, syrups, jellies, and sauces, and its Lofthouse and Parco businesses offer frozen cookies to in-store bakeries. In 2010 Ralcorp announced an offer to acquire American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC).

Bridgford Foods Corporation traces its roots back seventy-eight years to February 1932. Hugh H. Bridgford (1908-1992) opened a retail meat market in San Diego, California. The business evolved first into several retail meat markets, then meat wholesaling to hotels and restaurants, frozen food distribution, meat packing and processing and frozen food manufacturing. The Company is now headquartered in Anaheim, California about four miles from Disneyland. In addition to meat processing and bakery operations in Anaheim the Company has four additional factories, two in Dallas, Texas, one in Chicago, Illinois and one in Statesville, North Carolina.

For those who want the buzz without the bitter taste, there is Halewood International, maker of sugary, bubbly alcoholic drinks. In the UK Halewood International annually sells some 40 million bottles of Lambrini, a fizzy pear drink described by one retailer as the illicit drink of British housewives. In its bottling plant near Liverpool, Halewood churns out a variety of alcopops, designed to be drunk by twentysomethings who don't like the taste of alcohol. Alco-popularity has led to a string of successes like the firm's Caribbean Twist and Red Square offerings as well as forays into the spirits and wine market. Halewood International is owned by its chairman, John Halewood.

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.

Founded in 1888, Manischewitz Food Products Corp. is one of the world's top bakers of matzo (unleavened bread) and one of the leading manufacturers of a bevy of other kosher products, including cookies, pasta, sauces, and soups. Its brands include Guiltless Gourmet, Manischewitz, Season, Mrs. Adlers, and Goodman's. The company, which is a subsidiary of The Manischewitz Company, also licenses the Manischewitz name for wine. Kosher foods are among the fastest-growing grocery categories in the US and Manischewitz endeavors to boost sales by attracting non-Jewish customers by introducing products with wider appeal (Asian entrees, soup cups).

A subsidiary of Continental Grain Company, Wayne Farms LLC is the sixth largest poultry producer in the United States. With a focus on quality every step of the way, "from farm to fork," more than 1.8 billion pounds of poultry is processed annually in our 10 facilities. Many of these products are marketed worldwide under the brands of WAYNE FARMS®, DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® and PLATINUM HARVEST®. We employ approximately 8900 people who are dedicated to offering the highest quality, best value products possible.Wayne Farms is committed to being the company of choice…not only for our business partners, but also our communities and employees!

Martin Mathew is one of the UK's leading importers and distributors of canned and other shelf-stable food products. Martin Mathew company offers more than 350 products lines from more than 25 countries worldwide including Spanish anchovies and Italian tomatoes. Its main brand is Riverdene, but others include Ballerina, Clover Leaf, Country Town, and its own Martin Mathew brand. Martin Mathew company's customers include companies in the food retail, manufacturing, and foodservice sectors. Martin Mathew was founded more than three decades ago by chairman James Donnelly.

Red River Commodities' products may include sunflower seeds, but they're not just for the birds. Red River company manufactures and markets standard and organic grain and seed products, including oils, to be used for consumption as food for people and as bird food. Its products include in-shell sunflower seeds, sunflower kernels, millet, flax, soybeans, kidney beans, poppy seeds, and caraway seeds. Red River Commodities also makes butter from sunflower seeds. Its bird food products are sold under the Valley Splendor brand. Red River Commodities boasts production facilities in North Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas. The seed producer also owns a plant in the Netherlands.

Wilkinson-Cooper Produce, Inc. is a fresh vegetable wholesaler and shipper. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce products include corn, cucumbers, endives, green beans, parsley, peppers, radishes, squash, watercress, and zucchinis. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce ship wholesale mixed vegetables from Florida between November and May, and from Georgia in June and July, fall October and November. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce company has been shipping vegetables across the continental US, as well as Canada and Europe, since 1965.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

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