Pyramid Breweries makes and sells small-batch, craft beers and ales (both year-round and seasonal; many of them wheat beers) under the Pyramid and MacTarnahan's brand names. Its breweries are located Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Berkeley, California. In addition to making beer, the company serves it as well. It operates five alehouse restaurants, one each in Portland and Seattle, as well as in Walnut Creek, Berkeley, and Sacramento, California. In 2008 Pyramid was acquired by craft brewer, Magic Hat.

When Little Debbie smiles up out of your lunch bag, you know you are loved. McKee Foods' Little Debbie is one of the US's best known brands of snack cakes, named for and featuring the smiling face of the four-year-old granddaughter of the company's late founders, O.D. and Ruth McKee. McKee also makes ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, granola, creme-filled cookies, crackers, and snack bars. There are more than 150 varieties of Little Debbie-brand snack packs. McKee's products are available in the US, Canada, and Mexico, as well as at US military commissaries around the world. The company is still owned and operated by the McKee family, including CEO Mike McKee.

Nature's Path Foods, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada. Nature's Path Foods, Inc. produces organic cereals. Nature's Path Foods company offers breakfast foods, snacks, and pasta. It also provides cold and hot cereals, bars, snack foods, waffles, breads, baking mixes, ingredients, soy-based vegetarian entrees, crispy rice and granola bars, organic crackers and cookies, and weils. Nature's Path Foods company’s products are sold through online stores and retailers internationally. It sells its products in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Annie’s, Inc., based in Napa, CA, offers delicious foods made with the highest-quality natural and organic ingredients. The family of well-loved Annie’s, Inc. brands includes: Annie’s Homegrown, pasta meals, snacks and cereal; and Annie’s Naturals, unique salad dressings and condiments. The company has a long tradition of social and corporate responsibility, and believes in the importance of sustainable farming practices that respect the earth and its inhabitants. Each year, Annie’s gives $50,000 in scholarship funds to support the next generation of organic farmers.

Chupa Chups (pronounced "choopa choops") might be hard to say, but its products just roll off the tongue. A Spanish confectioner, the company makes some four billion lollipops a year and it offers more than 100 different flavors. The company produces Smint Xylicare "dental" candy, which it claims protects teeth from cavities, as well as Cremosa sugar-free strawberry and cream-flavored lollipops. It also licenses the Chupa Chups brand to makers of clothing, footwear, and personal care products. Founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, Chupa Chups was owned and run by the Bernat family until 2006, when it was sold to leading Italian confectioner Perfetti Van Melle.

R.E.A. Holdings maintains oil palm operations -- the cultivation of oil palms and the production of crude palm oil -- in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. R.E.A. Holdings company owns about 65,000 hectares of land, and has access to 125,000 hectares, of which about 35,000 hectares (about 33,000 acres) are in production at any given time. R.E.A. Holdings company's two mills produce all of its crude palm oil and palm kernels and its fleet of barges transport the oil to a shipping terminal downstream. REA's facilities also include residential "villages" for field and plant workers. The majority of the company's sales are in Indonesian and other parts of Asia.

H. J. Heinz Company Limited is full of beans -- canned beans. The UK subsidiary of Heinz offers some of the same brands sold the US, plus some specifically aimed at the UK market. Its canned beans (Heinz Beanz) are not a staple of American pantries but the Brits love 'em -- they buy 1.5 million cans a day. Heinz soup is also popular, with the company selling 289 million cans a year. Then there's Heinz salad cream, a tangy condiment not seen in the US. And whereas Chef Boyardee is a top seller in the US, in the UK Heinz' canned spaghetti is a favorite. (Its version of SpaghettiOs is called Spaghetti Hoops.) And for all the new moms and dads, the company offers a full line of Heinz-branded baby foods.

You might say this company has a steak in the organic meat business. Dakota Beef is a leading supplier of organic beef and beef products that are free of antibiotics and growth hormones. It sources its beef from certified organic producers and operates a 33,000-square-foot, certified-organic processing plant capable of handling more than 100 head of cattle each day. The company supplies cuts of meat and ground beef to food wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers including Costco and Whole Foods Market. It also sells beef online to individual consumers. CEO Scott Lively founded the company in 2003.

The family-owned and -operated The Musco Family Olive Co. was founded by Nicolo Musco, who immigrated to the US from Italy in the 1920s to start a food-distribution company. The Musco Family Olive Co. is the leading maker of canned and brined olives in the US. The Musco Family Olive company sells its products primarily under its flagship Pearls brand. It also sells olives under the Early California brand, as well as offering private-label services. Musco's products, which include black, green, and Mediterranean olives in sliced, chopped, pitted, and whole varieties, are sold through retail food outlets, as well as to restaurants and other foodservice providers across the nation.

Established in 1989 Blanchard Valley Farmers Cooperative is a locally owned farmers' cooperative located in Findlay Ohio. BVFC has 13 locations including four agronomy stations, a farm and garden store, and two petroleum locations as well as two seasonal locations to service customers in the areas with grain.A cooperative is owned by the customers, so a membership to BVFC brings benefits such as voting rights and equity returns. BVFC has averaged a 5% increase through grain marketing and operates off of 1% of its total revenue the rest of which is turned over to the members. At BVFC we are proud to put our members first, and always will.

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