That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

Brown Packing Company knows the difference between a foreshank and a flank. The Illinois company, which also does business as Dutch Valley Foods, slaughters, prepares, and packs veal and lamb for food retailers. The company also offers other branded meat products, such as organic Dakota Beef, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, King's Pride Fresh Chilled Australian Lamb, and grass-fed Tallgrass Beef, and Tracy Lynns Veal, which contains no preservatives or other additives. Brown Packing was founded in 1944.

The Jordans & Ryvita Company, formerly W. Jordan (Cereals), is king of the UK breakfast table. As one of the largest breakfast cereal makers in the UK, the company manufactures some 30 organic, wholegrain breakfast cereals and health bars under the Jordans label. The company's cereals include just-add-milk flaked products and muesli, along with hot cereals such as oat porridge. Jordans' products are available at leading UK grocers including Sainsbury, Tesco,and Waitrose; it also exports its cereals. Associated British Foods (ABF) acquired W. Jordan (Cereals) in 2008 and merged it with its Ryvita operations.

company has subsidiaries in soft drinks, frozen food, newspaper publishing, and oil and gas exploration and development. ABARTA owns four Coca-Cola bottling companies, Kahiki Foods, ABARTA Oil & Gas, and the South Jersey Publishing Company, which publishes The Press of Atlantic City. ABARTA's Beverage Group is the country's eighth-largest bottler, selling 16 million cases a year from its four plants in Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Coatesville, Pennsylvania; and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

Grupo Cerveceria Nacional de Panama beer brands include Atlas and Balboa but it also distributes the Miller and Corona brands. Through its subsidiaries, Cervecer�a makes and distributes Pepsi, 7 UP, Canada Dry, Orange Crush, Squirt, as well as Brisa bottled water and La Chircana shelf-stable milk products. Founded in 1909 as the Panama Brewing & Refrigerating Company by five local businessmen, Cervecer�a Nacional has grown to become one of the leading brewers in Panama. It is a subsidiary of SABMiller.

Viterra has its roots in grain. Canada's largest grain company, the company collects, stores, markets and ships grain. It sells farm goods such as seed and fertilizer, farm equipment, crop-protection products through its 252 retail outlets located throughout western Canada. It also processes malting barley and oats into value-added products, and provides grain storage (99 elevators) and transportation services (100 rail-car loaders). In addition, Viterra offers livestock-production and financial services. The company is most active in Canada and the US but has customers in more than 50 other countries. In 2010 the company acquired US-based pasta producer Dakota Growers Pasta.

Gate Gourmet began in 1992 as the catering arm of Swissair; it is now part of the publicly traded gategroup. The foodservice company is one of the world's largest in-flight caterers, alongside rival LSG Sky Chefs. Gate Gourmet prepares more than 200 million meals a year for travelers from its 100 flight kitchens in more than 25 countries. Gate Gourmet company contracts for about 250 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Thai Airways. Gate Gourmet also offers consulting on menu and service design, cost monitoring, and logistics.

Cooper Farms' poultry products fly far from the coop. The company raises turkeys (180 million pounds of live bird per year) on its Ohio farm and supplies pre-cooked (oven-roasted, smoked, and cured breasts and deli meats) and ready-to-cook turkey products to retail and foodservice customers in the US and Mexico. Cooper Farms also provides private-label packaging services for other food manufacturers. Additional items produced by the company include eggs (400 million a year), weaned pigs (90 million live pounds per year), poults (baby turkeys) (14 million per year), and animal feed (400,000 tons per year). Cooper makes feed for diary and beef cattle, as well as for swine.

Ruiz Foods company produces some 200 frozen Mexican foods under the El Monterey and Tornados brand names, including burritos, taquitos, enchiladas, and tamales. Its value-added convenience products can be found in grocery stores throughout the US; it also serves foodservice clients. Ruiz Foods manufactures its products at its main 300,000-sq.-ft. facility in Dinuba, California, and, in order to meet the demand for its products in the eastern and midwestern US, two more in Texas. In a move to provide healthy food products, in 2006 the company removed all trans fats from its El Monterey brand products.

Paramount Distillers makes and distributes a wide variety of spirits, including brandy, cognac, tequila, gin, rum, schnapps, vodka, and whisky. The company also owns the Meier's Wine Cellars, which operates a 40-acre vineyard on North Bass Island on Lake Erie (the vineyard was larger before the company sold much of the land in 2004 to the state of Ohio). Paramount Distillers operates warehousing and distribution facilities in Iowa and Ohio, but offers its more than 45 varieties of wine globally. The company also offers non-alcoholic sparkling and still juice beverages. Paramount, founded shortly after the repeal Prohibition, was purchased by Robert Gottesman and Associates in 1957. In 2009, Paramount Distillers celebrated 75 years as a proud part of Cleveland's business community. Paramount's history dates back to 1934, when J. F. Moessmer founded the company on W. 106th St. a month after the repeal of Prohibition. Under Moessmer, Paramount was a modest operation, marketing primarily cordials and vodka in Ohio and Iowa. The company prospered and moved to its present site on Berea Road in 1946.

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