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.

When someone mentions Chiquita, you probably think just of bananas -but there's a lot more to Chiquita than just bananas! In fact, Chiquita's basket overflows with a huge selection of delicious fruit such as pineapples, grapes, melons and avocados. The company also distributes and markets value-added produce including natural fruit ingredients, healthy snacks and nutritious blends of convenient green salads.The company’s products and services are designed to win the hearts and smiles of the world's consumers by helping them enjoy healthy fresh foods. The company markets its products under the Chiquita® and Fresh Express® premium brands.Chiquita is truly a global company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, there are 23,000 employees and operations on six continents. Most employees are based in Central America.

American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

Whether it's Barky, Bessie, Bossy, or Boots who's in need of medical attention, the folks at IVESCO (formerly Iowa Veterinary Supply) will get the correct supplies to his or her vet. The company distributes more than 25,000 products, for companion animals and livestock, including veterinary equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It operates through six divisions -- IVESCO, IVS Animal Health, WYNCO, Panhandle Veterinary Supply, Scholfield Veterinary Supply, and VMS -- with about 25 locations in some 20 US states. Iowa Veterinary Supply was founded in 1945; president Tom Kruse acquired the company with partner Ken Madole (who retired in the 1980s) in 1966.

East Coast Seafood Inc. was established in 1981 and is a subsidiary of the AHI Group, which also includes affiliates Paturel International (seafood procurement and processing in Canada) and Worldwide Perishables Enterprises (international transportation and freight forwarding). East Coast Seafood distributes lobster and other fresh and frozen seafood throughout the world. In addition to its specialty product, North American live lobster, the company sells fresh scallops, squid, whiting, dogfish, skate, and monkfish. It also sells frozen lobster products. East Coast Seafood delivers seafood to international customers from sales and distribution locations throughout North America and Europe.

The golden goose of the growing demand for consumption of members of the Anatidae family is well looked after by Schiltz Foods, Inc., the largest Anatidae, or goose, producer in the Americas. The company offers geese fit for the table, including frozen whole geese, breasts, and livers, as well as specialty items including rendered and unrendered goose fat, goose feet, and goose chitterlings (intestines). Sister company Schiltz Goose Farms sells goose eggshells for crafting and bulk feathers for bedding. Marlin Schiltz founded the family business with five Toulouse goose eggs in 1944.

The Hirzel Canning Company is a can-do kind of business. Located in Toledo, Ohio, the firm packs and distributes canned tomato and sauerkraut products under the brand names Dei Fratelli (tomatoes, salsas, pasta, pizza, and sloppy Joe sauces, and tomato soup and juice). To top your brats, Hirzel also makes Silver Fleece brand sauerkraut. Its products are sold through grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the Midwestern, Central, and Southeastern US states. The family-owned business was founded in 1923 by Carl R. Hirzel, who started out selling sauerkraut from wooden barrels. Today Hirzel's food products are sold in cans, glass, and flexible packaging.

Bodegas Riojanas brings fine wine to dinner tables throughout Spain and many places abroad. From growing grapes to aging wine and putting it in bottles, the company produces and distributes high-end wine from Spain's famed Rioja region. Its top labels include Canchales, Monte Real, Vi�a Albina, and Puerta Vieja. Bodegas Riojanas wine is sold across Europe, the US, and Latin America. The founding Fr�as-Artecho and Artecho-Nieto families still help run the company. Bodegas Riojanas also owns 83% of Bodegas Torreduero, another maker of Spanish wine and liquor.

Nestled in the lushness of Vancouver, British Columbia, a tradition sprang from the love of chocolate and the love of people. Richard Carmon Purdy opened his first chocolate shop in 1907 on Robson Street in Vancouver. His reputation for superb chocolates grew, earning him the respect of chocolate lovers throughout Vancouver. Since 1907, one thing has remained constant at Purdy's — a commitment to quality and tradition. View Purdy's Chocolates' historical timeline. Purdy's Chocolates are made using only the finest ingredients from around the world including chocolate from Belgium, ginger from Australia, cashews from India, and dairy products delivered fresh daily from farms across Western Canada. Care is taken to ensure each batch of creams curls just right; nuts are roasted to perfection; caramel flavour bursts as it fills your mouth; and Hedgehogs have that silky, smooth texture that our customers have come to expect.

Brown-Forman is a diversified producer of fine quality consumer products. It was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown in Louisville, KY, U.S. His original brand, Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, was America's first bottled bourbon and remains one of Brown-Forman's finest brands today. Geo. Garvin Brown IV, a descendant of the founder, is part of the 5th generation of Brown Family members engaged with the company and serves as the Presiding Chairman of the Board. Brown-Forman employs 4,120 people worldwide with about 1,000 located in Louisville. Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned spirits and wine companies and among the top 10 largest global spirits companies, sells its brands in more than 135 countries and has offices in cities across the globe. In all, Brown-Forman has more than 25 brands in its portfolio of wines and spirits.

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