Vita Food Products, Inc. engages in the processing and sale of herring, cured, and smoked salmon products and other complementary specialty food products primarily in the United States. The company’s products include pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces, as well as lox and nova salmon. It also provides other specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauces, as well as refrigerated seafood. Vita Food Products markets its seafood products under the Vita, Elf, and Grand Isle brand names. The company, through its subsidiary, Vita Specialty Foods, Inc., manufactures and distributes honey and Vidalia onion-based salad dressings under the Virginia Brand name. In addition, it offers gourmet salad dressings and beverages under the Oak Hill Farms brand name; and hot sauce-based products under the Scorned Woman brand name. Further, the company provides rubs and spices, condiments, dressings, gifts, dessert toppings and syrup, marinades, snacks, tea concentrates, and wing sauces. It offers products through a national distribution network of food brokers to supermarket chains and wholesale clubs, as well as to institutional/food service operations, such as restaurant chains, hotels, country clubs, cruise lines, and other bulk purchasers.

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning the apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods, although it's selling off that business too. Its North American Retail unit is a major packaged meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of frozen bakery products, including Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The fresh bakery segment supplies North America with prepackaged bread and other baked goods. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The North American Foodservice unit supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to foodservice operators across the continent.

VSP Products' bins of tomatoes laid out to dry. Formerly Valley Sun of California, VSP company contracts with tomato growers in the central section of the Golden State to purchase their "raw" material, and produces and markets sun-dried tomato products in packages and jars. Its customers include food manufacturers, foodservice operators, and retail food outlets throughout the US. VSP also provides custom tomato processing (diced, chopped, powdered, or julienned) and packaging services. Its retail customers include Golub (operator of Price Chopper supermarkets) and Costco.

Founded in 1919 as a Dutch sugar manufacturer, CSM makes and distributes food products and ingredients for food processors, food retailers, and institutional foodservice operations worldwide, although half of its sales are in the US. CSM is a leading producer of bakery products and ingredients, including bread and pastry mixes, margarines and emulsifiers, fruit- and non-dairy-based fillings, icings, glazes, and frozen dough. Its biochemical division, PURAC, makes lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and lactides, which it distributes to food, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies. CSM has operations in 25 countries.

Agria Corporation sells agricultural products, but the company's ambitions do not extend to all the tea in China. Agria supplies corn seeds, sheep-breeding products, and plant seedlings to a variety of customers throughout China. Corn seed products include proprietary strains of corn seed (sold under the Primalights III brand name) that thrive in various climates. The company also produces and distributes generic strains of corn seed. Its sheep-breeding products consist of frozen sheep semen, sheep embryos, and breeder sheep. Agria also sells blackberry, raspberry, date, and white-bark pine seedlings to end-users such as municipal agencies and retail nurseries.

Butter Buds Food Ingredients have made it possible with their dairy enzymes. Snack manufacturers can even spray its beer flavoring on pretzels! What's next, milk flavors? Well, as a matter of fact, that's one of the company's product offerings -- Milk Buds. Others include include its namesake Butter Buds, as well as Bacon Buds, Cheese Buds, Cream Buds, Cream Cheese Buds, Buttermilk Buds, Cocoa Butter Buds, and Olive Oil Buds. For even more beer taste, the company offers Dried Beer Extract, which can be used to flavor batters, sauces, marinades, dips, and snacks. Butter Buds is owned by Cumberland Packing.

Boar's Head Provisions is more of a ham than a bore. Under the Boar's Head brand name, the company manufactures and distributes specialty deli meats, cheeses, and soups to restaurants, grocers, and delicatessens throughout the US. Its products are distributed in distinctive black and red refrigerated trucks owned by its sister company, Frank Brunckhorst Company. Boar's Head has operations in Arkansas, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. The company was founded in 1905 by Frank Brunckhorst, who delivered his foods by horse-drawn wagon to small delicatessens and mom-and-pop stores in New York City. It is still owned and operated by his descendants.

Founded in 1944, Naperville, Ill.-based Quality Chekd Dairies Inc. is a member-owned organization of 27 independent dairy processors with 60 manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia. Quality Chekd member companies provide consumers with world-class dairy products endorsed by the familiar Blue Q, Red Chek trademark, a symbol of Quality and Food Safety. Quality Chekd works on behalf of our dairy processors by providing them with services that asist them in being a successful business along with providing consumers with safe, delicious dariy products. Food Safey is first, we establish quality assurance measures and evaluations, laboratory resources, along with employee training and planning. We also provide our members with human resource tools, marketing trends and information, and purchasing opportunities to help them maintain costs. All these services are wrapped up in the Quality Chekd trademark, signaling product excellence.

China Mengniu and its subsidiaries produce and distribute dairy products in China, Hong Kong, and Macao. The company's full line of offerings include liquid dairy products, such as pasteurized milk, yogurt, milk beverages, and ice cream. Its other products include aseptically packaged milk, milk powder, and cheese. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the dairy has some 20 manufacturing sites located throughout China. Mengniu Dairy has a production capacity of 5.5 million tons of milk products per year.

Alico, Inc. (the "Company"), which was formed February 29, 1960 as a spin-off of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, is a land management company operating in Central and Southwest Florida. The Company's primary asset is 135,500 acres of land located in Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee and Polk Counties. The Company is involved in a variety of agribusiness pursuits in addition to land leasing and rentals, rock and sand mining and real estate sales activities.Alico is a public Company traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol ALCO. Approximately 50% of its stock is owned by Atlanticblue, a private Florida business.The Company's land is managed for multiple uses wherever possible. For example, cattle ranching, forestry and land leased for farming, grazing, recreation and oil exploration utilize the same acreage in some instances.

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