Grupo Modelo,, founded in 1925, is the leader in Mexico in beer production, distribution and marketing, with 63.3% of the total (domestic and export) market share, as of December 31, 2009. It has a total annual installed capacity of 60 million hectoliters.Currently, it brews and distributes 13 brands, including Corona Extra, the number one Mexican beer sold in the world, Modelo Especial, Victoria, Pacífico and Negra Modelo. It exports five brands and is present in 160 countries. It is the importer of Anheuser-Busch InBev's products in Mexico, including Budweiser, Bud Light and O'Doul's. It also imports the Chinese Tsingtao brand and the Danish beer Carlsberg.

Stanley Orchard Sales is now a major wholesale distributor of apples and pears. Founded by husband-and-wife team Morris and Sadie Cohn, who purchased a farm in Hudson Valley back in 1931, and run by the third-generation of the family (president and CEO Ronald Cohn is Morris and Sadie's grandson), the firm owns approximately 1,000 acres of orchards in New York State. Stanley Orchard sells more than 1 million bushels of apples every year and imports South American apples and pears, as well as other fruit.

The Allen family counts its chickens before and after they're hatched. Allen Family Foods is a vertically-integrated poultry operation that includes breeding, hatching, feed milling, and processing of its chickens. The Delaware-headquartered company operates its 28 of its own "growout" farms and contracts with more than 500 independent farmers, who raise the rest of the company's chickens. Allen offers whole frying, roasting, and rotisserie chickens, chicken parts, and tray packs It sells 600 million pounds of chicken a year to food retailers in the US and throughout the rest of the world. The company's fresh and frozen chicken is distributed in the US by Allen's 400-vehicle truck fleet.

Ridley Corporation is a global producer of animal feed and salt. Its Ridley AgriProducts division is the largest feed producer in Australia providing products for the livestock, pet food, and aquaculture industries. Its Cheetham Salt division is the largest maker of domestic and refined salt in Australia. The company also owns nearly 70% of Ridley Inc., one of the largest producers of livestock feed in North America. Its North American operations contribute about one-third of the company's sales. Originally a salt producer, since 1990 Ridley has bulked up with acquisitions large and small in Australia, Canada, and the US. Ridley received a takeover offer from fellow Australian ag company, GrainCorp, in 2008.

Alfred Nickles Bakery Incorporated he founded, Alfred Nickles Bakery, now operates three large-scale bakeries in Ohio, as well as some 40 distribution centers in five Midwestern states (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia). It runs a fleet of more than 600 delivery trucks. It makes and delivers fresh-baked goods -- bagels, bread, breadsticks, dinner rolls, hoagies, hot dog and hamburger buns, cakes, pastries, sweet rolls, donuts -- to retail food and foodservice operations in the Midwest.

Founded in 1999, Original Juan Specialty Foods, Inc. distributes its products worldwide. Original Juan Specialty Foods' creative product names include Pain is Good, Da' Bomb, Screamin' Wings, and the ever popular, Old Fart Baked Beans. In addition to fiery hot sauces and salsas, the company produces a large variety of other sauces, dips, and snack foods, including condiments, barbecue sauces, pasta sauces, salad dressings, drink mixes, microwave popcorn, and Amaretto-flavored or chocolate-flavored cheesecake-in-a-jar. Its most popular salsas and dips are sold under the Fiesta label. Original Juan's products are sold in retail stores and can also be ordered through the company's Web site.

The Nisshin OilliO Group company sells salad dressing, cooking oil, and margarine for home and commercial use, as well as meal and grain products. The Nisshin OilliO Group company also dabbles in fine chemicals and health food. Its health foods, designed primarily for patients requiring specific diets, meet the needs of Japan's aging population. Nisshin OilliO's other businesses include software development, restaurants, insurance, and logistics.

Lopez Foods is the Hamburglar's Fort Knox. The company's main plant operates around the clock as it grinds, blends, molds, and quick-freezes millions of Big Mac and Quarter Pounder hamburger patties, pork sausage patties, and Canadian-style bacon for McDonald's restaurants. It also makes chorizo sausage and private-label meat products. The company's retail brands include Country Cousin and Quick'n Eat. The company's other customers, also big players in the food biz, include Burger King, Applebee's, Sonic, and Wal-Mart. Lopez has production facilities in Oklahoma City and Caryville, Tennessee.

Flavormatic Industries is a family-owned firm founded in the 1960s. Flavormatic Industries company makes and distributes flavorings, juice blends, essential oils, and fragrances. Its dry and liquid flavorings are used by the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Flavormatic's essential oils and fragrances are used in cosmetics and cleaners. The firm also makes custom flavored-drink bases for the beverage and dairy sectors. Its custom-formulated products are sold through sales agents in the UK, France, US, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Canada.

With 2009 sales of nearly $13 billion, Kellogg Company is the world's leading producer of cereal and a leading producer of convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. The Company's brands include Kellogg's®, Keebler®, Pop-Tarts®, Eggo®, Cheez-It®, All-Bran®, Mini-Wheats®, Nutri-Grain®, Rice Krispies®, Special K®, Chips Deluxe®, Famous Amos®, Sandies®, Austin®, Club®, Murray®, Kashi®, Bear Naked®, Morningstar Farm®, Gardenburger® and Stretch Island®.

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