Furman Foods is a family-owned business founded in 1921 by J. W. Furman. The Pennsylvania company distributes a complete line of canned tomatoes and tomato products. Furman Foods also offers canned beans; spaghetti, pasta, and pizza sauces; bean salads; vegetables; and ketchup and other condiments. Furman's brand names include include Furmano's, Conte, and Bella Vista. Furman Foods company has customers in the foodservice (restaurants, schools, and hospitals), retail (supermarkets and grocery stores), export, branded, manufacturing, and private-label sectors along the US's East Coast.

Spangler Candy Company is a family-owned private company manufacturing candy since 1906. Our products include lollipops, candy canes, and marshmallow candies. Spangler Candy Company manufacture and market the licensed brand names of Jelly Belly, Shrek, Sour Punch, Smarties, and Cinnabon on select candy cane items. Spangler Candy Company produces 10 million Dum Dums and about 3 million candy canes a day, which are sold throughout the US and worldwide. In addition to its own brands, it also makes products for some of the world's largest candy companies. It has licensing agreements with Disney (for Disney-character candy) and Jelly Belly Candy (to make jelly-bean-flavored candy canes). Spangler Candy was founded in 1906 by Arthur and Omar Spangler, whose family still owns the company.

Daffin's Candies has gained a national name for its delectable milk and semi-sweet chocolate candy. In addition to offering its regular line of yummy chocolates Daffin's provides gourmet chocolates through its Jean Marie Collection. This scrumptious collection offers unique hand-molded chocolates with extra special insides containing such things as whole nuts, truffles and their famous Opera Cream. Chocolate has an interesting history, as it didn’t catch on with the public until the 192Os. This wasn't a matter of people not enjoying the delicious taste of chocolate. Rather, it was the debut of air conditioning - which helped prevent chocolate from melting - that pushed chocolate sales through the roof. Prior to that it was uncommon for stores to carry chocolate past April because of the warm temperatures.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

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.

For more than three decades, BC Hot House Foods Inc. has led the industry in perfecting the art of growing consistent, premium produce.In 1973, a group of greenhouse growers in British Columbia decided to pool their resources and called themselves the Western Greenhouse Growers Cooperative Association.Our products were an immediate success, which led to ongoing expansion. The association grew considerably over the years through new growers joining the co-op and existing growers expanding their greenhouses. In 1988, the Western Greenhouse Growers Cooperative Association merged with the Vancouver Island Greenhouse Growers Cooperative which created a consistent supply of fresh products that adhered to some of the highest quality standards in the produce industry. Today BC Hot House Foods Inc. is a leading North American company that offers a full line of greenhouse grown products across North America. While the company has changed over the past thirty years, the original mandate has remained the same – providing consumers with the very best quality hot house produce. The BC Hot House brand has become the preferred choice in the greenhouse industry.

Haddon House Food Products is a wholesale grocery distributor that specializes in ethnic food, gourmet ingredients, and organic products. It supplies more than 15,000 items encompassing several different brands, including such in-house names as Asian Gourmet, Jane's Krazy Mixed-Up Seasonings, Medford Farms, and Twin Tree Gardens. Haddon House serves specialty food retailers and other retail grocers nationwide.

Domecq Bodegas (formerly Bodegas y Bebidas) is fermenting the Spanish wine market. A subsidiary of Allied Domecq, the company owns "bodegas," or wineries, in all nine of Spain's main wine-producing regions and recently acquired a vineyard in Chile. Bodegas represents 12 wineries in Spain and is involved in every aspect of wine making -- from grape growing to marketing and exporting. Sales of high-quality wines account for most of the company's sales. Bodegas exports its wine to more than 60 countries on five continents. Allied Domecq bought the company in 2001 and renamed it Allied Domecq Bodegas (later changed to Domecq Bodegas). In 2005 parent company Allied was taken over by Pernod Ricard.

Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Renton, Washington. Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Tokusui Corporation Of America. Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. offers table-ready portion controlled seafood items in America. Orca Bay Seafoods company provides fish and shellfish, crab, scallops, tuna, salmon, swordfish, halibut, sockeye, sole, flounder, tilapia, and catfish. It offers a line of frozen steaks, fillets, portions, and shellfish, as well as distributes a variety of seafood selections, including soups, stews, breaded items, and sushi. Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. markets its products through food service, club store, restaurant, and retail accounts.

Turtle Island Foods, Inc. was founded in 1980 by president and CEO Seth Tibbott. Turtle Island Foods, the stuffed tofu roast, available with or without all the fixin's, is the non-meat-eater's alternative to a traditional Thanksgiving feast. The frozen dinners, as well as Turtle company's other vegetarian, organic soy-based products (deli slices, sausages, burgers, franks, jerky, tempeh), are sold at food co-ops, health-food stores, and other grocery outlets, as well as to foodservice companies across the US. Despite the scoffing Turtle company and its products produce in carnivores, sales have been good: Turtle Island sold its 1 millionth tofurkey in 2006.

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