Bernard Matthews is the top turkey processor in the UK. The company produces fresh, chilled, and frozen turkey and value-added turkey products under the Bernard Matthews and Golden Norfolk brand names. It operates 56 turkey farms in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire. It expanded in Lincolnshire with its purchase of free-range and fresh turkey provider Lincs Turkeys in 2010. Founder and chairman Bernard Matthews started the company in 1950 with just 20 turkey eggs and a used incubator and grew the business by coaxing consumers into thinking of turkey as a year-round meat by introducing value-added products. After nearly 30 years as a public company, Matthews and his family took the company private in 2000.

Deschutes Brewery, located in Central Oregon along the banks of the wild and scenic Deschutes River, has brewed a family of handcrafted ales since 1988. Starting out as a small brewpub in the heart of downtown Bend, Deschutes’ first beers were Black Butte Porter, Bachelor Bitter and Cascade Golden Ale. In 1993, Deschutes moved into its current brewing facility and has continued expanding and improving the facilities. With a 50-barrel traditional gravity brew house and a new one-of-a-kind 131-barrel Huppmann brew system from Germany, Deschutes now creates and experiments with specialty batches of limited beers like The Abyss and Hop Trip while brewing large quantities of everyone’s favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Consistently producing the highest quality beers is always Deschutes’ number one priority and commitment.

The V&S Group has absolute power -- er, make that "Absolut" power. The company is Sweden's top supplier of wine and spirits, but it is best known for its Absolut vodka, which is sold in 126 markets. The group is comprised of three business units: V&S Absolut Spirits, V&S Distillers, and V&S Wine. V&S has a long-term agreement with Maxxium Worldwide, a spirits distribution consortium, for distribution of its beverages outside the Nordic countries and the US. In 2008 the company was auctioned off to Pernod Ricard by its owner, the Swedish government.

Pierre Foods is a top supplier of fully cooked and microwaveable meat products, primarily pre-cooked hamburger patties, chicken strips, and meatloaf. It also makes frozen bakery foods, such as breadsticks, biscuits, and french toast, as well as ready-to-eat sandwiches and other freshly prepared convenience foods. It supplies restaurants, schools, vending machine operators, convenience stores, and retail food customers. Pierre Foods filed for bankruptcy in 2008; it emerged from it later that year. The firm in 2010 plans to merge with Advance Brands and Advance Food Company to form Advance Pierre Foods.

It should be pointed out that chickens don't start out with fingers, but Brakebush Brothers produces plenty of 'em. The company manufactures processed value-added chicken products (wings, nuggets, patties, fingers, and strips) for sale through retail grocery and foodservice operators. Its subsidiary, Squawkers, is a branded, restaurant-concept family of products marketed to the foodservice industry; Brakebush Transportation distributes the company's products to destinations in the 48 contiguous US states. Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned company, was founded by William and Otto Brakebush in 1925.

We understand the needs of hard-working egg producers, we exceed the expectations of demanding retail operations and we can respond rapidly to changing consumer tastes. We are Stonegate. Every day we move millions of eggs from hen houses across the country to the shelves of the UK's leading supermarkets, and into the shopping trolleys of Britains' consumers. And that's no mean feat. It means working closely and supportively with at least 250 egg producers to collect, grade and package the most fragile of food products. It means working in genuine collaboration with top retailers to identify and satisfy new and changing tastes. It means supplying first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

Delaware North is a leading provider of foodservices and hospitality at airports, sports stadiums, and tourist destinations throughout the US and in a handful of other countries. Its Sportservice division operates concessions at more than 50 major and minor league sporting arenas, while its Travel Hospitality Services division runs concessions and retail operations at more than 25 airports. In addition, the company provides hospitality services at several tourist destinations, and it operates Boston's TD Garden arena. In all family-owned Delware North operates at 200 locations and serves 500 million guests a year.

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.

Bakkavor Group hf. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. Bakkavor Group hf. produces and markets fresh prepared foods and produce. The company offers approximately 6,000 fresh prepared food products in 18 various product categories. Its products include hot-eating products, such as ethnic snacks, pizzas, prepared vegetables, ready meals, sauces, soups, specialty bread, stir fry, and ready to cook meals; and cold-eating products, including leafy salads, dressed salads, meal salads, dips, deserts, prepared fruits, salad dressings, wraps, and smoothies. The company also markets fresh produce consisting of trio leaf lettuce, piccolo tomatoes, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, sweet pointed peppers, watermelons, apples, peaches, tenderstem broccoli, and sugarsnap peas. In addition, it engages in the property management, and import and export of machinery and equipment.

Heinz North America Consumer Products business segment of H. J. Heinz, it makes the US and Canada's top-selling ketchup (60% market share in the US, 80% in Canada). Other products include mustard and barbecue and pasta sauces with brand names like Heinz 57, Jack Daniels, Classico, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. The unit also offers Heinz's frozen-food products such as entrees, pasta, pizza, potato products, and snacks. Its brands include Bagel Bites, Boston Market meals, Ore-Ida, Tater Tots, T.G.I. Friday's products, Weight Watchers meals, and more. It also makes Heinz baby food (#1 in Canada), as well as Nurture infant formula.

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