Reddy Ice was born of simple beginnings, an ice company staffed by hardworking folks with a desire to please their customers. Providing a product people needed at a fair price and with excellent service was a recipe for success. As the business of ice making progressed from an industry based on animal power and harvesting ice from rivers in winter, to a technology-based industry with the capacity for year-round production, Reddy Ice was there.Ice is hot stuff, especially when you own the ice factory -- Reddy Ice does, and its proprietary technology lets grocery and convenience stores make and package their own ice automatically. Reddy Ice is the largest US maker and distributor of packaged ice products. It has the capacity to make about 18,000 tons of ice per day. In addition to its Ice Factory machines, the company sells ice in a variety of shapes and sizes (ranging from seven-pound bags to 300-pound blocks) to retail, commercial, and industrial customers throughout 33 US states and in the District of Columbia. Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund owns about 10% of Reddy Ice.

New Britain Palm Oil Limited is a United Kingdom-based company. New Britain Palm Oil Company and its subsidiaries operate in the oil palm, sugar and beef cattle industries in Papua New Guinea with oil palm operations also in the Solomon Islands. It is an industrial producer of palm oil and is vertically integrated, producing its own seed (which it also sells globally) and planting, cultivating and harvesting its own land, as well as processing and refining palm oil. New Britain Palm Oil Company sells its palm oil to countries within the European Union and the United Kingdom, and its sugar and beef cattle is sold mainly within Papua New Guinea. Its subsidiaries include Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited, Dami Australia Pty Limited, New Britain Nominees Limited, New Britain Plantation Services Pte Limited, New Britain Oils Limited, Ramu Agri-Industries Limited and Dumpu Limited.

Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) is a dairy marketing cooperative with 3,500 member farms, 5.8 billion pounds of milk and $1.7 billion in annual sales. Members operate dairy farms located throughout the Midwest states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. They own 14 manufacturing plants and market a full line of consumer-packaged dairy products, including the Cass-Clay® brand.

General Mills gets its Kix trying to grab the spotlight as the US's #1 breakfast cereal maker (wrangling for the top spot every year with uber-rival Kellogg). But #1 or not, the company has supermarket-aisles-full of kid-friendly products. Its Big G Cereals include the well-known brands Cheerios, Chex, and Wheaties. Its products are manufactured in 15 countries and available in more than 100. General Mills operates 70 production facilities (down from 79 in 2008, the closures were a cost-controlling measure) -- 44 in the US, 11 in the Asia Pacific region, three in Canada, seven in Europe, four in Latin America and Mexico, and one in South Africa.

JBS USA Holdings is big beef, prodigious pork, and lord of lamb. The company, a subsidiary of Brazil's JBS (the world's #1 beef processor and exporter), operates beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities in the US and Australia. Its holdings include JBS Swift (12 processing plants) and JBS Packerland (boxed and ground beef production), both in the US, and Australia's Tasman Group (10 beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities and five feedlots). JBS USA also owns JBS Five Rivers, which operates 11 feedlots. Other businesses include a tannery, seven distribution centers, and two grease-production facilities; JBS USA exports to 60 countries. It filed to go public in 2009.

Founded in 2004, Monogram Food Solutions began operations when a group of Memphis investors purchased King Cotton and Circle B Brand foods from Sara Lee Corporation of Chicago. The purchase signified a homecoming for the brands. King Cotton was founded nearly 70 years ago in Memphis. King Cotton and Circle B are among the leading brands in retail sales of hot dogs, corn dogs, sandwich meats, and smoked sausages in the Memphis and Mid-South area.The former president of the Sara Lee Foods Dinner Group, Wes Jackson, continued Monogram's growth with the help of established relationships with key industry contacts. This was the precursor to licensing brands featuring NASCAR® and Jeff Foxworthy.

Pyramid Breweries makes and sells small-batch, craft beers and ales (both year-round and seasonal; many of them wheat beers) under the Pyramid and MacTarnahan's brand names. Its breweries are located Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Berkeley, California. In addition to making beer, the company serves it as well. It operates five alehouse restaurants, one each in Portland and Seattle, as well as in Walnut Creek, Berkeley, and Sacramento, California. In 2008 Pyramid was acquired by craft brewer, Magic Hat.

Mar-Jac Poultry, Incorporated is a poultry production firm located in Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.A., approximately 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. Our company was established in 1954 and has been supplying high quality poultry products ever since. We ship our poultry product worldwide with an emphasis on the domestic foodservice industry.

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.

Smart Chicken® was founded in 1998 with a vision to produce the safest and most natural fresh poultry available‚ A Higher Degree of Fresh Chicken™. We introduced air chill technology to the United States, replacing the standard immersion/absorption method of chilling poultry. In addition to minimizing the use of water during processing, air chilling allows us to guarantee that no water is ever added to our chicken, providing a more wholesome and satisfying dining experience.We believe it is important for you to know our chickens are raised and processed the right way, from egg to shelf. Our chickens are fed only the finest grain produced in America's Heartland, are never given antibiotics or hormones nor fed animal by-products. We pioneered the utilization of CAS in the United States so that our birds are handled with care in every aspect of production, from our spacious, free roam farms to our production facility and beyond. Our combination of humane treatment, sustainable practices and state-of-the-art facilities guarantee you a true, premium product.

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