Thompson Hospitality, formed in 1992, is the largest minority-owned food service company and one of the largest minority-owned businesses in the United States. Thompson Hospitality currently employ over 2,500 food service professionals and provide meals at businesses and institutions in 40 states and four foreign countries. The restaurant and retail division operates four different concepts with 22 unique locations in the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. area, serving over 1.9 million guests each year.Thompson Hospitality, the largest minority-owned foodservice company in the United States, formed a strategic alliance with the Compass Group, the world’s largest food service company, in 1997. This partnership continues to provide synergy and value to clients of this partnership. By choosing the Thompson/Compass partnership as your food service provider, your business will be assured of working with an organization with a solid track record, successful operating history, and the ability to handle all of your food service needs.

Ampol Food Processing Ltd. was set up in 1988 with 90 million baht capital. The company vision is to produce and distribute domestic agricultural processed goods and products. At the first stage, the company dealt with vegetables and fruits exportation to other countries around the world. Later, the company invested in Chaokoh UHT Coconut Milk research and development and lastly became the first instant UHT coconut milk manufacturer in Thailand. The new products are also accepted and warmly welcomed by general public. In 1996, the company turned to invest in healthy beverage market to respond the new trend of health care by launching the latest Fit-C Konjac Drink With 25% Fruit Juice, Pro-Fit Job's Tears Cereal Drink, and V-Fit Young Rice Milk Cereal Drink. Those products are corporately developed by the Institute of Nutrition, MahidolUniversity to produce new coming Good-Life Seasoning Sauce Less Sodium and Less Saturated Fat Cereal Coconut Milk. From that success, the company had more than 700 employees and gained 1,000 millions baht for its revenue each year, with continuously growing income. Ampol Food Processing Ltd. runs its business with high technology and is standardized by ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14001 on Environmental Friendliness, OHSAS/ TIS 18001 with HACCP and GMP on Security and Sanitation from BVQI, accompanied with the certification of the Ministry of Pulbic Health's Food and Drug Administrative Committee. All certifications are to guarantee the best products and services to every customer.

Miss Meringue is the leading company in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia for over 12 years. We've been in business since 1997 with a manufacturing facility in San Marcos, California and 15 restaurants stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. We pride ourselves on producing the most delicious and authentic French inspired desserts. From Meringue Cookies, Specialty Cookies, Madeleines, and Food Service Desserts, we manufacture for all major U.S retailers, club stores, restaurants, hotel chains and key accounts.

The late Roberto Alvarez founded the family-owned business in 1950. Coast Citrus Distributors is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh fruits and vegetables in Mexico and the US. Coast Citrus Distributors company supplies a variety of produce, including bananas, lettuce, limes, and potatoes, to retail grocers and other food customers under such brands as Coast Citrus, Coast Tropical, and Olympic Fruit and Vegetable. Coast Citrus Distributors operates a half dozen distribution facilities in California, Texas, and Florida. It also has about five locations in Mexico.

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc. takes a licking and keeps on selling -- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is the leading US ice cream producer. The company manufactures premium ice creams and other frozen dairy desserts under its namesake Dreyer's and its Edy's brands for distribution to food retailers and foodservice purveyors throughout the US and some 25 overseas markets. In addition, Dreyer's distributes Nestl�'s H�agen-Dazs and ice cream novelties; it also operates the H�agen-Dazs Shoppe Company, which franchises ice cream parlors worldwide. Dreyer's is a subsidiary of Swiss food giant Nest.

Craft Brewers Alliance, Inc (CBAI), headquartered in Portland, Oregon is a leading brewer of high quality hand crafted beers in the United States. CBAI offers a diverse portfolio of award-winning products from The Redhook Ale Brewery of Woodinville, Washington and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Widmer Brothers Brewing Company of Portland, Oregon, Kona Brewing Company of Kailua Kona, Hawaii and Goose Island Beer Company of Chicago, Illinois. Most of our 31 beers are distributed regionally and a few of our more prominent beers can be found nationally. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by for a cold pint of beer in one of our onsite pubs, browse our retail shops for some new gear or take a guided tour of our state of the art breweries. If you’re not able to stop by in person, please visit each brewery’s website via the Breweries page to learn more about our beers, play exciting games and find out what we’re up to at each of our breweries.

Denali Flavors -- maker of more than more than 40 flavors for the dairy industry under the Alaskan Classics brand name, including its trademark Moose Tracks vanilla flavor. Denali Flavors company's other Alaskan-themed flavors include Bear Foot Browner, Caramel Caribou, Mother Lode, and Otter Paws. Ice creams using Denali flavors are produced by 85 regional and local dairies throughout the US and are sold at major US food retailers, including Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Aldi, Sav-A-Lot, Food 4 Less, Giant, Hannaford, Meijer, Safeway, and Winn Dixie.

Founded to provide affordable, high-quality seed for Virginia farmers, Southern States Cooperative has grown into an agricultural powerhouse, serving its approximately 300,000 members, mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern US states. The co-op makes and/or offers just about everything agricultural to its farmer/owners, including animal feed and fertilizer; seed processing; grain marketing; diesel, propane, and home-heating services; wholesale farm supplies; and even bib overalls. Its Southern States and Garden South stores sell farm supplies, garden products, and fuel through some 1,200 retail outlets in 23 states. Other services include crop financing, crop services, and an aquaculture program.

SECO & Golden “100”, Inc. is a member owned purchasing cooperative headquartered in DeLand, Florida. The company was formed in 1945 by a group of dairy farmers who sought to improve their bargaining power by combining and leveraging their purchased requirements. Today the membership is comprised of a select group of agriculturally based cooperatives and proprietary companies that are engaged in the production of food and dairy products. The members collectively participate in purchasing programs designed to optimize opportunities within the supply chain for delivering added value. The cooperative is governed by a board of directors. Each of the member companies designates a director who sits on the board. In addition to addressing the performance of the business, the board receives and acts upon nominations and recommendations for new suppliers, new members and new programs. The directors are also actively involved in the progress and support of individual programs and serve as chairmen of the established program committees.

Genus is a world leader in applying science to animal breeding.Genus creates advances to animal breeding through biotechnology and sells added value products for livestock farming and food producers. Its non-genetically modified organism technology is applicable across all livestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine farming sectors.Genus’ worldwide sales are made under the trade marks “ABS” (dairy and beef cattle) and “PIC” (pigs) and comprise semen and breeding animals with superior genetics to those animals currently in production. Genus’ current products and services enable producers and farmers to enhance milk and meat quality and improve efficiency through the application of natural genetic selection. Customers’ animals produce offspring with greater production efficiency, milk and meat output and quality and use these to supply the global dairy and meat supply chain of farmers, breeders, processors, distributors, retailers and consumers.The Group’s competitive edge has been created from the ownership and control of proprietary lines of breeding animals, the biotechnology used to improve them and its global production and distribution network.

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