Fremont is a fourth-generation, family-owned company founded in 1905 by Allen Slessman. Fremont makes canned, jarred, and bagged sauerkraut, as well as sauerkraut juice and various glazes, sauces, and vinaigrettes for retail and foodservice and meat-packing customers. The Fremont company distributes its sauerkraut under the Frank's Quality Kraut and Snowfloss brands, as well as tomato ketchup and sauces under the Mississippi BBQ and Frank's brands throughout the US. In addition, Fremont provides private-label packaging services for tomato-based products.

Beef is just one of the cornerstones of this food company. Keystone Foods is one of the largest makers of hamburger patties and processed poultry with about 30 distribution and processing centers located throughout the world. A major supplier to McDonald's restaurants, Keystone serves about 28,000 restaurants in a dozen countries worldwide with hamburgers, chicken wings, breast fillets, and chicken patties, as well as fish and pork products. Keystone also provides new product development services to its customers, as well as custom distribution and logistics services. The company, which began as a beef-boning business in the 1960s, has agreed to be acquired by Brazil's Marfrig Alimentos for about $1.2 billion.

From its humble beginnings in 1927, Kelley Bean Co., has grown to become one of the largest originators and marketers of dry edible beans in the world. Today, a third generation family management is in place and poised to lead a team of outstanding employees into the future.Since 1927, we have maintained a focus on what we do best--dry edible beans. Quality, stability and service, along with continued customer satisfaction have led us into today’s world market. Our most valuable assets are our growers, our employees, and our customers. Honor all business commitments with passion and integrity.The American Grower produces the best quality in the world.Flexibility and Adaptability around our core focus is necessary for progress.

The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing various chocolate and confectionery products, pantry items, and gum and mint refreshment products worldwide. It offers chocolate and confectionery products, including high-cacao dark chocolate products, such as chocolate bars, tasting squares, home baking products, and professional chocolate and cocoa items; and natural and organic chocolate products consisting of chocolate bars, drinking chocolate, and baking products. Hershey Co. provides snack products comprising snack mix, granola bars, and macadamia snack nuts and cookies in various varieties; and a line of refreshment products, such as mints, chewing gum, and bubble gum, as well as pantry items consisting of baking ingredients, toppings, and beverages.

Owned and operated by the Rodriguez family, La India Packing Company was founded in 1924. Located in Laredo, Texas, la india packing company sells authentic Hispanic herbs, spices, and teas. It offers tejano and fajita seasoning, pica rico (for seasoning fruits), Mexican chocolate and more. Its products are sold in bulk, boxed, and bagged. They are available online at La India's Web site and at la india packing company's store in Laredo, where the owners also operate a small restaurant called the Tasting Room Cafe. La India's spices are also carried by such retail outlets in Texas as Albertsons, H.E.B, Kmart, and Wal-mart.

Salmolux, Inc. was founded in 1988 by president, George Kuetgens, and was controlled by the Kuetgens family until it was acquired by Pacific Seafood Group in 2009. Salmolux wants consumers to eat its salmon while dining in the lap of luxury. Salmolux company processes, packages, and distributes gourmet seafood products, including Alder smoked salmon, poached salmon, lox, and smoked rainbow trout. It also sells deli seafood spreads. Located in suburban Seattle, Salmolux purchases fresh salmon caught in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and it packages its products for use by foodservice providers and retail food outlets.

In 1956, we opened our doors as Northwest Egg Sales with a small, family-owned egg grading plant in Seattle. Soon after, we added laying hens at our Cherry Lane Farms. We have since expanded into a fully integrated producer and processor of eggs and egg products. Today, headquartered in Everett, Washington, National Food Corporation operates its own feed mills, pullet farms, layer farms, processing plants and distribution centers in Washington, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, serving markets throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. By controlling every aspect of production, processing, distribution and marketing, we are able to assure that our customers receive the highest quality shell eggs and egg products, backed by effective customer service and support programs. As the Northwest's leading producer of both organic and cage-free eggs, National Food Corporation continually seeks to strive toward eco-friendly efforts. Our chickens enjoy certified organic feed while nesting in newly remodeled cage-free environments and all of our Naturally Organic eggs come from fully Certified Organic farms.

Before there was a company, there was a drink. Antoine Peychaud, a Creole immigrant, operated a pharmacy on the French Quarter's Royal Street in 1838. With his background as an apothecary, he was a natural mixologist. His friends would gather for late-night revelry at his pharmacy. Peychaud would mix brandy, absinthe and a dash of his secret bitters for his guests. Later this quaff would come to be known as the Sazerac.

Sterling Foods was founded in 1971 and acquired by TGF Management at the end of 2008. TGF is joined by private equity firm Austin Ventures and members of Sterling's management team as part owners. Sterling Foods, LLC company produces a variety of specialty baked goods for national restaurant and supermarket chains, weight-management companies, the US military, and K-12 schools. Its products include gourmet cakes, loaf cakes and muffins, biscuits and bread, and cookies and brownies. Olive Garden and Red Lobster are among its customers; it is also the largest supplier of shelf-stable baked goods to the US Department of Defense.

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.

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