The family-owned DelGrosso Foods Inc. was founded in 1946 by Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso; the family also operates DelGrosso's Amusement Park adjacent to its sauce facilities in Tipton, Pennsylvania. DelGrosso Foods produces a variety of tomato sauces, including pasta sauce, pizza sauce, and salsa, as well as Italian-style meatballs. Its spaghetti sauce flavors include meat, mushroom, three cheese, and tomato basil. It sells products through grocery retailers under the DelGrosso brand. For upscale markets, it packages sauces under the premium La Famiglia DelGrosso brand. It also makes an organic sauce line and packs private label brands.

Jamaica Producers Group is all things banana. It grows 'em, ripens 'em, packages 'em, and even bottles 'em. (And yes, it owns "banana boats.") The company's products include fresh bananas, banana snacks, and banana-flavored (and other fruit-flavored) juices, all under the Sunjuice label. Its foods group process the fresh produce and makes dried-fruit snack products. The company's produce is exported from its approximately 3,900 acres of Jamaican farmland to customers in the UK, the European continent, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic through its shipping company (the one with the boats; although, really, we should refer to them as state-of-the-art ocean-going steamships).

Well, of course grape growers want to hang out in a bunch! The more than 1,200 grower/owners who belong to the National Grape Cooperative Association harvest purple, red, and white grapes from almost 50,000 acres of vineyards in order to supply its wholly owned subsidiary Welch Foods. Welch's makes and sells juices, jams, and jellies under the Welch's and Bama brands. Other co-op products include fresh eating grapes, which are distributed by C.H. Robinson Worldwide, as well as dried fruit and frozen juice bars. National Grape Cooperative growers maintain vineyards in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Washington, and in Ontario, Canada. In 2009 the co-op sold more than 40,000 tons of grapes.

Thomas Baliker started Spartan Foods of America, Inc. in 1987, naming the Mama Mary product line after his mother, Mary. Private equity firm Linsalata Capital Partners owns SFA. Spartan Foods of America company owns the famous Mystic Pizza pizzeria in Mystic, Connecticut. It also distributes a line of frozen pizzas under the Mystic Pizza brand to stores throughout the New England area. In addition, SFA makes and sells pizza crusts, refrigerated pancakes, packaged pepperoni slices, and pizza sauces under the Mama Mary's brand name. Mama Mary's products are distributed in some 20,000 retail supermarkets nationwide, as well as to foodservice and private-label customers.

American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

While some might be green with envy, Grower's Express is green with veggies. Growing some 40 different crops, its primary offerings include asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, green onions, iceberg lettuce, and strawberries. Headquartered in California's Salinas Valley, the group also has fields in Arizona, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as in Mexico so that its crops can be grown year round. The company purchased the licensing rights from General Mills for the Green Giant Fresh brand in 2009. In addition to Green Giant, the grower also packs under the Western Express, Capurro, and Topless labels.

Smithfield Foods is a global food company that goes above and beyond to provide good food in a responsible manner. We remain 100 percent committed to environmental leadership, community involvement, employee safety, animal welfare and high-quality food.When Smithfield Foods waddles up to the trough, the other porkers stand back. Fat from acquisitions, the company is the world's largest hog producer and pork processor. Its products include fresh pork and processed, value-added pork products sold under the Armour, Cook's, John Morrell, Lykes, Patrick Cudahy, and Roegelein, and Cumberland Gap names. Smithfield distributes its meats in the US and internationally, mainly in Mexico, Western Europe, the UK, Poland, Romania, and China. In addition to pork, the company produces turkey and turkey products through its Armour-Eckrich operations and its 49% stake in the largest US turkey producer Butterball.

First Milk is the largest dairy farmer-owned business in the UK. Our members’ farms stretch from Central Scotland to the South of England and from West Wales to East Anglia. We handle 1.6 billion litres of milk every year and are the UK's Cheddar specialists. We also supply a range of customers with innovative dairy ingredients products.

You want proof? The people at Bacardi Global Brands will pour it out for you -- from a bottle. One of the world's leading wine and spirits makers, Bacardi produces 10 varieties of its namesake rum (of which it sells some 20 million cases every year). However, rum is not the only potable offered by Bacardi. The company's portfolio consists of more than 200 brands and labels, including Bombay Sapphire Gin, Martini Vermouth, Dewar's Scotch Whisky, B&B and Bandictine liqueurs, and Grey Goose Vodka. Other types of spirits in its portfolio include tequila, vermouth, cognac, and sparkling wine. Serving more than 100 countries, the company operates 27 production sites around the world.

Lovers of premium scotch whisky might want to raise a glass to Glenmorangie's "Sixteen Men of Tain." The sixteen craftsman employed in the company's distillery in the village of Tain make the company's single-malt whiskies. The company sold the Glen Moray distillery and brand in 2008 as part of a reorganization plan which has the company paring down to its two international single malt Scotch whiskey brands, Glenmrangie and Ardberg. The company also owns and operates the upscale inn/resort, Glenmorangie House. The distiller traces its roots to the Macdonald and Muir company, which was founded in 1893. The company sells its whiskey worldwide. Louis Vuitton Mot Hennessy (LVMH) purchased Glenmorangie in 2005.

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