The Real Good Food Company has made a successful meal out of what larger food companies pushed off their plates. The Real Good Food company has been built up by the acquisition of smaller manufacturers that belonged to high-end convenience food makers who sold them off since they were no longer considered "core operations" -- some six since 2003. It's been a sweet tasty ride. Real Good Food's sugar products are made by subsidiary Renshawnapier. Its baking ingredients operations are under the purview of its Haydens Bakeries subsidiary, which makes yeast-dough products. Real Good's large retail customers include Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.

Holten Meat pleases palates with its beef (including certified Angus), veal, and pork products. The company manufactures and distributes processed meat items, including steaks, patties, ribs, and breaded cuts, to foodservice institutions and retail food purveyors throughout the US. Its brand names include Thick 'N Juicy and Healthy Answers. It also offers custom cut services. Operating a 85,000-square-foot processing facility in the heart of St. Louis, Holten Meat is owned and managed by the Holten family. It was founded by Elwyn "Red" Holten in 1960.

Riviana Foods puts woks to work in the US. With its Carolina, Riceland, Mahatma, and Success brands, the company is one of the largest sellers of rice, and, the seller of many of the country's most well-known rice brands. Its offerings include wild, long-grain, short-grain, parboiled, and boil-in-a-bag rices. In addition to manufacturing rice products for consumers, Riviana Foods company also supplies foodservice and industrial customers throughout the world. Its industrial ingredients include white and brown rice flour, broken rice, and rice hulls. Riviana Foods company is a subsidiary of Spanish company, Ebro Puleva.

Amy Sinaiko started Eat Your Heart Out! in 1999. Eat Your Heart Out! makes a line of freeze-dried fruit and vegetable snack foods, including apple cinnamon wedges, peach wedges with mango, and sweet and sour green soybeans. Eat Your Heart Out! company sells its products through health food stores and supermarkets in select markets around the country, as well as through its own online store.

Japanese enthusiasm for sweets has put Ezaki Glico in a sweet situation. Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. manufactures candy, cookies, ice cream treats, sherbet, and puddings for those sweet of tooth. It also produces value-added curries, stews, and convenience foods such as rice-based meals, processed meat, and snack foods. Its other products include baby formula, baby food, health foods and health supplements, and food ingredients for other manufacturers. Ezaki Glico's confections, for which it is best known, include its flagship Pocky and Pretz chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and biscuits and its Giant Cone ice cream snack.

President Bob Moore and his wife, Charlee, founded Bob's Red Mill in 1978; fulfilling Moore's original intent to share his success with his employees, it became employee-owned in 2010. No changes to the company's staff or operations were made. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company stone grinds whole grains into bread mixes, cereals, natural and organic flour, and pancake and waffle mixes. Its 400-plus products are sold at grocery stores throughout the US and Canada; it also sells bulk mixes to large-scale food-manufacturing customers. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company operates a visitor's center, store, and bakery/cafe in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Pacific Choice Brands has been owned by its officers since 1980. Pacific Choice Brands knows how to round out a meal. At its certified kosher and organic facilities, Pacific Choice Brands company offers contract packaging for a variety of food products, including condiments such as maraschino cherries, garlic, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, grape leaves, peppers, olives, salsa, salad dressings, and pasta and barbecue sauces. Pacific Choice Brands company also provides other food processors with custom support services such as new product development, reformulation or existing products, technical and nutritional assistance, plant production trials, raw material sourcing, product labeling and wrapping, and warehousing and shipping.

Ford Gum & Machine Company, Inc. makes and markets gumballs and gumball dispensers in classic and modern styles under the Carousel brand name. It also sells chewing gum and hard candy under brand names including Chunk-A-Chew and Yowser!! Ford Gum & Machine sells its chewy confections through product distributors, retail outlets, and its Web site, as well as bulk to vending companies. Ford Gum & Machine Company, Inc. also offers made-to-order and private-label manufacturing services. Entrepreneur and former roofing salesman, Ford Mason, founded the company in 1913.

Founded in 1975 by Mary Micucci, Along Came Mary is now in its fourth decade of producing and catering events. We offer a full-range of complete event planning and catering services.ACM has been widely recognized as the architect of a groundbreaking style of event production that has revolutionized the field. The company has developed the concepts for Hollywood's most celebrated events and established new and innovative production and culinary standards in an industry known for its trendsetting. Mary and company is frequently credited as having set the standard for the modern movie premiere. In 1980, when she produced her first premiere party for Paramount’s “Popeye,” Mary didn’t realize she’d be setting a precedent for a $20 billion-a-year “party planning” industry. Today, ACM’s influence on event planners worldwide is seen by incorporating gourmet cuisine with sights, sounds and textures into a feast for the senses. Our nearly 35 year tenure producing and catering high-profile events provides ACM with unparalleled experience. We have had the pleasure of serving Presidents Carter, Clinton and G. W. Bush. We have produced over several hundred movie premieres and almost every award show held in L.A. including the Emmy’s, Grammy’s, SAG Awards, Kids’ Choice Awards, Spirit Awards, Cable ACE Awards, MTV Movie Awards and VH1 Honors. Additionally, we have produced countless fundraisers and galas; events for Fortune 500 clients such as GM, Ford, and Google, along with luxury goods companies, such as Dom Pérignon, Cartier, Neiman Marcus and nearly every company on Rodeo Drive. Among our private clients for which we maintain an extremely high level of confidentiality are some of the most powerful and recognized people in the world.

Sanimax is North America’s leading BioReturn™ company. From our 15 locations in Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, we serve customers across the continent and around the globe.BioReturn™ is in our blood. It’s something we’ve been doing since 1881, when the Green Bay Soap Company first set up shop, transforming unwanted tallow into an essential household product.The Sanimax brand itself was born in 2005, thanks to the merger of three major industry players. By bringing together the regional expertise of Quebec-based Sanimal, the Wisconsin-based Anamax Group, and Ontario-based bi-pro marketing limited, we established an enterprise that is truly borderless.

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