When mothers intone "eat your veggies," it's music to the ears of Harris Moran. Harris Moran Seed Company, a unit of French seed giant cooperative Groupe Limagrain, serves up an array of vegetable seeds for markets in about 65 countries. The company's seeds are destined for fresh-food and processed-food end uses. With operations in the US and Mexico, the company researches, breeds, and wholesales seeds for such mom-pleasers as beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, lettuce, melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, and tomatoes. Harris Moran, which was acquired by Limagrain in 1996, traces its roots back more than 140 years. In 2010 the company acquired Mesa Maize, a sweet corn company in Olathe, Colorado.

Wellness Foods makes its living without the use of artificial flavorings, colorings, or preservatives. Wellness Foods manages a group of businesses that manufacture fresh and healthy breakfast, snack, and drink products for consumers in the UK and Ireland. Its key businesses include Orchard House (fruit juices), Stream Foods (Fruit Bowl brand fruit snacks), Grove Fresh (fruit juices and smoothies), Dorset Cereals (muesli cereal), and Rowse Honey. Wellness Foods which produces its products at facilities located around the UK, sells its products through such major UK grocers as Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison, Tesco, and Waitrose. Wellness Foods is owned by Irish horseracing tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier.

Heinz Canada is a subsidiary of the the US's H. J. Heinz Company. As in the US, the Canadian operation makes Heinz Ketchup for your burger and vegetable sauces for your peas. Its other sauces and condiments include barbecue, chili, Worcestershire, and Heinz 57. As if that weren't enough, the company's offerings include canned beans and salad cream (big favorites in Canada, as well as the UK), tomato juice, and for the little ones among us, baby food, baby cereals, and toddler food.

Glisten Plc is a snack foods group operating at the leading edge of health, nutrition, and premium impulse foods which has grown rapidly since our foundation in June 2002. Glisten serves a wide variety of customers including many high street retailers, major food manufacturers and the foodservice sector but we also export to more than 20 countries worldwide. Based near Leeds, in the north of England, we employ more than 650 people across nine manufacturing sites around the UK. Our original product range centred on chocolate and sugar-based confectionery but we are now at the forefront of the growing consumer demand for healthier snacking including fair-trade, organic, high-fruit, dietary and functional snack-foods. Glisten plc produce and market over 1000 products and own or license some great brands such as Dormens Nuts, Fruitus Organic Cereal Bars, Weight Watchers Savoury Snacks, and SunMaid Fruit Bars and Confectionery. Two of our newest brands are Ultrabody and Skinny Candy.

For over fifty years, the Manfredini family has been cultivating and selling the finest mushrooms available in the industry. Growing quality mushrooms began with my father, Frank, who started a small growing operation in Landenberg, PA, in 1946. In 1948, after my graduation, I followed in my father's footsteps, joining the family business. Originally named "Frank Manfredini and Son", I had a much greater vision, and in the early 1980's, the company was renamed "Manfredini Enterprises Inc". In the early 1990's, we constructed a new office/warehouse facility on the original family homestead. Exciting new lines of produce were added to our full line of mushrooms. Spring mix, spinach, and sprouts are just a few of the items that are now handled and distributed daily along with our mushrooms. In 1997, The Manfredini Team welcomed my son, Dominic J., to the staff to assist in the ever-growing company, adding the third generation of Manfredini's. Today we employ over forty people and continue to expand our product line and distribution range across the United States. Despite all our growth and success, we haven't lost sight of consistently delivering the finest quality and service possible to our customers. We are very proud of our accomplishments, and we believe that Frank would be too.

Good Food, Good Life is the very essence of Nestlé and this philosophy can be traced back to our beginnings. The Nestlé Company was founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé, who developed the first milk-based baby formula in order to save the life of a neighbour’s baby. His Farine Lactée formula went on to nourish many babies who were unable to feed from their mothers or unable to accept the usual substitutes. Since this beginning, nutrition has been the heart of the Nestlé business. At Nestlé, we believe that every food has a role to play in achieving a balanced diet. This is why we produce and market a wide range of foods and beverages which satisfy many consumer needs – nutrient content, variety, pleasure and convenience – which all contribute to achieving a balanced diet and overall well-being. We continue to use our extensive scientific knowledge to develop new products to help consumers manage their health, well-being and body weight and to improve the nutritional profiles of existing products.

Vita Food Products, Inc. engages in the processing and sale of herring, cured, and smoked salmon products and other complementary specialty food products primarily in the United States. The company’s products include pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces, as well as lox and nova salmon. It also provides other specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauces, as well as refrigerated seafood. Vita Food Products markets its seafood products under the Vita, Elf, and Grand Isle brand names. The company, through its subsidiary, Vita Specialty Foods, Inc., manufactures and distributes honey and Vidalia onion-based salad dressings under the Virginia Brand name. In addition, it offers gourmet salad dressings and beverages under the Oak Hill Farms brand name; and hot sauce-based products under the Scorned Woman brand name. Further, the company provides rubs and spices, condiments, dressings, gifts, dessert toppings and syrup, marinades, snacks, tea concentrates, and wing sauces. It offers products through a national distribution network of food brokers to supermarket chains and wholesale clubs, as well as to institutional/food service operations, such as restaurant chains, hotels, country clubs, cruise lines, and other bulk purchasers.

Talk about multi-tasking. The Tennessee Farmers Cooperative (TFC) keeps the cows fat, the bugs away, and the tractors running. Through a system of local co-ops, TFC supplies agricultural necessities, such as animal-health products, feed, fertilizer, outdoor power equipment, seeds, and tires, to some 70,000 Tennessee farmers. TFC's services include finance, credit, public relations, and risk management. It operates about 150 retail outlets, located in more than 80 of Tennessee's 95 counties. The outlets are open to the public, as well as co-op members. TFC partners with Averitt Dedicated Logistics to provide reduced-cost distribution and transportation services to co-op members. TFC was chartered in 1945.

Malee Sampran Public Company Limited was established in 1964. Malee Sampran Public Company makes and distributes canned fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, and other beverages. Canned pineapple and sweet corn, pineapple juice concentrate, and milk are among its most popular product offerings. Malee Sampran primarily sells its products within Thailand but also markets them globally through distributors and directly to customers. Malee Brand foods and juices are sold in more than 20 countries through subsidiary Malee Enterprise.

Starting as a cooperative of agricultural producers, Tnuva has become Israel’s largest food conglomerate. This achievement is the result of successfully implementing major structural changes to meet the demands of the competitive local market and adapting its activities to advanced, global markets. In Jan 2008 Tnuva sold the majority of its shares to APAX Partners (55%) and to Mivtach Shamir Holdings (20%). Tnuva is today ready for any challenge, and is positioned at an excellent launching point for attaining its goals in both local and overseas markets.

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