Cal Citrus Packing Company traces its origin back to 1958 when H.A. Luallen founded Luallen Soil Service and began purchasing an initial base of investor ranches, which soon grew to 1,500 acres. The company continued to grow and by 1969 the next logical step was to purchase a packing house, thereby establishing Cal Citrus Packing Company. This original packing house is now known as the “East” house and is located along the railroad tracks on Valencia Street in Lindsay, Ca.Cal Citrus Packing Company has a grower base of approximately 4,000 acres and packs and ships an average of 2.5 million cartons of fresh citrus yearly. The company maintains an employee base of 150 to 200 local people, many of whom have been with the company since the beginning, and share their vast experience with the sharp new team members hired to meet the demands of today’s business technology. Cal Citrus is proud of its Central California “Lindsay Citrus Belt” heritage and is committed to maintaining our reputation of quality and integrity.

Located in Lubbock, Texas, Llano Estacado Winery is one of the largest wineries in the state, it has the capacity to produce 120,000 cases of white, red, and dessert wines a year. Founded in 1976, the winery sits on the high plains of west Texas. It owns two vineyards -- Home Estate (three acres) and Mont Sec (100 acres). It also buys grapes from other high-plains growers with which it is associated. VP Greg Bruni, who has been the company's winemaker since 1993, operates an experimental vineyard at Llano Estacado aimed at increasing the quality of the vineyards' grapes. Bruni shares the results of his experiments with the winery's associated growers. Llano Estacado wines have been served at the White House.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

Perfetti Van Melle S.p.A. internationally known brands include Alpenliebe, Daygum, Golia, Happydent, Mentos (the Freshmaker!), and Vivident, as well as the Airheads brand of candy in the US. In 2006 it acquired Spanish candy company Chupa Chups. Founded by brothers Ambrogio and Egidio Perfetti in 1946, Perfetti now has some 30 manufacturing sites and sells its products in more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the US.

Societe Internationale de Plantation d'Heveas (SIPH) never gets "tired" of rubber. The company owns rubber plantations in West Africa and supplies Michelin (which owns 20% of the company) with natural rubber to make tires. SIPH owns about 125,000 acres of plantation land mostly in Ivory Coast, but also in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. However, about half of the 128,000 tons of rubber it produces comes from independent planters in those countries. SIPH also owns eight production sites in West Africa to market the rubber latex for export to Europe. The French/African agribusiness firm SIFCA Group owns more than 55% of the company.

Gelatin may not seem like a very stable base, but it's the foundation of HARIBO's best-loved goodie, the gummi bear. HARIBO's Gold-Bear candies begat a myriad of chewy shapes and made it Europe's largest confectioner. In addition to its HARIBO gummi and licorice treats, the company's brands include Maoam (fruit candies), Dulcia (marshmallow confections), Bären-Schmidt brand spruchherzen (cookies decorated with icing messages), and, under license, PEZ (and its famous dispensers). Acquisitions of smaller confectioners have spread the company's manufacturing base across Europe; it exports to more than 100 countries around the globe.

Nutrition Management Services Company was founded in 1979 and is based in Kimberton, Pennsylvania. Nutrition Management Services Company provides food, facilities operations, and housekeeping management services to continuing care facilities, hospitals, retirement communities, and schools. Its services include the management and supervision of the dietary, facilities, and housekeeping operations in customers facilities through the use of on-site management staff, and quality and cost-control programs; and training and education of dietary staff. Nutrition Management Services company focuses on the continuing care and health-care segments of the food service market. In addition, Nutrition Management Services Company, through its subsidiary, Apple Management Services Company, offers management service expertise.

Bush Brothers & Company's success is proof that well-spent ad money makes a difference -- even when you're up against the bean "big boys" (think Campbell's baked beans, or Heinz, Van Camp's, or B&M). Not deterred, however, Bush Brothers cans one of the leading US brands of baked beans, Bush's Best, which is made from a family recipe and first sold in 1969. The company also cans variety beans (black, garbanzos, pintos, refried), chili, greens, and hominy, all of which are sold in retail food outlets and to foodservice operators across the US. Company spokesbrother Jay Bush and his "talking" dog, Duke, are the stars of the company's popular TV commercials (which the man-and-his-dog duo started doing in 1995).

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.

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