Graceland Fruit, Inc. was founded in 1973 by president and CEO Donald Nugent. Graceland Fruit makes dried, refrigerated, and frozen fruit and vegetable ingredients for the food-manufacturing industry. Its product lines include infused dried fruit, infused dried vegetables, Soft-N-Frozen fruit, and Fridg-N-Fresh vegetables. Graceland Fruit has also expanded into the fruit juice concentrate industry through a partnership with Milne Fruit Products.

There's quite a larder up in this TreeHouse. The company is one of the US's largest producers of private-label and branded pickles (Farmans, Nalley's, Peter Piper, and Steinfeld). Pickle sales accounted for 20% of TreeHouse Foods' 2009 sales. Its non-dairy creamers (Cremora and Mocha Mix) are also top sellers, ringing up about 22% of sales in 2009. But its big 2009 seller (by a mere 1%) was its soup (mostly private label) and infant feeding segment (Nature's Goodness and private label). The company also manufactures aseptic (shelf-stable) and refrigerated foods, including cheese sauces, marinades, condiments, jams, puddings, and the branded liquid egg substitute, Second Nature.

The parent company of the maxingvest Group is maxingvest ag, which comprises asset management subsidiaries in addition to its two operating sub-groups: Tchibo and Beiersdorf. This combination provides the maxingvest Group with a stable portfolio, which is managed and developed in line with a longterm strategy. As a management holding, maxingvest guides its subsidiaries on the strategic level. With the Corporate Treasury, Corporate Controlling, Legal, Internal Audit and Tax departments, it assumes the central management functions for the Group as defined by good corporate governance. In addition, it deals with all matters relating to the strategic further development of the Group portfolio in close cooperation with the Group's operating sub-groups. The sub-groups within the maxingvest ag each have their own websites. You will find comprehensive information on brands, business areas and history at the following URLs.

The Hain Celestial Group serves up guiltless eating. It sells specialty foods and beverages (coffee and tea) in the kosher, low-cal, sugar-free and low-salt, natural and organic, snack, and weight-management categories. The company's products are mainstays in natural foods stores and are increasingly available in mainstream supermarkets; club, mass-market, and drug stores; and through foodservice channels. Hain is also a player in the personal care products sector, offering disposable diapers and shampoo; its JASON Natural Products makes grooming products for adults, such as skin- and hair-care items. Hain's products are sold throughout the US and in some 50 other countries.

Battle Creek Farmers Coop N/S, is a locally owned farm supply and marketing cooperative. It was established in Battle Creek, Nebraska as a Creamery in 1929. Today the company is controlled by approximately 900 agricultural producers throughout a 10 county area in Northeast Nebraska. A base of approximately 5200 customers indicates a strong presence in the area.Facilities include two sites in Battle Creek, Pierce, Plainview, Bloomfield, Osmond, Ewing, Neligh, Oakdale, Orchard, Newman Grove, and Madison. There are approximately 100 full-time and part-time employees. Despite the wide range of facilities, the company maintains local pride in each facility. Customers are assured that their location manager has the tools and authority to exceed expected customer satisfaction. The company has primarily 5 business units: Grain, Feed, Agronomy, Energy, and Transportation.

At one point, Swedish confectioner Cloetta and Finnish confectioner Fazer went together like chocolate and peanut butter. The two companies melted into Cloetta Fazer for eight years until 2008, when the relationship went sour and they broke back into separate entities. Now Cloetta is once again on its own, producing some 20,000 tons of chocolate and candy per year from its two production plants in Sweden. Its products are only sold in the Nordic countries; however, Cloetta buys cocoa exclusively from the Ivory Coast. As part of the demerger settlement with Fazer, Cloetta kept Sweden's third-largest throat-lozenge and lollipop manufacturer, Karamellpojkarna.

Since its foundation in Doncaster in 1926, the PDM Group (Prosper De Mulder Ltd.) has grown to become the UK's largest food chain by-product recycler.Today, the family-run business has evolved to offer the UK's food industry integrated food chain recycling services.PDM provides nationwide collections to every part of the food chain - from farm gate to dinner place. PDM prides itself on being the only company in the UK to be able to offer a complete portfolio of solutions for food waste recycling.

Banfi is a private concern, founded in New York in 1919 by John Mariani, Sr. and today owned and operated by his grandchildren. The company is focused on the production and import of wine.Banfi Vintners is the sole U.S. importer of the Mariani family’s internationally renowned wine estates in Italy: Castello Banfi of Montalcino, Tuscany, and Vigne Regali Cellars of Strevi, Piedmont. Banfi also imports the wines of several other producers, including category leaders Bolla, Cecchi, Florio, Fontana Candida, Placido, Riunite, and Sartori from Italy, Concha y Toro and Emiliana from Chile, and Trivento from Argentina, Wisdom & Warter Sherries from Spain and Stone's Ginger wine from England. The company has ranked as North America’s leading wine importer for more than three decades.

Arrogant Bastard Ale headlines a family of microbrews that are sold in some 30 US states. In addition to its own brands the California company distributes the beers of more than 20 other craft breweries. Stone Brewing was founded in 1996 and produces about 100,000 barrels of beer a year. The brewery also operates an onsite restaurant, which features 32 craft and specialty beers on tap. It is considering starting brewing operations in Europe.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

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