Otis Spunkmeyer puts the spunk back in languishing cookie-lovers. Otis Spunkmeyer company, the #1 manufacturer of frozen cookie dough in the US, also makes prebaked and packaged cookies, as well as sweet breads, coffee cakes, muffins, bagels, pastries, and brownies. Otis Spunkmeyer delivers its products to convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, and foodservice distributors throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. It sells its cookie products to colleges and universities, drug stores, fundraising programs, healthcare facilities, mass merchandisers, the military, school cafeterias, and vending-machine operators. Otis Spunkmeyer is owned by European specialty bakery firm ARYZTA.

Newman's Own started as a joke among friends -- and the fun has spread to grocery aisles, refrigerators, pantries, and dining tables. The late Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman's namesake company is best known for salad dressing. However, it makes more than 100 different food products, including lemonade, wine, pasta sauce, marinades, microwave popcorn, salsa, and steak sauce. Manufactured using natural ingredients, Newman's Own foods are sold in the US and abroad at major food retailers. All after-tax profits (more than $280 million since 1982) are donated to charities, including Habitat for Humanity.

Despite what your toddler says at bedtime, good things do come out of the dark. Franklin Organic Mushrooms, which does business as Franklin Farms, has sprouted into one of the top growers and harvester of certified organic mushrooms in the US. The company's mushroom crop, grown completely without pesticides, includes agaricus (white "button" mushrooms), portabella, shiitake, crimini, oyster, enoki, beech, and maitake. It also produces meat-alternative vegetarian products made from soy and mushrooms, including Veggiburgers, Veggiballs, Veggidogs, and Chick'n Nuggets. The company was founded in 1983.

Established in 1989 by partners Tom Russell and Dave Johnson, Pacific International Marketing (Pacific) continues today as an employee-owned company. This means virtually all the key sales people and management personnel are also owners of Pacific and take great pride in the way your business is handled and are eager to work with you to help develop new business prospects. Pacific International Marketing is involved in the growing, packing and shipping of more than 100 different commodities. Assuring a year-round supply of fresh fruits and vegetables, Pacific ships over 20 million packages per year from the Western United States and Mexico. Pacific has a very diverse line of organic and conventional value-added products. These products are designed to be cost efficient, cut waste, and provide the end user with fresh vegetables in a convenient and efficient form. These items are processed at company owned facilities located in several growing regions to ensure maximum freshness and shelf life year round. The facilities are inspected by an independent third party, American Institute of Baking (AIB) and are consistently rated in the top percentile for cleanliness and food safety. The organic value-added facilities are also inspected by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). CCOF is the largest U.S. state based organization of organic interests in the nation requiring its members to adhere to a stringent set of principles and insuring the integrity of organic products.

Founded in 1790, King Arthur Flour claims it is the oldest flour company in the US. The King Arthur Flour Company is 100% employee owned. The King Arthur Flour Company is doing its best to make its sales rise. King Arthur sells its all-natural flours to retailers, bakeries, and foodservice companies nationwide. It also sells its flours, baking ingredients, and equipment at its retail store in Norwich, Vermont; through its website; and its catalogs. To drum up confident new customers, the company sends baking instructors across the US to teach classes and runs a baking school at its Vermont headquarters.

Corby Distilleries Limited is a leading Canadian manufacturer and marketer of spirits and imported wines.Corby's portfolio of owned-brands includes some of the most renowned brands in Canada, including Wiser’s Canadian whiskies, Lamb’s rum, Polar Ice vodka and McGuinness liqueurs. Through its affiliation with Pernod Ricard S.A., Corby also represents leading international brands such as ABSOLUT vodka, Chivas Regal, The Glenlivet and Ballantine’s scotches, Jameson Irish whiskey, Beefeater gin, Malibu rum, Kahlúa liqueur, Mumm champagne, and Jacob’s Creek and Wyndham Estate wines.Corby has approximately a 25 percent share of spirit sales in Canada, representing over 4,000,000 cases of spirits sold annually. Corby owns or represents 8 of the 25 top-selling spirit brands in Canada, and 16 of the top 50. Our affiliation with Pernod Ricard S.A., provides us with global reach to complement our strong local roots in the Canadian marketplace. Additionally, with volume of approximately 700,000 cases, Corby is also a leading importer of wines.Leveraging our portfolio of excellence across Canada is a national sales force in excess of 100 seasoned professionals supported by an experienced management team located at the Head Office in Toronto, Ontario and production teams located at facilities in Montreal, Québec and Windsor, Ontario. While Corby’s sales remain predominantly Canadian, Corby products are also exported for sale to the United States, Europe and other international markets.

The PepsiCo challenge (to keep up with archrival The Coca-Cola Company) never ends for the world's #2 carbonated soft-drink maker. Its soft drinks include Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Mug. Cola is not the company's only beverage: Pepsi sells Tropicana orange juice brands, Gatorade sports drink, SoBe tea, and Aquafina water. The company also owns Frito-Lay, the world's #1 snack maker with offerings such (Lay's, Ruffles Doritos, Fritos). Its Quaker Foods unit offers breakfast cereals (Life, Quaker Oats), rice (Rice-A-Roni), and side dishes (Near East). Pepsi's products are available in some 200 countries. In 2010 the company acquired its two largest bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas.

Virgin Drinks Group Ltd. has gone beyond colas to make and distribute energy drinks, tea, flavored colas, vodka and other alcoholic beverages. Although the company has scaled back its US offerings, it sells its drinks throughout the world. Virgin Drinks brewed up more business with the launch of Virgin Th�, the company's tea brand, in France in 1996. Virgin Th� is now also distributed in Switzerland and Italy. Virgin Colours offers colas in twelve fruity flavors.Young upstart Virgin Drinks wants to take some of the fizz out of soft-drink venerables Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Having first launched operations as Virgin Cola in 1994.

Chelan Fresh Marketing was established in August 2004 as a result of mergers and acquisitions and holds the sales and marketing responsibilities for Gebbers Farms and Chelan Fruit Cooperative.Today, Chelan Fresh has grown to become one of Washington state's largest marketers of fresh fruit with an estimated annual sale of ten million boxes of apples, one million pears, two million cherries, and 350 thousand boxes of stone fruit. Through volume and diversity of product offerings, Chelan Fresh continues to effectively provide quality fruit, outstanding levels of service and appropriate technology that results in consistency every day of the year at competitive prices to retailers and consumers. While serving as the link between the growers and the retailers to move fresh fruit; Chelan Fresh Marketing provides the vehicle for 419 plus growers to market their fresh products under one roof.As a result of the original merger, Chelan Fresh Marketing, shares roots with the oldest operating apple businesses in Washington State part of Gebbers Farms 4000 acre orchard near Brewster, WA.

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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