Frieda Caplan started the family-owned Frieda's, Inc. in 1962. Frieda's is a leading supplier of fresh specialty produce that serves supermarkets, foodservice customers, and wholesale distributors throughout the US. It distributes a wide variety of gourmet and ethnic produce, including black garlic, bok choy, cactus pads, and edible flowers. Other products include dried fruits and vegetables, onions, potatoes, and squash. Known for its commitment to quality products, the company sources its fresh produce primarily from a network of small growers.

SK Food Group company makes sandwiches, wraps, hoagies, subs, panini, burgers, and a breakfast sandwich that looks very much like an Egg McMuffin (made by the Golden Arches folks) which SK sells under the Oven Pride label. Its products, which are aimed at busy consumers, are sold to big box retail operations, conveniences stores, and vending machines. SK Food company also offers custom private-label products for restaurants, eatery franchises, and high-end food retailers. Headquartered in Seattle, its production facilities are located in Reno, Nevada.

The folks at Sunrise Growers are up long before the sun rises, hand-picking fresh strawberries from the fields. The company, which also raises, processes, and supplies fresh red bell peppers, markets and ships its produce throughout the US, as well as to Pacific Rim countries. Sunrise serves customers in the retail food, food manufacturing, and foodservice industries. The company's sister business, Frozsun Foods, processes part of Sunrise's crop, some of which it combines with other fruits, into frozen packs, toppings, purees, juicestock, and other beverage bases.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably because Seara Alimentos packed it up and shipped it there. One of Brazil's largest meat processors, Seara Alimentos produces frozen, refrigerated, pre-cooked, and processed chicken and pork for the worldwide retail and wholesale food and foodservice markets. Its products include whole chickens, chicken cuts, sausage, pork smoked ham, cold cuts, salami, hot dogs, and frozen entrees. Founded in 1956, the company also operates a port terminal that has refrigerated-meat warehousing capacity. The US's Cargill, which had owned Seara since 2005, sold it to the large Brazilian beef processor, Marfrig, in 2010 for $900 in cash and debt assumption.

M.P. Evans Group PLC (incorporated in England & Wales) is listed on AIM. The Group's assets consist of oil-palm plantations (both majority and minority held) in Indonesia and Malaysia, the latter with property-development value, and beef-cattle interests in Australia. It is the board's intention to increase its total Indonesian areas under oil palm to some 70,000 hectares of environmentally-sustainable oil palm. This, in turn, will ultimately lead to an increase in the Group's equivalent annual palm-oil production from the current 60,000 tonnes to around 400,000 tonnes. Demand for palm oil is strong in its traditional use as a food, and additionally as a feedstock for the bio-fuel industry. In addition to the expansion in Indonesia, the board's policy is to expand the Group's Australian beef-cattle interests so that, ultimately, approximately 70% of the Group's assets will be in Indonesian oil-palm plantations and 30% in Australian beef cattle.

Icelandic UK company imports seafood to the UK from producers in the chilly northern waters of the Faroe Islands, Russia, Norway, Canada, and China. Frozen-at-sea fish, including cod, redfish, and haddock, are processed into fillets on board immediately after being caught for the trip to market. Icelandic UK supplies foodservice wholesalers, mainly local fish-and-chip shops. Launched in 1998, Icelandic UK also imports fish fillets, whole fish, crabsticks, warm-water prawns, and other seafood products under the Icelandic and other brand names. Icelandic UK, Ltd. is a subsidiary of the Icelandic Group.

Hardie's was established in 1943 by the father of the owner, chairman and CEO of the company, David Hardie. For 67 years, Hardie’s has provided fresh fruits and vegetables to foodservice and retail businesses in Texas and Louisiana. Hardie’s Fruit & Vegetable is headquartered in the Dallas Metroplex area with additional facilities located in Austin, San Antonio and McAllen, Texas. With a fleet of 78 trucks making 5,000 deliveries per week, covering a 600 mile swath of territory, Hardie’s is dedicated to exceeding the customer’s expectations each time an order is placed. To serve Hardie's Fruit & Vegetable customer's needs with the highest quality products and best service possible while exceeding the standards of business integrity that people have grown to expect from us.

The name Ocean Spray is probably a familiar name to you. After all, we've been around for over 75 years now. We're an agricultural cooperative, meaning we're owned by large group of cranberry growers throughout North America. As of right now there are about 600 of us. Not to mention 50 Florida grapefruit growers. And, to think it all started more than 75 years ago by three farmers from Massachusetts and New Jersey.

DeLoach Vineyards pioneered Pinot Noir wine growing in the Russian River Valley when Cecil DeLoach, a firefighter from San Francisco with a passion for winemaking, first planted the grape in 1973. In 2003, DeLoach Vineyards was purchased by the Boisset Family from Burgundy, France, when Jean-Charles Boisset fell in love with the Russian River Valley on his first visit to the area, immediately recognizing the similarities between Sonoma County and Burgundy: each boast a confluence of river, mountains, and soil that is perfect for growing world-class Pinot Noir. A recognized authority on biodynamic, organic, and sustainable winemaking, the Boisset Family had been using these eco-friendly practices in their estate vineyards in Burgundy and understood the positive effects they had on the health of the land and the quality of the wine. In 2004 the family brought that vision here to DeLoach Vineyards. Showing our dedication to the environment, we tore up award-winning, highly-lauded vineyards after the 2004 vintage and replanted with cover crops designed to revitalize the soil. New vines were planted in 2006, and the first vintage grown with biodynamic farming techniques will be the eagerly-awaited 2010 vintage. In the meantime, we continue to produce world-class wine by partnering with winegrowers who are equally dedicated to and passionate about eco-friendly farming practices and the production of high-quality wines of distinction.

If it seems that Bossie is belching, Porky is pooped, or Mary's little lamb is languishing, ECO Animal Health makes products that can help. The UK company makes and markets generic and patented pharmaceuticals (such as its own Aivlosin brand) for animals, mainly livestock and farm animals. It has operations in Brazil, China, Japan, South Africa, the UK, and the US. About 25% of sales are generated in Europe, with the balance coming from outside markets. Schroder Investment Management and executive chairman Peter Lawrence and his family each own about 20% of the company; Prudential plc owns 15%.

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