Where's the beef? It's in Argentina -- at Cresud, one of Argentina's largest agricultural companies. It raises beef and dairy cattle and cultivates grains, including corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat. Cresud, an agricultural REIT (real estate investment trust), is also one of Argentina's largest landowners (some 330,000 hectares). In addition, the company farms and ranches on leased lands. Cresud is in partnership with Tyson Foods and Cactus Feeders of Texas to raise cattle in feedlots. It also has a 70% holding in the agricultural Web portal, fyo.com.

Golden Enterprises, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc., provides packaged food products principally in the United States. It manufactures and distributes a line of salted snack items, such as potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, fried pork skins, baked and fried cheese curls, onion rings, and puff corn. The company also markets a line of cakes and cookie items, canned dips, pretzels, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, dried meat products, and nuts packaged by other manufacturers under the Golden Flake label. It sells its products through its sales organization and independent distributors to commercial establishments, which markets its food products in Alabama and in parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. The company was formerly known as Golden Flake, Inc. and changed its name to Golden Enterprises, Inc. in January 1977. Golden Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Superior Foods strives to make, distribute, and market a superior quality of frozen foods. Its products include vegetables, fruits, herbs, specialty potato products (think french fries), herbs and spices, and semi-prepared foods. The company serves customers in the retail food, industrial food, and foodservice sectors. Superior Foods purchased Birds Eye Foods' blending and packaging facility in Texas in 2004, where it processes products for private-label customers. Superior company has manufacturing operations in Asia, Central, South, and North America, as well as in Europe.

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leading food processor and distributor with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products, and with net sales exceeding $1.5 billion.At Michael Foods, our customers' wants and needs serve as a foundation for all we do. We have become a leader in the food industry by introducing innovative, value-added food technology and customer solutions.Our brands, Papetti's®, Crystal Farms®, AllWhites®, and Simply Potatoes® to name a few, are recognized and valued by customers and consumers across the nation.

Jennie-O Turkey Store is gobbling up profits in the turkey-processing marketplace. A Hormel subsidiary since 1986, Jennie-O processes more than 1 billion pounds of turkey annually for the production of fresh, frozen, refrigerated, and deli products. Answering the convenience-food call, it also offers heat-and-serve turkey entrees named SO EASY. Jennie-O also offers a full line of foodservice products. The company's more than 1,500 different turkey products are available throughout the US, as well as in other countries. It accounted for 19% of its parent's 2008 sales. The company was formed in 2001 as a result of the merger of Jennie-O Foods and The Turkey Store Company.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

Roquette Frères S.A. produces and sells starch and starch derivatives for customers and industries in France and internationally. It transforms renewable resources corn, wheat, potatoes, and peas into a line of ingredients for a range of food and non-food industries. The company offers starch products, sugars and dietary fibers, organic acids and their salts, polyols, bioethanol, and derivatives of fermentation and fine chemistry products, as well as fibers, oils, and soluble products. The company also provides raw materials and excipients that are used in various pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications, including cyclodextrins; paper corrugating adhesives for adhesives, corrugated board, fine papers, packaging board, and publication paper applications; a range of nutritional and functional animal feed ingredients for calf, dog, cat, fish, shrimp, horse, pig, piglet, poultry, and ruminant; and intermediary products that are used to modify or enhance the manufacture of final products. Its products used in the food, halal food, beverage, and health food industries.

Cheri's Desert Harvest was founded in 1985 by Cheri Romanoski. Preserving fresh fruits and vegetables began as a home-spun hobby which has blossomed into a national and international venture. Cheri began her business by preserving various fruits grown on her property and giving them to family and neighbors. Soon the neighbors began sending over unusual fruit grown on their own property for Cheri to preserve for them. Payment for this favor came in the way of special homemade goodies made from their own kitchens. As a result, Cheri soon learned how to make many different varieties of preserves, some of which she still continues to make for her own business today. Her line now has expanded to include specialty honeys, syrups, candy and bread mixes as well as jellies and marmalades.

KT's Kitchens, Inc., established in 1987, is a frozen pizza manufacturer specializing in private label and contract packing. KT's Kitchens 120,000 sq ft. facility enables us to produce a wide range of pizza products with a multitude of toppings crust types, and packaging capabilities. KT's Kitchens bakery specializes in high end, hand stretched crusts. However, a wide range of crusts are available. As a co-packer KT's Kitchens customers include some of the largest food companies and brands in the US.KT's Kitchens also have organic capability specializing in production and sourcing. KT's Kitchens also produces the Bob's Big Boy refrigerated salad dressing line which has a strong retail presence in 5 Western states. KT's Kitchens flavors include Bleu Cheese, Lite Bleu Cheese, Roquefort, Ranch, Thousand Island, and Seafood Sauce and Tartar Sauce.

Salvatore Ferrara came to America from Nola, Italy in 1900 and founded Ferrara Pan Candy Company in 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of his immigration from Italy, Mr. Ferrara was skilled in the art of making Italian pastries and sugar coated candy almonds. Sugar coated candy almonds, otherwise known as "confetti", continues to be a tradition at Italian weddings. Salvatore Ferrara had become proficient in the English language. Since he was fluent in both English and Italian the Santa Fe Railroad hired him as an interpreter between crews and their foreman. He worked at the Santa Fe Railroad for four years. In 1908 he came to Chicago and opened a retail pastry and confection shop. From 1908 to 1919 the sugar coated almond business experienced substantial growth and Mr. Ferrara was shipping to an extensive market in the Midwest.

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