Think of Tyson Foods as a 600-pound chicken with a bullish attitude. One of the largest US chicken producers, Tyson's Fresh Meats division makes it a giant in the beef and pork sectors as well. In addition to fresh meats, the company offers value-added processed and pre-cooked meats, and refrigerated and frozen prepared foods. Its chicken operations are vertically integrated -- the company hatches the eggs, supplies contract growers with the chicks and feed, and brings them back for processing when ready. Tyson processes 41 million chickens, 393,000 head of pork, and 139,000 head of beef every week. Its customers include retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers in the US and more than 90 other countries.

Merisant Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of sugar substitute sweeteners for the consumer food market. It markets low-calorie tabletop sweeteners, including products sweetened with aspartame primarily under the Equal and Canderel brand names in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s other brands include Sweet Simplicity, SweetMate, EqualSweet, Mivida, Misura, Sucaryl, and Chuker. Merisant sells its products through the food retail, mass merchandising, pharmacy, and food service channels, as well as through its broker/distributor agents or its own direct sales force.

Great Kitchens company is one of North America's largest private-label manufacturers and distributors of frozen deli pizzas and appetizers. Its pizzas are prepared fresh and then frozen for sale to major US grocery retailers, who resell the products under their own brands usually in their deli or prepared foods sections. Customers include grocery chains, club stores, and foodservice distributors, such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Trader Joe's. Meatballs, mini quesadillas, potato skins, and stuffed jalapeno peppers round out its menu offerings. The Swiss baked goods supplier ARYZTA AG acquired Great Kitchens from former owner Arbor Investments in 2010.

The drive-up self-serve vendor of drinking water operates about 1,200 corporate and franchised locations. The 42-square-foot vendor units are located in retail parking lots in about ten US states, including California, Florida, Ohio, and Texas. Customers supply their own containers in one, three, and five gallon quantities and fill them up for an average price of 35 cents per gallon. Watermill Express was founded in 1984 by a couple in Brighton, Colorado who were unsatisfied with their local municipal drinking water, which had been declared unsafe for pregnant women and infants.

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The family-owned General Produce Co., Ltd. was started by Tai Oy Chan in 1933. General Produce is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving both retail and foodservice customers in Northern California and parts of Oregon and Nevada. It supplies a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to supermarket chains and independent grocers, as well as restaurants, schools, and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to fresh produce, General Produce distributes such specialty products as flowers, ethic food items, and organic produce.

F&S Produce Company, Inc. is owned by president Sam Pipitone, who founded F&S in 1981. F&S Produce Company is a supplier of processed fresh produce, including chunked, diced, and sliced fruits and vegetables and prepared fruit and vegetable salads and trays; it also makes brined and pickled products. Customers include food processors, food service distributors, and chain account representatives. F&S processes more than 75 million pounds of produce annually. Affiliate Pipco Transportation distributes F&S company's products through a fleet of approximately 30 trucks and 50 refrigerated trailers.

Bunge Milling is the largest dry corn miller in the world. It processes wheat, corn, and soybeans for domestic and import sales. Bunge's products include grits, corn flour, corn oil, bulgar wheat, hominy feed, soy oil, soybean hull pellets, and soybean meal and pellets, all of which are sold as ingredients to feed manufactureres, food processors, and the foodservice and bakery industries. Bunge Milling company's five mills are located in Mexico and the US. Bunge Milling is a division of Bunge North America, a subsidiary of Bunge Limited.

Producers Rice Mill dries, mills, and markets more than 50 million bushels rice each year, which it sells both domestically and overseas. The growers' cooperative is one of the largest private-label producers of rice in the US, packaging more than 100 brands for the retail food, foodservice, private-label, and food-manufacturing industries. Its brands include ParExcellence, LeGourment, Golden Harvest, Classic Grains, Granada, Mandalay, Bamboo 103, Calrose, and Thai Orchard. It also processes rice for animal feeds such as Buck Grub deer feed and Equi-Jewel horse feed.

The Irish Dairy Board, originally established in 1961, is a major international exporter of Irish dairy products servicing the needs and quality demands of a variety of customers world-wide.The Board is a commercial co-operative, tasked to market and export the Irish dairy products produced by its member manufacturing co-operatives and dairy companies and thereby generate the maximum return for the primary producers. It owns the internationally established Kerrygold brand, the Irish dairy industry’s most important marketing asset. The Board's business is operated through three divisions, consumer business, food ingredients and DPI distribution. One of Ireland’s biggest exporters, with major distribution companies in the Europe and the US, the Irish Dairy Board has an annual turnover of over €2 billion.

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