AGRANA Beteiligungs AG company's central European sugar factories produce beet sugar, which is then sold to consumers and food manufacturers worldwide. It also operates starch factories which refine potato starch and cornstarch for the food, paper, textile, alternative energy, and chemical manufacturing industries. Through worldwide acquisitions beginning in 2003, AGRANA has added fruit processing to its mix and starting in 2007 fruit became (and remains) the company's largest revenue sector. Its fruit plants make fruit juice concentrates, frozen fruits, and other fruit preparations for use by food and beverage manufacturers.

A fan of smoked meats? Roger that! Meat processor Roger Wood Foods produces more than a half million pounds a week of smoked sausage and other smoked meats, which it distributes to six Southeast US states (North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Virginia). Its products, which also include hot dogs and chorizo, are offered under brand names such as Roger Wood Lumberjack, Redwood, and Santana. The company ships its products to regional and national deli and grocery retailers, including Wal-Mart, Kroger, Food Lion, and Publix. The Solana family owns and operates the company their grandfather, Roger Wood, founded in 1946.

Shanghai Bright Dairy & Food (Bright Dairy) is one of China's largest dairy producers. It has the largest pasture in the East Asia and a 500,000 ton annual production capacity. Bright Dairy churns out a variety of dairy products including disinfected milk, fresh milk, yogurt, pasteurized milk, and milk powder. It also operates a number of urban fresh milk mills in the cities of Xi'an, Beijing, Wuhan, Wuxi, and Nanjing. Bright Dairy is majority-owned by Shaghai Industrial Holdings Ltd., whose shares are traded in Hong Kong. Shanghai Milk (controlled by Shanghai Nong Gong Shang) owns almost 31% of Bright Dairy. Groupe Danone sold its interest in the company in 2008.

The Terlato Wine Group shepherds grapes from vine to wine. Owned and operated by the Terlato family, the company owns both vineyards and wineries and is involved in the import, export, sales, and marketing of premium wines. Several of its vineyards are located in famous California wine regions: Napa Valley, Sonoma, and Santa Barbara. Flagship subsidiary Terlato Wines International markets more than 50 foreign and domestic brands of wine (including Japanese sake) in the US through a direct sales force and distributors. Customers include fine restaurants and wine retailers. Terlato also has global joint venture wine operations in Australia and Italy.

Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) is a dairy marketing cooperative with 3,500 member farms, 5.8 billion pounds of milk and $1.7 billion in annual sales. Members operate dairy farms located throughout the Midwest states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. They own 14 manufacturing plants and market a full line of consumer-packaged dairy products, including the Cass-Clay® brand.

Caspian Trading Company, Inc., is an international trading company established in 1986 with offices, warehouses and cold storage facilities in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The company has been actively involved in imports, exports and processing of seafood products since 1988. It is presently processing and exporting fresh, frozen, canned and dried seafood to and from more than 15 different destinations worldwide.In addition to seafood, Caspian Trading Company, Inc., through its commercial division, has been involved in providing variety of commercial and industrial products to customers worldwide. The Commercial division of Caspian Trading Co., Inc. with its experienced staff and reliable sources is ready and eager to provide you with every type product from raw material to finished goods of various types and forms from all corners of the world. Please feel free to contact any one of our offices at any time with your requirements. You will discover experienced team members eager to provide you with products and service in accordance with the highest standards in quality and integrity. We are looking forward to developing long term business relationship based on mutual benefit.

Don Miguel Mexican Foods manufactures and sells refrigerated and frozen Mexican meals and snacks for the retail market. Its products include frozen burritos, tacos, quesadillas, taquitos, tamales, party trays, and family-style dinner entrees, all of which are sold under the Don Miguel brand name. Don Miguel Mexican Foods company's manufacturing facility is in Dallas (it closed the Anaheim, California plant in 2006). Don Miguel is owned by private investment firm TSG Consumer Partners (formerly The Shansby Group).

At The Western Sugar Cooperative, company primary product is refined sugar. Sugar is nature’s sweetener – pure and simple, with nothing artificial added. Also known as sucrose, sugar is an important source of carbohydrates for humans and is the main carbohydrate stored by the sugar beet.The sugar beet crop is planted in the early spring and reaches its peak sugar content in the fall. The Western Sugar Cooperative growing areas provide a high quality raw material due to the long summer days, cool nights and excellent agronomic conditions. In early fall the beets are harvested over a six-week period and stored in large field piles for processing. During the four-to-five month processing period, the plants operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week, producing pure granulated sugar from the sugar beet. The refined sugar and beet by-products are stored for year-round shipment.

Zetar decided in 2005 that chocolate sounded like a good place to start ... and the company hasn't stopped licking its fingers since. Zetar Plc was founded in 2004 and acquired UK confectionery company Kinnerton Group in 2005. Zetar went public that year, as well, and established two divisions: confectionery and snack foods. Zetar's second, third, and fourth acquisitions came in 2006 when it snapped up dried fruit and nut supplier Readifoods, dried fruit importer Humdinger, and US-based Salamanda, manufacturer of chocolate- and yogurt-coated nuts. Continuing its journey down the buy-up path, the next year it acquired bakery group, Britannia, and Lir Chocolates.

Trim-Rite Food Corporation was founded as an independent custom pork boning business in 1980 with a plant in Schaumburg, IL. This positioning put Trim-Rite closer to the fresh meat supply. Trim-Rite’s main business at the time was to supply custom trimmed pork to the Oriental restaurants on the East Coast.As the business grew, Trim-Rite began to supply customers all throughout the Midwest and East Coast in all areas of the meat business. The increased customer base dictated that we move into a larger facility to handle the growing business. In 1991 Trim-Rite moved to a 37,500 square foot building in Addison, IL.Trim-Rite successfully began to fill the Addison plant with new business and began to ship products all over the world. As Trim-Rite’s domestic and international business grew, it again became apparent that more space was needed. This further growth forced Trim-Rite to move into a larger facility.In March of 2002, Trim-Rite built from the ground up and moved into a 76,000 square foot, state of the art facility in Carpentersville, IL.

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