Be it pigs in a blanket or chicken in a basket, Olymel will bring the meat to the table. Located in Quebec, the company is one of Canada's largest pork and poultry processors. Its products, including bacon, deli meats, hams, sausages, and frozen, microwaveable meat dishes, sell under the Olymel, Lafleur Flamingo, Prince, and Galco Foods brands. They are distributed throughout Canada and exported to Australia, Japan, the US, and 60 other countries. The company has a combined slaughtering and processing capacity of 160,000 hogs and 1.6 million poultry per week at its facilities in Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

The V&S Group has absolute power -- er, make that "Absolut" power. The company is Sweden's top supplier of wine and spirits, but it is best known for its Absolut vodka, which is sold in 126 markets. The group is comprised of three business units: V&S Absolut Spirits, V&S Distillers, and V&S Wine. V&S has a long-term agreement with Maxxium Worldwide, a spirits distribution consortium, for distribution of its beverages outside the Nordic countries and the US. In 2008 the company was auctioned off to Pernod Ricard by its owner, the Swedish government.

Salmolux, Inc. was founded in 1988 by president, George Kuetgens, and was controlled by the Kuetgens family until it was acquired by Pacific Seafood Group in 2009. Salmolux wants consumers to eat its salmon while dining in the lap of luxury. Salmolux company processes, packages, and distributes gourmet seafood products, including Alder smoked salmon, poached salmon, lox, and smoked rainbow trout. It also sells deli seafood spreads. Located in suburban Seattle, Salmolux purchases fresh salmon caught in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and it packages its products for use by foodservice providers and retail food outlets.

Amy Sinaiko started Eat Your Heart Out! in 1999. Eat Your Heart Out! makes a line of freeze-dried fruit and vegetable snack foods, including apple cinnamon wedges, peach wedges with mango, and sweet and sour green soybeans. Eat Your Heart Out! company sells its products through health food stores and supermarkets in select markets around the country, as well as through its own online store.

McCall Farms company farms and cans tomatoes, okra, corn, squash, beans, peas, peaches, peanuts, and greens. Its products are sold in mostly the southeastern US. The produce is grown on McCall's 2,000-acre South Carolina farm; it also contracts with growers for another 3,000 acres. The company offers about its foods under the Margaret Holmes and Miss Millie brands and also makes private-label and foodservice products. Under the Peanut Patch brand, McCall offers the hard-to-find traditional Southern treat -- boiled peanuts. In 2009 McCall acquired another Southern specialty food maker, Glory Foods.

American Beverage Corporation (ABC), a diversified non-carbonated beverage company, is part of the multi-billion dollar Dutch food group Royal Wessanen. Founded as Daily Juice Products in 1960, ABC began as a small door-to-door juice company in Verona, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. ABC is still headquartered in Verona, but we have grown to become a multi-million dollar manufacturer and marketer of non-alcoholic cocktail mixers, ready-to-drink cocktails, juice beverages and spring water. Our products are nationally distributed in grocery, mass merchandisers, liquor stores and on-premise and we are the third largest US producer of non-carbonated bottled fruit drinks and a leading manufacturer of kids' beverages. Our main manufacturing facility in Verona is vertically integrated with manufacturing, blow molding and R&D expertise.

Tulip is the largest producer of pork in the UK providing a vast choice of products to both the retail and foodservice markets. From fresh pork, bacon and sausages to pies, canned and cooked meats, we pride ourselves on creating high quality food from farms in both the UK and Denmark; with our commitment to quality and care exceeding many recognised industry standards.If you prefer the aroma of breakfast to cup-shaped springtime blooms, you'll be glad to know that Tulip grows pigs not flowers. The result of a 2004 merger between Danish Crown's UK subsidiary and Flagship Foods, Tulip is one of the UK's largest meat groups. As a fully integrated meat producer, Tulip oversees its own pig production, slaughterhouses, and meat processing facilities to produce bacon, deli meats, cooked meats, and fried and marinated poultry. The firm operates in four main products groups: bacon, luncheon meat, canned goods, and poultry products. Tulip, which bought Germany's Nietfeld in 2010, also markets SPAM and Stagg products in the UK for US-based Hormel.

SIPEF (Societe Internationale de Plantations et de Finance) focuses on the tropical plantation business. Starting in business in 1919, the Belgium-based company produces and trades a variety of agricultural products, such as palm oil, rubber, tea, tropical fruits, spices and ornamental plants. The company owns some 62,000 hecatares of planted land. It has operations worldwide. SIPEF also provides insurance and management and consulting services for the agriculture industry.

Shearer's Foods' potato chips are Shearer perfection. Using Grandma Shearer's "hand-cooked" kettle recipe, the snacks company produces more than 30 million pounds of potato chips each year. Shearer's also makes and markets tortilla chips, cheese curls, corn puffs, pretzels, and pork rinds, as well as dips and salsa. The food maker's products are sold around the country and in the Shearer's Marketplace Factory Outlet store across the street from its headquarters in Brewster, Ohio. In addition to the Shearer brand, the firm makes a variety of snacks for private-label customers. Shearer's produces kettle-cooked potato chips for snack-food giant Frito-Lay.

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