Viterra has its roots in grain. Canada's largest grain company, the company collects, stores, markets and ships grain. It sells farm goods such as seed and fertilizer, farm equipment, crop-protection products through its 252 retail outlets located throughout western Canada. It also processes malting barley and oats into value-added products, and provides grain storage (99 elevators) and transportation services (100 rail-car loaders). In addition, Viterra offers livestock-production and financial services. The company is most active in Canada and the US but has customers in more than 50 other countries. In 2010 the company acquired US-based pasta producer Dakota Growers Pasta.

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.

Founded in 1888, Manischewitz Food Products Corp. is one of the world's top bakers of matzo (unleavened bread) and one of the leading manufacturers of a bevy of other kosher products, including cookies, pasta, sauces, and soups. Its brands include Guiltless Gourmet, Manischewitz, Season, Mrs. Adlers, and Goodman's. The company, which is a subsidiary of The Manischewitz Company, also licenses the Manischewitz name for wine. Kosher foods are among the fastest-growing grocery categories in the US and Manischewitz endeavors to boost sales by attracting non-Jewish customers by introducing products with wider appeal (Asian entrees, soup cups).

Diversified conglomerate LOTTE Holdings, with interests in retail, sports, and restaurants, is best known as one of Japan's leading confectioners. Its Lotte Co. unit makes a wide array of candies and other treats, including gum, chocolate, and cookies. LOTTE also owns fast-food chain, Lotteria, which has locations in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. It also owns several retail chains including Korea's LOTTESHOPPING. In addition, LOTTE owns the Chiba Lotte Marines professional baseball club. Other business interests include soft drinks and ice cream manufacturing, leisure and entertainment venues, magazine publishing, and real estate.

Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

Wilkinson-Cooper Produce, Inc. is a fresh vegetable wholesaler and shipper. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce products include corn, cucumbers, endives, green beans, parsley, peppers, radishes, squash, watercress, and zucchinis. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce ship wholesale mixed vegetables from Florida between November and May, and from Georgia in June and July, fall October and November. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce company has been shipping vegetables across the continental US, as well as Canada and Europe, since 1965.

This company's chickens have roads in three states to cross. (Why is the perennial eight-year-old's question, not answered here.) Mountaire Farms operates poultry hatcheries and processing plants in Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina. The vertically integrated company produces fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products for wholesale, foodservice, and private-label food customers. It sells its chicken products throughout the US and overseas. The company owns feed mills for its own use in North Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware, and operates full-service grain elevators in Maryland and Delaware, which handle corn, soybeans, wheat, and barley from local farmers.

Fred Rubschlager founded the Rubschlager Baking Corporation in Chicago in 1913 as a neighborhood, full-line bakery called Rubschlager Brothers Bakery. All five Rubschlager brothers were at one time or another involved with Rubschlager Brothers Bakery. Rubschlager is still a family-owned business, located in Chicago, Illinois with distribution throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.Best-known for their Cocktail Breads, now available in four varieties, Rubschlager also produces a quality line of European-style breads in styles known as "Squares" and "Rye-Olas." The Squares, dense and fairly smooth in texture, are available in seven varieties. The Rye-Olas are a group of four breads made with 100% chopped, whole rye, in a style usually produced only in Northern Europe. Additionally, the company produces dinner rolls (both individually wrapped and bulk), Giant loaves (ten-pounds), sandwich breads, and a line of half-loaf Cocktail Breads in controlled atmosphere packaging for use in gift baskets. Rubschlager’s Natural Preferences® line of breads and toasted mini-chips are made with all-natural ingredients. All Rubschlager products are certified kosher, pareve, by the Orthodox Union.Rubschlager breads are usually sold in the deli section of supermarkets and specialty stores, although they may be sold at the in-store bakery or from the commercial bakery shelf. Rubschlager is generally distributed to retail and food service customers by deli and specialty distributors.

No, it's not the redwoods that California Giant produces -- it's strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. In order to supply its customers with berries throughout the entire year, the company has growing operations in California, Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, Florida, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. California Giant's berries are distributed to customers in the retail grocery, foodservice, and restaurant industries around the world. It also has extensive research and breeding operations, testing more than 15,000 new berry varieties every year. California Giant was founded in the 1970s by president Bill Moncovich and his partners.

Fowler Packing Company was established in 1950 by Sam Parnagian, and through the years has grown and expanded under the active management of Sam’s four sons and other family members. Today, Fowler Packing is one of the largest shippers in the fresh produce business, handling over 8 million boxes of stone fruit, table grapes, and mandarins. More than two-thirds of the fruit is owned and farmed by the Parnagian Family, with the balance coming from experienced and dedicated growers closely associated with the business.

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