Lavazza knows a thing or two about coffee. The company, in business for more than 100 years, is one of the leading coffee roasters and sellers in Italy and does business abroad as well. Lavazza makes coffee for home use, institutional customers, and restaurants; it's sold under brands Lavazza, Caf� Espresso, Quality Or�, and others. Lavazza began to make hot chocolate, as well, through its purchase of Ercom in 2010. The company operates training centers around the world to teach baristas the finer points of making a cup of espresso and to "promote the coffee culture." Established in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, the company is controlled and run by the fourth generation of Lavazza's descendants.

Founded in 1963, Cento Fine Foods sells its products through its Web site, a direct sales force, and a network of brokers; it also operates a fleet of 25 distribution trucks. Cento Fine Foods brings the enjoyable scents of its fine Italian foods to American dinner tables. Cento Fine Foods company makes, imports, and distributes more than 1,000 Italian food items, including canned tomatoes (peeled, diced, and pureed), dry pasta, olive oil, rice, pastries, and confections, throughout the US. Its products are sold under the Alemagna, AnnA, Bellino, Ferrara, La Florentine, Little Gina's, and Plasmon brands.

Snyder's of Hanover company is the largest pretzel maker in the US (surpassing even snack-making behemoth Frito-Lay). Along with pretzels of all shapes and sizes, family-owned Snyder's produces potato chips, tortilla chips, and the EatSmart brand of low-fat snack foods (soy crisps, veggie crisps, and organic popcorn). Taking advantage of US consumers' new-found love of dark chocolate, snyder company introduced Hershey's dark-chocolate-flavored Dips. Snyder's snacks are sold through supermarkets, drugstores, and mass merchandisers throughout the US. Snyder's and longtime snack food maker Lance plan to merge their operations.

Misionero Vegetables company provides bagged salads, lettuce, baby carrots, spinach, arugula, and an array of other vegetables for retail food and foodservice customers. Misionero's brands include the EarthGreens (organic) and GardenCut (conventional). Headquartered in California's Salinas Valley, the company ships its fresh produce throughout the US, as well as internationally from its facilities in California and Arizona. A family-owned and -operated business, Misionero was founded by Floyd Griffin some 35 years ago.

Elmer Candy Corporation makes Easter sweet. Although it has been in business since 1855, the company began focusing on seasonal (Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day) candy in the 1970s, following the increased competition it faced from the large US confectioners (Mars, Hershey). It now concentrates solely on Easter, offering dark or milk chocolate versions of the Gold Brick Egg and Heavenly Hash Egg, along with the Pecan Egg. Elmer Candy Corporation also makes chocolate syrup for ice cream under the Gold Brick Topping brand name. Elmer Candy is owned and operated by the Nelson family and traces its roots back to German immigrant Christopher Miller, who began his life in the US by opening a candy shop in New Orleans.

For the first 35 years of his life, Jim Koch's family history and future career lay in the attic of his parents' house. Tucked away was an old family recipe from the 1800s for Louis Koch Lager. For five generations, the men in the Koch family were brewmasters, but the market for full-flavored beer had diminished and it seemed Jim's father would be the last Koch to carry on the tradition of brewing flavorful beer. However, Jim's passion for quality, flavorful beer kept him close to his roots. In the early 1980's he became convinced that he could build a niche in the competitive beer market for a high-quality American beer. Using the same recipe and traditional brewing processes that his great-great grandfather used, Jim brewed Samuel Adams Boston Lager® and took beer to a whole new level.

IOI Group's formation years were associated with real estate when it forayed into property development in 1982 followed by Oil Palm plantations in 1985. Today, IOI Group is internationally known as a leading global integrated palm oil player with operations stretching the entire palm value chain from seedlings to plantations to crop oil extraction to diverse value-added manufacturing across major continents - serving global markets in more than 65 countries. Close to its home-base in Malaysia, the Group is also prominently known as one of the leading property developer with significant investment holdings of prime real-estates. IOI Group employs more than 30,000 personnel of more than 23 different nationalities in 15 countries.

The creation of ForeverGreen began out of industry necessity. After a brief retirement, founder Ron Williams observed that the Network Marketing industry (being recession-proof) is arguably the fastest-growing industry in the world (approaching 50,000 people per day). Knowing that this industry is built upon the shoulders of everyday human beings like you, Mr. Williams saw an opportunity to dignify the industry and set a standard that would change the perception from an industry of “what’s in it for me?” to an indiscriminate global community of “givers”. Mr. Williams believes that there is not a greater industry platform in the world to create community change, financially, personally, and of course physical health… one person at a time.In August 2003, ForeverGreen the company was launched. Now, a public company manufacturing its own products, ForeverGreen is an international company already doing business in more than 10 countries.ForeverGreen is a company that stakes its future on timeless principles of health and humanity, and then trusting in the results.

The Stash Tea Company is a privately-held company headquartered in Tigard, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. Founded in 1972, Stash Tea originally operated out of an old Portland Victorian style house, supplying loose herbal teas and bulk herbs to natural food stores. Starting in 1975, the company broadened its focus to include bagged teas and then began to sell a full line of traditional, specialty blend and herbal teas directly to fine restaurants and through a mail order catalog to consumers. Today, Stash Tea is enjoying steady growth and has become one of the largest specialty tea companies in the United States, with products available through foodservice, grocery stores, tea and coffee shops, club stores, mass merchandisers, natural foods stores, mail order and the Internet. Stash Tea is also available in Canada and in several foreign countries.

MWBrands Holdings has a lot of fish stories under its belt and they're all true. Through its operating subsidiaries, MWBrands produces ambient, or room temperature, seafood products like canned tuna (its primary product and brand John West), salmon, sardines, and packaged seafood snacks. It sells its products in the UK, France, Italy, Ireland, and the Netherlands under its core John West and Petit Navire brand names, as well as under its specialized brands, Parmentier (gourmet sardines) and Mareblu (tuna products sold in Italy). MWBrands operates four production plants in France, Portugal, Ghana, and the Seychelles islands. MWBrands Holdings company has agreed to be acquired by Thai Union Frozen Products for $867 million.

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