You say tomato, I say kumato. Mastronardi Produce grows more than a dozen varieties of specialty tomatoes, including the sweet brown-skinned kumato, under the SUNSET brand. It also grows cucumbers, baby eggplant, peppers, and strawberries, and some varieties are also organically grown. Mastronardi's produce is grown in greenhouses year-round. The company maintains more than 1,400 acres of greenhouses in Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the US. Mastronardi Produce also has its own microbiology laboratory and food safety program, and all of its crops are non-GMO. The company began growing vegetables in the 1920s and remains owned by the Mastronardi family.

Vilmorin & Cie wants to fill farms fields with bounteous crops. As one of the world's oldest (its roots date back to 1742) and largest producers and marketers of crop and vegetable seeds, the company supplies professional growers in France and overseas. Its crop seeds include those for corn, wheat, barley, canola and sunflower seed, amenity grasses, cotton, and beets. Vilmorin vegetable seeds for more than 30 of the world's most consumed vegetables, including tomatoes, melons, carrots, sweet peppers, cauliflower, squash, onions, watermelon, and cucumbers.

Primex International Trading Corp. was founded in 1989 by Ali Amin, whose family has been involved in producing pistachios for four generations. It first started planting pistachio orchards in 1990. In 2008 the company shipped about 30 million pounds of pistachios and more than 40 million pounds of almonds. Primex International Trading is a leading exporter and international trader that specializes in dried fruits and nuts. Through affiliate offices located around the world, the company ships such products as almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans, as well as apricots, figs, and raisins. Primex also has its own pistachio orchards and a processing plant in California.

Donegal Creameries is one of Ireland's biggest food and agriculture businesses. The company is involved in the production of milk and milk products. In the ag sector, it grows mushrooms and provides animal foods, sells seed potatoes and mushroom compost. The company and its subsidiaries have operations in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland. It also owns 76% interest in Irish candy company, Oatfield Confectionery, as well as properties, including The Grianan Estate, one of the largest farms in Ireland.

Culinaire International, Inc. was founded by CEO Richard Gussoni in 1993. Culinaire International makes trips to the zoo, university food court, and music venue a little more palatable. Culinaire International is a leading contract foodservice operator that provides dining and hospitality services at entertainment venues, hotels and convention centers, and private clubs. Its foodservice and concessions operations include the Fort Worth Zoo, Meyerson Symphony Center, UT Southwestern, and Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach. Culinaire International also offers catering and corporate dining services, and it operates Dallas area restaurants Ristorante Nicola, Sea Change, and Omaha Steakhouse

Young's Seafood Limited was founded in 1805 and was formerly known as Young's Bluecrest Seafood. Lion Capital bought the company from CapVest in 2008. Young's Seafood company processes and distributes value-added fresh and frozen seafood products to supermarkets and foodservice groups throughout the UK. It sources some 60 different fin- and shellfish species from 30 countries around the world and turns them into frozen breaded fillets, fingers, pies, and steaks. Young's subsidiary, Polarfrost Seafoods, specializes in acquiring frozen cod, haddock, and saithe from factory trawlers and working in the the North Atlantic.

Viskase Companies forces hot dogs, sausages, and salami to shape up and ship out. The company is one of the world's leading producers of non-edible cellulose casings used to manufacture sausage and hot dogs. Viskase's casings are sold under brand names such as NOJAX (skinless hot dogs have "no jackets"), VISFLEX, and VISMAX. The company also produces SEALFLEX SILVER heat-shrinkable plastic bags for the meat poultry, and cheese industries. In the non-food arena, Viskase makes MEMBRA-CEL for use in dialysis. Viskase has production facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, and the US. Billionaire and corporate raider Carl Icahn owns about 72% of Viskase.

Flagship of China's Dairy Industry Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. is a dairy enterprise with spirit of innovation and social responsibility. It is the only one of Chinese enterprises which supplies dairy products for the Olympics. Under Yili Group there are five divisions：liquid milk, ice cream, milk powder, yoghurt and raw milk. More than 1,000 series of Yili brand products, such as: popsicle, ice cream, milk powder, milked tea powder, asepsis milk, yoghurt, and cheese are made by 130 affiliated enterprises of Yili Group. In course of the several tens of years' development, Yili has always been devoting to producing 100% safe and 100% healthy dairy products, and spreading concept of nutrition and health for Chinese. Meanwhile, Yili has been serving for the consumers' health and happy life according to the highest worldwide production standards. As the leading enterprise of dairy industry, Yili takes developing China's dairy industry as its mission. After taking the lead completion of the industrial upgrade, Yili began to devote to promoting China’s dairy industry development transfer from "quicker and better" to "better and quicker".

Marlow Foods will sell you a fungus-based protein deftly seasoned to taste like chicken, or any other meat your taste buds might enjoy. Marlow Foods has given our brave new world Quorn, a meat substitute that is made not with the usual suspects (soy or grain), but from a mycoprotein similar to mushrooms. Frozen Quorn-brand products include nuggets, patties, cutlets, entrees, and even "Quorn dogs." Marlow Foods company manufactures its products at two facilities in the UK. Quorn is a top-selling meat substitute in the UK and Europe, and it's a leading poultry-alternative in the US, where it is sold through natural-food retailers and mass market grocers. Marlow Foods is a subsidiary of Premier Foods.

Greenridge Fruit markets a rainbow of apple varieties, including Golden Delicious, Paula Red, and Ginger Gold. The produce packing company is a worldwide distributor of fresh apples, blueberries, peaches, plums, and pumpkins, as well as other fruits and vegetables. Apples are its primary product. Greenridge Fruit, a family-owned enterprise, purchases harvests from some 40 growers in Michigan. It's located in a region of West Michigan known as "The Ridge"; this region accounts for approximately 40% of Michigan's apple crop.

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