LeaderBrand is a fresh produce grower and supplier. It grows, packs, and markets its broccoli, sweet corn, lettuce, squash, and other vegetables in New Zealand and the US, as well as Japan, South Korea, and other northeast Asian countries. Taking its products from the field to the market, vertically-integrated LeaderBrand also offers packaged fresh salad blends and slaws. In addition, it supplies food processors. LeaderBrand's customers include restaurant chains and grocery retailers. Business partnerships, with companies such as the fast-food chains Subway and Burger King, have proved lucrative for LeaderBrand Produce Company.

In 1868, Henry K Webster rented a small grist mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and started the H.K. Webster Company, a business that would grow into one of the largest feed manufacturing companies in the Northeast, Blue Seal Feeds.In the early days, the emphasis of the business was on supplying horse feed. That product line has grown to include feeds for dairy cattle, beef cattle, horses, sheep , goats, llamas, pigs, deer, dogs, cats, rabbits, wild birds, caged birds, poultry, herbivore zoo animals, and fish as well as products for the lawn and garden. Today, Blue Seal is a subsidiary of Muscatine Foods Corporation of Muscatine, Iowa. Headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire, the company operates nine manufacturing facilities throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. Blue Seal enjoys a well-earned reputation for high quality, consistent feed and outstanding customer service.

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.Founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association, the cooperative served as a marketing agent to offer the crops of its members - under the brand name "Sunsweet" - to consumers at better prices than were offered by individual growers.Today, Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. After nearly nine decades, Sunsweet boasts an enviable brand recognition of 85 percent in American households, placing it in the very top rank of long-standing successful American products.

Idaho Fresh-Pak, also known as Idahoan Foods, manufactures a number of different dehydrated potato products under the Idahoan brand for sale in retail food outlets and foodservice businesses across the US. Its products include instant mashed potatoes, hash browns, scalloped and au gratin potatoes, as well as potato ingredients such as flakes, shreds, and slices. Idaho Fresh-Pak's foodservice potato products are marketed and distributed by J.R. Simplot. In addition to potatoes, the company's foodservice products include frozen fruit, vegetables (from asparagus to zucchini), value-added pasta mixes, and microwaveable pancakes.

The family-owned Perfection Bakeries, Inc. was founded in 1901 by John Franke as the Wayne Biscuit Company. A leading producer of baked goods, Perfection Bakeries company makes such products as bread, hamburger and hotdog buns, and English muffins for the retail market under its flagship Aunt Millie's brand. It also supplies baked goods and mixes to the foodservice industry. Perfection Bakeries has operations in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio, and its products are distributed primarily throughout the Great Lakes region.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

Founded in 1919 as a Dutch sugar manufacturer, CSM makes and distributes food products and ingredients for food processors, food retailers, and institutional foodservice operations worldwide, although half of its sales are in the US. CSM is a leading producer of bakery products and ingredients, including bread and pastry mixes, margarines and emulsifiers, fruit- and non-dairy-based fillings, icings, glazes, and frozen dough. Its biochemical division, PURAC, makes lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and lactides, which it distributes to food, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies. CSM has operations in 25 countries.

It's always an adventure at The Inventure Group. The company -- founded by Don and Jay Poore in 1986 and formerly known as Poore Brothers -- makes snack chips and dips under Bob's Texas Style, Poore Brothers, Boulder Canyon Natural Foods, and Tato Skins brands. The company also makes savory snacks branded with the T.G.I. Friday's and BURGER KING names, as well as manufacturing store brands for several food chains in the southwestern US. The firm distributes its own and other companies' snack food products. Costco accounted for about 24% of the company's 2008 sales.

yffes plc is an Ireland-based company. Fyffes Company is a marketer and distributor of tropical produce globally. It operates in two operating divisions: tropical produce activities and property activities. The property activities comprise 40% investment in Blackrock International Land plc (Blackrock). The tropical produce division is an integrated distributor of tropical fresh produce, comprising bananas, pineapples and winter season melons. The activities include the production, procurement, shipping, ripening, distribution and marketing of these products. Fyffes Company’s subsidiaries include Banana Importers of Ireland Limited, Bernard Dempsey & Co Limited, Brinton Investments Limited, Elders & Fyffes Investments, FHBV Investment Company, Fyffes Bananas North America Limited, Fyffes Fruit Procurement Limited, Fyffes Banana Processing Limited, Fyffes Personnel Services Limited, Fyffes Secretarial Services Limited and Fyffes Investment Holdings.

Frank P. O’Connor began a small, Toronto-based candy business selling hand-made chocolates. He adopted the name Laura Secord, after the Canadian heroine because she was an icon of courage, devotion and loyalty. Laura Secord started as a single shop on Yonge Street in Toronto. O’Connor turned the flat above the shop into a kitchen and prepared his own products. Success prompted the company’s expansion across Ontario and Quebec and in the 1930’s an office was opened in Winnipeg and drugstore agencies were appointed as Laura Secord outlets, or service shops.

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