CEO William Mann and president William Huggins formed Pretzels, Inc. in 1978. Pretzels, Inc., is a leading regional snack food maker that manufactures pretzels and other extruded snacks products mostly under the Harvest Road brand. Its products include cheese balls, cheese curls, and corn puffs in addition to several varieties of pretzels. Pretzels company also makes private label snacks for third-parties.

Onions might make people cry, but at Gills Onions they smile right through their tears. The company is one of the world's largest fresh onion processors that makes packaged products for the retail and foodservice markets. Its products include diced, sliced, slivered, and pureed red and yellow onions. Its packaged goods are sold through grocery outlets under the Gills Onions brand. The onion grower, formed by the Gill family in 1983, offers bulk products for foodservice customers and food manufacturers. In 2010 Gills Onions was awarded a Green California Leadership Award for helping to pilot an Advanced Energy Recovery System that transforms some 300,000 pounds of onion peels each day into biogas.

Making, selling, and drinking wine is a family tradition for Raymond Vineyards. Raymond Vineyard & Cellar produces various styles of wines, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot; brandy; and other spirits from its family-owned Napa Valley vineyards. Wines, which are available through the company's Web site, are sold under the Napa Valley Reserve, Raymond Limited Edition, Raymond Estates, and Amberhill labels. Limited Edition wines are produced in low volumes and have their own subcategories based on specific requirements. Raymond Vineyard's products range in price from budget ($8 a bottle) to the pricey ($80 a bottle)

Arrogant Bastard Ale headlines a family of microbrews that are sold in some 30 US states. In addition to its own brands the California company distributes the beers of more than 20 other craft breweries. Stone Brewing was founded in 1996 and produces about 100,000 barrels of beer a year. The brewery also operates an onsite restaurant, which features 32 craft and specialty beers on tap. It is considering starting brewing operations in Europe.

Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. was founded in 1971. Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. grows, ships, and markets mushrooms in the United States. It also produces and sells mushroom spawn and nutritional growing supplements, and activators to mushroom growers in North America, Europe, and internationally. Monterey Mushrooms company provides canned and jarred mushroom products, bagged packs, gourmet white mushrooms, gourmet portabella mushrooms, baby bellas/brown mushrooms, gourmet specialty mushrooms, dried mushrooms, and organic mushrooms. It offers canned stems and pieces mushrooms, canned marinated mushrooms, jarred marinated mushrooms, frozen sauces, refrigerated quick blanched mushrooms, and services/product development/private label products. Monterey Mushrooms company supplies products for sale to supermarkets, foodservice and ingredient manufacture operations, and for the preparation of processed, canned, and frozen mushroom products.

Fresh Del Monte Produce expects to be squeezed and sniffed. Sniff and squeeze away -- the success of the company's Del Monte Gold Extra Sweet-branded pineapples have made it one of the world's largest fresh pineapple producers and marketers; it is also one of the world's top banana producers, and offers a full array of vegetables and other fruits. Fresh Del Monte's brand names include Del Monte, Rosy, and UTC. Its prepared and fresh-cut foods include potato salad, cole slaw, bagged sliced products, and fruit juices and fruit drinks; it also makes industrial fruit products (purees, pulps, and concentrates) for food manufacturing companies. Fresh Del Monte sells its fruit and vegetables in more than 90 countries.

Coloma Frozen Foods supplies fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, along with fruit juice concentrates under the Nature Blessed label. It specializes in cherry juice concentrate, which it packages in quart, half-gallon, and gallon bottles. Coloma also packages an assortment of fresh vegetables, like asparagus and celery, and fresh fruit, such as cherries, blueberries, rhubarb, and apples. Its customers include US foodservice operators and food manufacturers and wholesalers. In addition, Coloma offers custom repacking services. Headquartered in Coloma, Michigan, the company operates a distribution facility and a warehouse in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Hickman's Family Farms has been family-owned and operated in Arizona since 1944. In its early days, Hickman's entered the Arizona food service market by providing fresh, locally produced eggs direct to small independent restaurants, and directly to consumers. Every afternoon, one little refrigerated panel truck was sufficient to deliver the day's production to coffee shops in Glendale and to Carnation Restaurant in the big city of Phoenix. Bill and Gertie Hickman displayed the entrepreneurial insight that has kept Hickman's competitive for decades. By 1993, Hickman's was left standing as the only Arizona egg producer with chickens and a USDA-inspected processing plant. Despite the challenges of the egg industry, the Glendale operation continued to expand. In the late 1990s a new operation opened in Buckeye with laying houses that are each called home by 130,000 hens.

So where did that steak you threw on the barbecue last night come from? Perhaps it was from Agri Beef, an Idaho-based company that raises cattle on its ranches and then fattens them up on its four feedlots in Idaho, Kansas, and Washington. Then its off to its processing plant in Washington. Offering both fresh and processed meats, Agri Beef's brands include St. Helens and Snake River Farms (premium meats including American Kobe beef and Kurobuta pork), and Double R Ranch Northwest Beef. The family-owned business also operates Performix, a cattle-feed and -supplement manufacturer.

Martin Mathew is one of the UK's leading importers and distributors of canned and other shelf-stable food products. Martin Mathew company offers more than 350 products lines from more than 25 countries worldwide including Spanish anchovies and Italian tomatoes. Its main brand is Riverdene, but others include Ballerina, Clover Leaf, Country Town, and its own Martin Mathew brand. Martin Mathew company's customers include companies in the food retail, manufacturing, and foodservice sectors. Martin Mathew was founded more than three decades ago by chairman James Donnelly.

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