Latham Seed Company provides genetically superior varieties of soybean seed to farmers in the upper Midwest, including Iowa and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Soybean brands sold include Roundup Ready and CystX. The company was founded in 1947 by Willard Latham. It remains family-owned and -operated. Its newly formed sister company, Latham Hybrids, specializes in seed corn.

Our mission is to be the acknowledged leader in supplying the food processing industry with superior quality, efficiently and safely produced fruit, vegetable and other agricultural products from the growers of our Cooperative. Pro-Fac Cooperative grows big and strong on fruits and veggies. The farm co-op provides marketing and sales services to its approximately 500 member/owners across the US. The agricultural co-op sells its member-farmers' crops to companies in the food processing industry, including Birds Eye Foods (typically buys more than 40% of crops). Pro-Fac has members primarily in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. It was formerly a partial owner of Birds Eye, which was sold to Blackstone entity Pinnacle Foods in 2009. Since the sale, Pro-Fac has implemented a liquidation plan and looks to disband in 2012.

The Hain Celestial Group serves up guiltless eating. It sells specialty foods and beverages (coffee and tea) in the kosher, low-cal, sugar-free and low-salt, natural and organic, snack, and weight-management categories. The company's products are mainstays in natural foods stores and are increasingly available in mainstream supermarkets; club, mass-market, and drug stores; and through foodservice channels. Hain is also a player in the personal care products sector, offering disposable diapers and shampoo; its JASON Natural Products makes grooming products for adults, such as skin- and hair-care items. Hain's products are sold throughout the US and in some 50 other countries.

The grower-owned cooperative's 1,300 members grow and harvest about 300,000 tons of apples each year to make apple juice and cider. The co-op produces the Tree Top brand of apple juice, blended fruit juices, and applesauce, among other products, for consumers and the foodservice industry. It also provides dehydrated and frozen fruit products to food manufacturers worldwide through its ingredients unit. Tree Top operates several production facilities in Washington and California and distributes its products through various channels, including retailers and brokers, in 30 states and several international markets.

James Desiderio Inc, is a full line service wholesaler, in business for over 52 years. James Desiderio company is family owned and operated with three generations of hard work and experience to back it up. The business has been built on a very basic philosophy "Provide the customer with a quality product, at a competitive price." In today's competitive world, the businesses who keep the customer as their #1 priority, are the ones who can remain successful. As each customer has specific needs James Desiderio sales team can hand tailor a product and delivery program that will satisfy each individual business. Chain supermarkets, independents, and foodservice are James Desideriospecialty and james have trained professionals designated to put together a program that will work for you. James Desiderio feel james "hands on" attitude can make the difference in complete customer satisfaction.

Work hard, play hard. Sure. These days it's more like work hard, go home and eat potato salad. We've always found that there's something about modern living that makes it hard to be healthy. That's why we gave up our jobs over nine years ago and started making innocent smoothies. The idea was to make it easy for people to do themselves some good. And to make it taste nice too. We wanted people to think of innocent drinks as their one healthy habit; like going to the gym, but without the communal shower afterwards. We call them innocent because our drinks are always completely pure, fresh and unadulterated. Anything you ever find in an innocent bottle will always be 100% natural and delicious -and if it isn't, get on the banana phone and make us beg for forgiveness. In fact, being accountable to our customers is something that is in our blood. In the summer of 1998 when we had developed our first smoothie recipes but were still nervous about giving up our proper jobs, we bought £500 worth of fruit, turned it into smoothies and sold them from a stall at a little music festival in London. We put up a big sign saying 'Do you think we should give up our jobs to make these smoothies?' and put out a bin saying 'YES' and a bin saying 'NO' and asked people to put the empty bottle in the right bin. At the end of the weekend the 'YES' bin was full so we went in the next day and resigned.

Be it pigs in a blanket or chicken in a basket, Olymel will bring the meat to the table. Located in Quebec, the company is one of Canada's largest pork and poultry processors. Its products, including bacon, deli meats, hams, sausages, and frozen, microwaveable meat dishes, sell under the Olymel, Lafleur Flamingo, Prince, and Galco Foods brands. They are distributed throughout Canada and exported to Australia, Japan, the US, and 60 other countries. The company has a combined slaughtering and processing capacity of 160,000 hogs and 1.6 million poultry per week at its facilities in Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta.

C.F. Sauer has been adding a little spice to life. It produces extracts, flavorings, and spices for the consumer food and foodservice industries. The C.F. Sauer company also sells mayonnaise, mustard, seasoning blends, dry mixes, margarine, and cooking oils. In addition to its namesake brand, Sauer, it also makes the Duke's, Bama, Spice Hunter, Gold Medal, and Mrs. Filbert's brands. Sauer's customers include retail food outlets and foodservice providers, including restaurants and concessionaires east of the Mississippi River. C.F. Sauer also provides private-label and blending services for food processors.

Holsten-Brauerei AG also distributes brands including Astra, Duckstein, Feldschlosschen, L�bzer, Landskron, and Tuborg. In the wake of Heineken's 2003 purchase of rival BBAG, the Eisenbeiss family, which owned nearly 50% of Holsten, announced interest in selling a stake of the company. Carlsberg Breweries purchased a majority stake in the German brewer in 2004. Under Carlsberg, Holsten is focusing on selling beer in northern Germany and has sold many of its subsidiaries, including its water and nonalcoholic beverage units. The company was founded in 1879.

Smithfield Foods Ltd was formed in 2004 from a merger between two independent meat companies. The Norwich Food Company, which specialised in the supply of meat, poultry and game to retailers, wholesalers, food processors and caterers, and Ridpath PEK, an importer of canned and deli meats established in the UK since the mid 1970's.There was little overlap in their product ranges or client base and the merger has produced a company with a wide range of skills and experience across many industry sectors, from retail to wholesale and independent trading.

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