Morinaga & Co., Ltd. makes Weider In Jelly, a jelly-like drink touted in Japan as something of a health food. The drink has become a high-sales novelty item popular among athletes and many a sleepy "salary man" commuting to work. Morinaga & Co., Ltd. also sells dietary supplements through an agreement with Weider Nutrition. A confectioner since 1899, Morinaga manufactures candy, including chocolates and caramels, as well as canned soft drinks, cookies, snack foods, ice cream desserts and baby food. Morinaga & Co., Ltd. operates five food manufacturing plants in Japan and also has various real estate holdings.

New Belgium Brewing Company Inc traces its origin to a bike ride through Belgium that inspired the company's founder, Jeff Lebesch to start the business. That jaunt is commemorated with the company's flagship product, Fat Tire ale. The regional Colorado brewery's other beers go by names such as Blue Paddle, Mothership Wit, and Skinny Dip, and a series of labels under the Lips of Faith name. New Belgium makes some 350,000 barrels of beer a year and distributes them throughout the US. The US's third largest craft brewer by sales in 2008, the company attributes its success to its "whimsical approach to business."

LoBue Bros. offers harvesting, packing, and marketing services to growers of California oranges. LoBue Bros company offers its customers several citrus varieties, including Navels and Valencias. The independent commercial packer, which was founded in 1934 with a modest 10-acre orchard, is one of the largest of its kind in the industry. LoBue Bros. -- named after Fred, Mario, and Joe Sr. -- began as a broker of cherries, prickly pears, and other produce. LoBue Bros company is still operated by descendants of the LoBue family.

VRANKEN-POMMERY MONOPOLE has corked the notion that fine champagne does not belong on a supermarket shelf. Founded in 1976, the company has built its name selling its libations at grocery retailers -- a market its older competitors have historically shunned. It makes the Charles LAFITTE, Cuve Diamant, Demoiselle, Heidsieck & Co Monopole, POMMERY, and VRANKEN brands of champagne. It also owns the ROZS port brand. VRANKEN-POMMERY operates subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founder and president Paul-Franois Vranken owns some 70% of VRANKEN-POMMERY.

Deschutes Brewery, located in Central Oregon along the banks of the wild and scenic Deschutes River, has brewed a family of handcrafted ales since 1988. Starting out as a small brewpub in the heart of downtown Bend, Deschutes’ first beers were Black Butte Porter, Bachelor Bitter and Cascade Golden Ale. In 1993, Deschutes moved into its current brewing facility and has continued expanding and improving the facilities. With a 50-barrel traditional gravity brew house and a new one-of-a-kind 131-barrel Huppmann brew system from Germany, Deschutes now creates and experiments with specialty batches of limited beers like The Abyss and Hop Trip while brewing large quantities of everyone’s favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Consistently producing the highest quality beers is always Deschutes’ number one priority and commitment.

H. J. Heinz Company Limited is full of beans -- canned beans. The UK subsidiary of Heinz offers some of the same brands sold the US, plus some specifically aimed at the UK market. Its canned beans (Heinz Beanz) are not a staple of American pantries but the Brits love 'em -- they buy 1.5 million cans a day. Heinz soup is also popular, with the company selling 289 million cans a year. Then there's Heinz salad cream, a tangy condiment not seen in the US. And whereas Chef Boyardee is a top seller in the US, in the UK Heinz' canned spaghetti is a favorite. (Its version of SpaghettiOs is called Spaghetti Hoops.) And for all the new moms and dads, the company offers a full line of Heinz-branded baby foods.

Naumes is a leading producer of pears with orchards in California, Oregon, and Washington. It grows, packs, and ships a number of different varieties including Anjou, Bartlett, and Seckel pears. In addition, the company produces several varieties of apples, along with cherries and such specialty fruit as Asian pears and persimmons. Naumes has centralized packing facilities in California and Oregon, along with 225,000 sq. ft. of cold storage. The company also produces juice concentrate at a facility in Washington. The family-owned company was established in 1946, though the Naumes family began growing apples in Oregon in the early 1900s.

For a company more than 600 years old, Antinori certainly has a lot of spirit(s). It is one of Italy's largest and most prestigious wineries, producing more than 10 million bottles of wine each year. The company owns 4,200 acres throughout the country's Tuscany and Umbria regions, as well as investments in vineyards in Napa Valley, California, and Szekszard, Hungary, among other locations. Antinori, known for rebelling against traditional wine-making methods, has created unusual wines (such as its Tignanello) that defy classification. Antinori also runs a handful of restaurants in Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. The family-owned and -run company traces its roots to 1385.

Advanced BioNutrition Corp. was founded in 2001, having as its roots technology developed at Martek Biosciences Corporation (NASDQ:MATK) many years earlier by a co-founder of Martek and the founder of Advanced BioNutrition.The growing importance of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) in human infant and maternal nutrition was seen by the imaginative scientists that started ABN to be a path to be paralleled in the animal field. The team focused initially on aquaculture, which was utilizing 65% of all fishmeal and 80% of all fish oil produced as sources of DHA to fuel the unprecedented growth of that industry. ABN believed that there was an impending crisis in the overfishing of this resource and focused on a program to produce an environmentally responsible, sustainable alternative using algae, not fish.Squeeze a handful of algae and you'll usually just get mush. However, Advanced BioNutrition (ABN) has figured out a way to wring docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), arachidonic acid (ARA), and other essential fatty acids from specific algae for use as nutritional ingredients in aquaculture (i.e., fish farming) and domestic farm animal feeds. The company markets these long-chain fatty acids under the AquaGrow brand. ABN also develops oral and injectable vaccines to treat various aquatic animal diseases, which adversely affect the aquaculture industry's profits. ABN offers vaccines for treating diseases in salmon and shrimp, two of the most commercially farmed seafoods.

Hickory Foods produces pre-formed, frozen BUBBA Burgers and BUBBA Hickory Smoked Bacon for retail grocery customers. Best known in the southeastern portion of the US, the company's products are available throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, as well as worldwide through the US military commissary system. BUBBA Burgers come in a range of styles and tastes, including jalapeno, reduced fat, sweet onion, and Texas-shaped varieties. Walter "Bubba" Eaves founded the company in the 1990s and continues to oversee burger production, although he sold the company to partners and executives, William Morris and Steven Coon in 2000.

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