Pamlico Packing Co. Inc. was founded in 1941 and is owned and operated by the Cross family. Pamlico Packing company sells fresh and frozen fish and other seafood items to more than 200 wholesalers, restaurants, hotels, and retail food outlets in the US's mid-Atlantic region. Pamlico's products include shellfish and fin fish. Much of its seafood is harvested from the Pamlico Sound off the shores of North Carolina; more exotic species are brought in from Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, and Vietnam.

Founded in 1919, Smith Frozen Foods is owned by former US Senator from Oregon, Gordon Smith, and his wife, CEO Sharon Smith. Smith Frozen Foods is a processor and packager of frozen vegetables, including peas, corn, beans, and carrots. Purchasing most of its produce from growers in northeastern Oregon, smith frozen company's plant and 250,000-sq.-ft. cold storage facility can process and hold more than 130 million pounds of vegetables at a time. It packages vegetables for customers under various brand and house names.

The brewer produces, markets and distributes premium, mainstream, and budget beers under its brands including Formosa, Laker, Red Baron, Red Cap, and Waterloo. The company also produces and distributes private label beer for the Loblaws grocery chain and co-packs alcohol-based drinks for beverage maker Canada Dry Mott's. It manufactures and distributes its products in Ontario and Quebec, and distributes some products in Ontario for US brewer High Falls Brewing. Former chairman Jim Brickman founded Brick Brewing in 1984; the company touts itself as the largest publicly held Canadian-owned and Canada-based brewer.

In 1985, The Gatorade Company established an award honoring America’s elite high school student-athletes. Now in its third decade, the Gatorade Player of the Year award has become one of the most prestigious accolades in high school sports. The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one award-winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school boys football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, boys baseball, girls softball and boys and girls track & field. The selection process for Gatorade State and National Players of the Year is administered by ESPN RISE, the multimedia high school division of ESPN, in partnership with The Gatorade Company.

Since launching in 1990, Plexus Cotton has rapidly grown into a global network of partnerships, with an annual turnover approaching half a billion dollars. Our influence and activities comprise farming, ginning, warehousing, logistics and marketing operations. This integration of expertise means that we’re agile and efficient, staying at the front of technological advances. Our market experience means we provide the best possible return to our growers and the best possible quality and price to our consumers, worldwide. Above all, at Plexus Cotton we work empathically with our partners, respecting the talents and needs of every individual involved from the soil to the shop rail.

Sprecher Brewing Co. was founded in 1985 by RANDAL SPRECHER, formerly a brewing supervisor at Pabst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1985 to 1994, the brewery was located at 730 W. Oregon Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point area. Through the first ten years the company grew steadily as more and more people found out about Sprecher's high quality beers and sodas. Finally, the company had outgrown its original facility and began looking for a new location to continue its growth. In 1994, Sprecher purchased its current building, located at 701 W. Glendale Ave., a former elevator car factory. The new, larger brewery enabled the company to continue growing, and allowed more people to enjoy all of Sprecher's fine products.The history of brewing in Wisconsin began thirteen years before it became a state and a year before it even became a territory. By the late 1890's nearly every community in Wisconsin had at least one operating brewery.

Bright Harvest was founded in 1967 in Clarksville, Arkansas. Its products were marketed under the Kim's, Chef Francisco, and Ore-Ida labels as part of the Heinz company until 1999, when CEO Don Kerr acquired the company through Kerr Industries. Bright Harvest Sweet Potato manufactures and sells frozen sweet potatoes and value-added sweet potato products under the Bright Harvest brand name. It is the top processor of sweet potatoes in the US and supplies the USDA.) The company's offerings include center cut, candied patties, and mashed sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato casserole.

Genisoy Food Company was founded in 1964. Genisoy Food Company manufactures soy-based, non-genetically-modified powdered health supplements, trail mixes, crisps (the company calls 'em soytatoes), protein shakes and powders, snack foods, and energy bars. Its name-sake product, Genisoy, is a line of snacks and energy bars containing soy protein. The company's goods are available in grocery stores throughout the country; Genisoy also sells certain products through its online retail store.

Paramount Distillers makes and distributes a wide variety of spirits, including brandy, cognac, tequila, gin, rum, schnapps, vodka, and whisky. The company also owns the Meier's Wine Cellars, which operates a 40-acre vineyard on North Bass Island on Lake Erie (the vineyard was larger before the company sold much of the land in 2004 to the state of Ohio). Paramount Distillers operates warehousing and distribution facilities in Iowa and Ohio, but offers its more than 45 varieties of wine globally. The company also offers non-alcoholic sparkling and still juice beverages. Paramount, founded shortly after the repeal Prohibition, was purchased by Robert Gottesman and Associates in 1957. In 2009, Paramount Distillers celebrated 75 years as a proud part of Cleveland's business community. Paramount's history dates back to 1934, when J. F. Moessmer founded the company on W. 106th St. a month after the repeal of Prohibition. Under Moessmer, Paramount was a modest operation, marketing primarily cordials and vodka in Ohio and Iowa. The company prospered and moved to its present site on Berea Road in 1946.

Barry Callebaut has been producing cocoa and chocolate products for more than 150 years. Barry Callebaut AG are a fully integrated company that masters every step from the sourcing of cocoa beans to the shelf. Barry Callebaut AG are proud to serve the entire food industry, whether it be industrial food manufacturers, professional users of our products or retailers. Barry Callebaut has strong traditional roots in Europe, is headquartered in Switzerland and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Its products include bulk chocolate, chocolate coverings, coatings, powders, decorative products, and fillings, all of which it sells to large-scale processors and artisan chocolatiers alike.

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