Cliffstar Corporation began over 100 years ago, when Meyer Star settled in the Dunkirk-Fredonia area in New York State. As an innovator in the rapidly growing grape industry, Meyer Star produced Star Wine in the heart of this Chautauqua County grape belt. From those beginnings, the Cliffstar Corporation evolved in the early 1970’s and now produces shelf stable juices, teas, sports drinks, fitness waters, and vitamin waters. Today, Cliffstar remains privately owned by the Star Family. Cliffstar now includes 10 geographical locations and employs over 1300 associates which contribute to the company’s success. Cliffstar Corporation is the largest independent grape, cranberry, and prune juice processor, and one of the largest private label beverage suppliers in the United States. In addition to serving thousands of private label lines with more than 145 blends of juices, Cliffstar presses most of its own grapes, cranberries, and prunes to ensure consistent quality, flavor, and color in all its beverages. The Company's facilities include the most modern and sophisticated pressing and filtration equipment, large blending tanks, and numerous juice pasteurizers and coolers. Towering stainless steel tanks provide cold storage capacity in excess of 6 million gallons.

Nature's Path Foods, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Richmond, Canada. Nature's Path Foods, Inc. produces organic cereals. Nature's Path Foods company offers breakfast foods, snacks, and pasta. It also provides cold and hot cereals, bars, snack foods, waffles, breads, baking mixes, ingredients, soy-based vegetarian entrees, crispy rice and granola bars, organic crackers and cookies, and weils. Nature's Path Foods company’s products are sold through online stores and retailers internationally. It sells its products in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Whittard operates 135 coffee and tea retail shops in Great Britain and 30 more worldwide. The company also distributes its products to businesses throughout the world, including in the US, Japan, and Australia. Whittard, which was founded some 120 years ago in London, sells more than 60 varieties of tea and some 20 types of Arabica coffee. Its other products include hot chocolate, and tea brewing equipment, china and ceramics, and espresso brewing machines. Whittard was a unit of Iceland-based Baugur. With the collapse of Baugur in 2009, its assets were sold off and Wittard was acquired by London-based EPIC Private Equity.

Miko has brewed up an interesting business strategy. The company provides coffee services through subsidiaries in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the UK; coffee services make up more than 55% of sales. Products include roasted coffee, filters, and coffee dispensing systems. Miko also makes plastic packaging products for the food and cosmetics industries through production plants in Belgium and Poland. The company got its start in 1801 as a grocery shop dealing in colonial merchandise; it began roasting coffee a century later.

Nordzucker AG was formerly known as Zuckerverbund Nord AG and changed its name in 1998. Nordzucker AG is based in Braunschweig, Germany. Nordzucker AG produces and sells sugar made from beet in Europe. Its products include industrial and household sugar; sugar by-products, including sugar beet pellets; molasses that is used to enhance the nutritional content of feed, as well as used in yeast and alcohol industry, or by feed manufacturers; and bee feed for honey producers. Nordzucker AG also produces bioethanol from sugar beet. It offers its products to the food processing industry, chemical or pharmaceutical industries, retailers, and end users.

Donegal Creameries is one of Ireland's biggest food and agriculture businesses. The company is involved in the production of milk and milk products. In the ag sector, it grows mushrooms and provides animal foods, sells seed potatoes and mushroom compost. The company and its subsidiaries have operations in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland. It also owns 76% interest in Irish candy company, Oatfield Confectionery, as well as properties, including The Grianan Estate, one of the largest farms in Ireland.

Every company has its own culture. At Storck, the interaction between the convictions and principles which the company embodies is something very special. They are indicative of the company’s relationships with consumers, its staff, its business partners, and its suppliers. As one of the world's largest confectioners August Storck manufactures and distributes about 20 different confections worldwide, including the chocolate-caramel Riesen and caramel Werther's Original candies (its most successful brand). Other popular Storck brands include Mamba fruit chews, Milkfuls caramels, and merci gift chocolates. August Storck KG was founded in 1903 by August Storck and is owned by Storck descendent and company president Axel Oberwelland.

Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard makes red and white wine, such as Chardonnay, Riesling, and Pinot Noir. The company also operates a vine nursery that serves the wine production industry. Among the varieties offered include Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Riesling. The Wiemer vineyards, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York, were established by founder Hermann Wiemer in 1973 on an abandoned soybean farm, and the winery was added to the property in 1982. Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard produces approximately 12,000 cases of wine annually. In 2007 Wiemer sold his winery of nearly three decades to his assistant, winemaker Fred Merwarth.

Kenneth Lee and Caryl Levine started Lotus Foods, Inc. in 1995. Lotus Foods is a leading importer and distributor of organic and specialty rice. Lotus Foods company purchases rice primarily from family farms overseas; its products include such varieties as Organic Jasmine, Bhutanese Red, and Cassava Sesame. Lotus Foods distributes rice to specialty gourmet and natural food stores and to restaurants. It also sells rice and rice cooking products to consumers online.

Grain Processing Corporation (GPC) is a major manufacturer of an excellent array of grain-based products including food, pharmaceutical and personal care starches, maltodextrins and corn syrup solids, grain neutral spirits, industrial starches and animal nutrition ingredients. The Company, a subsidiary of Kent Corporation, markets its products worldwide.

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