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American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

Fru-Veg Marketing, Inc., is one of the nation’s leading importers of fine produce from the best growers of Europe and Latin America. The company’s philosophy is founded on the principle of selecting the finest growers in each region. By representing only the top growers each region has to offer, it is able to offer unrivaled quality and volume. Fru-Veg’s success stems from surpassing the benchmarks of its competitors and working closely with its customers to meet their needs on a year-round basis. Through quality and consistency, it ensures that all customers receive the maximum shelf life of products. This, coupled with the constant flow of marketing ideas and product development, has enabled Fru-Veg to launch and maintain a variety of products, from the flourishing Petit Gourmet line of pre-packed vegetables, to organically grown green asparagus.Annual visits to each grower in Europe, Central and South America allows Fru-Veg to build new partnerships, reinforce deep-rooted ones and discover new products. Its work begins in the fields where solid relationships are forged with growers whose dedication to the quality of their product meets with the company’s expectations. Equally important are regularly scheduled personal visits to major chain stores in the U.S. and Canada, where Fru-Veg develops seasonal programs with its customers.

Sunfresh Foods was founded in 1986 by president Rick Cosgrave, vice president Jill Morganpage, and Reed Hadley. Sunfresh Foods spreads jam to freezers throughout the US. Sunfresh Foods company makes its freezer jams and fruit sauces under the name Freezerves. Its customers include restaurants, supermarkets, and large foodservice distributors such as SYSCO, U.S. Foodservice, and Rinehart Foodservice. Its retail customers include such as Quality Food Centers, Larry's Market , Thriftway, and Albertsons; items can also be ordered via the company's Web site.

Eh, what's up, Doc? What's up is the crop at Bolthouse Farms. The company is one of the country's largest producers of fresh-cut carrots. Bolthouse offers all things carrot, including fresh and frozen whole carrots, carrot sticks and chips, carrot (and other) chilled juices and smoothies, and those cute little pre-cut and pre-peeled baby carrots for both retail consumers and foodservice industry customers. Its other products include orange juice, passion fruit juice, fruit smoothies, chai tea, Bom Dia açaí juice, and lemonade. The company also makes a line of Bolthouse Farms-branded salad dressings. Bolthouse Farms grows its carrots year-round and ships more than 35,000 tons of Bugs' favorite every month.

The Coca-Cola Company, runs the soft drink giant's juice, water, and soda business in the US and Canada. Its brands include Coca-Cola, Barq's, Dasani, Evian, Minute Maid, Simply Orange, Fresca, smartwater, Sprite, and Odwalla. CCNA works with independent bottlers, including Coke's largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, to distribute its beverages. CCNA owns and operates nine still beverage production plants and four bottled water facilities. It also has one facility that manufactures juice concentrates for the foodservice sector -- foodservice is a part of the division's operations. CCNA accounts for about a quarter of parent Coke's global sales.

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning the apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods, although it's selling off that business too. Its North American Retail unit is a major packaged meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of frozen bakery products, including Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The fresh bakery segment supplies North America with prepackaged bread and other baked goods. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The North American Foodservice unit supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to foodservice operators across the continent.

AB World Foods Limited owns prepared Indian food manufacturer, Patak's, and Asian food manufacturers, Blue Dragon and Go-Tan. It also distributes such US brands as Tabasco; Nielsen-Massey Vanillas; Cattlemen's barbeque sauce and French's mustard (through Reckitt Benckiser); and Skippy brand peanut butter and Maille mustard (through Unilever). The company's other global brands include Swedish baker, Pagen; Roots brand Caribbean sauces; Canadian maple syrup producer, Citadelle; frozen food company, Tipiak; and Australian honey producer, Capilano. AB World sells its products in some 40 countries worldwide.

United Dairy Farmers Limited tend their herds and send the resultant milk along to the co-op's processing facilities, which processes and collects and markets the milk under the Dale Farms, Dromona, Loseley, Rowan Glen, and Spelga brand names. In addition to milk processing and marketing, United provides its members with general farm services, feed, and other inputs. United's products include fluid milk, butter, cheese, ice cream, cultured dairy products, and dairy ingredients for the retail grocery and food manufacturing industries.

Culinaire International, Inc. was founded by CEO Richard Gussoni in 1993. Culinaire International makes trips to the zoo, university food court, and music venue a little more palatable. Culinaire International is a leading contract foodservice operator that provides dining and hospitality services at entertainment venues, hotels and convention centers, and private clubs. Its foodservice and concessions operations include the Fort Worth Zoo, Meyerson Symphony Center, UT Southwestern, and Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach. Culinaire International also offers catering and corporate dining services, and it operates Dallas area restaurants Ristorante Nicola, Sea Change, and Omaha Steakhouse

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