Dawn Foods is a leading manufacturer of dry mixes for baking products, including American-style cookies, doughnuts, and muffins. It also makes pizza dough mixes, powdered gravy, and other baking ingredients. In addition to mixes, the company markets frozen muffins and cakes, as well as icings, toppings, and fillings. Dawn Foods markets mostly to customers in the food service and retail industries, but it also makes consumer products under the Weight Watchers brand. It is the UK outpost of US-based Dawn Food Products.

Griffith Laboratories is a food-ingredient manufacturer with operations and customers worldwide. Griffith Laboratories company's clients include food manufacturers; foodservice operators, such as restaurants, hotels, and cruise lines; and food retailers and wholesalers. Its products include seasonings, sauce and soup mixes, condiments, texturizers, and bakery blends. Griffith's subsidiaries include Custom Culinary (food bases and mixes) and Innova (meat and savory flavors). Griffith Laboratories company also offers customized ingredient services. Griffith has operations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, India, and the Middle East.

Mazzetta was founded in 1987 and is based in Highland Park, Illinois. Mazzetta Company, LLC processes, distributes, and supplies frozen seafood products. Its products include orange roughy, gayi blue hake, tilapia, Chilean sea bass, and whiting fillets; seafood medley; greenshell mussels; recipe-ready cooked, premium raw, cooked black tiger, and cooked white shrimps; lobster tails; headless and dressed whiting; cooked black tiger shrimp rings; slipper lobster tails; pasteurized crab meat; and squids. Mazzetta company markets its products under SeaMazz brand name. It caters to retail chains, supermarkets, discount stores, and warehouse clubs.

Exelixis Plant Sciences operates millions of small solar-powered factories -- i.e., plants. A subsidiary of cancer-drug-development company, Exelixis, Inc., it focuses on plant genomics (identifying plant DNA sequences and identifying specific genes and their functions) in order to produce natural flavors and colorants for food, health and wellness, and cosmetics manufacturers. In addition, the company's gene technology provides improvement in areas such as plant-disease resistance and improved crop yield. Since 2007 it has partnered with Dow AgroSciences to do research focused on the development of new tools for gene discovery and the validation of novel crop traits.

Puleva Biotech SA (Biotech) is a Spain-based company engaged in the production and sale of functional food products based on natural ingredients. Puleva Biotech Company specializes in the nutrition research, including patents on infant formulas; the process for extraction and purification of Omega-3 acids, and the development of functional dairy products. Its products are distributed under the Eupoly-Epa and Hereditum brands and its ingredients include healthy fats, probiotics bacteria, prebiotics non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDOs), hydrolyzed proteins and antioxidants. In addition, Puleva Biotech Company’s biotechnology projects are focused on the production and purification of functional lipids, the optimization of industrial enzymes and the microbial fermentation. Puleva Biotech Company is a parent of Grupo Puleva Biotech, a group which comprises Espanola de ID SA and Puelva Food SL. Puleva Biotech Company’s majority shareholder is Ebro Puleva SA, with 50.9% of its interests.

South Dakota Soybean the agricultural cooperative turns the 30 million bushels per year of soybeans from its 2,200 farmer/members into soybean oil, soybean hulls, and soybean meal. Its soybean meal is mainly sold to livestock feed companies and independent livestock producers. Most of South Dakota Soybean's crude soybean oil is processed into refined and bleached oil under the name Soyol, which is sold to manufacturers of various consumer items (plastics and biodiesel manufacturers, for example), who further process it for use in their products. The co-op owns 91% of Urethane Soy Systems Company (USSC), which it supplies with Soyol products.

In February 2002, Todd Woloson and Greg Stroh, two friends who love good food and drink, were having lunch in Boulder, Colorado. They spoke of life and work, and what it would be like to start a company that not only made a great product, but also gave back to the greater good. They thought about the sophisticated European sodas they’d recently tried, and recognized an opportunity to create an all-natural version. Their beverage would have to be made from pure simple ingredients, and they‘d have to be proud to produce it, share it, and drink it. The goodness of this brand had to go beyond what was inside the bottle. In 1998, Todd and his wife, Eliza, had founded a non-profit, Global Education Fund, on the belief that educating kids secures a better future for the world. IZZE and GEF – a perfect blend of pure, simple, and good.

California Vegetable Specialties is a specialty farming company dedicated to the consistent production of highest-quality California Endive. With growing fields throughout Northern California, the company is headquartered in the town of Rio Vista, in the historically rich agricultural region of the Sacramento River Delta. We produce white and red endive, as well as several specialty products for chefs, Endigia and Pissenlit.Richard Collins, a Sacramento native and graduate of the Agricultural and Managerial Economics program at the University of California, Davis, founded the company in 1983 as Rebel Farms. He chose the name in response to the many naysayers who deemed him foolish for trying to grow endive for the U.S. market. Today, California Vegetable Specialties is the only U.S. producer of endive, and dominates the market west of the Mississippi, selling nearly 4 million pounds of endive each year. Since 1987, California Vegetable Specialties has been a part of the French-based Darome Group of International Companies. The Darome Group operates in three business sectors: specialized agricultural production, food processing, and trade. Darome began working with CVS in 1985, and the "technology transfer" of endive production methods from Europe to California has been instrumental in the success of the California Endive.

Nonpareil Corporation company grows and ships fresh potatoes and manufactures value-added potato products such as hash browns, mashed potatoes, and potato flakes, which it distributes to US foodservice operators. Nonpareil also supplies ingredients, including flavor additives made from potatoes, to other food manufacturers. Nonpareil company's potatoes are grown on a 10,000 acres in Nebraska and 3,000 acres in Idaho. The Nonpareil Corporation was founded in 1946 by Harold and Robert Abend; it continues to be owned and managed by members of the Abend family.

Yamhill Valley Vineyards knows a whole lot more than peanuts about Pinots. Its 150-acre estate in Oregon's Willamette Valley produces Pinot wines; most are are sold under the Yamhill label. Its Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir Reserve, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Blanc, along with its Tall Poppy Reserve Pinot Noir, are available in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. The wines are sold at restaurants and specialty wine shops, and through Yamhill Valley's Web site and tasting shop. Retail prices range from $12 to nearly $50 a bottle. The company was founded in 1983 by husband-and-wife team Elaine McCall and Denis Burger.

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