Enstrom Candies, Inc. handmade process uses almonds, butter, sugar, and chocolate to make the toffee, which comes in dark or milk chocolate varieties. It also makes other confections, including chocolates, truffles, caramels, toffee popcorn, and ice cream. But toffee is Enstrom's "bread and butter" -- it turns out 500,000 pounds of toffee every year. Enstrom Candies, Inc. confections are shipped to customers in the US and internationally. It also operates five retail candy stores in Colorado. Chet Enstrom started the company in 1960; his granddaughter Jamee, and her husband Doug Simons now oversee the company.

Saybrex International, Inc specializes in supplying whiskies -- including rare 44-year-old single malts -- tequilas, rums, and cognacs to duty-free shops at airports and other locations. It also exports private brands of wines, spirits, fruit juices, and specialty foods to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Saybrex International was formed in 1987.

Farmers Rice Milling was founded in 1917 and is owned by The Powell Group, an investment firm with interests in communications, real estate, and timber. Farmers Rice Milling Company operates rice milling, drying, and storage facilities. It also manages rice farms and operates a rice-hull power plant that supplies all of the company's electricity. Farmers Rice processes 800 million pounds of long- and medium-grain rice per year at its southewestern Louisiana mill. It sells its products domestically, and it exports rice to more than 40 countries worldwide.

Who has time to get veterinary supplies when you're tending to the farm? FarmVet.com understands and offers thousands of discounted name-brand animal-health products and farm supplies for livestock, horses, and pets throughout the US via its Web site. The company distributes more than 50,000 products, including dietary supplements, grooming supplies, insecticides, and tools, from its warehouse facility in Tennessee. It has separate category devoted to equine products. In addition to its online store, FarmVet also has a printed catalog, and operates mobile retail units that travel throughout the year to select horse show venues.

Alpha Baking Company was formed in 1979 when it bought Mary Ann Baking Company in Chicago. Founded in 1935, Mary Ann was the originator of the Chicago-style poppy seed hot dog bun which Alpha continues to bake for not only the Chicago market, but also for those selling Chicago-style hot dogs across the United States. In 1981, Alpha purchased the S. Rosen's Baking Company, a Chicago staple of Jewish hearth rye breads and variety rolls since 1909. Through the years, Alpha has continued to grow through the acquisition of Kreamo Bakers in South Bend, Ind., Natural Oven's in Manitowoc, WI. and National Baking Company in Chicago. Alpha Baking Company currently sells its products under the S. Rosen's, Mary Ann, Kreamo, Golden Hearth, and Natural Ovens brand names.

Awrey Bakeries, LLC company manufactures more than 125 pre-packaged baked products, including breads, biscuits, cakes, Danish pastries, donuts, muffins, and pastries. Awrey Bakeries specializes in providing contract, private-label, and industrial baked goods, including cheesecakes, layer cakes and brownies for the food service industry, national restaurant chains and large retail customers. Its retail and food service customers include convenience stores, schools, and the US military. Awrey's baked goods are available throughout the US.

Paragon Vineyards owns a winery and vineyard in the San Luis Obispo area between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company makes Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Port, and Syrah wines under the Baileyana label. The Paragon vineyards operate under the Firepeak name, which also is the namesake for a second line of Baileyana wines. Other labels include CADRE, tangent, and trenza. Bottles can be ordered online from those states that allow such shipments to be made directly to consumers. Baileyana wines are also available through distributors in about 35 states and for export to Europe, Canada, and Asia. Part of the Niven Family Wine Estates, Paragon was founded by Catharine and Jack Niven in the 1970s.

Spectrum Organic Products claims to be fat's better half. Using natural products such as olives, fish, seeds, and soybeans, the company makes cooking oils, shortenings, and margarine; fatty acid nutritional supplements; condiments (mayonnaise, vinegar); and nutritional supplements (flaxseed oil). It sells its products to the retail and foodservice markets under the Spectrum Naturals, Spectrum Essentials, and Spectrum Ingredients brand names. Spectrum Organic benefits from consumers' aversion to hydrogenated oils and their preference for healthier alternatives. Its consumer products are sold in health-food and grocery stores in the US and Canada.

Bunge North America, Inc., through its subsidiaries, produces and markets agricultural commodities and food ingredients. Bunge company offers grain products that include soybean, sorghum, canola, corn, wheat, rice, and feed peas; oil seed products such as meal, pellets, and oil products; and milling, flour, and bio-fuels products. Additionally, it provides nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium products. Bunge company’s products are used in ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, snack foods, confections, cakes, cookies, muffins, breads, and animal feed. It caters to retail, livestock, poultry, agribusiness and food products, food and feed processing, foodservice, and bakery industries.

PYCO Industries is a member-owned cooperative with cottonseed oil mills located in Lubbock, Texas. Used by food manufacturers and other foodservice companies, its oil is shipped to customers across the country. The coop also markets whole cottonseed as well as such byproducts as cottonseed hulls and cottonseed meal used in livestock feed. Cottonseed linters, another byproduct, is used by manufacturers for mattresses and upholstery padding, as well as in the paper and plastics industries. PYCO boasts more than 60 cotton gins in the southern US.

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