Sweet Green Fields isn’t just a place, but an idea: that food can be both nutritious and fulfilling, that it can give energy and pleasure, and can be both calorie-friendly and body-friendly. Sweet Green Fields combined nutrition prowess from a top Australian health food company with the cultivation expertise and old world knowledge of one of Hawaii’s most historic agricultural companies. The result? Healthy, natural products that taste great!

A. Smith Bowman's distilling roots date back to the years before Prohibition. In 1935, after the Repeal of Prohibition, Abram Smith Bowman and his sons relocated to Virginia continuing the family tradition with the distillation of bourbon. The original distillery was located on the Bowman family homestead in Fairfax County, Virginia called Sunset Hills Farm. In response to the rapid growth of Northern Virginia, the distillery was moved in 1988 and is now nestled in Spotsylvania County near the city of Fredericksburg, 60 miles away from the original location.As a small and privately owned company, A. Smith Bowman Distillery continues the time-honored traditions on which it was founded. Considered a micro-distillery by today's standards, A. Smith Bowman produces an assortment of hand-crafted spirits distilled from only the finest natural ingredients and using the latest technology. This micro-distillery focuses on the production of premium spirits honoring the legacy of Virginia's first settlers.

L&H Packing Company disassembles beef. The company's San Antonio, Texas, facilities produce boneless beef, preserved hides, tripe and other offal products, rendered blood and bone meal, as well as tallow for wholesale distribution. It has the capacity to process more than 260,000 cows per year. L&H Packing was founded in 1963 by Al Leonard and Dwayne Harral and is still owned and operated by the Leonard family. In business since 1979, L&H's sister company, Surlean Foods, provides chicken, pork, and beef entrees along with soups, sauces, marinades, and rubs to the foodservice industry.

Virgin Drinks Group Ltd. has gone beyond colas to make and distribute energy drinks, tea, flavored colas, vodka and other alcoholic beverages. Although the company has scaled back its US offerings, it sells its drinks throughout the world. Virgin Drinks brewed up more business with the launch of Virgin Th�, the company's tea brand, in France in 1996. Virgin Th� is now also distributed in Switzerland and Italy. Virgin Colours offers colas in twelve fruity flavors.Young upstart Virgin Drinks wants to take some of the fizz out of soft-drink venerables Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Having first launched operations as Virgin Cola in 1994.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

In business since 1985, Renee's Gourmet Foods was owned by founders Arnold and Renee Unger who put it on the auction block in 2006. After attracting attention from a handful of multinational food giants, the couple sold renee's company to Heinz Canada that same year. Renee's Gourmet Foods is a saucy dish. Renee's Gourmet company makes refrigerated salad dressings, sauces, dips, marinades, and mayonnaise; all are made without using preservatives or additives. Renee's Gourmet company also produces and markets A.1. Steak Sauce in Canada. Its customers include foodservice operators.

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.

ORC Foods was started in August 1996 by Jeanette and Gregory Bukuras. At that time Jeanette was a full time stay at home mother of two and Greg was working for a large seafood distributor in the Boston area. Jeanette liked Crab Rangoons and Greg noticed that they could not buy them in the grocery stores. First they found a company that could make Crab Rangoons. Next they developed retail packaging. Finally while Greg was at work and the children went to preschool, Jeanette went out and called on a large list of supermarkets and club stores. Before long, Jeanette had built a nice customer base. Within a year, Greg left his job and went to work at ORC Foods full time.Since they have been in business, ORC Foods has become the largest supplier of Crab Rangoons as well as Scallops Wrapped in Bacon in the country. The company supplies most major supermarket chains as well as club stores nationally and military commissaries around the world. In August 2002, ORC Foods opened their own USDA inspected plant in Needham, MA. Jeanette and Greg are both proud that in the age of sending manufacturing jobs overseas, they have been able to grow their company in the USA.

Idaho Fresh-Pak, also known as Idahoan Foods, manufactures a number of different dehydrated potato products under the Idahoan brand for sale in retail food outlets and foodservice businesses across the US. Its products include instant mashed potatoes, hash browns, scalloped and au gratin potatoes, as well as potato ingredients such as flakes, shreds, and slices. Idaho Fresh-Pak's foodservice potato products are marketed and distributed by J.R. Simplot. In addition to potatoes, the company's foodservice products include frozen fruit, vegetables (from asparagus to zucchini), value-added pasta mixes, and microwaveable pancakes.

BakeMark USA LLC produces bakery and food ingredients and supplies. It offers mixes, bases, fillings, icings, glazes, frozen products, flours, sugars, shortenings, and paper products. The company also provides mixes and bases for donuts, cakes/muffins, cookies/brownies/scones, Danish/laminated dough, cinnamon rolls, bagel/bread/rolls, fruit/crème fillings, custard/mousse/powders, icings and glazes, flavors and colors, Hispanic ingredients, shortening/oil/pan sprays, and bakery essentials.

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