Brothers Mike and Dave Weaver are the owners. Weaver Meats was a retail butcher shop, with over 70+ feet of meat and deli cases. It was a full service operation. In the mid 1980's they started making Beef Jerky and Snack Sticks. With their outstanding quality and savory flavor their sales really took off.They had people coming from 3 different counties to purchase their top quality Meat Snacks. People wanted them to ship it out of state to friends and relatives. They also had many requests to sell their Meat Snacks to some local bars and taverns. However, being a retail exempt store they could not sell their products outside of their immediate store in Mentor-On-The-Lake.Therefore, after much thought and sadness(15 years of friends and customers) they sold their retail store in August 1996. Then in February 1997 ground was broken for their new state of the art USDA inspected Meat Snack processing plant in Painesville, Ohio.

This bunch of Florida siblings Lykes land, lots o' land. Family-owned Lykes Bros. concentrates its efforts on its 337,000 acres of land holdings -- which is home to the company's diverse operations, which include cattle ranching (20,000 head), forestry, and sod and sugarcane farms. The company also grows landscaping trees, leases grazing and farm land, oversees pine and eucalyptus forests, and offers hunting (deer, quail, turkey) and fishing tours on its 1,867-acre Silver Lake Preserve. The company was founded by Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes in 1900 and is owned by the descendants of his seven sons.

Founded in 1886, Gonnella Baking makes fresh Italian- and French-style specialty breads for grocers and restaurants in the Midwest. The Chicago-based company also makes frozen dough and fresh baked frozen bread for in-store bakeries and restaurants. Gonnella rolls out a variety of bread crumbs, rolls, and breadsticks for retail sale. From its frozen dough plant in Schaumburg, Illinois, Gonnella ships its in-store bakery and foodservice products throughout the US. Gonnella Baking company has six production facilities total. The Gonnella and Marcucci families own Gonnella Baking.

Iron Horse Ranch & Vineyards produces red, white, and sparkling and still wines. Among the vineyard's varietals are Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Iron Horse's 160 acres are located in California's cool, misty, grapevine-friendly Green Valley (just 13 miles from the Pacific Ocean). Its wines, which have been served at the White House, are available at the winery and on the company's Web site to those US states which allow direct shipments of alcohol to consumers. Iron Horse was founded in 1976 by Barry and Audrey Sterling. Their children, including CEO Joy Sterling, now run the company.

Stonyfield Farm is banking on choosy moms to spend a few cents more to save the planet -- or at least buy the company's natural yogurts and ice cream. Founded in 1983, Stonyfield Farm uses certified organic milk and uses no gelatins, fillers, artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners in its products. For customers allergic to cows' milk, it offers a line of soy-based yogurts. A longtime leader among health-food store brands, its products are now distributed across the US through national supermarket chains, natural food stores, and wholesale club stores, as well as overseas. Stonyfield is a subsidiary of France's Groupe Danone.

Sun World was established in early 1­976 as a packer and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables. In the 1980s, consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables was on the rise and consumers were increasingly seeking better tasting, more conveniently available produce. As the market changed, so did Sun World. The Company exited the commodity fruit and vegetable business and became involved in the farming, packing and marketing of an extensive collection of specialty-branded produce.Sun World initiated a series of relationships with various research and academic organizations around the world, setting out on its quest to improve the flavor, color, texture and overall quality of specific fruits and vegetables.

Moonlight Packing Corporation does its business so we can partake in fruit consumption by sunlight and moonlight. The California growing/packing/distribution company is a stone-fruit (peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots) and table-grape grower, packer and supplier.

The business of JG Summit started in 1957 when Universal Corn Products, Inc. (now Universal Robina Corporation) was established to operate a cornstarch plant in Manila. Since then, JG Summit has pioneered breakthroughs, broadened its enterprise and stayed at the forefront in every phase of the country's rise to development - the entrepreneur, who invested in agribusiness and the manufacture of feeds and prime food commodities; the visionary, who channeled resources and expanded into financial services, textile and property, all backbones of a growing economy; the captain of industry, who invested in power, telecommunications, petrochemicals, cement, and air transportation, all requisites for industrialization; the innovator, who continually provides value and fun in snacking; and the new regional multinational, who has embraced the challenge of global competitiveness with zeal. JG Summit has six (6) core businesses: branded consumer, agro-industrial and commodity food products in Universal Robina Corporation; real estate and hotels in Robinsons Land Corporation and United Industrial Corporation (Singapore); telecommunications and internet in Digital Telecommunications Phils., Inc.; petrochemicals in JG Summit Petrochemicals Corporation; air transportation in Cebu Pacific Air; and financial services in Robinsons Savings Bank and JG Summit Capital Services Corporation.

In business since 1978, Seabrook Brothers & Sons, Inc. is still run by the founding Seabrook family. Seabrook Brothers and Sons almost has an alphabet of products. From asparagus to water chestnuts, seabrook company grows, processes, and freezes a harvest of vegetables. In addition to producing items for retail sale under its Seabrook Farms label, seabrook company supplies vegetables to customers in the industrial ingredients, foodservice, and private-label retail sectors. It serves customers throughout the US, as well as in internationally in Canada, Chile, Israel, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. Seabrook also makes such value-added products as frozen skillet meals, creamed spinach, and butter and cheese sauces.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is an international franchisor, confectionery manufacturer and retail operator in the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot factory, the Company manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks. The factory typically produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.

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