Graves Brothers produces grapefruits and oranges on the graves of timberlands. The company's orchards are located on about 6,500 acres of its former Florida timberland. It grows, packs, and distributes citrus fruit under the Orchid Grapefruit, Coral Produce, and Cypress Florida Citrus labels. Graves Brothers has customers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its varieties include ruby red, flame, Rio star, and white seedless grapefruit; navel, Hamlin, Valencia and temple oranges; and Orlando and Minneola tangelos. The company also has interests in timber, farmland, and real estate in South and North Carolina and Georgia. The company is owned and operated by the founding Graves family.

J.C. Potter Sausage Company, a subsidiary of Atlantic Premium Brands, processes and distributes sausages and other meats under the J.C. Potter brand name. The company's products are a staple in grocery stores and supermarket chains in Arkansas and Oklahoma, although they are available nationwide. Potter's products include breakfast sausage in link, patty, and bulk forms; sausage biscuits; bacon, cured salt pork; hickory smoked ham; hot links; and smoked sausages. It also processes private-label products for other organizations. The company was founded in 1949 by its namesake, J.C. Potter.

Domingo Ghirardelli immigrates to the United States from his homeland of Italy, he has dreams of striking it rich in the California Gold Rush. After trying his hand and failing at mining, he settles on opening a tent-store in nearby Stockton, CA, selling various supplies and confections to fellow miners. With his new business proving successful, Domingo decides to open a store and hotel in San Francisco. After a major fire in 1851 destroys his businesses, he begins to rebuild. In 1852, he forms a new confectionary company that is to become the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company. Today, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has built on its signature taste and time-honored manufacturing processes to become America’s premium chocolate company.

In the 1930's, Hubert Hansen and his three sons began selling fresh, non-pasteurized juices to film studios and retailers in Southern California under the Hansen's® name. n the 1970's, Tim Hansen, the grandson of Hubert, developed and marketed a variety of Natural sodas and pasteurized shelf stable, 100% juices also under the Hansen's® label. Products marketed by the Corporation include: Hansen's® Natural Sodas, Signature Sodas, fruit juice Smoothies, Energy drinks, Energade® energy sports drinks, E²0 Energy Water®, functional drinks, Sparkling Lemonades and Orangeades, multi-vitamin juice drinks in aseptic packaging, Junior Juice® juice, iced teas, lemonades and juice cocktails, apple juice, cider and juice blends, Blue Sky® brand carbonated beverages, Monster Energy* brand energy drinks, Lost® Energy* brand energy drinks and Rumba* brand energy drinks, and Joker Energy brand energy drinks.

Leading Edge Brands is a soft drink marketer and manufacturer offering consumer products in the Caribbean, Mexico, the South Pacific, and the US. It owns the Frostie root beer brand, which dates back to 1936. The company also sells bottled water under the Heaven's Rain label. The company was founded in 1997 after acquiring the Kist and Flavette brand names from Monarch Beverage. That was followed by the purchase from Monarch of the Frostie label in 2000.

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ growing product portfolio includes the world’s greatest brands and beverages. We deliver them to the right place at the right moment with the industry’s most effective marketplace execution. We are the largest nonalcoholic bottler in the world, and our total volume represents 16 percent of The Coca-Cola Company’s total global volume. We also distribute Dr Pepper and other notable brands. While sparkling soft drinks represent our heritage, our portfolio now encompasses a full range of beverage categories, including energy drinks, still and sparkling waters, juices, sports drinks, fruit drinks, coffee-based beverages and teas. First listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1986 (NYSE: CCE), our roots go back to the birth of the Coca-Cola bottling business in the 19th century. Today, we serve a population of 421 million, representing approximately 80 percent of the people in North America and the entire populations of Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and the Netherlands.

Producers Rice Mill dries, mills, and markets more than 50 million bushels rice each year, which it sells both domestically and overseas. The growers' cooperative is one of the largest private-label producers of rice in the US, packaging more than 100 brands for the retail food, foodservice, private-label, and food-manufacturing industries. Its brands include ParExcellence, LeGourment, Golden Harvest, Classic Grains, Granada, Mandalay, Bamboo 103, Calrose, and Thai Orchard. It also processes rice for animal feeds such as Buck Grub deer feed and Equi-Jewel horse feed.

Founded in 2004, Monogram Food Solutions began operations when a group of Memphis investors purchased King Cotton and Circle B Brand foods from Sara Lee Corporation of Chicago. The purchase signified a homecoming for the brands. King Cotton was founded nearly 70 years ago in Memphis. King Cotton and Circle B are among the leading brands in retail sales of hot dogs, corn dogs, sandwich meats, and smoked sausages in the Memphis and Mid-South area.The former president of the Sara Lee Foods Dinner Group, Wes Jackson, continued Monogram's growth with the help of established relationships with key industry contacts. This was the precursor to licensing brands featuring NASCAR® and Jeff Foxworthy.

Tulip is the largest producer of pork in the UK providing a vast choice of products to both the retail and foodservice markets. From fresh pork, bacon and sausages to pies, canned and cooked meats, we pride ourselves on creating high quality food from farms in both the UK and Denmark; with our commitment to quality and care exceeding many recognised industry standards.If you prefer the aroma of breakfast to cup-shaped springtime blooms, you'll be glad to know that Tulip grows pigs not flowers. The result of a 2004 merger between Danish Crown's UK subsidiary and Flagship Foods, Tulip is one of the UK's largest meat groups. As a fully integrated meat producer, Tulip oversees its own pig production, slaughterhouses, and meat processing facilities to produce bacon, deli meats, cooked meats, and fried and marinated poultry. The firm operates in four main products groups: bacon, luncheon meat, canned goods, and poultry products. Tulip, which bought Germany's Nietfeld in 2010, also markets SPAM and Stagg products in the UK for US-based Hormel.

When my grandfather, Frank Vignieri, borrowed $35 from my grandmother’s cookie jar to start a meat packing company in 1936, he couldn’t have imagined what that investment would turn into. The company, known as Kenosha Beef, quickly grew its Midwest customer base thanks to a reputation built on customer satisfaction, high quality standards, innovative ideas, and exceptional tasting food.For more than seven decades, Birchwood Foods has been a leader in providing quality beef for the foodservice and retail industries. My father, Charles Vignieri (pictured), continued to successfully grow the company while never losing sight of the traditions and family values it was founded on.

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