In 1956, we opened our doors as Northwest Egg Sales with a small, family-owned egg grading plant in Seattle. Soon after, we added laying hens at our Cherry Lane Farms. We have since expanded into a fully integrated producer and processor of eggs and egg products. Today, headquartered in Everett, Washington, National Food Corporation operates its own feed mills, pullet farms, layer farms, processing plants and distribution centers in Washington, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, serving markets throughout Alaska, Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. By controlling every aspect of production, processing, distribution and marketing, we are able to assure that our customers receive the highest quality shell eggs and egg products, backed by effective customer service and support programs. As the Northwest's leading producer of both organic and cage-free eggs, National Food Corporation continually seeks to strive toward eco-friendly efforts. Our chickens enjoy certified organic feed while nesting in newly remodeled cage-free environments and all of our Naturally Organic eggs come from fully Certified Organic farms.

In 1904, J.K. Crowley purchased a small dairy business in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and founded the Crowley Dairy Company. In 1915, he moved his company to Binghamton, N.Y., where, now known as Crowley Foods, it is still headquartered. In the 100 years since J.K. Crowley founded the company, Crowley Foods has continued to grow. Consumers can find high quality, award-winning dairy products bearing the Crowley name from New York State to Ohio to Florida and as far west as the Mississippi River. Today, Crowley Foods is made up of six dairy food brands that are leaders in their market areas - Crowley, Heluva Good, Rosenberger's Dairy, Axelrod, Maggio Cheese, and Penn Maid Dairy. Our company manufactures and distributes a full line of dairy products, refrigerated beverages, frozen desserts, and specialty products, which we sell to retail food and foodservice customers. Crowley Foods is owned by HP Hood LLC, a manufacturer and distributor of dairy products throughout the United States, headquartered in Lynnfield, M.A.

We at Johanna Foods value our long-standing and strong relationships with our employees, customers, vendors and neighbors. We believe that strong and abiding partnerships help us continue to supply the highest quality products at the best value on a consistent basis. In that spirit, we are proud to support many local and national organizations, both corporately and on an individual employee basis. Chief among the many community outreach programs that Johanna Foods sponsors is the National Immunotherapy Cancer Research Foundation (NICRF). The NICRF remains distinguished from other cancer foundations in that 100% of net revenues go directly into cancer research -no money is allocated to undirected studies nor to overhead. Johanna Foods contributes annually to the NICRF, and also underwrites the major fundraiser for the NICRF, the Johanna Foods, Inc. Golf Classic. Johanna Foods is also the major sponsor of the Flemington, NJ Turkey Trot, a 5K run/2 mile fitness walk held on Thanksgiving Day. All proceeds from the Turkey Trot, which celebrated its thirteenth anniversary in 2005, go to the Center for Educational Advancement, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting and guiding people with disabilities into employment.

Cadbury Limited makes the famous chocolate-covered Cadbury Cream Eggs -- and the more we suck, the fatter its bottom line. With a 10% market share, Cadbury is the world's second-largest candy maker (after Mars). Its candy brands include Dairy Milk, Flake, Trebor and Bassett, and Green & Black's. Cadbury also is the world's second-largest chewing gum maker (after Wrigley, which is owned by Mars), offering brands such as Bubbas, Trident, Clorets, and Dentyne. Billionaire and corporate activist Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund owns 2.68% of the company. In February 2010 a majority of Cadbury's shareholders approved a takeover offer from Kraft Foods.

Established in 1965, Nongshim has expanded from its Korean roots to establish operations around the globe. Nongshim provides instant noodles and rice, as well as beverages and a variety of snacks to customers in about 80 markets. Its products include instant noodle soups, instant rice cups, snack foods (such as onion rings, potato chips, and shrimp chips), fruit juice, and bottled water. Nongshim company operates plants and offices in China, Korea, Japan, and the US. Nongshim's 10 subsidiaries include discount store Mega Mart, foodmaker Taekyung Nongsan, and packing producer Youlchon Chemistry.

North Pacific Seafoods company catches, processes and distributes fish and seafood products, including salmon, tuna, halibut, pollock, cod, rockfish, flatfish, shellfish (crab and shrimp), and caviar and roe. It also offers specialty seafood such as octopus, squid, and sea cucumbers. North Pacific Seafoods company has headquarters in Seattle and operates four Alaskan shore-based processing plants in Sitka, Kodiak, Togiak, and Pederson Point. North Pacific Processors is a subsidiary of the Japanese seafood giant, Marubeni Corporation.

United Biscuits (UB), the market-leading UK biscuit (cookies to all you Yanks) maker. UB's cake brands include such stalwarts as Jacob's Cream Crackers, Jaffa Cakes, and, probably the company's biggest bite, McVitie's Digestive Biscuits (it sells some 71 million packet of them a year). Catering to savory flavor lovers, the company's salty snack brands include McCoy's, and Hula Hoops. In addition to its name brands, United Biscuits produces private-label biscuits and snacks for food retailers. Beyond the UK, the company is also a leading biscuit and snack maker in Western Europe. It is jointly owned investment firms, The Blackstone Group and PAI.

Icelandic UK company imports seafood to the UK from producers in the chilly northern waters of the Faroe Islands, Russia, Norway, Canada, and China. Frozen-at-sea fish, including cod, redfish, and haddock, are processed into fillets on board immediately after being caught for the trip to market. Icelandic UK supplies foodservice wholesalers, mainly local fish-and-chip shops. Launched in 1998, Icelandic UK also imports fish fillets, whole fish, crabsticks, warm-water prawns, and other seafood products under the Icelandic and other brand names. Icelandic UK, Ltd. is a subsidiary of the Icelandic Group.

Moy Park, one of Northern Ireland's largest food processors, supplies private-label fresh, processed, and value-added chicken to food retailers and foodservice distributors in the UK, France, and other parts of Europe. It entered the turkey market by buying local O'Kane Poultry in 2010. Moy Park's agricultural arm operates hatcheries using chicks from Aviagen. Its Moy Park Foodservices division offers frozen onion rings, breaded mushrooms, tempura-battered vegetables and fried cheese bites ideal for pubs and restaurants. The company has operations in Northern Ireland, France, and England. Moy Park was founded in 1943; Chicago-based meatpacker The OSI Group sold it to Brazil's Marfrig in 2008.

Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), America's first agricultural land trust, died at her home in Marshall, Calif. on November 30. She was 75. Few have done more to preserve the land and culture of western Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area), where she settled to start a family in 1950. She will be particularly remembered by fellow farmers and environmentalists as a determined optimist who brought opposing parties together to protect and revitalize the region's agricultural greenbelt.Ellen Tirza Lotte Prins was born February 21, 1927 in Amsterdam Holland. In February 1940, Ellen and her family fled to New York, just ahead of the Nazi invasion.

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