Pura Foods is in a slick business. A subsidiary of US agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, Pura Foods refines and processes edible oils, shortenings, margarines, and other spreads for the bakery, foodservice, and retail food sectors in the UK, as well as in selected overseas markets. Pura Foods company's oils include coconut, palm, rapeseed, and sunflower. Because of concern about genetically modified grains and livestock, as well as allergy and health issues, the company does not refine animal fats, soya, maize, or ground nuts. Pura's brands include Bake-lite, Peerless, Wesson Green, Pura, Leonara, and Frymax.

Jimmy Sanders, Inc., founded by, you guessed it, Jimmy Sanders, makes and distributes farm supplies, fertilizers, and agricultural chemicals. It also provides grain marketing and storage, seed processing and handling, crop advisors, technology support, and other related services. Started in 1953, the company took its present structure in 1995 when three companies owned by the founder (Jimmy Sanders Seed, Sanders Elevator, and Cleveland Chemical) merged. Jimmy Sanders has more than 50 locations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

LDH (La Doria) company sells a variety of canned tomato products -- in whole, chopped, and pureed forms, or as prepared sauces. LDH also offers dried pasta; canned, frozen, and dried fruits; canned vegetables; canned fish (anchovies, mackerel, salmon, sardines, and tuna); pulses; baked beans; baking chocolate; and other products. LDH (La Doria) company's products are sold under private labels including La Doria, Heinz, John West, and Bonduelle to UK-based food retailers such as J Sainsbury and Tesco. Parent company La Doria owns 51% of LDH (La Doria); John West Foods, a subsidiary of MW Brands, owns 20%; company management and Pastificio Di Martino own the rest.

Juanita's Foods is a Mexican food maker and the world's largest manufacturer of menudo, a spicy soup made with tripe (the stomach lining of the pig or cow) and hominy (dried and boiled whole corn kernels), which is said to cure hangovers. Juanita's Foods company makes other canned and frozen traditional foods such as caldo de pollo (chicken and potatoes) and pozole (a Mexican stew), as well as dips and sauces, refrigerated entrees (chili verde, carnitas), and a variety of drink mixes. Its consumer products are available mostly in California. Juanita's Foods also makes products for use by the foodservice industry. Its brand names are Juanita's Foods and Pico Pica.

Sodexo Limited is a leading contract foodservices provider serving more than 2,300 customers in the UK and Ireland. Sodexo company offers corporate dining and hospitality services, operates foodservices for education and healthcare companies, and runs concessions at sporting events and other attractions. Its facilities management services include cleaning, grounds keeping, security, and technical support. In addition, Sodexo Holdings operates voucher cards used by central and local governments for social benefits programs. Sodexo company is the UK operating unit of Paris-based global foodservices giant Sodexo.

Premier Foods Company makes bread, spreads, pickles, vinegars, sauces, beverage mixes, and snack foods, as well as bulk condiments. Its big brand names include Ambrosia and Bird's custards, Mr Kipling cakes, Branston baked beans, Hartley jellies, Hovis bread, Loyd Grossman sauces, and Sun-Pat peanut butter. Premier's offerings are available at food retailers and foodservice providers throughout the UK. It has become a lead player in the UK food sector in recent years, with the acquisition of RHM and Campbell Soup's UK operations.

You might say this company has a steak in the organic meat business. Dakota Beef is a leading supplier of organic beef and beef products that are free of antibiotics and growth hormones. It sources its beef from certified organic producers and operates a 33,000-square-foot, certified-organic processing plant capable of handling more than 100 head of cattle each day. The company supplies cuts of meat and ground beef to food wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers including Costco and Whole Foods Market. It also sells beef online to individual consumers. CEO Scott Lively founded the company in 2003.

Technically, in the beginning there was heaven and earth, but Origin Enterprises knows that agriculture and food weren't far behind. The company's agri-nutrition division includes operations devoted to feed ingredients, fertilizer blending and distribution, integrated on-farm agronomy, and marine proteins and oils (such as fishmeal and fish oil manufacturing and distribution). Agri-nutrition subsidiaries include Goulding Chemicals (fertilizer production) and R&H Hall (animal feed). Its food business includes the Odlums, Shamrock, and Roma brands, which specialize in home baking, snacking, and Italian food ingredients. Origin Enterprises is 70% owned by ARYZTA, a European maker of specialty baked products.

US Soy works to make organic, non-genetically modified soy a staple product in the US and abroad. US Soy company grows, processes, and sells whole soybeans, as well as soy flour, meal, oil, powder, and roasted soy nuts, pieces, and bits (salted and unsalted). It develops its own totally traceable seed stock. US Soy sells its products to consumer product manufacturing companies in the baking, beverage, health food, infant food, nutritional supplement, pet food, and snack industries. US Soy has customers worldwide.

As far as volume is concerned, the Garden of Eden had nothing on Dovex Fruit Company. The company processes, packages, and ships some 6 million cartons of conventional and organic apples, pears, cherries and other stone fruits every year. Most of the company's fruit comes from sister company Dovex Orchards (3,900 acres, 30% of which is certified organic); it also purchases fruit from other Washington State growers. Additional company operations include Dovex Marketing and Dovex Export. The company was established in 1982 by the DeNadai family and is part of the Dovex group of companies, or Dovex Corp.

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