United States Bakery was founded in 1906 by Engelbert and Joseph Franz and is still owned by the Franz family. United States Bakery also known as Franz Bakery, owns and operates six regional bakeries, as well as a chain of some 50 bakery thrift stores, all located in the Northwestern US. In addition to selling baked goods at its retail outlets, United States Bakery sells a variety of breads, pastries, bagels, donuts, and cookies to grocery stores, restaurants, and foodservice operators.

Silver Spring Foods, Inc. founded in 1929. Silver Spring Foods, Inc. engages in growing, processing, and selling horseradish and vegetable crops for retail, food service, private label, and industrial markets in the United States. It offers food service products, such as prepared and cranberry horseradish, garlic, mustard, seafood cocktail sauces, ground and beet horseradish, pineapple apricot sauces, and tartar sauces; and organic horseradish, mustard, and sauces. Silver Spring Foods company also offers dipping cups for dipping, salads, and sandwiches, as well as involves in co-packing condiments, jams and jellies, sauces, and salad dressings in portion control packages. It serves food manufacturers. Silver Spring Foods company sells its products through grocery chains and retail stores, as well as online.

Latham Seed Company provides genetically superior varieties of soybean seed to farmers in the upper Midwest, including Iowa and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Soybean brands sold include Roundup Ready and CystX. The company was founded in 1947 by Willard Latham. It remains family-owned and -operated. Its newly formed sister company, Latham Hybrids, specializes in seed corn.

Annie’s, Inc., based in Napa, CA, offers delicious foods made with the highest-quality natural and organic ingredients. The family of well-loved Annie’s, Inc. brands includes: Annie’s Homegrown, pasta meals, snacks and cereal; and Annie’s Naturals, unique salad dressings and condiments. The company has a long tradition of social and corporate responsibility, and believes in the importance of sustainable farming practices that respect the earth and its inhabitants. Each year, Annie’s gives $50,000 in scholarship funds to support the next generation of organic farmers.

Colavita USA is a leading importer and distributor of Italian foods, notably olive oil, pastas, sauces, and vinegars sold under the Colavita label. It supplies products to retail grocery store chains, specialty food stores, and wholesale distributors, as well as restaurants, caterers, and other foodservice operators. Colavita USA, L.L.C. was started by John J. Profaci, who struck a distribution agreement with Italy's Colavita family in 1978. Rome-based Colavita S.p.A owns 80% of the US importer.

Allens produces a full line of canned and frozen vegetables and beans (including the Popster's absolute fave -- spinach). The Arkansas-based company's brands include Allens, Butterfield, Popeye, Royal Prince, Sunshine, and Trappey's, along with Freshlike and Veg�All. Its customers include US companies in the retail food, foodservice, and food-manufacturing sectors. Founded in 1926, Allens remains a family-owned and -operated business and is the largest privately owned vegetable company in the US.

The Allen family counts its chickens before and after they're hatched. Allen Family Foods is a vertically-integrated poultry operation that includes breeding, hatching, feed milling, and processing of its chickens. The Delaware-headquartered company operates its 28 of its own "growout" farms and contracts with more than 500 independent farmers, who raise the rest of the company's chickens. Allen offers whole frying, roasting, and rotisserie chickens, chicken parts, and tray packs It sells 600 million pounds of chicken a year to food retailers in the US and throughout the rest of the world. The company's fresh and frozen chicken is distributed in the US by Allen's 400-vehicle truck fleet.

Cereal Byproducts Company was founded in 1917. Cereal Byproducts buys and sells raw ingredients derived from grains, grain byproducts, meat (beef, pork, and lamb), poultry, fish, peanuts, citrus, cotton, canola, beets, soybeans, malt, milk, and many other commodities. It trades in more than 300 different feed and food products, both domestically and internationally. Cereal company's customers include animal-feed companies and food manufacturers. Cereal also offers the Earth Friendly brand of corn-gluten meal for use as a fertilizer and weed-control substance to the lawn and garden product sector.

In China pigs fly and chickens cross the road to get to People's Food Holdings. At its processing plants located throughout China, People's Food produces and sells various high- and low-temperature meat products made from pork and poultry under the Jinluo brand name. The company supplies wholesalers and retailers nationally with sausages, fresh and frozen meats, and a selection of animal by-products used in other industries including food production, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Company chairman Ming Kam Sing owns a controlling interest in People's Food Holdings.

Emerald Dairy conducts operations through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Heilongjiang Xing An Ling Dairy and Heilongjiang Beian Nongken Changxing Lvbao Dairy. Founded in 1980, Emerald Dairy is one of the leading producers of infant formula, milk powder, soybean and rice powders products in China. The Company is headquartered in Beian City, Heilongjiang, one of China’s largest milk production bases. With the access to quality resources and the Company’s commitment to quality control, Emerald Dairy provides consumers best quality products at a competitive price. In 2005, “Xing An Ling,” the Company’s principle brand, was named one of the leading brands by the Government of Heilongjiang. In addition to being ISO 90001 certified, the Company‘s products are certified by the national government as organic products. Today, the Company’s products are distributed under brands “Xing An Ling” and “Yi Bai” throughout 20 provinces in China, servicing second- and third-tier city consumers. Going into 2008 and onward, Emerald Dairy will continue to pursue growth opportunities through capacity expansion, continued commitment to best quality and increasing popularity of its brands.

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