O'Leary Potato Packers Ltd. (OPP) was established in 1986 to better manage and distribute the shipments of growers' products to clients at competitive prices. The company acquires a large amount of product from local growers. O'Leary Potato Packers Ltd. enjoys considerable success as a result of its strong management and dedicated staff, who through significant team efforts, attain the goals established by the company. Our services for all Prince Edward Island growers include grading, packaging, purchasing, and marketing. We also deliver quality products for use throughout North, South and Central America.

C.F. Sauer has been adding a little spice to life. It produces extracts, flavorings, and spices for the consumer food and foodservice industries. The C.F. Sauer company also sells mayonnaise, mustard, seasoning blends, dry mixes, margarine, and cooking oils. In addition to its namesake brand, Sauer, it also makes the Duke's, Bama, Spice Hunter, Gold Medal, and Mrs. Filbert's brands. Sauer's customers include retail food outlets and foodservice providers, including restaurants and concessionaires east of the Mississippi River. C.F. Sauer also provides private-label and blending services for food processors.

General Mills gets its Kix trying to grab the spotlight as the US's #1 breakfast cereal maker (wrangling for the top spot every year with uber-rival Kellogg). But #1 or not, the company has supermarket-aisles-full of kid-friendly products. Its Big G Cereals include the well-known brands Cheerios, Chex, and Wheaties. Its products are manufactured in 15 countries and available in more than 100. General Mills operates 70 production facilities (down from 79 in 2008, the closures were a cost-controlling measure) -- 44 in the US, 11 in the Asia Pacific region, three in Canada, seven in Europe, four in Latin America and Mexico, and one in South Africa.

Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc. was founded in 1983 when the company became the owner of 28 acres of land, the artesian springs, eleven wells, water rights, a bottling plant, a warehouse, the resort pool and numerous other homes and buildings in Eldorado Springs, CO. Continuous growth over the years necessitated expansion and in 2001 Eldorado built a new 38,000 sq. foot state of the art bottling and distribution facility (see picture). The company relocated headquarters and operations to this new facility in August of 2001.

The family-owned and -operated The Musco Family Olive Co. was founded by Nicolo Musco, who immigrated to the US from Italy in the 1920s to start a food-distribution company. The Musco Family Olive Co. is the leading maker of canned and brined olives in the US. The Musco Family Olive company sells its products primarily under its flagship Pearls brand. It also sells olives under the Early California brand, as well as offering private-label services. Musco's products, which include black, green, and Mediterranean olives in sliced, chopped, pitted, and whole varieties, are sold through retail food outlets, as well as to restaurants and other foodservice providers across the nation.

Mrs. Clark's Foods produces salad dressings, sauces, and juices under the Mrs. Clark's brand name, as well as under private-labels for its foodservice customers. Mrs. Clark's Foods, L.C. company is a subsidiary of grain cooperative AGRI Industries. Mrs. Clark's Foods company's dressings, sauces, and mayonnaise come in porable or spoonable varieties. Its fruit and vegetable juices and juice blends come bottled or in shelf-stable packaging. Sizes vary from individual-serving cups to 2,000-pound totes. Mrs. Clark's also offers co-packing services.

Icicle Seafoods is hard at work even when icicles are forming outside. The fishery and seafood-processing company catches, processes, and distributes fresh, canned, and frozen fish including cod, herring, pollock, halibut, salmon, crab, and trout. Its customers include retail food, industrial, wholesale and foodservice operations worldwide. It maintains floating seafood processing plants, shoreline plants, and other facilities in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. Its Alaskan cannery has been in operation since 1899. Icicle Seafoods, Inc. is owned by private investment firm Paine & Partners.

Retail farm-supply and grain-marketing cooperative GROWMARK can mark its growth by the grain. A member-owed agricultural co-op, GROWMARK serves farmers in the midwestern US and Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1980, it has more than 250,000 members. Under the FAST STOP name, the co-op runs more than 300 fuel stations and convenience stores in the Midwest. Its Seedway subsidiary sells commercial vegetable seed and farm seed for turf, and grains including alfalfa, corn, wheat, and soybeans. GROWMARK also offers fertilizer, seeds, ethanol, biodiesel, and farm financing. Its MID-CO COMMODITIES subsidiary trades grain and offers advice regarding futures and options.

Mead Johnson & Company was founded in 1905 in Jersey City, New Jersey, by Edward Mead Johnson, Sr. E. Mead launched his business after leaving Johnson & Johnson, which he had co-founded with his brothers.Mead Johnson & Company introduced its first major infant feeding product in 1910 and followed it the next year with the product that would set the company on its path to leadership in infant and children's nutrition. A carbohydrate milk-modifier, Dextri-Maltose® became the first clinically supported, physician recommended infant feeding product in the United States.In 1915, the company relocated to Evansville, Indiana to have better access to the raw materials needed to manufacture Dextri-Maltose.Over the next several decades, Mead Johnson built upon its leadership in science-based nutrition, introducing many innovative infant feeding products while expanding into vitamins, pharmaceutical products, and enteral and parenteral nutrition.

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.

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