Z Trim Holdings partners with the food industry by deploying formulation and product performance solutions built around cutting-edge dietary fibers. A public company, Z Trim Holdings acquired the rights to a USDA patent and subsequently evolved the processing technology and expanded the fiber sources to create innovative ingredients with unique properties that provide multifunctional benefits across diverse product categories. Through our distributor partners, we can provide the multifunctional benefits of Z Trim ingredients and help to create value for food manufacturers around the world. In fact, in 2006, Z Trim corn fiber ingredient was recognized as the “Most Innovative Ingredient” at the Food Ingredients South America conference. Z Trim® corn and oat fiber ingredients are used in a multitude of retail and food service consumer products including meats, sauces, soups, dressings, baked goods, prepared meals, frozen hand-held snacks, pizza dough and toppings, and many more. Z Trim fiber ingredients give food developers a highly effective tool to achieve desired product attributes, and address product formulation and performance challenges. The multifunctional benefits of Z Trim ingredients make them a perfect choice for standard products as well as more healthful products that are reduced in fat and calories.

S&W Seed breeds seeds of the alfalfa variety. The agricultural company contracts locally grown alfalfa seeds from farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley, processes them at its production facility, and sells them to agribusinesses and farmers around the globe for use in growing animal feed -- particularly alfalfa hay -- for dairy and beef cattle, horses, and other livestock. About 50% of its certified seeds are sold to customers in the Middle East and Latin America, since the varieties it produces are better suited for warmer climates. S&W Seed also produces wheat on occasion and is looking into producing stevia, a natural, no-calorie sweetener. The company went public in May 2010.

Casco Inc., founded in 1858, is one of Canada's principal producers and suppliers of high-quality food ingredients and industrial products. Casco corn-refined ingredients include sweeteners, starches, oil, and animal feed, and are used by customers in over sixty industries from food and beverage to pharmaceuticals to paper manufacturers to animal nutrition. Casco specialty ingredients include polyols, NutraFlora and FortiFeed prebiotic short-chain fructooligosaccharides, Expandex modified gluten-free tapioca starch, and OatVantage oat bran concentrate. Casco has three manufacturing facilities in Ontario: Cardinal, London, and Port Colborne; is headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario; and has a sales office in Pointe Claire, Quebec.

Chaucer Foods Ltd. was founded in 1982. Chaucer Foods, Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of re-hydrating ingredients for convenience foods in the United Kingdom and internationally. Chaucer company specializes in ingredients used in various sweet and savoury convenience and snack foods. Chaucer offers various croutons and toppings, such as soup croutons, salad croutons, salad and soup sprinkles, toppings and crumbles for ready meals, and fresh crumb cereal fillers. Chaucer company also provides various freeze dried ingredients, which include whole products, pieces, slices, and powders in various formats, such as whole vegetables, fruits, and herbs primarily for applications in fruits, vegetables, herbs, and cheese. In addition, Chaucer Foods, Ltd. offers natural mushroom extract, which is used in various convenience foods, including liquid and dehydrated soups, sauces, and stocks and bouillons.

Established for more than 38 years, ADAS has a hard-earned reputation as a preferred supplier to the public and private sector.ADAS Holdings has found its place is at the junction of science, policy, and agriculture. Whether addressing the viability of bio-fuels, the management of water resources, or determining a carbon footprint, the company provides objective research and consulting services to both private and government-sponsored agricultural companies in the UK. ADAS employs more than 700 people who have expertise in nearly 60 areas of study, including biochemistry, hydrology, and plant pathology and can serve as expert witnesses, or just plain give expert opinions. ADAS serves clients in England, Wales, and Scotland, as well as overseas.

Kraft Foods Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets snacks, confectionery, and quick meal products worldwide. Kraft Foods company offers snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, and chocolate confectionary; beverages, including coffee, packaged juice drinks, and powdered beverages; cheese, including natural, process, and cream cheeses; and grocery, including spoonable and pourable dressings, condiments, and desserts. It also offers convenient meals, including primarily frozen pizza, packaged dinners, lunch combinations, and processed meats. Kraft Foods markets its products primarily under various brand names, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Maxwell House, Jacobs, Nabisco, Oreo, Milka, and LU. Kraft Foods company, through its subsidiary, Cadbury Plc, also offers chocolate products under the Cadbury Dairy Milk, Flake, Creme Egg, and Green & Black's brands; gum products under Trident, Dentyne, Hollywood, and Bubbaloo brands; and candy products under the Halls, Cadbury Eclairs, Bassett's, and The Natural Confectionery Co. brand names. It sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, super centers, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores, and other retail food outlets.

F.C.F. Fishery is gettin' jiggy with it! One of the largest marine product trading companies in Taiwan, F.C.F. Fishery is involved in squid jigging (a fishing method that uses weighted hooks that are jerked up and down in order to attract fish) in the North Pacific Ocean and the waters off New Zealand. Additionally, it procures and markets fresh and frozen swordfish, shark, tuna, other miscellaneous food fish. F.C.F.operates fishing bases in Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. Its catches are exported worldwide.

Gatorade may be the granddaddy of energy drinks and Red Bull may be the world's best seller, but Impulse Energy USA says it's steering the industry in a whole new direction. Impulse Energy has embraced the increasing use of energy drinks as cocktail mixers. The company launched its Impulse Energy drink in 2001 on the beaches of South Florida. In 2004 Impulse Energy introduced Impulse Zero, a zero-carb, zero-calorie version of its energy drink. Also available is Impulse Extreme, a sugar-free energy drink that triples the blend of taurine, caffeine, and other ingredients found in Impulse Energy.

SECO & Golden “100”, Inc. is a member owned purchasing cooperative headquartered in DeLand, Florida. The company was formed in 1945 by a group of dairy farmers who sought to improve their bargaining power by combining and leveraging their purchased requirements. Today the membership is comprised of a select group of agriculturally based cooperatives and proprietary companies that are engaged in the production of food and dairy products. The members collectively participate in purchasing programs designed to optimize opportunities within the supply chain for delivering added value. The cooperative is governed by a board of directors. Each of the member companies designates a director who sits on the board. In addition to addressing the performance of the business, the board receives and acts upon nominations and recommendations for new suppliers, new members and new programs. The directors are also actively involved in the progress and support of individual programs and serve as chairmen of the established program committees.

Ag Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP®) is a farmer-owned cooperative engaged in the procurement, processing, marketing, and transportation of grains and grain products.Since its formation in 1983, AGP has been committed to the success of its owners. Today, that is 184 local cooperatives representing over 250,000 farmers throughout the Midwest, and five regional cooperatives representing farmers throughout the United States and Canada.AGP operates nine soybean processing plants including six plants in Iowa, located at Eagle Grove, Emmetsburg, Manning, Mason City, Sergeant Bluff, and Sheldon. Other AGP processing plants are located at Dawson, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Hastings, Nebraska. The Hastings plant is the first farmer-owned soybean processing facility in that state.

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