Val Verde Vegetable Co. is a leading grower and packager of fresh produce that sources products primarily from farms in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The company ships such fresh produce as cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes, as well as a variety of melons. In addition to US growers, Val Verde Vegetable also sources fresh produce from Mexico. The family-owned company was started by president Frank Schuster in 1987.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top five consumer products companies. For 2009. Anheuser-Busch InBev generated revenues of 36.8 billion USD. With a dream to become The Best Beer Company in a Better World, the company has a strong, balanced portfolio. With four of the top ten selling beers in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev holds the No. 1 or No. 2 position in 19 key markets. It has a key presence in both developed and developing markets. Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, Anheuser-Busch InBev leverages the collective strength of approximately 116,000 people based in operations in 23 countries across the world. The company works through six operational Zones; North America, Latin America North, Latin America South, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia Pacific, allowing our consumers around the world to enjoy our beers.

You might say this company is the biggest Cheesehead in Wisconsin. Sargento Foods is one of the largest cheese manufacturers in the US, offering a variety of block cheese and such value-added products as shredded cheese blends and sliced cheeses for sandwiches. the company markets its cheese through supermarkets and other retail grocery stores nationwide. Sargento is also a leading supplier of custom cheese products to restaurant operators and other foodservice operators; its food ingredients division makes cheese products for other food manufacturers. The family-owned business was started in 1953 by Leonard Gentine, Sr., and his business partner Joseph Sartori.

Squab Producers of California,an agricultural cooperative, has been providing Squab and specialty poultry to a discerning clientele since 1943. The temperate climate of California's Central Valley provides the ideal year-round growing area, allowing the farmer-members to achieve the highest level of productivity without compromising quality, thus assuring customer satisfaction.Squab Producers of California operates a modern HACCP-compliant processing plant, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. Squabs are processed, packaged and shipped nationwide and internationally. Use this website to learn about the history of Squab, find a source, or view Squab recipes.

Shafer Vineyards traces its beginnings to 1972 when John Shafer left a 23-year career in the publishing industry and, with his family, moved to the Napa Valley to pursue a second career in wine. After purchasing a 210-acre estate in Napa Valley's Stags Leap District, the Shafer family faced the arduous task of replanting the existing vineyards, which dated to the 1920s, and terracing the steep and rocky hillsides, eventually expanding vineyard acreage to its current 50 acres.Evolving from grape growers to vintners, the Shafers crushed their first Cabernet grapes in 1978 and began construction on their winery a year later.The first Shafer Cabernet became a benchmark, winning the acclaimed San Francisco Vintners Club taste-off upon release and, over a decade later taking first place in an international blind tasting held in Germany, where it outranked such wines as Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour and Chateau Palmer.Doug Shafer became winemaker in 1983 after graduating from the University of California at Davis with a degree in enology and viticulture. A year later Elias Fernandez joined the winery as assistant winemaker. Together Doug and Elias have worked closely to forge the Shafer style of quality, consistency and elegance.

Kikkoman Corporation is a Japan-based company primarily engaged in the food manufacturing business. Kikkoman Company operates in four business segments. The Domestic Food Manufacturing and Sale segment offers soy sauce and soy sauce-related seasonings; processed tomato products under the brand name Del Monte; vegetable and fruit juice; cans; wine; mirin (sweet cooking rice wine); and other food products. This segment also offers soy milk drinks, commercial food materials and health food products, among others. The Domestic Others segment provides drugs, chemical products, as well as real estate, logistic and indirect services. The Overseas Food Manufacturing and Sale segment provides soy sauce; processed tomato products under the brand name Del Monte; cans; soy milk drinks and health food products, among others. The Overseas Food Wholesales segment provides oriental food products.

From the beginning of our history, to the present, World's Finest® Chocolate has continuously built on the latest innovations in chocolate manufacturing technology and has sought to develop unique blendings of our premium chocolate with the best ingredients obtainable. World's Finest Chocolate(WFC) makes chocolate bars, cocoa, and chocolate candies at its plants in Chicago and Canada. In addition to candy bars, the company makes chocolate covered nuts and fruit, individually wrapped chocolates, mixes, and a sugar-free line. Some of WFC's raw cocoa beans come from its cocoa plantation on the West Indies island of St. Lucia.

Ter Beke is an innovating Belgian fresh food group that commercialises its assortment in ten European countries. The group has two core activities: processed meats and fresh ready meals. It has nine plants in Belgium, the Netherlands and France and employs approximately 1,800 persons. In 2009 Ter Beke realised a turnover of 392,4 million EUR. Ter Beke is listed on Euronext Brussels.This company has a big slice of the European meat market. Ter Beke is the leading producer of processed meat and fresh prepared meals in Belgium supplying deli meats and other meat products to grocery stores, delicatessens, and butcher shops under the Daniel Coopman and L'Ardennaise brands. Its ready meals operation markets Mediterranean-themed foods such as lasagna, moussaka, and pasta under the Come a casa and Vamos banners, and it produces pizzas under the Pronto brand. Ter Beke has seven processing plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France; it sells its products throughout much of Europe. The family of founder Frans Coopman owns about 35% of the company.

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.

If you thought only Cookie Monster bought cookies in bulk, talk to the folks at Voortman Cookies. The company bakes up to 20 million cookies daily and distributes them to more than 50,000 grocery stores throughout Canada and the US. Voortman's cookies and wafers are sold in packages and from bulk display units. Voortman cookies contain no trans fatty acids (hydrogenated vegetable oils), a move made to position its cookies as being a healthier alternative to other cookie brands. An affiliated bakery, also named Voortman Cookies and operated by some of co-founder William Voortman's children, sells cookies in the southwestern US.

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