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.

James Desiderio Inc, is a full line service wholesaler, in business for over 52 years. James Desiderio company is family owned and operated with three generations of hard work and experience to back it up. The business has been built on a very basic philosophy "Provide the customer with a quality product, at a competitive price." In today's competitive world, the businesses who keep the customer as their #1 priority, are the ones who can remain successful. As each customer has specific needs James Desiderio sales team can hand tailor a product and delivery program that will satisfy each individual business. Chain supermarkets, independents, and foodservice are James Desideriospecialty and james have trained professionals designated to put together a program that will work for you. James Desiderio feel james "hands on" attitude can make the difference in complete customer satisfaction.

While homemakers are busy making chapati, roti, and pooris, Food Corporation of India (FCI) stays busy managing India's grain supplies. FCI buys and markets wheat and rice for the Indian government, purchasing both domestically grown and imported grains, keeping the stockpiles in its own warehouses. Through periodic sales, FCI controls and manages the domestic grain supply, regulating the market prices for those commodities. It also provides some of its stores of grain to government-subsidized food programs, and it builds up buffer stocks to meet any food crisis. One of Asia's largest companies, FCI operates under the direction of the Indian government's Food Ministry. It was founded in 1965.

Grim though it may seem, there was a time when people thought all coffee was the same. It was a time when there were no trendy espresso shops. A time when the term “Arabica” was not part of the average American’s vocabulary. A time when coffee usually arrived in a tin cylinder. A time called 1975. nd while most young Americans were perfecting their disco moves, one young man, Jeffrey Cohn, focused instead on a new venture—launching a specialty coffee company. Having grown up in a family of coffee entrepreneurs (his grandfather was the founder of coffee giant Superior Coffee), Cohn wanted to provide people with a higher-quality coffee than the one they could get to with a can opener—one that people could enjoy solely on the merits of flavor. In 1977, his vision became a reality with the establishment of “The Brewing Market” in Boulder, Colorado. Soon after opening his second shop in 1980, Cohn began roasting his own beans on-site, exposing Boulder to authentic, freshly roasted specialty coffees for the first time. In 1985, increasing demand in the wholesale market prompted Cohn to sell the Brewing Market and launch Allegro Coffee Company, an import, roasting and wholesale distribution venture. Cohn’s insistence on using only the purest quality ingredients and traditional, handcrafted roasting methods sparked the interest of Boulder’s natural foods retailers just as natural foods markets were beginning a phase of dynamic, nationwide expansion.

Coke is it -- it being the world's #1 soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Its other brands include Minute Maid, Powerade, and Dasani water. In North America it sells Groupe Danone's Evian; it also sells brands from Dr Pepper Snapple Group (Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes) outside Australia, Europe, and North America. The firm makes or licenses more than 3,000 drinks under 500 brand names in some 200 nations. Although it does no bottling itself, Coke owns 34% of the world's #1 Coke bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE); 32% of Mexico's bottler Coca-Cola FEMSA; and 23% of European bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling.

Moark LLC is one of the top egg producers in the US, owning more than 24 million laying hens in about a dozen facilities across the nation. Its eggs are sold under private-label and national brand names, such as Land O'Lakes All-Natural Farm Fresh Eggs. The company, whose hens produce some 126 million eggs a week, also produces specialty eggs including all-natural, cage-free, Omega-3-enhanced, and organic. Moark is also is a top franchisee of the Eggland's Best brand of eggs. The bulk of the company's eggs are sold as shell eggs, the rest are turned into other consumer and industrial egg products.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... the sprawling King Ranch, to be exact. Founded in 1853, King Ranch's operations extend beyond its original 825,000 Texan cattle-raising acres. The ranch is still home to cattle and horses, of course. However, King Ranch oversees considerable farming interests in its home state and elsewhere (cotton, sorghum, sod, citrus, pecans, vegetables, and cane sugar). It also has varied retail operations (hardware, designer saddles and other leather goods, publishing and printing). In addition, King Ranch also beefs up revenues with tourist dollars from birdwatchers, hunters, and sightseers who visit its Texas ranch lands. The descendants of founder Richard King own King Ranch.

Smith Dairy Products Company makes and distributes dairy products and beverages, marketed mainly under its Ruggles (ice cream), SMITH'S (fluid milk, ice cream, cottage cheese, and sour cream) brands. Smith Dairy also offers teas, juices, punches, and dips. Its customers include food retailers and foodservice businesses in Indiana and Ohio. Founded in 1909 by John and Peter Schmid, the family-owned and -operated dairy is known for its bright yellow plastic milk jugs, which it claims block out light rays which break down milk's vitamins and minerals and affect its flavor. The company also owns Wayne Dairy in Richmond, Indiana, and Pacific Valley Dairy in Pacific, Missouri.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

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