Riceland Foods, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is based in Stuttgart, Arkansas. Riceland Foods, Inc., a farmers’ cooperative, provides marketing services for rice, soybeans, and wheat grown by its farmer-members. Riceland Foods company also engages in soybean processing and oil production businesses. In addition, it offers rice products for private label packaging, as well as bulk rice for club stores and bulk users. Further, the company supplies rice, oil, and shortening products to restaurants, fast-food chains, cafeterias, and military installations in the United States; and sells defatted rice bran, rice bran oil, and mill feed and hulls to livestock and pet food industries as ingredients. It exports rice products to Western Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Mexico, the Caribbean, Scandinavia, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe.

Alpha Baking Company was formed in 1979 when it bought Mary Ann Baking Company in Chicago. Founded in 1935, Mary Ann was the originator of the Chicago-style poppy seed hot dog bun which Alpha continues to bake for not only the Chicago market, but also for those selling Chicago-style hot dogs across the United States. In 1981, Alpha purchased the S. Rosen's Baking Company, a Chicago staple of Jewish hearth rye breads and variety rolls since 1909. Through the years, Alpha has continued to grow through the acquisition of Kreamo Bakers in South Bend, Ind., Natural Oven's in Manitowoc, WI. and National Baking Company in Chicago. Alpha Baking Company currently sells its products under the S. Rosen's, Mary Ann, Kreamo, Golden Hearth, and Natural Ovens brand names.

Carnivores have a friend in JBS. With a slaughter capacity of 73,900 cattle a day, the company is the world's largest beef processor and exporter. It distributes its products worldwide. In addition to fresh and processed beef and pork (it is the third largest pork producer in the US), JBS sells cooked beef, canned goods, and ready-to-eat meals; it also sells hides and other cattle parts. JBS markets its beef domestically under the Friboi brand. It also owns a majority of US poultry firm Pilgrim's Pride. The company's top export markets are Mexico, Russia, and the EU. JBS is in the process of a major growth phase, buying up meat operations in the US, Europe, and Australia.

The late Roberto Alvarez founded the family-owned business in 1950. Coast Citrus Distributors is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh fruits and vegetables in Mexico and the US. Coast Citrus Distributors company supplies a variety of produce, including bananas, lettuce, limes, and potatoes, to retail grocers and other food customers under such brands as Coast Citrus, Coast Tropical, and Olympic Fruit and Vegetable. Coast Citrus Distributors operates a half dozen distribution facilities in California, Texas, and Florida. It also has about five locations in Mexico.

What would hash browns and eggs over easy be without North Side Foods? An incomplete meal, that's what. North Side Foods supplies pre-cooked pork and turkey sausage products (links, patties, crumbles) to major US and Canadian restaurant chains, as well as schools and other foodservice customers. It is a major sausage supplier for McDonald's. The company's meats are marketed under the Ember Farms brand name. Founded in 1909 and a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods since 1998, North Side Foods is headquartered in Arnold, Pennsylvania, and has manufacturing facilities in Cumming, Georgia.

Kegel's Produce is a leading wholesale supplier of fresh fruits and vegetables in Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Kegel's Produce company distributes a wide variety fruit, including citrus, apples, bananas, berries, and melons, along with vegetables, such as lettuce, onions, and tomatoes. It also provides value-added bagged salads and fresh cut fruits and vegetables. Kegel's Produce company's customers include food retailers and restaurants and other foodservice operators.

For meat eaters who delight in dining on swine, Pederson's Natural Farms produces fresh and processed natural pork products. The company's upscale uncured bacon ham, and smoked pork sausages (jalapeno, kielbasa, and sweet German) are sold at natural food and specialty food retailers, as well as through its Web site. Pederson's also offers beef hot dogs, chicken sausage, andouille, bratwurst, and bulk breakfast sausage. It also offers processesd bison meat. Headquartered in Hamilton, Texas, Pederson's Natural Farms was founded in 1992.

The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC which dates back to 1915, became a grower-owned beet-sugar cooperative in 1997. The Amalgamated Sugar Company (also known as the Snake River Sugar Company) processes sugar beets for its member/farmers. The cooperative manufactures granulated, coarse, powdered, and brown consumer sugar products marketed under the brand name White Satin. It also provides private-label products for retail grocery chains. In addition, Amalgamated Sugar produces beet pulp, molasses, and other beet byproducts for use by food and animal-feed manufacturers.

R&R Ice Cream Limited makes its own brands (fab and Kelly's) and also holds the UK license to produce and market Nestl�'s ice cream products. Its customers include retail food companies and foodservice operators. In addition to the UK, R&R sells its products in France, Germany, and Poland. It is Europe's largest ice cream manufacturer and has production plants throughout the continent. It also makes private-label products. The company was taken private in 2006 by US-based Oaktree Capital, which merged it with German ice cream company, Roncadin. Its name was changed the following year.

Last century, great-great-grandfather, John Sleeman, established his brewery in the quiet town of Guelph because of it's pristine water source, critical for brewing great beer. We would love to have you visit us; we're about an hour or so from Toronto. Here you'll find a map to our premises, along with detailed directions. The Sleeman brewery is located at the edge of southern Guelph, approximately 80 kilometres WSW of Toronto.

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