Pendleton Grain Growers (PGG) gets the pendulum swinging faster for farmers wanting to take their harvests to market. The agricultural cooperative provides its member-farmers with a full range of farm products and services. PGG offers its approximately 2,400 members crop-processing, marketing, agronomy, and irrigation services, along with hardware, farm equipment, and fuel. It operates about 30 grain-storage facilities and a fleet of nearly 15 storage-to-terminal delivery trucks. PGG was founded in 1930 to create bulk handling, transportation, and storage services for wheat farmers in the Pendleton, Oregon, area.

Snyder's of Hanover company is the largest pretzel maker in the US (surpassing even snack-making behemoth Frito-Lay). Along with pretzels of all shapes and sizes, family-owned Snyder's produces potato chips, tortilla chips, and the EatSmart brand of low-fat snack foods (soy crisps, veggie crisps, and organic popcorn). Taking advantage of US consumers' new-found love of dark chocolate, snyder company introduced Hershey's dark-chocolate-flavored Dips. Snyder's snacks are sold through supermarkets, drugstores, and mass merchandisers throughout the US. Snyder's and longtime snack food maker Lance plan to merge their operations.

Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. engages in the production and marketing of frozen and refrigerated food products in the United States. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. frozen products include pesto sauces, stuffed pastas, and pasta sheets, as well as value-added specialty Italian pastas, focaccia, and cooked meat products. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. markets and sells its products through a network of food brokers to retail, foodservice, and industrial customers, as well as to retail and foodservice distributors, and club-type stores. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Hayward, California.

Birds Eye Foods, Inc. manufactures and markets processed foods. Birds Eye Foods offers flavors and toppings, frozen and fresh vegetables, pie fillings and toppings, snacks, chips, soups, chili and chili ingredients, and salad dressings. Birds Eye Foods company also provides popcorn, pretzels, pickled beets, tortillas, pork rinds, cookies, meat snacks, nuts, meals, side dishes, mayonnaise, chip dips, canned foods, and other condiments. Birds Eye Foods offers its products through grocers and supermarkets.

Parrish and Heimbecker, Limited (P&H) is a Canadian family-owned firm with over 100 years of experience in agribusiness, with locations stretching across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax. P&H has grown into a diversified, vertically integrated company that is committed to agribusiness and the entire agri-food industry. Parrish and Heimbecker is not your run-of-the-mill grain elevator company. Originally founded in 1909 as an operator of grain storage elevators, Parrish and Heimbecker has since expanded and become a diversified agriculture business. While it still operates its elevator business, the company also owns and operates flour milling and poultry subsidiaries. They include wheat miller, Ellison Milling; P&H Foods, a producer of Butterball turkey products in Canada; and Cook's, a supplier of edible beans, peas, lentil, coarse grains, and oilseeds. Parrish and Heimbecker has offices, distribution centers, and grain elevators on Canada and the northern US.

The Aztecs are thought to have been the first people to turn the cacao beans into a more edible form. They roasted the beans, ground them into a paste and dissolved the paste in water with a few spices and chillies. It might not sound particularly yummy, but there it was, the very first drinking chocolate. They called it chocolate, which means bitter drink, and it was lapped up in sacred rituals and quaffed by elite tribesmen for the next few hundred years. Today, chocolate has become one of the most versatile and beloved foods in the world. And yet it’s become so much more – we have an emotional, sensual connection with chocolate that we have with few other foods. It comforts us, delights us, draws us in and gives us a taste experience unlike any other. Simply put, we love it. And the humble beans it comes from have had a heck of a journey over the past 4,000 years.

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.

H. J. Heinz Company Limited is full of beans -- canned beans. The UK subsidiary of Heinz offers some of the same brands sold the US, plus some specifically aimed at the UK market. Its canned beans (Heinz Beanz) are not a staple of American pantries but the Brits love 'em -- they buy 1.5 million cans a day. Heinz soup is also popular, with the company selling 289 million cans a year. Then there's Heinz salad cream, a tangy condiment not seen in the US. And whereas Chef Boyardee is a top seller in the US, in the UK Heinz' canned spaghetti is a favorite. (Its version of SpaghettiOs is called Spaghetti Hoops.) And for all the new moms and dads, the company offers a full line of Heinz-branded baby foods.

Gelatin may not seem like a very stable base, but it's the foundation of HARIBO's best-loved goodie, the gummi bear. HARIBO's Gold-Bear candies begat a myriad of chewy shapes and made it Europe's largest confectioner. In addition to its HARIBO gummi and licorice treats, the company's brands include Maoam (fruit candies), Dulcia (marshmallow confections), Bären-Schmidt brand spruchherzen (cookies decorated with icing messages), and, under license, PEZ (and its famous dispensers). Acquisitions of smaller confectioners have spread the company's manufacturing base across Europe; it exports to more than 100 countries around the globe.

At Green & Black’s, we make and sell premium organic chocolate. We use fine organic ingredients and these are ethically sourced. This perfect balance between taste and principles is what we stand for and why we pay a premium for all our ingredients. The story of how Green & Black's began is certainly a unique one. People often ask us questions about organic sourcing, ethical sourcing and trading, the early days and how we got our name. So we hope we can answer most of your questions here.

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