SIPEF (Societe Internationale de Plantations et de Finance) focuses on the tropical plantation business. Starting in business in 1919, the Belgium-based company produces and trades a variety of agricultural products, such as palm oil, rubber, tea, tropical fruits, spices and ornamental plants. The company owns some 62,000 hecatares of planted land. It has operations worldwide. SIPEF also provides insurance and management and consulting services for the agriculture industry.

Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ; ASX: CBR), based in Victor, New York, is the leading producer of premium wines in the world, with a portfolio that includes many well-known and highly regarded wine brands, complemented by spirits, imported beers and other select beverage alcohol products. Constellation is the largest premium wine company in the U.S.; the largest wine company in the U.K., Australia and Canada; the second largest wine company in New Zealand; and the largest beer importer and marketer in the U.S. through its Crown Imports joint venture with Mexico's Grupo Modelo. With more than 100 strong, consumer-preferred brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions across all segments of the beverage alcohol industry. This strategy supports stable growth in volume, cash flow, return on invested capital, and value. Today, Constellation Brands has sales of more than $3.65 billion annually. It operates more than 40 wineries and other facilities, employs about 6,000 people worldwide, and is an S&P 500 Index and a Fortune 1000 company.

Talk about multi-tasking. The Tennessee Farmers Cooperative (TFC) keeps the cows fat, the bugs away, and the tractors running. Through a system of local co-ops, TFC supplies agricultural necessities, such as animal-health products, feed, fertilizer, outdoor power equipment, seeds, and tires, to some 70,000 Tennessee farmers. TFC's services include finance, credit, public relations, and risk management. It operates about 150 retail outlets, located in more than 80 of Tennessee's 95 counties. The outlets are open to the public, as well as co-op members. TFC partners with Averitt Dedicated Logistics to provide reduced-cost distribution and transportation services to co-op members. TFC was chartered in 1945.

Shanghai Bright Dairy & Food (Bright Dairy) is one of China's largest dairy producers. It has the largest pasture in the East Asia and a 500,000 ton annual production capacity. Bright Dairy churns out a variety of dairy products including disinfected milk, fresh milk, yogurt, pasteurized milk, and milk powder. It also operates a number of urban fresh milk mills in the cities of Xi'an, Beijing, Wuhan, Wuxi, and Nanjing. Bright Dairy is majority-owned by Shaghai Industrial Holdings Ltd., whose shares are traded in Hong Kong. Shanghai Milk (controlled by Shanghai Nong Gong Shang) owns almost 31% of Bright Dairy. Groupe Danone sold its interest in the company in 2008.

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.

Wilmar International Limited, founded in 1991, is Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar International Limited, an investment holding company, operates as an agribusiness company in Asia. Wilmar International company’s business activities include oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising. Wilmar International company’s operations are located in approximately 20 countries across four continents, with a primary focus on Indonesia, Malaysia, China, India and Europe. Its products are sold to approximately 50 countries worldwide. Merchandising & Processing - Palm & Laurics Wilmar International company is a processor and merchandiser of palm and lauric oils, with a distribution network spanning approximately 50 countries. Its products include RBD (refined, bleached, and deodorised) palm oil, RBD palm olein, RBD palm stearin, RBD palm kernel oil, RBD palm kernel olein, RBD palm kernel stearin, crude palm oil (CPO), specialty fats, oleochemicals, and biodiesel. Wilmar International company owns processing plants in palm producing countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as in consuming countries, such as China, The Netherlands, Germany and Vietnam.

Otis Spunkmeyer puts the spunk back in languishing cookie-lovers. Otis Spunkmeyer company, the #1 manufacturer of frozen cookie dough in the US, also makes prebaked and packaged cookies, as well as sweet breads, coffee cakes, muffins, bagels, pastries, and brownies. Otis Spunkmeyer delivers its products to convenience stores, supermarkets, restaurants, and foodservice distributors throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. It sells its cookie products to colleges and universities, drug stores, fundraising programs, healthcare facilities, mass merchandisers, the military, school cafeterias, and vending-machine operators. Otis Spunkmeyer is owned by European specialty bakery firm ARYZTA.

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative walks the beat for the sugar beet. Minn-Dak serves sugar beet growers in the Red River Valley of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Located in Wahpeton, North Dakota, the co-op processes the sugar beets into sugar and products such as molasses and beet pulp pellets (used in animal feed); the products are then marketed through agents worldwide. The co-op's Minn-Dak Yeast segment produces fresh bakers' yeast. Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is owned by its farmer/members, a group of some 480 sugar beet growers.

For the first 35 years of his life, Jim Koch's family history and future career lay in the attic of his parents' house. Tucked away was an old family recipe from the 1800s for Louis Koch Lager. For five generations, the men in the Koch family were brewmasters, but the market for full-flavored beer had diminished and it seemed Jim's father would be the last Koch to carry on the tradition of brewing flavorful beer. However, Jim's passion for quality, flavorful beer kept him close to his roots. In the early 1980's he became convinced that he could build a niche in the competitive beer market for a high-quality American beer. Using the same recipe and traditional brewing processes that his great-great grandfather used, Jim brewed Samuel Adams Boston Lager® and took beer to a whole new level.

Less is more at the Carl Buddig & Company, which manufactures and markets some of the thinnest lunch meats available. The company's most popular brand, Original Buddig, is a svelte 10-15 calories per slice and comes in choices such as beef, chicken, turkey, ham, pastrami, and corned beef. It also offers Old Wisconsin brand smoked beef jerky sticks and snack bites, along with wieners, bratwurst, Polish sausage, summer sausage, and ring bologna. Carl Buddig's meat products are available in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and are sold at retail food outlets, including Kroger, Albertson's, Safeway, Food Lion, Giant, Roundy's, and others.

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