Agricultural producers unite is the rallying cry at this co-op. United Producers is an livestock cooperative that offers marketing, financing, and credit services to its member ranchers and farmers. It also provides risk management and production management services. The co-op has some 45,000 members in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri. All total, it operates more than 40 facilities and handles some 3 million head of livestock. In addition, it maintains a loan portfolio of more than $50 million. United Producers was founded in 1999 through the consolidation of Producers Livestock Association (Ohio/Indiana) and MFA Livestock (Missouri).

Furman Foods is a family-owned business founded in 1921 by J. W. Furman. The Pennsylvania company distributes a complete line of canned tomatoes and tomato products. Furman Foods also offers canned beans; spaghetti, pasta, and pizza sauces; bean salads; vegetables; and ketchup and other condiments. Furman's brand names include include Furmano's, Conte, and Bella Vista. Furman Foods company has customers in the foodservice (restaurants, schools, and hospitals), retail (supermarkets and grocery stores), export, branded, manufacturing, and private-label sectors along the US's East Coast.

Shari's Berries International makes and sells chocolate-dipped strawberries. Shari's Berries product line includes yogurt-dipped strawberries, and chocolate-dipped champagne bottles and drinking goblets. Its signature item is strawberry roses -- chocolate-dipped strawberries mounted on stems and sold by the dozen and half dozen. Shari's Berries confections are available in retail stores located in and around Sacramento, California, as well as through TV and catalog sales and on the company's Web site. Shari Fitzpatrick founded the company in 1989. In 2006 the company was sold to Provide Commerce.

Icefresh works hard on behalf of a limited number of complimentary, overseas manufacturers under exclusive contract who produce value added frozen products for the retail and foodservice sectors. We refer to these partners as our 'Principals' and we become their doorway to 60 million UK consumers, and in time, a trusted extension to their business. Our Account Managers meet frequently with target buyers. By "sharing" our salesforce in this way, our Principals not only lower their own overheads but also are reassured that they are gaining maximum exposure to the largest possible number of retail and foodservice buyers in the UK. We provide a comprehensive in-house vehicle-to-market, not limited to: Sales, Marketing, Innovation, Technical Services, Supply Chain and Finance. We provide research and development (R&D) expertise and guidance on UK law and legislation.

Martin Mathew is one of the UK's leading importers and distributors of canned and other shelf-stable food products. Martin Mathew company offers more than 350 products lines from more than 25 countries worldwide including Spanish anchovies and Italian tomatoes. Its main brand is Riverdene, but others include Ballerina, Clover Leaf, Country Town, and its own Martin Mathew brand. Martin Mathew company's customers include companies in the food retail, manufacturing, and foodservice sectors. Martin Mathew was founded more than three decades ago by chairman James Donnelly.

Established in 1989 by partners Tom Russell and Dave Johnson, Pacific International Marketing (Pacific) continues today as an employee-owned company. This means virtually all the key sales people and management personnel are also owners of Pacific and take great pride in the way your business is handled and are eager to work with you to help develop new business prospects. Pacific International Marketing is involved in the growing, packing and shipping of more than 100 different commodities. Assuring a year-round supply of fresh fruits and vegetables, Pacific ships over 20 million packages per year from the Western United States and Mexico. Pacific has a very diverse line of organic and conventional value-added products. These products are designed to be cost efficient, cut waste, and provide the end user with fresh vegetables in a convenient and efficient form. These items are processed at company owned facilities located in several growing regions to ensure maximum freshness and shelf life year round. The facilities are inspected by an independent third party, American Institute of Baking (AIB) and are consistently rated in the top percentile for cleanliness and food safety. The organic value-added facilities are also inspected by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). CCOF is the largest U.S. state based organization of organic interests in the nation requiring its members to adhere to a stringent set of principles and insuring the integrity of organic products.

Windsor Foods makes frozen foods for lovers of ethnic flavors. Windsor Foods company's brands include Bernardi (Italian), Golden Tiger (Asian), José Olé (Mexican), and The Original Chili Bowl (southwest) labels. Foods types include entrees, appetizers, barbecue, and chili. Windsor's customers include companies in the industrial and restaurant and other foodservice sectors, along with retail food, warehouse, club, and convenience stores. It provides private-label, custom-blending, custom-packaging, and marketing-support services for its customers. Located in Houston, Windsor operates nine production plants in six US states.

Grupo Cerveceria Nacional de Panama beer brands include Atlas and Balboa but it also distributes the Miller and Corona brands. Through its subsidiaries, Cervecer�a makes and distributes Pepsi, 7 UP, Canada Dry, Orange Crush, Squirt, as well as Brisa bottled water and La Chircana shelf-stable milk products. Founded in 1909 as the Panama Brewing & Refrigerating Company by five local businessmen, Cervecer�a Nacional has grown to become one of the leading brewers in Panama. It is a subsidiary of SABMiller.

Bridgford Foods Corporation traces its roots back seventy-eight years to February 1932. Hugh H. Bridgford (1908-1992) opened a retail meat market in San Diego, California. The business evolved first into several retail meat markets, then meat wholesaling to hotels and restaurants, frozen food distribution, meat packing and processing and frozen food manufacturing. The Company is now headquartered in Anaheim, California about four miles from Disneyland. In addition to meat processing and bakery operations in Anaheim the Company has four additional factories, two in Dallas, Texas, one in Chicago, Illinois and one in Statesville, North Carolina.

Reddy Ice was born of simple beginnings, an ice company staffed by hardworking folks with a desire to please their customers. Providing a product people needed at a fair price and with excellent service was a recipe for success. As the business of ice making progressed from an industry based on animal power and harvesting ice from rivers in winter, to a technology-based industry with the capacity for year-round production, Reddy Ice was there.Ice is hot stuff, especially when you own the ice factory -- Reddy Ice does, and its proprietary technology lets grocery and convenience stores make and package their own ice automatically. Reddy Ice is the largest US maker and distributor of packaged ice products. It has the capacity to make about 18,000 tons of ice per day. In addition to its Ice Factory machines, the company sells ice in a variety of shapes and sizes (ranging from seven-pound bags to 300-pound blocks) to retail, commercial, and industrial customers throughout 33 US states and in the District of Columbia. Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund owns about 10% of Reddy Ice.

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