Bodegas Riojanas brings fine wine to dinner tables throughout Spain and many places abroad. From growing grapes to aging wine and putting it in bottles, the company produces and distributes high-end wine from Spain's famed Rioja region. Its top labels include Canchales, Monte Real, Vi�a Albina, and Puerta Vieja. Bodegas Riojanas wine is sold across Europe, the US, and Latin America. The founding Fr�as-Artecho and Artecho-Nieto families still help run the company. Bodegas Riojanas also owns 83% of Bodegas Torreduero, another maker of Spanish wine and liquor.

Boyd Coffee Company is a fourth generation family owned business founded by Percival Dewe Boyd. P.D. Boyd, born in New Zealand in 1879, came to the United States with his family in 1882. Landing in the great Northwest, PD Boyd worked in grocery and sales until he decided to go off on his own and start a business. Located in downtown Portland, Boyd peddled his wares from a red, horse-drawn wagon he had purchased for $5 and thus, founding the "Boyd Importing Tea Company." By 1910, the horse-drawn wagons were replaced with trucks. With the spread of the automobile, the business took a new direction, and by 1920, home delivery was terminated. As his business grew, and Boyd gained in popularity, his reputation as a perfectionist followed. His greatest passion was for quality coffee. He also proved to be an ingenious businessman. Boyd was the first US coffee distributor to loan coffee brewing equipment to restaurants and the food service industry, a tradition that spread throughout the industry. By 1939, PD Boyd had a branch office in Yakima, Washington and soon other distribution points were established. The "Boyd Blend" of coffee was in demand.

Jamaica Producers Group is all things banana. It grows 'em, ripens 'em, packages 'em, and even bottles 'em. (And yes, it owns "banana boats.") The company's products include fresh bananas, banana snacks, and banana-flavored (and other fruit-flavored) juices, all under the Sunjuice label. Its foods group process the fresh produce and makes dried-fruit snack products. The company's produce is exported from its approximately 3,900 acres of Jamaican farmland to customers in the UK, the European continent, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic through its shipping company (the one with the boats; although, really, we should refer to them as state-of-the-art ocean-going steamships).

Del Monaco Specialty Foods, Inc. was founded in 1964 by its namesakes, the late Mike Del Monaco and his wife Ernestine. Del Monaco Specialty Foods cooks up and freezes Italian-style food items for the foodservice industry. Del Monaco's certified-organic food products include pastas, sauces, ravioli, tortellini, gnocchi, polenta, pestos, and desserts. It offers American-style foods as well, including barbecue sauce, pot pies and New England clam chowder. It makes its own Del Monaco products and also offers services such as recipe creation, duplication, and enhancement, plus the manufacture of custom products.

South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) began as a state wheat pool in 1923. We have since grown into one of the most successful cooperatives in the United States. We’ve made sure this growth has not come at the expense of service or by discarding the core values established by our ‘founding farmers.’ South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) is a grain and agronomy cooperative in the heart of the James River Valley of South and North Dakota. Owned by the customers it serves, Wheat Growers exists to provide value for customer owners from Interstate 90 to Interstate 94 and the Missouri River to Interstate 29.

Georges Monin makes flavored syrups for use in foods and beverages. Established in 1912 in France and through three generations of the Monin family, Georges Monin company has produced syrup ingredients in a variety of flavors, including as strawberry, toffee nut gourmet, piña colada, watermelon, gingerbread, and white chocolate. In addition, Georges Monin company manufactures a line of flavored liqueurs and coffee and tea concentrates. With key operations in France and the US, Georges Monin's products are available in more than 22 countries.

Blavod Wines & Spirits plc, based in London, is the owner of Blavod Black Vodka, Blackwood's Gin and Vodka and Jago's. The company markets and sells the brand in a number of international markets as well as in the UK and US. In addition, the UK business represents a number of spirit brands destined for the UK market (Bruichladdich Whisky, Mickey Finn's Schnapps, Molinari Sambuca, Cockspur Rum and Fernet Branca). It also represents a number of prestigious wine agencies such as Château Lafite Rothschild, Royal Tokaji and Matariki wines from New Zealand.

C&F Foods, Inc. was founded in 1975. C & F Foods, Inc. originates, packs, distributes, and exports dried beans, peas, rice, and popcorn. It offers dehydrated beans, instant rice, rice mixes, beans and peas, organic products, and recipes, as well as contract packaging services. C&F Foods also offers double cleaned, triple cleaned, and pre-washed products to distributors, regional distributors, and restaurant chains. It offers its products and services to retail, food service, canning, and frozen food manufacturing industries internationally.

Turning a delicious but odd-shaped fruit into a household favorite wasn’t in the plan when a group of grower-hobbyists banded together in 1924 to form the California Avocado Growers Exchange. And two more years would pass before Rudolph Hass of La Habra, California, would plant the state’s first Hass avocado tree.At the time, avocado growers had no quality standards, no distribution channels, and only one facility, a packinghouse in Vernon, California. During that first year, the Growers Exchange packed 18,000 pounds of avocados from that packinghouse and, in doing so, launched an industry.Though the Vernon packinghouse has long since closed, the company that sprang from that Growers’ Exchange - now known as Calavo Growers, Inc. - is still going strong some 81 years later. In 2005, this publicly traded, diversified, global agribusiness packed approximately 35 percent of the California avocado crop, nearly double the market share of its closest competitor. Three modern packinghouses - strategically located in Santa Paula and Temecula, California, and Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico - teem with productivity and thrive on volume, packing approximately 200 million pounds per year. The company is now headquartered in Santa Paula, California and employs more than 500 people.

Little Lady Foods is celebrating over 25 years under current ownership as “The World Custom Food Maker”. Although Little Lady Foods was founded in the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago by the Esposito family in 1961, it was restaurateur Angelo Geocaris who purchased the small company in 1984. The Geocaris family had deep roots in the restaurant industry and Angelo had the vision to take his Barnaby’s pizzeria recipe into grocery stores nationwide.Over the past 25 years the company has changed and grown. Little Lady Foods today develops and manufactures products for private label, foodservice and contract manufacturing customers. Under the current management team, Little Lady Foods has grown from $100,000 in sales in 1984 to well over $300 million. Little Lady Foods pizzas, hand held items and gourmet sandwiches are available in the largest and most popular restaurants and food companies in the world!

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