SAPEC began decades ago in search of fool's gold, but its work since has been anything but daft. The family-run company was founded in 1926 to exploit pyrite (fool's gold) mines in Portugal. SAPEC gradually expanded into the production and commercialization of agriculture products, and today is an investment holding company with interests in all of the above. It conducts activities mainly in Portugal, but increasingly in Spain. SAPEC operates six main sectors: agrochemical, micronutrients, chemical distribution, food processing distribution, logistics, and energy. It also has holdings in real estate and information technology.

New Britain Palm Oil Limited is a United Kingdom-based company. New Britain Palm Oil Company and its subsidiaries operate in the oil palm, sugar and beef cattle industries in Papua New Guinea with oil palm operations also in the Solomon Islands. It is an industrial producer of palm oil and is vertically integrated, producing its own seed (which it also sells globally) and planting, cultivating and harvesting its own land, as well as processing and refining palm oil. New Britain Palm Oil Company sells its palm oil to countries within the European Union and the United Kingdom, and its sugar and beef cattle is sold mainly within Papua New Guinea. Its subsidiaries include Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited, Dami Australia Pty Limited, New Britain Nominees Limited, New Britain Plantation Services Pte Limited, New Britain Oils Limited, Ramu Agri-Industries Limited and Dumpu Limited.

Dynasty is a leading premier winemaker with a dominant presence in the PRC wine market. Our brand name, "Dynasty", was recognised as a well-known trademark by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the PRC. For twelve of the thirteen years between 1997 and 2009, Dynasty was granted "The Certificate of Best Selling Grape Wines" in the PRC by the China Industry and Enterprise Information Centre. Dynasty has inherited the fine traditions and state-of-the-art expertise in winemaking from Remy Cointreau, one of the world's leading wine and spirits operators and our second largest shareholder ever since Dynasty's inception. From grape growing, harvesting, to every single step of winemaking, Dynasty believes in quality. The entire production process is under stringent quality control to ensure the highest standards of our products. In recognition of our high standards, we were accredited with certificates of ISO 9002 in 1996, ISO 14001 in 2000, ISO 9001: 2000 in 2002 and HACCP Certificate in 2006.

DPI Specialty Foods, DPI Specialty Foods Northwest supplies grocery retailers and foodservice operators with more than 5,500 different food and non-food items. It distributes a wide variety of specialty food products, including ethnic ingredients, gourmet products, and organic food items. DPI Specialty Foods Northwest supplies customers in the Pacific Northwest region and a small number of other western states. Parent DPI Specialty Foods is controlled by the Irish Dairy Board.

Plantain Products Company is family-owned, founded by Segundo Argudo and his wife Peggy in 1965. Plantain Products Company produces plantain chips, cassava chips, and other snack foods, such as tortilla chips and pork rinds. It also makes a dried plantain soup mix. Plantain Products company's plantains and cassava are imported from Costa Rica and processed in plantain products company's 20,000-sq.-ft. facility in Tampa, Florida. Distribution is concentrated on the East Coast and in Florida. Plantain Products company's Chifles brand name comes from the Spanish term for plantain chips.

Each waking day, Agropur cooperative responds to the call of some 3,533 dairy farmers who rely on this organization, which they jointly own, to enhance the fruit of their labour. 2,7 billion litres of milk are processed annually in 27 plants spread throughout Canada, the United States and Argentina. Generating sales close to 3,1 billion, the resulting products grace the tables of thousands of consumers from coast to coast. But before these products reach their tables, 5,225 employees and many contract agents assigned to milk collection and distribution combine their efforts and expertise to ensure that the final product meets all expectations. For more than 70 years, Agropur cooperative has been fine-tuning its art to continually better its know-how and its tasty offerings to consumers.

Chartwells Educational Dining Services is a foodservice operator for schools and universities. It offers a full menu of meal planning and catering services to satisfy the tastes and nutritional requirements of students in more than 500 public school districts. The higher education division provides dining services to more than 200 colleges and universities. In addition, its FLIK Independent Schools division serves more than 115 independent private schools and academies. Chartwells is a division of Compass Group USA, the North American operating unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Nishimoto, which carries more than 6,500 items, was founded in 1912 and operates offices in the US, Canada, Japan, and China. Nishimoto Trading is an importer and distributor of Asian food products in North America and is known for its Shirakiku, China Sea, and Mum's brands. Nishimoto Trading company's products include tofu (fermented bean curd), nori (seaweed), kombu (kelp), frozen fish, dried and frozen vegetables, miso, rice crackers, and seasonings, as well as tea, sake, wine, and beer. In addition to its own brands, Nishimoto supplies products from companies such as Ajinomoto and Peking Noodle. Its customers include supermarkets and foodservice operators. Nishimoto Trading company also exports commodities to Asian countries.

It's always an adventure at The Inventure Group. The company -- founded by Don and Jay Poore in 1986 and formerly known as Poore Brothers -- makes snack chips and dips under Bob's Texas Style, Poore Brothers, Boulder Canyon Natural Foods, and Tato Skins brands. The company also makes savory snacks branded with the T.G.I. Friday's and BURGER KING names, as well as manufacturing store brands for several food chains in the southwestern US. The firm distributes its own and other companies' snack food products. Costco accounted for about 24% of the company's 2008 sales.

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning the apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods, although it's selling off that business too. Its North American Retail unit is a major packaged meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of frozen bakery products, including Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The fresh bakery segment supplies North America with prepackaged bread and other baked goods. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The North American Foodservice unit supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to foodservice operators across the continent.

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