Pfister Hybrid Corn produces corn seeds that pack a punch. The company produces high-yield hybrid seed through its biotechnology processes, including YieldGard, Herculex, and Poncho insect-protected corn seeds. It also produces Roundup Ready corn seeds (for use with Roundup's WeatherMAX and CORN 2 products) and other herbicide seed systems. Founded by Lester Pfister in 1936, the company's products are available throughout the Midwestern US, including the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and South Dakota.

The Coca-Cola Company, runs the soft drink giant's juice, water, and soda business in the US and Canada. Its brands include Coca-Cola, Barq's, Dasani, Evian, Minute Maid, Simply Orange, Fresca, smartwater, Sprite, and Odwalla. CCNA works with independent bottlers, including Coke's largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, to distribute its beverages. CCNA owns and operates nine still beverage production plants and four bottled water facilities. It also has one facility that manufactures juice concentrates for the foodservice sector -- foodservice is a part of the division's operations. CCNA accounts for about a quarter of parent Coke's global sales.

Got some hungry cattle? Tell 'em to loosen their golden belts and hit the feedlot. Golden Belt Feeders operates four cattle feedlots and markets more than 125,000 head of fattened cattle per year in the Arkansas River Valley of Kansas. The company raises its own cattle as well as offering custom cattle-feeding for other ranchers. Golden Belt takes care of the feeding, nutrition, and health of the animals it fattens for market. In addition it offers risk-management and financing services. Golden Belt Feeders was founded by owners Merlin and Nelva Grimes in 1968.

Seatrade International was founded in 1981 by Stephen Barndollar as an export marketing and trading company. In 1988, Seatrade moved into primary fish processing and opened its first production facility in Portland, Maine. Following a relocation to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the early Nineties, further plants were opened in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the company now has a work force of 150 people. The company headquarters remain in Portsmouth where our plate freezers (daily capacity 20 mt) and our holding freezer are located.In 1997, Seatrade began producing fresh scallops and is today one of the largest packers of fresh and frozen scallops in the United States. The company not only sources scallops all over the world but also exports fresh and frozen product into European and Asian markets. With over two decades of experience in the seafood business, Seatrade has earned a reputation for quality and customer service. As members of the American Scallop Association and the National Fisheries Institute, Seatrade is committed to economic integrity in the industry. Seatrade is also a proud supporter of Ocean Trust, a foundation dedicated to ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries.

Caramuru Alimentos Ltda. was founded ion 1964 and is based in Itumbiara, Brazil. Caramuru Alimentos Ltda., a seed production company, manufactures soybean and industrial corn products. The company focuses on the extraction and refinery of vegetal oils, such as soybean oil, corn oil, and sunflower oil, as well as the bran production. It offers corn starch, corn cream, polenta, corn semolina, cuscuz, iron enriched cuscuz, cuscuz flocao, corn flour, mimoso and white ground maize, corn flour, green corn, and white and yellow maize. The company also provides cereal grains, corn germ meal, broken corn meal, corn flakes, and pre-cooked corn meal; soybean meal and sunflower seed meal; and soya lecithin, hipro soyabean meal, soyabean meal pellets, hi-fiber meal, crude degummed soyabean oil, refined soyabean oil, and destilled soyabean oil. In addition, it offers inputs for use in food, drink, and mineral production; and soy beans, sunflower seeds, and corn for animals.

Danish pig farmers have found that it pays to cooperate. With some 12,000 members, Danish Crown AmbA cooperative owns the Danish Crown Group of meat processing businesses. About half of the group's sales come from pork; beef accounts for only about 6%. With a substantial number of pig and beef slaughterhouses and cutting plants, Danish Crown's subsidiaries produce fresh and processed pork and beef products in Europe, the UK, and the US. The company has both retail and industrial customers. Danish Crown's products are available worldwide. Its foreign subsidiaries include meat processors Tulip Ltd. and Geo Adams & Sons in the UK and US-based Plumrose.

A cooperative that controls 14 separate Italian wine companies, Gruppo Italiano Vini is a big player among the many venerable European wine makers. Its brand names include Folonari, and Melini; it also offers Bigi, Ca'Bianca, Calissano, Conti Serristori, Lamberti, Machiavelli, Santi, and Vino Negri wines. Gruppo Italiano Vini also distributes its wines in the US and France. In 2008 the company acquired the Bola and Fontana Candida wine operations from Brown-Forman. One of the most productive wine makers in Italy, Gruppo Italiano Vini actually makes almost 70% of its revenue outside the country. Germany contributes the largest chunk of revenue (19%), followed by England and the US (both about 13%).

Tongaat Hulett is an agri-processing business which includes integrated components of land management, property development and agriculture. Through its sugar and starch operations in Southern Africa, Tongaat Hulett produces a range of refined carbohydrate products from sugar cane and maize. It has considerable expertise in downstream agricultural products, biofuel production and electricity cogeneration. Competition for water and alternative land usages is an ongoing dynamic. Tongaat Hulett balances the operational requirement for cane supplies to its sugar cane processing operations with the transition of agricultural land to other uses at the appropriate times. It is well positioned to benefit from the changing world of agriculture and agri-processing.Over the past century, Tongaat Hulett has established itself as a leading large scale agri-processing business which has its base firmly established in Southern Africa. Demand for food products is increasing worldwide, renewable energy has introduced a new dimension to agriculture and agricultural trade regimes are changing, with Africa and the European Union moving closer as a trade bloc. Further opportunities for expansion and growth in Africa are thus emerging. Tongaat Hulett has the established business platform and size to capitalise on these opportunities.

Since the early 1900's, the Miles family has been a leader in agriculture in Western Kentucky. What began for the family as a farming operation spread into the wholesale and retail market. In the early 1950's, William S. Miles began to experiment and plant hybrid seed corn. As the years went by, the next generation including Billy Joe Miles, entered the business and the Farm Supply operations continued to grow. Miles' goal is to help our customers become more successful by bringing better technologies, markets, and genetics for them to use. Most importantly, Miles strives to provide the necessary tools that will allow more profits to our customers.

Our mission is to be the acknowledged leader in supplying the food processing industry with superior quality, efficiently and safely produced fruit, vegetable and other agricultural products from the growers of our Cooperative. Pro-Fac Cooperative grows big and strong on fruits and veggies. The farm co-op provides marketing and sales services to its approximately 500 member/owners across the US. The agricultural co-op sells its member-farmers' crops to companies in the food processing industry, including Birds Eye Foods (typically buys more than 40% of crops). Pro-Fac has members primarily in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. It was formerly a partial owner of Birds Eye, which was sold to Blackstone entity Pinnacle Foods in 2009. Since the sale, Pro-Fac has implemented a liquidation plan and looks to disband in 2012.

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