Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is an international franchisor, confectionery manufacturer and retail operator in the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot factory, the Company manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks. The factory typically produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.

They pack it away at Rose. The suburban Chicago meat-packing business processes fresh, frozen, and smoked pork, beef, and turkey products retail food outlets and foodservice suppliers. The Rose Packing Company's meat products include Canadian bacon, sausage (turkey, pork, bratwurst, Polish, Italian, chorizo), ham, pizza toppings, meatballs, various pork cuts, and boneless turkey breasts, all of which are sold under the Rose brand name. The Barrington, Illinois-based company, founded by Louis Rose in 1924, is owned and operated by the fourth and fifth generations of the Rose family.

Big Rock Brewery Income Trust owns Canada's Big Rock Brewery, a leading regional beer maker that produces unpasteurized premium craft beers in accordance with the 1516 Bavarian Law of Purity. Its brands include Grassh�pper, Jack Rabbit Lager, McNally's Extra, and XO Lager. Big Rock Brewery also produces seasonal beers and Rock Creek dry apple cider. The brewery's products are sold in all the Canadian provinces except Quebec and New Brunswick. In addition to its own beers, Big Rock Brewery bottles and packages beverages for third-party customers.

Southern FS has been cultivating farmers since 1931. That's when the predecessor companies to this locally-owned agricultural co-op began sowing the seeds of support for Illinois producers. It has operations in Alexander, Franklin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties in Illinois. Southern FS offers farmers a wide variety of products and services, from landscape planning to livestock feed and tractor fuel.

Instant noodles for an instant world. That's how New Dragon Asia Corp. sees it. Formerly a grain and oil processor, the company now provides instant noodles (Long Feng brand) to the growing market of the on-the-go Chinese middle-classes. Although the company produces more than a billion packages of instant noodles each year, the product line accounts for only about one-fourth of New Dragon's sales. The bulk of its sales (55%) comes from wheat flour, with the rest coming from soybean powders. New Dragon Asia operates eight manufacturing plants, which together have the capacity to produce some 110,000 tons of wheat flour, approximately 1.1 billion packets of instant noodles, and 4,500 tons of soybean powder.

LDH (La Doria) company sells a variety of canned tomato products -- in whole, chopped, and pureed forms, or as prepared sauces. LDH also offers dried pasta; canned, frozen, and dried fruits; canned vegetables; canned fish (anchovies, mackerel, salmon, sardines, and tuna); pulses; baked beans; baking chocolate; and other products. LDH (La Doria) company's products are sold under private labels including La Doria, Heinz, John West, and Bonduelle to UK-based food retailers such as J Sainsbury and Tesco. Parent company La Doria owns 51% of LDH (La Doria); John West Foods, a subsidiary of MW Brands, owns 20%; company management and Pastificio Di Martino own the rest.

Bronco Wine has been known to buck the system. One of the nation's top wine producers, the vintner makes some 60 labels, including Charles Shaw, Forest Glen, and Coastal Ridge. Operating a 40,000-acre vineyard, the California bulk wine producer is the fourth largest wine seller in the US. It produces some 20 million cases of wine every year. Bronco Wine created a stir in the wine industry and continues to do so by selling its Charles Shaw brand for $1.99 at Trader Joe's Company locations. (The wine, dubbed "drinkable" by many, quickly gained the nickname Two-Buck Chuck.) Other Bronco labels include Carmenet, Crane Lake, and Ridge.

Standard Candy Company is the maker of the Goo Goo Cluster, a milk chocolate candy filled with caramel, marshmallow, and peanuts. Considered one of the first combination candy bars (as opposed to solid bars), the company's Goo Goo cluster has been around since 1912 and since that time Standard has added to its offerings, which now include Supreme and Peanut Butter Goo Goo versions. It also makes a line of Cinnabon-branded clusters through a licensing agreement, as well as the Cumberland Ridge brand of pecan rolls. Standard Candy sells its products at retailers in Tennessee and other southern US states, as well as through its Web site.

Chino Valley Ranchers’ farm-fresh certified Organic Free-Range Eggs are produced by hens that are fed the finest organic grown grains. On our farm we run our own feedmill to ensure the highest quality feed gets to our birds. Certified by CCOF, our organic grain fed hens live on a free-range farm with fresh, clean air, free from city noise and pollutants. We also keep our ranches free from pesticides to prevent any of these chemicals to enter the hens’ living space. In this environment, our hens are able to eat, exercise, and socialize as they like. Eggs are gathered daily from nests to ensure freshness, and are packed in 100% recycled cartons using soy ink that is friendly to our environment.

There's no slowin' down at Sloan Implement. The company provides the tools of trade for farmers in Illinois. Headquartered in Assumption, Illinois, Sloan is an authorized dealer of John Deere equipment and new and used parts. Founded in 1931, the company sells and services new and used Deere equipment, including combines, tractors, manure spreaders, tillers, earth moving and lawn machinery, and grain-handling equipment at five locations in Wisconsin and at 11 locations in Illinois; it also ships products nationwide and to international customers.

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