Founded by farmers in 1937 as Consumers Cooperative Oil Company of St. James, the company has expanded from its roots in petroleum marketing. During its first 30 years, it found additional strength in crop production and grain marketing, and, ultimately, in bulk feed, bulk petroleum, and custom spraying. The company took the name Watonwan Farm Service in 1965.In 1967, a merger with Lewisville Farmers Co-op Elevator launched two decades of expansion. Grain operations in St. James began the same year. By 1979, when Ormsby Farmers Grain Company merged with WFS, grain storage had grown to 300,000 bushels and total locations numbered four. Grain capacity rose steadily to one million bushels by 1993, and convenience stores expanded the cooperative’s mix of services. In 1994, acquisition of LH Grain Co. added two-unit train load out facilities and five elevators. Through a long-term lease agreement in 1996, the company assumed assets from Grain Land Co-op.In 1999, WFS acquired Blue Earth County Service Co. by retiring 100% of equity to its stockholders and also purchased the assets of the former Truman Farmers Elevator. WFS then added five facilities formerly owned by Agro Distributing, LLC, in 2000.

The Dannon Company, Inc., sells and produces six million cups of yogurt a day in almost 100 flavors, styles and sizes. The top-selling brand of yogurt worldwide, Dannon® is sold under the names Dannon and Danone. Danone, parent company of Dannon, is the worldwide leader in water and fresh dairy products.

Established in 1890 as a brewery, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is Southeast Asia's largest publicly listed food, beverage and packaging company with over 15,000 employees in over 90 major facilities throughout the Asia-Pacific.One of the Philippines' leading business conglomerates, San Miguel carries the brand names of some of the most formidable players in the Philippine food and beverage industry, including San Miguel Pale Pilsen, Ginebra San Miguel, Monterey, Magnolia, and Purefoods. San Miguel Beer--the company's flagship product--is one of the largest selling beers and among the top 10 beer brands in the world. Today, San Miguel is built around closely related businesses: beverages--both non-alcoholic and alcoholic--food, and packaging. Each of which are dominant in their respective segments, holding No. 1 or No. 2 positions in their markets. In addition to its market leadership in the Philippines, SMC has established significant presence overseas. The Company's manufacturing operations extend beyond its home market to Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia; and its products are exported to 60 markets around the world.

SOLECO, one of Europe's largest prepared salad and vegetable producers, specializes in mixed bags. SOLECO (also known as The Florette Group) markets more than 200 products under the Florette brand, including salads, salad dressings, frozen vegetables, and soups. SOLECO company sells to retail and catering customers in Europe and the UK. The Florette brand is the European market leader in prepared salads. The products are prepared at five company production plants located in France, Spain, and the UK. A subsidiary of the agri-giant Agrial, SOLECO secures its mostly French produce from sister companies Prim'Co and Européenne Fruitière.

Domecq Bodegas (formerly Bodegas y Bebidas) is fermenting the Spanish wine market. A subsidiary of Allied Domecq, the company owns "bodegas," or wineries, in all nine of Spain's main wine-producing regions and recently acquired a vineyard in Chile. Bodegas represents 12 wineries in Spain and is involved in every aspect of wine making -- from grape growing to marketing and exporting. Sales of high-quality wines account for most of the company's sales. Bodegas exports its wine to more than 60 countries on five continents. Allied Domecq bought the company in 2001 and renamed it Allied Domecq Bodegas (later changed to Domecq Bodegas). In 2005 parent company Allied was taken over by Pernod Ricard.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably because Seara Alimentos packed it up and shipped it there. One of Brazil's largest meat processors, Seara Alimentos produces frozen, refrigerated, pre-cooked, and processed chicken and pork for the worldwide retail and wholesale food and foodservice markets. Its products include whole chickens, chicken cuts, sausage, pork smoked ham, cold cuts, salami, hot dogs, and frozen entrees. Founded in 1956, the company also operates a port terminal that has refrigerated-meat warehousing capacity. The US's Cargill, which had owned Seara since 2005, sold it to the large Brazilian beef processor, Marfrig, in 2010 for $900 in cash and debt assumption.

This company, run by the Mixon family, uses sunshine as a key ingredient to produce bounteous crops of fresh berries. It operates 1,125 acres in three southern states and Mexico. Blueberries account for 70% of sales, while blackberries bring in 20%, and raspberries, the remaining 10%. In addition to its own fields, the Mixons operate a marketing company, called SunnyRidge Farm, to sell fruit. The operation is made up of 125 independent growers in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, California, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico. Together, the SunnyRidge farmers market some 40 million pounds of berries a year. In 2008 the company expanded its offerings to include strawberries.

Appropriately enough given its market presence in Europe, "kraft" is German for "strong" -- although the company actually derives its name from its American founder, James Lewis Kraft, who started the company that became global food giant Kraft Foods when he set up his cheese business in Chicago in 1903. Kraft Foods Deutschland markets Kraft's world-famous brands, including Maxwell House coffee, Miracle Whip salad dressing and Philadelphia cream cheese, as well as brands with specifically German roots, including Jacobs and Kaffee HAG coffees. Through its production sites in Germany, Kraft produces cheese, ketchup, coffee, chocolate, and other comestibles.

At House of Raeford Farms, a turkey can become a meatloaf, a pot roast, or a ham; a chicken can be transformed into fajitas, lunch meat, or a breaded dog-on-a-stick. The vertically-integrated North Carolina poultry processor supplies fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken and turkey products to retail food, in-store deli, and foodservice operators. It offers whole, cut-up, ground, boneless and bone-in meat, ready-to-heat entrees, as well as poultry sausage and smoked and breaded poultry products. Its brands include House of Raeford and Lakewood Plantation and are available throughout the US. Raeford has eight facilitates located in eight facilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Ovations Food Services, L.P. was founded in 1996 and is based in Lutz, Florida. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a food service contractor. It provides professional food, beverage, and related services to sports and recreational facilities in North America. Ovations Food Services company specializes in serving sit-down dinners, company picnics, family birthday parties, and private moonlit dinners. Ovations also offers professional, multi-disciplined, and merchandise management services. Its clients include convention and exposition centers, fairs and entertainment centers, and sports centers.

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