While some might be green with envy, Grower's Express is green with veggies. Growing some 40 different crops, its primary offerings include asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, green onions, iceberg lettuce, and strawberries. Headquartered in California's Salinas Valley, the group also has fields in Arizona, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as in Mexico so that its crops can be grown year round. The company purchased the licensing rights from General Mills for the Green Giant Fresh brand in 2009. In addition to Green Giant, the grower also packs under the Western Express, Capurro, and Topless labels.

Like many old world pasta products, our story begins in the early 1900’s, with the Pucci family immigrating to the United States from Italy. In 1922, the Pucci’s opened up the Cicero Macaroni Company to manufacture noodles of all different shapes and sizes for local restaurants and pasta sellers. Robert B. Strom, Chairman of Strom Products, Ltd. purchased the factory in 1968, and many of the old world pasta-making techniques and recipes were passed down to him. Bob continued to build the company, making it a major manufacturer of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and many other products. In 1976, with the invention of No Yolks Noodles, the world's first no-cholesterol noodle, Strom Products launched a whole new chapter in it's noode-making life. Today Strom markets a number of different shapes and sizes of No Yolks Noodles, Wacky Mac Pasta and Wacky Mac Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. With quality and the highest standards in mind, no other Pasta maker can match the taste, texture and nutritional value of Strom Products!

O.K. Industries, Inc. is an Industrial Plastic Recycling company started by James Kenyon in 1992 as O.K. Granulating. In 1993 O.K. Granulating was incorporated as O.K. Industries, Inc. in Findlay, Ohio. In July of 2007 O.K. Industries, Inc. moved to its new home in Fostoria, Ohio. The company is now housed in a 107,000 sq. ft. facility and still has a 135,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Findlay; O.K. Industries, Inc. is adequately equipped to handle most any plastic recycling job.Our goal at O.K. Industries, Inc. is to build and maintain a company which is a source of pride to its employees and which serves its customer’s demands with quality and integrity.

St. Ours & Co. was founded in 1979 by president, Frederick St. Ours. St. Ours company manufactures the St. Ours brand of seafood broths, condiments, and seasonings. Its products are distributed across North America and in Europe. St. Ours company sells clam and other broth mixes as a spray dried powder, for use in recipes such as clam chowder, shrimp creole, crawfish scampi, and she-crab soup. It also wholesales frozen shellfish.

Overhill Farms is hoping it will get a better view of the frozen foods industry. The company custom-manufactures frozen soups, sauces, and entrees, including beef, chicken, pasta, and seafood dishes for customers in the foodservice, retail, and airline industries. It makes private labels and co-packing for food retailers such as Safeway and air carriers, including American Airlines. Overhill's largest customer is weight-loss business Jenny Craig, ringing up some 24% of sales; its second-largest customer, at 18% of sales, is restaurant chain Panda Express.

Founder and CEO Rodger Rohde Sr. owns Triarco Industries, Inc. Triarco Industries manufactures all-natural specialty ingredients. They include botanicals, botanical extracts, enzymes, minerals, and teas in powdered, granulated, dry-blended, emulsified, liquid, agglomerated, and suspended forms. It sells branded products (Aminogen, Carbogen, Glycomaize) through retail outlets and as ingredients for companies in the food, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical sectors. Triarco operates facilities for research and development, testing, processing, and quality control.

Dios mio! M. Dias Branco is Brazil's top manufacturer of crackers, cookies, and pasta. The company is also one of the country's largest producers of wheat flour and whole grain wheat; other products include margarine and vegetable shortening. M. Dias Branco operates 11 factories and markets its products across Brazil under hundreds of brands including Adria, Fortaleza, Richester, and Vitarella. Its products are sold to 56,000 retailers, including Carrefour and Wal-Mart. In addition to selling raw ingredients to other food manufacturers, M. Dias Branco relies largely on its own supply of wheat and oil-based ingredients for its food production. The company was founded in the 1940s by baker Manuel Dios Branco.

Alaskan Leader Fisheries, LLC, located in Lynden, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska is owned by the Alaskan Leader Group (ALG) and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC). Each of these groups consist of individuals who are lifelong fishing families that currently own and operate various fishing vessels in the salmon, longline and pot fisheries of Alaska. Alaskan Leader Fisheries manages three fishing vessels, the F/V Alaskan Leader, F/V Bristol Leader and the F/V Bering Leader, which are 50% owned by ALG and 50% by BBEDC.Each of the ALG members started in the 70's and 80's as crewmen in the Alaskan fishing industry and have independently worked their way up the ladder from deck, to wheelhouse, to eventually owning their own vessels.

JBS USA Holdings is big beef, prodigious pork, and lord of lamb. The company, a subsidiary of Brazil's JBS (the world's #1 beef processor and exporter), operates beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities in the US and Australia. Its holdings include JBS Swift (12 processing plants) and JBS Packerland (boxed and ground beef production), both in the US, and Australia's Tasman Group (10 beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities and five feedlots). JBS USA also owns JBS Five Rivers, which operates 11 feedlots. Other businesses include a tannery, seven distribution centers, and two grease-production facilities; JBS USA exports to 60 countries. It filed to go public in 2009.

Templar Food Products believes deeply in doing one thing and doing it right. At Templar, we do tea and only tea. We produce superior tea because we are tea experts who have been dedicated since 1971 to offering the finest tea products on earth. We create, formulate and manufacture private label iced tea beverages for a spectrum of clients who return to us year after year confident Templar Food Products will exceed their expectations in both product and service. Templar Food Products maintains relationships with tea producing nations worldwide. This allows us to source the finest teas sun, water and soil can produce. Tea Essences and pure teas are the foundation to which we add rigorous quality and microbiological control and innovative flavor creation. From formulation to execution, our experience and expertise result in a tea product befitting your dedication and inspiration.

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