Alabama Farmers Cooperative, originally the Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Cooperative, was organized in Decatur, Alabama in 1936 by a group of local county co-ops. Upon becoming a single entity, the new cooperative developed a modest plant in Decatur to satisfy the farmers’ need for fairly priced fertilizer.Over the years, AFC acquired or built additional facilities. Today, AFC has storage facilities for both liquid and dry fertilizer throughout the areas that it serves.Alabama Farmers Cooperative (AFC) provides farmers in the Yellowhammer State a full range of agricultural supplies and services, including feed, fertilizer, seed, grain storage, and marketing, along with home-gardening items such as seeds and hardware. The co-op, which boasts 46 member associations, serving members in 49 US states; it owns and operates member-only co-op stores in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AFC owns Bonnie Plants, one of the largest suppliers of vegetable and herb plants for the home gardener in the US, along with BioLogic, which makes forage products for wild game. AFC also operates catfish fish farms and supplies the foodservice industry with whole and value-added catfish.

C.J. Vitner company, a producer of "Chicago style" potato chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn curls, and other snack foods, has felt the industry-wide impact of giant snack makers, such as Frito-Lay and Kraft Foods. Despite the perennial fight for shelf space in national supermarket chains, Vitner's products sell in supermarkets, as well as in convenience stores, and other food retailers in some 20 US states. C.J. Vitner company also manufactures private-label products for regional customers. The family-run company was founded by Charles J. Vitner and his lone popcorn machine in 1926. CEO William A. Vitner continues to run the company.

Clougherty Packing processes pork products, including fresh-cut pork, prepared bacon, sausages, and boneless and bone-in cooked ham. The company distributes its meat to retailers under the Farmer John brand name. It is a sponsor for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers and makes the hot dogs long-time baseball fans know as Dodger Dogs. The company's Web site offers recipes and cooking and serving tips featuring Clougherty products. Founded by the Clougherty family in 1931, the company was purchased by Hormel Foods in 2004.

Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard makes red and white wine, such as Chardonnay, Riesling, and Pinot Noir. The company also operates a vine nursery that serves the wine production industry. Among the varieties offered include Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Riesling. The Wiemer vineyards, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York, were established by founder Hermann Wiemer in 1973 on an abandoned soybean farm, and the winery was added to the property in 1982. Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard produces approximately 12,000 cases of wine annually. In 2007 Wiemer sold his winery of nearly three decades to his assistant, winemaker Fred Merwarth.

The current Stock Spirits Group was established in 2007 from the combination of Stock and Polmos Lublin, under the control of Oaktree Capital Management. Our beginnings, however, date back to the 19th century, in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Stock up the liquor cabinet with bottles from Stock Spirits Group. The company sells almost 40 brands of vodka, brandy, and liqueur in Central and Eastern Europe and the US. Vodka brands include Czysta de Luxe, Kegelvich, Orzel, and Poland's most popular brand, W�dka Zoladkowa Gorzka. Brandy and vermouth are sold under the Stock brand, while Limonc� limoncello and the orange liqueur GranGala are popular liqueurs. Stock Spirits Group has distilleries in the Czech Republic, Italy, and Poland, and distributes its brands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the UK. In the US it does business as Heritage Brands, Inc. Stock Spirits Group is owned by Oaktree Capital Management.

Friona Industries, L. P. began as single small feedyard in 1962 and has progressed to become one of the leading cattle feeding businesses in the world. The Friona of today has four state of the art commercial cattle feeding facilities with one time capacity of 275,000 head, which form the base of a vertically aligned production system that creates a consistent, reliable, safe, tender and flavorful fresh branded product line that is marketed in 2300 of the top retail stores in the U.S. Our experience in creating the facilitative link between the cow/calf sector and the eventual end-user at the retail level, has put our employees and our company in a unusual, information-based position as a facilitator of innovation and excellence in the beef industry. Our mission statement communicates our belief that creating a valuable and popular consumer beef product creates the cornerstone of an informed, communicative, and responsive beef industry that can bring value and profitability to all segments and all participants.

granoVita UK company supplies vegetarian and vegan organic food products to UK health food retailers. granoVita company's products include edible and essential oils, breakfast cereals, cookies, energy bars, household cleaners, soy drinks, and vegetable pat's. Many of its products are also nut, wheat, dairy, and/or gluten-free and, increasingly, organic and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Most of granoVita's products are manufactured by the German food company De-Vau-Ge Gesundkostwerk GmbH, founded and owned by the Seventh-Day Adventist church. CEO Dr. Nigel Phillips started granoVita in 1991.

California Dairies, Inc. is the number one dairy cooperative in the number one dairy state in the United States. California Dairies, Inc. is the result of a successful 1999 merger of three of California's most financially successful cooperatives; California Milk Producers, Danish Creamery and San Joaquin Valley Dairymen. All three cooperatives were rich in tradition and established their roots back near the turn of the 20th century. California Dairies, Inc. is owned by 620 California dairymen who ship over 18 billion pounds of milk to be sold and processed annually. These members have over $130 million of equity invested in the Company. The Company has sales of $3.5 Billion in all 50 states and 52 foreign countries. The owners have dairies located from San Diego County in the south to Marin County in the north. Most of the milk supply is located in the San Joaquin Valley from Kern County to San Joaquin County.

In China pigs fly and chickens cross the road to get to People's Food Holdings. At its processing plants located throughout China, People's Food produces and sells various high- and low-temperature meat products made from pork and poultry under the Jinluo brand name. The company supplies wholesalers and retailers nationally with sausages, fresh and frozen meats, and a selection of animal by-products used in other industries including food production, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Company chairman Ming Kam Sing owns a controlling interest in People's Food Holdings.

With the May 2003 acquisition of Panamerican Beverages, Inc. (Panamco), Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. is now the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, accounting for almost 10% of Coca-Cola’ s global sales. KOF is the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, delivering approximately 2 billion unit cases a year and accounting for approximately 40% of Coca-Cola’s volumes in the region. Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. produces Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Lift and other trademark beverages of The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico (a substantial part of central Mexico, including Mexico City and Southeast of Mexico), Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide), Panama (nationwide), Colombia (most of the country), Venezuela (nationwide), Brazil (greater São Paulo, Campiñas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias) and Argentina (federal capital of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas), along with bottled water, beer and other beverages in some of these territories.

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