Rising from a purchase from Procter & Gamble, the Sunny Delight Beverages Co. (SDBC) was founded in 2004. Managed by a team of former P&G execs, Sunny Delight has now reached high noon with the manufacture of its juice-based drinks. The company's brands, which are fortified with vitamins B1 and C and are primarily marketed to children, include SunnyD Original and SunnyD Orange Blends. They are available throughout North America and Western Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, and the UK). Sunny Delight is owned by Beverage Holdings, a unit of private investment firm, J.W. Childs.

Dennick FruitSource sells tropical fruit juices, concentrates, and purees made from acerola, guava, mango, and passion fruit, as well as from less exotic fruits such as apricot, banana, peach, pear, and pineapple to industrial customers in North America. Its fruits are sourced from growers all over the world, including in Brazil, Peru, Columbia, India, and South Africa. Dennick's standard, organic, and kosher fruit products ship in drums, bins, or tankers and used by other food and beverage manufactures who use them to make various products, including yogurt, baked goods, jams, and jellies.

Bengard Marketing serves as a sales agent between produce growers, packers, and distributors. Bengard Marketing Company purchases fresh fruit from California growers, as well as produce from other US and international growers, and markets it to retail and wholesale customers. Bengard Marketing's products include grapes and pears. Bengard Marketing company is operated by the Bengard family.

Smithfield Foods Ltd was formed in 2004 from a merger between two independent meat companies. The Norwich Food Company, which specialised in the supply of meat, poultry and game to retailers, wholesalers, food processors and caterers, and Ridpath PEK, an importer of canned and deli meats established in the UK since the mid 1970's.There was little overlap in their product ranges or client base and the merger has produced a company with a wide range of skills and experience across many industry sectors, from retail to wholesale and independent trading.

Legacy Bakehouse LLC company traces its roots back to 1917, and is owned by CEO Mike Heyers. Legacy Bakehouse LLC company makes bread-based baked, toasted, and fried snack products, such as rye chips, bagel chips, and snack mix. Its products are manufactured at its 59,000 sq. ft. facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and are sold under the Pinahs brand name. The snacks are distributed to retailers, catalogs, and food service companies. Legacy Bakehouse also offers private label custom products, bulk sizing, and research and development services.

French champagne producer Laurent-Perrier toasts its place as one of the world's largest champagne producers. The company's middle market to high-end bubbly, incuding lables such as Laurent-Perrier, Champagne de Castellane, Salon, Delamotte, Jeanmaire, Oudinot, and Beaumet, is distributed primarily by controlled company channels in more than 120 countries through direct sales to restaurants, retailers, bars, and hotels. The company concentrates on sales in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier went public in 1999 by selling a little more than one-quarter of the company's shares. The de Nonancourt family controls the company.

Turning a delicious but odd-shaped fruit into a household favorite wasn’t in the plan when a group of grower-hobbyists banded together in 1924 to form the California Avocado Growers Exchange. And two more years would pass before Rudolph Hass of La Habra, California, would plant the state’s first Hass avocado tree.At the time, avocado growers had no quality standards, no distribution channels, and only one facility, a packinghouse in Vernon, California. During that first year, the Growers Exchange packed 18,000 pounds of avocados from that packinghouse and, in doing so, launched an industry.Though the Vernon packinghouse has long since closed, the company that sprang from that Growers’ Exchange - now known as Calavo Growers, Inc. - is still going strong some 81 years later. In 2005, this publicly traded, diversified, global agribusiness packed approximately 35 percent of the California avocado crop, nearly double the market share of its closest competitor. Three modern packinghouses - strategically located in Santa Paula and Temecula, California, and Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico - teem with productivity and thrive on volume, packing approximately 200 million pounds per year. The company is now headquartered in Santa Paula, California and employs more than 500 people.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

Taittinger has something to be bubbly about. When celebrations are afoot, the champagne and wine maker produces vintages for all. The company produces its champagne and wines in France and the US. It offers wines made from grapes grown in the Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Champagne, and Rhone regions of France and it owns Domaine Carneros, a California winemaker which plies about 200 acres in Napa and Sonoma valleys. About two-thirds of Taittinger's champagne production is sold overseas. In addition to wine the company offers spirits including brandies, scotch, gin, vodka, and liqueurs.

If Old MacDonald actually had a farm, he'd want to be a member of the Five Star Cooperative. Operating in north-central and northeast Iowa, Five Star has operations in more than 15 small to midsized towns in the Hawkeye State. The cooperative is divided into five divisions, according to the products and services offered -- agronomy, petroleum (diesel fuel and home heating oil), feed (for beef cattle and swine), grain, and hardware -- it operates a True Value hardware store in New Hampton that offers all the usual hardware products and services. Established in 1916, Five Star Cooperative provides a full complement for its member/farmers.

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