Five Star was formed in 1993 to acquire AA Food Services based in Dalton, Georgia. It is a portfolio company of Atlanta-based Navigation Capital Partners. Five Star Food Service is a leading operator and supplier of vending machines and related supplies, with more than 18,500 machines in the Southeast, mostly in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Five Star Food Service company also offers office coffee and beverage services and operates about 80 corporate dining cafeterias. It is a franchisee of Canteen Vending Services, a unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Hillside Candy is our company’s corporate umbrella name for three brands of candy. The brands are Golightly Sugar Free Candy, in business since 1980 (though the business started many years earlier), Hillside Sweets, a line of sugar-based hard candy, and GoNaturally, a line of USDA certified organic candy. These 3 Made-in-America lines are sold in drug store chains, mass merchandisers, grocery chains, supermarkets, gourmet stores, rebaggers, gift basket companies and other businesses. Each of Hillside’s lines offers quality, consistency and delicious taste. Moses Rubinstein founded Moru Industries Company. Unlike its competitors, the company did not mass-produce candy; it cooked only one product (a simple honey drop candy) individually wrapped. After many years in business, Moses turned the company over to his nephew Mike Fisher, a candy chemist by trade. Mike continued the business, but by 1980, became fed up.

Work hard, play hard. Sure. These days it's more like work hard, go home and eat potato salad. We've always found that there's something about modern living that makes it hard to be healthy. That's why we gave up our jobs over nine years ago and started making innocent smoothies. The idea was to make it easy for people to do themselves some good. And to make it taste nice too. We wanted people to think of innocent drinks as their one healthy habit; like going to the gym, but without the communal shower afterwards. We call them innocent because our drinks are always completely pure, fresh and unadulterated. Anything you ever find in an innocent bottle will always be 100% natural and delicious -and if it isn't, get on the banana phone and make us beg for forgiveness. In fact, being accountable to our customers is something that is in our blood. In the summer of 1998 when we had developed our first smoothie recipes but were still nervous about giving up our proper jobs, we bought £500 worth of fruit, turned it into smoothies and sold them from a stall at a little music festival in London. We put up a big sign saying 'Do you think we should give up our jobs to make these smoothies?' and put out a bin saying 'YES' and a bin saying 'NO' and asked people to put the empty bottle in the right bin. At the end of the weekend the 'YES' bin was full so we went in the next day and resigned.

Sweet Shop USA (formerly DFG Confectionery) produces more than 100 varieties of gourmet sweets. Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. offers handmade chocolates, fudge, truffles, and toffee under the Price's Fine Chocolates, Mrs. Weinstein's Gourmet Toffee, and Sweet Shop brand names. Sweet Shop's confections are available at candy and gift shops, boutiques, floral, and gourmet food retailers throughout the US. Its some 8,000 customers include Whole Foods, Neiman Marcus, Dillard's, Lord & Taylor, Hallmark Cards, and various Federated stores.

Holten Meat pleases palates with its beef (including certified Angus), veal, and pork products. The company manufactures and distributes processed meat items, including steaks, patties, ribs, and breaded cuts, to foodservice institutions and retail food purveyors throughout the US. Its brand names include Thick 'N Juicy and Healthy Answers. It also offers custom cut services. Operating a 85,000-square-foot processing facility in the heart of St. Louis, Holten Meat is owned and managed by the Holten family. It was founded by Elwyn "Red" Holten in 1960.

Located in Lubbock, Texas, Llano Estacado Winery is one of the largest wineries in the state, it has the capacity to produce 120,000 cases of white, red, and dessert wines a year. Founded in 1976, the winery sits on the high plains of west Texas. It owns two vineyards -- Home Estate (three acres) and Mont Sec (100 acres). It also buys grapes from other high-plains growers with which it is associated. VP Greg Bruni, who has been the company's winemaker since 1993, operates an experimental vineyard at Llano Estacado aimed at increasing the quality of the vineyards' grapes. Bruni shares the results of his experiments with the winery's associated growers. Llano Estacado wines have been served at the White House.

Horizon Milling, LLC was founded in 2002. Horizon Milling, LLC, a flour miller, provides flours for baking, food manufacturing, and private-label applications. Its products include wheat and flour products, wheat-based products, bakery flours, retail grocery flours, durum and semolina flours, and specialty flours. Horizon Milling company’s products are used in various applications, including breads and rolls, cookies and crackers, cakes, pies and pastries, bars, energy bars, muffins, pizza, pasta, noodles, batters, biscuits, baking mixes, bagels, salty snacks, dumplings, spaghetti, short pastas, coatings, blending, pancakes, and waffles. Horizon Milling also offers animal feed and vitamins. In addition, it offers technical support/consulting, risk management, and supply chain/logistics services. Horizon Milling company offers its products through distributors to bakery and other flour based manufacturers, and retail bakers.

Guida's Milk & Ice Cream is one of the largest independent dairies in New England. Since 1886 Guida's has had the reputation of supplying the finest products and service to our large customer base. With a fleet of over 200 vehicles, Guida's Milk & Ice Cream delivers fresh dairy and dairy related products throughout Southern New England. Our service area includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and New York State including Long Island. Emphasis on quality control cannot be overstated. With a 18-day code on all of our fluid milk products, Guida's can guarantee the utmost integrity of its product line. Guida's also processes a full line of ice cream mixes, fruit juices, fruit drinks and water to meet all of our customers' needs.

DPI Specialty Foods Mid Atlantic is a regional operating unit of food wholesaler DPI Specialty Foods. It supplies supermarkets, specialty food stores, and other food retailers with gourmet and specialty food items, including imported foods, natural and organic goods, and ethnic food items. DPI Mid Atlantic serves customers in more than a dozen states along the Eastern seaboard.

World Variety Produce was founded in 1984 by president Joe Hernandez. World Variety Produce, which does business under the brand Melissa's/World Variety Produce, is a leading importer and distributor of specialty produce from around the world that offers more than 800 varieties of exotic fresh and dried fruits and vegetables. It supplies produce to grocers, supermarkets, and other retailers, as well as foodservice operators. World Variety Produce also sells products to consumers through its Web site. In addition to fresh produce, the company markets condiments, sauces, soy products, and specialty ingredients used in Latin and Asian cooking.

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