"Truly fine chocolates have several characteristics in common: they are always fresh, contain high quality ingredients like premium cocoa beans and dairy butter, are usually less sweet and feature unusual textures and natural flavors. Consequently, their taste differs greatly from less expensive chocolates, which tend to use artificial flavors and preservatives to achieve a longer shelf-life." Godiva's chocolate products are available worldwide at its 450 boutique stores, in department and specialty stores, through mail order, and from its Web site. Godiva Chocolatier, Inc. began operations in North America in 1966 as an importer and distributor of Godiva chocolates from Belgium. Godiva is owned by Turkish confectioner Ülker Bisküvi Sanayi, which acquired it from Campbell Soup in 2008.

E.D. Smith & Sons is one of Canada's leading jam, pie-filling, and ketchup manufacturers. It also makes barbecue and pasta sauces, fruit topping, mayonnaise, salsas, and syrups. E.D. Smith & Sons company's products are offered under the E.D. Smith brand, as well as under private labels to grocery stores, foodservice suppliers, and industrial food manufacturers throughout North America. Family-owned for four generations, E.D. Smith was acquired by US-based TreeHouse Foods in 2007.

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.

Dominion Citrus Income Fund company is one of Canada's leading food suppliers, providing fresh fruits, vegetables, and juices to more than 400 customers in the food retail, food service, and food distribution sectors. Products are imported from around the world and distributed to customers primarily in Ontario and Quebec. Dominion Citrus also offers international logistics, marketing, packaging, procurement, ripening, and transportation services through various business divisions. Chairman Michael Blair owns about 16% of Dominion Citrus company.

Alaska Sausage and Seafood Company is known for our smoked seafood, including our popular line of delicious smoked salmon, as well as our gourmet Alaskan sausages with reindeer meat. Let your friends, family, or clients 'taste the best' of these Alaskan treats with one of our gourmet gift packages.Whether you're looking for sausages with reindeer meat and other gourmet sausages, fine smoked wild salmon or halibut, or gourmet gift packages from Alaska, you'll find only the best at alaskasausage.com.

RFI Ingredients, based in Blauvelt, NY, is a manufacturer of innovative natural ingredients for the food, functional food and dietary supplement industries. RFI Ingredients which was formed in 1989, specializes in the supply of quality ingredients (including certified-organic) and proprietary formulations, building on its global partnerships and in-house applications laboratory.RFI Ingredients extensive network of global partners enables us to offer multiple markets for natural products sourcing, allowing us to capitalize on worldwide seasons and economic fluctuations. With manufacturing operations in North America, South America and China, RFI can offer true global reach. In addition to RFI international raw materials sourcing platform, RFI also operate Atlantic Coast Functional Foods (ACFF), a separate company that concentrates on selling functional foods into the Asian market.

Viterra has its roots in grain. Canada's largest grain company, the company collects, stores, markets and ships grain. It sells farm goods such as seed and fertilizer, farm equipment, crop-protection products through its 252 retail outlets located throughout western Canada. It also processes malting barley and oats into value-added products, and provides grain storage (99 elevators) and transportation services (100 rail-car loaders). In addition, Viterra offers livestock-production and financial services. The company is most active in Canada and the US but has customers in more than 50 other countries. In 2010 the company acquired US-based pasta producer Dakota Growers Pasta.

In the first year of business, Joseph used every spare moment to perfect his shortbread recipe, and it was time well spent. Soon, shooting parties from the local estates were making detours to Joseph's bakery.As his fame spread, and demand increased for his quality shortbread, Joseph took the first steps to expanding the business by moving to a larger shop in the Speyside village of Aberlour and investing in a horse and cart to deliver his baking further afield. With its crisply traditional red-and-black tartan packaging, Walkers Shortbread has taken Scottish shortbread from the Isles to the world. The family-run company manufactures packaged biscuits, cakes, fruitcakes, meringues, oatcakes, shortbreads, and mincemeat tarts, all sporting the Walkers brand. The company also produces cookies and biscuits under the Weight Watchers label in the UK, and organic oat biscuits for Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall label. Walkers' customers include food retailers and foodservice operators worldwide. They can also be ordered through the company's Web site.

Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley was mostly prune orchards and pastures when, in 1962, Maggie and Harry Wetzel purchased a large portion of a homestead built by Cyrus Alexander, the valley’s nineteenth century namesake. Here, in a rural community of family farms and ranches, the Wetzel family settled. They raised livestock, cultivated bountiful gardens and restored Alexander’s original home, making it the center of family life. With an eye to their neighbors in nearby Napa Valley, the Wetzels boldly planted premium grape varieties, among the first in the area. Then the family built a small winery. Hank Wetzel, oldest son of Maggie and Harry, produced Alexander Valley Vineyard’s first wine in 1975. His wife Linda set up the books and managed the winery office. AVV quickly established a reputation for estate grown wines with distinctive varietal character. Acclaimed for crisp Chardonnay and luscious Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley Vineyards brought recognition to the appellation and became a leading winery in Sonoma County.

President Bob Moore and his wife, Charlee, founded Bob's Red Mill in 1978; fulfilling Moore's original intent to share his success with his employees, it became employee-owned in 2010. No changes to the company's staff or operations were made. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company stone grinds whole grains into bread mixes, cereals, natural and organic flour, and pancake and waffle mixes. Its 400-plus products are sold at grocery stores throughout the US and Canada; it also sells bulk mixes to large-scale food-manufacturing customers. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company operates a visitor's center, store, and bakery/cafe in Milwaukie, Oregon.

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