Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, our privately held company employs 138,000 people in 67 countries. Cargill may be private, but it's highly visible. The agribusiness giant, the US's largest private corporation, has operations in 70 countries. It has five main business segments -- Agriculture Services (customized farm services and products); Food Ingredients and Applications (food and beverage ingredients, and meat and poultry products); Industrial, Origination and Processing (commodity origination, processing, marketing and distribution); and Risk Management and Financial (risk management and financial solutions); and Industrial (salt, steel, and fertilizer). Cargill's customers include food, beverage, industrial, pharmaceutical, and personal care product makers, as well as farmers and foodservice providers.

Herr Foods is your best friend when you've got a case of the munchies. The snack food manufacturer, in business since 1946, makes about 340 different kinds of snack foods (all sold under the Herr's brand name) including potato chips, pretzels, tortilla chips, cheese curls, corn chips, pita chips, popcorn, crackers, nuts, pork rinds, onion rings, and meat sticks. Herr Foods company distributes its food items to retail food outlets in the US (primarily east of the Mississippi River), as well as in Canada. Herr Foods is run by chairman and CEO James M. Herr, son of company founder, James Stauffer Herr.

The FGN Group is a leader in plant genetic research and development for global biofuel, forestry and agricultural markets. The Group was formed by the merge of FGN Plc with CBD Technologies and has integrated the abiotic stress platform with the yield enhancement and processability technology from these entities into a powerful new package for the enhancement of biofuel, forestry and agricultural crops. It collaborates with renowned institutional partners worldwide and has thus been able to take an innovative and multi-faceted approach to significantly improve agronomic traits of value in plants. The FGN Group has strategic agreements with leading commercial companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors around the world and continues to actively partner its technologies. The Group has a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio that addresses environmental stresses in plants such as salinity, drought, cold, and heat and protects its developments on the modification of plant cell walls to enhance plant growth rates, yield and processability of plant fiber. FuturaGene technologies, by allowing plants to grow on marginal lands and to produce more usable fiber for industry, are a major contributor to ensuring food security and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, forest product and biofuel production.

Boasting that it makes the largest family-owned retail coffee brand (Community Coffee) in the US, the company sells its brew in grocery and convenience stores, restaurants, hotels, and offices throughout the southeastern US. And there's more brewing: Some 30 CC's Coffee Houses have sprung up in Louisiana since the original coffee shop opened in 1995 in New Orleans. The company also offers whole coffee beans, teas, chicory, and coffee-related gifts and accessories at its coffee houses as well as online. Community Coffee is owned by the descendants of Henry Norman Saurage, who founded it in 1919.

Hickman's Family Farms has been family-owned and operated in Arizona since 1944. In its early days, Hickman's entered the Arizona food service market by providing fresh, locally produced eggs direct to small independent restaurants, and directly to consumers. Every afternoon, one little refrigerated panel truck was sufficient to deliver the day's production to coffee shops in Glendale and to Carnation Restaurant in the big city of Phoenix. Bill and Gertie Hickman displayed the entrepreneurial insight that has kept Hickman's competitive for decades. By 1993, Hickman's was left standing as the only Arizona egg producer with chickens and a USDA-inspected processing plant. Despite the challenges of the egg industry, the Glendale operation continued to expand. In the late 1990s a new operation opened in Buckeye with laying houses that are each called home by 130,000 hens.

The family-owned and -operated Baumer Foods, Inc. was founded in 1923 by Alvin and Mildred Baumer. Baumer Foods company produces a variety of sauces and condiments, including hot, steak, wing, teriyaki, soy, and Worcestershire sauces, spicy mustards, and jams and jellies, all under the Crystal brand name. It also sells Figaro brand Hickory Liquid Smoke and Mesquite Liquid Smoke. Manufacturing 3 million gallons of its Crystal hot sauce yearly, Baumer Foods distributes its foods to some 75 countries worldwide.

Arla Foods has given Scandinavian dairy farmers a firm grip on Europe's milk business. The 7,800-member cooperative's consumer products include fluid milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, and cream. Its major milk brands are Lactofree and Cravendale; its butter and spreads include Anchor and Lurpak brands; and Apetina, Buko, and Denmark's Finest are among its cheese brands. Arla offers dairy ingredients and bacterial cultures for food manufacturers and agricultural use and supplies powdered milk and cheese products to markets across Europe, as well as in the UK, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. Sales outside Denmark and Sweden make up 60% of Arla Foods' sales.

ADI FEIHE conducts operations in the People's Republic of China through its wholly owned subsidiary, Feihe Dairy. Founded in 1962, it is one of the leading producers and distributors of premium infant formula, milk powder，soybean, rice cereal and walnut products in China. Feihe Dairy is headquartered in Beijing, China, and has processing and distribution facilities in Kedong, Qiqihaer, Baiquan, Gannan, Longjiang, Shanxi, and Langfang. Using proprietary processing techniques, we make products that are specially formulated for particular ages, dietary needs and health concerns. We have over 200 company-owned milk collection stations, two world class dairy farms, seven state of the art production facilities with an aggregate milk powder production capacity of approximately 1,234 tons per day and an extensive distribution network that reaches over 95,000 retail outlets throughout China. We were incorporated in the State of Utah on December 31, 1985. Effective May 7, 2003, we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of American Flying Crane , or AFC, a Delaware corporation that operates a dairy business in China through various subsidiaries. In connection with that acquisition, we changed our name to American Dairy, Inc.

In business since 1985, Renee's Gourmet Foods was owned by founders Arnold and Renee Unger who put it on the auction block in 2006. After attracting attention from a handful of multinational food giants, the couple sold renee's company to Heinz Canada that same year. Renee's Gourmet Foods is a saucy dish. Renee's Gourmet company makes refrigerated salad dressings, sauces, dips, marinades, and mayonnaise; all are made without using preservatives or additives. Renee's Gourmet company also produces and markets A.1. Steak Sauce in Canada. Its customers include foodservice operators.

DELLA NATURA COMMODITIES is the most reliable international supplier in the northern hemisphere for organic counter seasonal products and ingredients from around the world. We are your one stop solution, by growing, sourcing and distributing certified organic commodities and processed products to North America, Europe and the Far East. If quality, service and price are your priorities, you don't need to look any further.DELLA NATURA COMMODITIES works directly with organic farmers in South America to develop high quality certified organic ingredients and products. Choosing a reputable supplier is a delicate process, that is why we accurately select the proper land, location and facilities to fully guarantee the reliable source of our products. The company's continued growth in the organic market has built up a steady and loyal base of international clientele thus establishing its mark within the organic community, due to the highly remarkable excellence of its quality products and straight forward business policies.

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