Superior Foods strives to make, distribute, and market a superior quality of frozen foods. Its products include vegetables, fruits, herbs, specialty potato products (think french fries), herbs and spices, and semi-prepared foods. The company serves customers in the retail food, industrial food, and foodservice sectors. Superior Foods purchased Birds Eye Foods' blending and packaging facility in Texas in 2004, where it processes products for private-label customers. Superior company has manufacturing operations in Asia, Central, South, and North America, as well as in Europe.

Diversified conglomerate LOTTE Holdings, with interests in retail, sports, and restaurants, is best known as one of Japan's leading confectioners. Its Lotte Co. unit makes a wide array of candies and other treats, including gum, chocolate, and cookies. LOTTE also owns fast-food chain, Lotteria, which has locations in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. It also owns several retail chains including Korea's LOTTESHOPPING. In addition, LOTTE owns the Chiba Lotte Marines professional baseball club. Other business interests include soft drinks and ice cream manufacturing, leisure and entertainment venues, magazine publishing, and real estate.

Fresh Del Monte Produce expects to be squeezed and sniffed. Sniff and squeeze away -- the success of the company's Del Monte Gold Extra Sweet-branded pineapples have made it one of the world's largest fresh pineapple producers and marketers; it is also one of the world's top banana producers, and offers a full array of vegetables and other fruits. Fresh Del Monte's brand names include Del Monte, Rosy, and UTC. Its prepared and fresh-cut foods include potato salad, cole slaw, bagged sliced products, and fruit juices and fruit drinks; it also makes industrial fruit products (purees, pulps, and concentrates) for food manufacturing companies. Fresh Del Monte sells its fruit and vegetables in more than 90 countries.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

Red Jacket Orchards is a leading apple and fruit grower with more than 600 acres of orchards in Upstate New York. The company produces more than 20 different varieties of apples, including Empire, McIntosh, and Red Delicious. Red Jacket also grows apricots, raspberries, and strawberries, along with peaches and plums. The company also produces cider and fruit juices. Red Jacket sells its produce direct to consumers through farmers markets and its own orchard store, as well as through supermarkets and grocery retailers. The company's orchards were originally planted in 1917 and have been operated by the Nicholson family since 1958.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc. takes a licking and keeps on selling -- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream is the leading US ice cream producer. The company manufactures premium ice creams and other frozen dairy desserts under its namesake Dreyer's and its Edy's brands for distribution to food retailers and foodservice purveyors throughout the US and some 25 overseas markets. In addition, Dreyer's distributes Nestl�'s H�agen-Dazs and ice cream novelties; it also operates the H�agen-Dazs Shoppe Company, which franchises ice cream parlors worldwide. Dreyer's is a subsidiary of Swiss food giant Nest.

Grain Processing Corporation (GPC) is a major manufacturer of an excellent array of grain-based products including food, pharmaceutical and personal care starches, maltodextrins and corn syrup solids, grain neutral spirits, industrial starches and animal nutrition ingredients. The Company, a subsidiary of Kent Corporation, markets its products worldwide.

Morton International company is the #1 consumer salt maker in the US and sells industrial and consumer salts from under a big umbrella held by a little girl in a yellow dress. Along with Morton's familiar grocery products (table, kosher, and canning salt), the company also makes consumer and professional salt for controlling ice on roads and water conditioning; it also manufactures salts for the foodservice and food-manufacturing industries. In addition Morton owns the Canadian salt company Windsor Salt. Formerly a subsidiary of Rohm and Hass, Morton Salt was sold to to Germany's K+S in 2009.

Furman Foods is a family-owned business founded in 1921 by J. W. Furman. The Pennsylvania company distributes a complete line of canned tomatoes and tomato products. Furman Foods also offers canned beans; spaghetti, pasta, and pizza sauces; bean salads; vegetables; and ketchup and other condiments. Furman's brand names include include Furmano's, Conte, and Bella Vista. Furman Foods company has customers in the foodservice (restaurants, schools, and hospitals), retail (supermarkets and grocery stores), export, branded, manufacturing, and private-label sectors along the US's East Coast.

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