Fane Valley Co-operative Society Ltd. was established in 1903 by a group of farmers who wished to improve the marketing of their butter which at that time was produced on the farm. The group came together and built the original Fane Valley dairy which was located on the banks of the Fane Valley river bordering counties Armagh and Monaghan.Today 106 years later an agricultural store still operates on the original site providing a useful service to farmers in the area. Fane Valley has diversified from a producer of butter to being a leading company within the Irish Agri food sector. The Society now is involved in the processing of milk, red meat, cereals, animal feeds and supplies farm requisites to farmers, and from humble beginnings now has a group turnover in excess of £250m and employs 1500 people throughout Ireland.

Alabama Farmers Cooperative, originally the Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Cooperative, was organized in Decatur, Alabama in 1936 by a group of local county co-ops. Upon becoming a single entity, the new cooperative developed a modest plant in Decatur to satisfy the farmers’ need for fairly priced fertilizer.Over the years, AFC acquired or built additional facilities. Today, AFC has storage facilities for both liquid and dry fertilizer throughout the areas that it serves.Alabama Farmers Cooperative (AFC) provides farmers in the Yellowhammer State a full range of agricultural supplies and services, including feed, fertilizer, seed, grain storage, and marketing, along with home-gardening items such as seeds and hardware. The co-op, which boasts 46 member associations, serving members in 49 US states; it owns and operates member-only co-op stores in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AFC owns Bonnie Plants, one of the largest suppliers of vegetable and herb plants for the home gardener in the US, along with BioLogic, which makes forage products for wild game. AFC also operates catfish fish farms and supplies the foodservice industry with whole and value-added catfish.

Coca-Cola Hellenic serves approximately 560 million people in 28 countries. We are one of the largest bottlers and vendors of The Coca-Cola Company’s products in the world, and the largest based in Europe. Coca-Cola Hellenic was formed in 2000 as a result of the merger of the Athens-based Hellenic Bottling Company and the London-based Coca-Cola Beverages. Since then, our territory has expanded and currently extends from as far west as Galway, Ireland, to Petropavlovsk, the easternmost point of Russia. This breadth provides attractive growth opportunities and reduces our dependence on any particular market. In conducting operations across 28 countries, Coca-Cola Hellenic provides guidance, support and supervision to each operation while placing day-to-day management and operation in the hands of local employees with a deep familiarity of their own country, its business practices and community aspirations. Coca-Cola Hellenic is headquartered in Athens and currently listed on the Athens, New York and London stock exchanges. Our two major shareholders are the Kar-Tess Holding S.A., a private holding company, and The Coca-Cola Company.

King Cotton is alive and well in Memphis. Homegrown Dunavant Enterprises is one of the largest cotton traders in the world, handling more than 6 million bales of cotton per year. The company, which grew by selling aggressively to China and the Soviet Union, maintains cotton-buying offices in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the southern US. Dunavant also maintains cotton ginning operations, which have a capacity of handling 700,000 bales (or more than 150,000 metric tons) of cotton every year. Dunavant Enterprises is owned by the Dunavant family and company employees.

Naturex SA was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Avignon, France. Naturex SA develops, manufactures, and markets plant extracts with flavoring, coloring, antioxidant, or nutraceutical properties. Its extracts are used by its industrial customers in food products, such as meat products, drinks, and cooked meals; and food supplements, including tablets and capsules. The company’s products include NAT Arom, a line of extracts, oleoresins, and essential oils pure and formulated; natural chemicals; and water soluble rosemary extracts. Its products also comprise NAT Color, a line of natural colors pure and formulated, including paprika oleoresin, palm oil extract, carrot oleoresin, turmeric oleoresin, marigold oleoresin, annatto extract, spinach oleoresin, grape skin extracts, and black carrot extract, as well as blends of Naturex coloring extracts; and NAT Activ, a line of botanical extracts for health. In addition, the company’s products include NAT Stabil, a line of rosemary extracts with antioxidant properties. Its rosemary extracts include Oxy’Less and StabilEnhance products in various formulations, including powder, liquid, water soluble, and oil soluble.

Wimm-Bill-Dann is the market leader in dairy products and children’s food in Russia and one of the leading players in the market for non-alcoholic drinks in Russia and the CIS. Wimm-Bill-Dann has more than 35 production facilities in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. More than 18,000 people work at WBD’s production facilities and trading affiliates. Our most recognized brands include: Domik v Derevne (Little House in the Village), Chudo (Wonder), Vesely Molochnik (Happy Milkman), Imunele and Lamber. We also have Russia’s best-known juice brand, J7. No less popular are our brands Lyubimy Sad (Favorite Garden), Chudo-Yagoda (Wonder-Berry), and Essentuki. Our Agusha trademark is Russia’s most recognized baby-food brand.

It takes two parents -- one Dutch and one British -- to make one Unilever. Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC, together with their group companies, constitute a global food, personal care, and household products powerhouse. The company's vast portfolio of products includes eleven brands that ring up more than $1 billion each annually. They include Hellmann's (mayonnaise), Knorr (soups), Lipton (tea), Dove and Lux (soaps), and Sure and Degree (antiperspirants). Unilever's consumer goods are sold in more than 170 countries. The company was the world's #1 consumer products maker until Procter & Gamble purchased Gillette in 2005. Based in England, Unilever PLC trades on the London and New York stock exchanges.

Kraft Food Ingredients Corp. manufactures and supplies food ingredients for food manufacturers. Kraft Food company offers cheese solutions, such as pasteurized process, soft, and restricted melt cheeses, as well as cheese powders, dairy flavors, and cheese sauces; savory solutions, including pan dripping, roast, fried, sautéed, rotisserie, meat, and vegetarian flavors; and dessert and baked goods solutions comprising marshmallows, caramel, granolas, and crackers. Kraft Food also provides enhancers, such as barbeque sauces, mustards, and steak sauces, as well as salad dressings; and other ingredient solutions, including cereals, tapioca, meals, fat replacers, and non-fat dry milk alternates.

VRANKEN-POMMERY MONOPOLE has corked the notion that fine champagne does not belong on a supermarket shelf. Founded in 1976, the company has built its name selling its libations at grocery retailers -- a market its older competitors have historically shunned. It makes the Charles LAFITTE, Cuve Diamant, Demoiselle, Heidsieck & Co Monopole, POMMERY, and VRANKEN brands of champagne. It also owns the ROZS port brand. VRANKEN-POMMERY operates subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founder and president Paul-Franois Vranken owns some 70% of VRANKEN-POMMERY.

Shanghai Bright Dairy & Food (Bright Dairy) is one of China's largest dairy producers. It has the largest pasture in the East Asia and a 500,000 ton annual production capacity. Bright Dairy churns out a variety of dairy products including disinfected milk, fresh milk, yogurt, pasteurized milk, and milk powder. It also operates a number of urban fresh milk mills in the cities of Xi'an, Beijing, Wuhan, Wuxi, and Nanjing. Bright Dairy is majority-owned by Shaghai Industrial Holdings Ltd., whose shares are traded in Hong Kong. Shanghai Milk (controlled by Shanghai Nong Gong Shang) owns almost 31% of Bright Dairy. Groupe Danone sold its interest in the company in 2008.

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