Evergreen FS is an agricultural cooperative serving the needs of northern Illinois farmers. The co-op provides a full range of farm supplies and services including agronomy, feed, seed, fertilizer, fuel, financing, and marketing advice and products. The group also operates a handful of grain elevators as part of its operations. It specializes in the production of corn, soybeans, and wheat. The co-op boasts some 13,000 member/owners that operate businesses on farmland in the counties of McLean, Woodford, and Livingston. Evergreen FS is a member of the GROWMARK system.

Sun-Maid has served consumers and customers since 1912 by providing premium quality raisins and dried fruits from the raisin and fruit farms of California to homes and eating establishments around the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid Growers of California is owned by family farmers who grow raisin grapes all located within 100 miles of each other in the Great Central Valley of California, midway between Los Angeles to the south and San Francisco to the north. This fertile agricultural valley produces some of the best fruits and vegetables in the world, including a wide assortment of grapes, peaches, plums, apples, figs, apricots, blueberries, strawberries, and melons. When appropriate, Sun-Maid reaches beyond this geographical area to source a complete array of dried fruits.

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.

Heineken has wide international presence through a global network of distributors and breweries. Heineken owns and manages one of the world’s leading portfolios of beer brands and is one of the world’s leading brewers in terms of sales volume and profitability. Our principal international brands are Heineken and Amstel, but the group brews and sells more than 200 international premium, regional, local and specialty beers and ciders, including Amstel®, Primus®, Birra Moretti®, Sagres® , Cruzcampo®, Star®, Foster’s®, Strongbow®, Kingfisher®, Tiger®, Newcastle Brown Ale®, Zywiec®, Ochota®. This section tells you more about how the Heineken group is organised and managed.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

Succulent pork roast, yum. Your satisfied taste buds and full tummy has Quality Pork Processors to thank. The company is a fresh-meat processing and co-packing company that does the slaughter and cutting of fresh pork for Hormel Foods. Headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, Quality Pork operates a pork-processing plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota, and processes more than 19,000 hogs a day. A privately held company founded in 1987 by Richard Knight as a custom meat operation, today Quality Pork provides services such as loin boning, rib conversion, and packaging for Hormel.

Peter's Food Service manufactures chilled and frozen food, including meat pies, pasties, sandwiches, and sausages. Peter's Food Service company distributes products under its flagship Peter's and Peter's Premier brands to grocery stores and other retail outlets. It also supplies chilled food products to the foodservice industry. Mike Grimwood, a former Northern Foods executive, led a buyout of Peter's Food Service company from John Griffiths and his family in 2007.

Hardie's was established in 1943 by the father of the owner, chairman and CEO of the company, David Hardie. For 67 years, Hardie’s has provided fresh fruits and vegetables to foodservice and retail businesses in Texas and Louisiana. Hardie’s Fruit & Vegetable is headquartered in the Dallas Metroplex area with additional facilities located in Austin, San Antonio and McAllen, Texas. With a fleet of 78 trucks making 5,000 deliveries per week, covering a 600 mile swath of territory, Hardie’s is dedicated to exceeding the customer’s expectations each time an order is placed. To serve Hardie's Fruit & Vegetable customer's needs with the highest quality products and best service possible while exceeding the standards of business integrity that people have grown to expect from us.

The Dannon Company, Inc., sells and produces six million cups of yogurt a day in almost 100 flavors, styles and sizes. The top-selling brand of yogurt worldwide, Dannon® is sold under the names Dannon and Danone. Danone, parent company of Dannon, is the worldwide leader in water and fresh dairy products.

Compass Group Canada is a regional operating unit of global contract foodservices provider Compass Group offering catering, corporate dining, and vending services throughout Canada. Its operating units include Canteen (vending services), Eurest Dining (corporate dining and catering), Morrison (health care foodservices), Eurest Services (building maintenance and security services), and The Hurley Group (janitorial services and facilities management). Compass Group Canada also runs concessions for sports facilities and museums and provides foodservices in remote locations, such as mines and offshore drilling rigs. In French-speaking Quebec, the company operates through Groupe Compass Quebec.

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