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.

Dixie Growers company sources its produce from growers with more than 2,000 acres in north, central, and south Florida. Dixie Growers company's products include strawberries, cantaloupe, cucumbers, bell peppers, eggplant, chili peppers, and squash, as well as a variety of herbs. It boasts a 64,000-sq.-ft. packing facility. Dixie Growers is headquartered -- appropriately enough -- in Plant City, Florida, and is owned and operated by Charles Lawton (president) and Linda Lawton.

Bavaria is SABMiller's industrial operation in Colombia and the most important industrial beverage conglomerate in the country.It is comprised of seven breweries located in Barranquilla, Bogotá, Duitama, Bucaramanga, Cali, Medellín and Tocancipá; and two malting plants, one in Tibitó and the other in Cartagena, which manufacture, distribute and sell beer, malts and water. It also owns the company Impresora del Sur. SABMiller is one of the largest brewing companies worldwide, with the highest volume, operations in four continents and a production that exceeds 216 million hectoliters of beer, and offers more than 170 brands.

BakeMark USA LLC produces bakery and food ingredients and supplies. It offers mixes, bases, fillings, icings, glazes, frozen products, flours, sugars, shortenings, and paper products. The company also provides mixes and bases for donuts, cakes/muffins, cookies/brownies/scones, Danish/laminated dough, cinnamon rolls, bagel/bread/rolls, fruit/crème fillings, custard/mousse/powders, icings and glazes, flavors and colors, Hispanic ingredients, shortening/oil/pan sprays, and bakery essentials.

When mothers intone "eat your veggies," it's music to the ears of Harris Moran. Harris Moran Seed Company, a unit of French seed giant cooperative Groupe Limagrain, serves up an array of vegetable seeds for markets in about 65 countries. The company's seeds are destined for fresh-food and processed-food end uses. With operations in the US and Mexico, the company researches, breeds, and wholesales seeds for such mom-pleasers as beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, lettuce, melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, and tomatoes. Harris Moran, which was acquired by Limagrain in 1996, traces its roots back more than 140 years. In 2010 the company acquired Mesa Maize, a sweet corn company in Olathe, Colorado.

Barkley Seed has sowing possibilities. The firm supplies grain seeds, mainly wheat and barley. Its seed varieties are adapted to five growing regions in the US -- the Central Plains, East, Northern Plains, Northwest, and Southwest -- depending on customer location. Choosing not to sell on the retail market, Barkley focuses on the research and development of identity-preserved seed varieties (those that maintain their genetic makeup). R&D is largely funded through royalties, which are generated from seed sales to licensed growers. Barkley licenses growers nationwide and operates facilities in Arizona and California. In 2009 it sold WestBred, its indirectly owned wheat germplasm unit, to biotech giant Monsanto.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC, is a leading sheller and processor of peanuts and peanut products with headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia. Golden Peanut's primary product lines include raw shelled and inshell peanuts, peanut flours, peanut extracts, roasted aromatic and refined various peanut oils, and peanut seed. Golden Peanut serves peanut growers and operates plants in all major peanut growing areas of the United States and Argentina. Golden Peanut are proud to be a leading supplier of peanut products to manufacturers worldwide.

HerbThyme Farms is headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio. We are the largest grower, shipper and marketer with 100% year round California grown conventional and certified organic fresh culinary herbs in the United States. HerbThyme Farms has approximately 200 acres of conventional farmland and 150 acres dedicated to the growing of USDA certified organic herbs. HerbThyme Farms grows and ships over 5 million pounds of fresh herbs annually. Fresh herbs are grown domestically on our own lush farmlands along the Central and Southern coasts. HerbThyme utilizes cutting edge growing and packaging technologies to produce the finest and freshest herbs. Fresh herbs are delivered from our farm to our customers within 48 hours. We maintain the cold chain from the beginning to the end of finished product at constant temperatures to insure freshness and long shelf life. We pack our herbs in a 50,000 square foot state of the art automated packing facility, with full third party audited HAACP and GAP programs in place, lab tested and Kosher certified. Our products are well supported by innovative marketing, sales tools and new products. Our mission since our inception in the early 1980’s has been to dedicate ourselves to growing and shipping the highest quality fresh herbs across the country. We hope you enjoy our website and welcome your comments and feedback!

Little Lady Foods is celebrating over 25 years under current ownership as “The World Custom Food Maker”. Although Little Lady Foods was founded in the Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago by the Esposito family in 1961, it was restaurateur Angelo Geocaris who purchased the small company in 1984. The Geocaris family had deep roots in the restaurant industry and Angelo had the vision to take his Barnaby’s pizzeria recipe into grocery stores nationwide.Over the past 25 years the company has changed and grown. Little Lady Foods today develops and manufactures products for private label, foodservice and contract manufacturing customers. Under the current management team, Little Lady Foods has grown from $100,000 in sales in 1984 to well over $300 million. Little Lady Foods pizzas, hand held items and gourmet sandwiches are available in the largest and most popular restaurants and food companies in the world!

Chew 'em up or spit 'em out -- Dahlgren & Company processes and sells raw, roasted, shelled, and unshelled sunflower seeds. It offers standard, non-GMO, certified organic and certified kosher seeds. The company also provides custom processing (hulling, shelling), flavoring, and packaging services. Dalghren's customers include snack, baking, cereal, and food-ingredient manufacturers in the US and Canada, as well as in more than 30 other countries throughout the world. It also processes soy nuts, flax, and millet, as well as packaging sunflower seeds and chips for birdseed suppliers. The company operates four production sites. Founded in 1955, Dahlgren & Company is a family-owned business.

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