Certified by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, Al Safa Halal is North America's leading provider of Halal -- an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted -- meats using the Zabiha (hand-slaughtering) process. In addition to fresh beef and chicken, the company offers Muslim communities convenience foods such as processed meats and frozen entrees, including pizza, wieners, and popcorn chicken, all marketed under the Al Safa brand name. Its products are distributed to grocery retailers and foodservice operations throughout North America. Al Safa Halal was founded in 1999 by the Muller family.

We are a world leader in premium- quality cheese manufacturing and the largest U.S. exporter of whey products. Leprino mozzarella cheese, cheese blends, and pizza cheese are made specially for pizzeria and foodservice operators, frozen food manufacturers and private label cheese packagers. Our premium mozzarella cheese is the uniform source of our high-quality sweet whey, whey proteins, and lactose products. No one has invested more in dairy manufacturing facilities than Leprino Foods over the past 10 years. Leprino Foods has some of the largest, most modern and technologically advanced plants in the world. Our customers benefit from the innovation and economies of scale we provide. Our facilities are designed and maintained with the upmost care to produce quality, wholesome, safe cheese, whey and dairy ingredients for our customers.

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leading food processor and distributor with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products, and with net sales exceeding $1.5 billion.At Michael Foods, our customers' wants and needs serve as a foundation for all we do. We have become a leader in the food industry by introducing innovative, value-added food technology and customer solutions.Our brands, Papetti's®, Crystal Farms®, AllWhites®, and Simply Potatoes® to name a few, are recognized and valued by customers and consumers across the nation.

Stanley Orchard Sales is now a major wholesale distributor of apples and pears. Founded by husband-and-wife team Morris and Sadie Cohn, who purchased a farm in Hudson Valley back in 1931, and run by the third-generation of the family (president and CEO Ronald Cohn is Morris and Sadie's grandson), the firm owns approximately 1,000 acres of orchards in New York State. Stanley Orchard sells more than 1 million bushels of apples every year and imports South American apples and pears, as well as other fruit.

Hanover Foods Corporation is the largest independently owned food company in the eastern United States. Hanover Foods produce millions of cases of frozen vegetables, frozen pretzels, canned vegetables, canned beans, refrigerated, fresh, glass-packed, and snack food items. For over 85 years, Hanover Foods Corporation has been an active leader in the growing, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution of an amazing variety of food products. Hanover Foods exceeds consumer demands in the retail, food service, fresh home meal replacement, private label, military, club store and industrial venues.

Founded in 1928 in New Iberia, Louisiana, Bruce Foods had been manufacturing original Cajun and Tex Mex food products for more than eighty years - long before these spicy cuisines were introduced to the rest of the world. Our Mexican food plant in El Paso, Texas was founded in 1931 and pioneered the first canned Mexican foods.Today, Bruce Foods is one of America's largest privately-owned food manufacturers with more than 1,200 employees, and four processing plants in the U.S. Bruce products are distributed throughout the U.S. and in more than 100 countries, and are carried by most of the top retail grocery chains worldwide so there's bound to be one near you.Known for bruce famous "Original" Louisiana brand hot pepper sauce, Cajun Injector Products, Bruce's Yams and Casa Fiesta Mexican food items, bruce manufacture a variety of more than 350 food products under nine premium brands - all authentic, all delicious and all natural.

Organically Grown, which is owned by its employees and growers, was founded in 1978. Organically Grown Company grows and sells certified organic fruits, vegetables, and herbs produced by small to medium family-owned farmers located throughout the US's Pacific Northwest. Its line of more than 100 seasonal produce items are sold under the LADYBUG brand to customers including independent retailers, supermarket chains, restaurants, home-delivery services, and wholesalers.

Michael Angelo's was founded in 1982. Michael Angelo's Gourmet Food produces fresh and frozen Italian entrees, snacks, appetizers, and desserts as well as pasta and pizza sauces. The company, which has no warehouse, claims to cook its meals from scratch every day and ship them to stores within 36 hours. Its products are available in major US food retailers, specialty food stores, and discount stores, including Albertson's, BJ's Wholesale Club, Publix, Whole Foods, Safeway, and SAMS CLUB.

Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), America's first agricultural land trust, died at her home in Marshall, Calif. on November 30. She was 75. Few have done more to preserve the land and culture of western Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area), where she settled to start a family in 1950. She will be particularly remembered by fellow farmers and environmentalists as a determined optimist who brought opposing parties together to protect and revitalize the region's agricultural greenbelt.Ellen Tirza Lotte Prins was born February 21, 1927 in Amsterdam Holland. In February 1940, Ellen and her family fled to New York, just ahead of the Nazi invasion.

AGRANA Beteiligungs AG company's central European sugar factories produce beet sugar, which is then sold to consumers and food manufacturers worldwide. It also operates starch factories which refine potato starch and cornstarch for the food, paper, textile, alternative energy, and chemical manufacturing industries. Through worldwide acquisitions beginning in 2003, AGRANA has added fruit processing to its mix and starting in 2007 fruit became (and remains) the company's largest revenue sector. Its fruit plants make fruit juice concentrates, frozen fruits, and other fruit preparations for use by food and beverage manufacturers.

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