Discovery Foods was founded by chairman James Beaton in 1989. Discovery Foods aims to stamp out dull food by allowing home cooks and foodservice operators to discover the power of chilies. The UK company makes spice-rich sauces, seasonings, condiments, and meal kits based on mainly Mexican cuisine (with some Cajun, Creole, and Texan selections available as well). Its also makes tortillas, wraps, and chips. The company's Discovery-branded (consumer) and Santa Maria-branded (foodservice) products are sold in the UK and mainland Europe.

One of the leading meat processors in Finland, Atria Group supplies meat and poultry products and value-added convenience foods. The group, through flagship subsidiary Atria Oy and several other subsidiaries, provides packaged beef and pork products, ready-to-cook steaks, and chicken and turkey products in Finland and the Baltic region. It also offers pre-made meals, fresh salads, and restaurant and catering products. The group, founded as a co-op in 1903, manufactures under brand names such as Atria, Forssan, Arboga, Maks & Moorits, and Sibylla. Its primary subsidiaries include AB Sardus, Liha-Pouttu Oy, and OOO Pit-Product.

John Nagle Co., a full-line wholesaler of fresh and frozen seafood, was founded in 1887 by John J. Nagle. Since then, four generations of the Nagle family have upheld their strong commitment to family traditions and values within the seafood industry. The founder’s great-grandson, Charles Nagle, is the company’s current president.

Vienna Beef was founded in 1893 when Austria-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichel and Sam Ladany introduced their family frankfurter recipe to their fellow Chicagoans at the legendary Columbian Exposition. The hot dog was a hit, and Vienna Beef was born. More than 100 years later, we’re still making our sausages the old-fashioned way, with premium domestic beef and our original recipe, made to the highest of quality standards and hickory-smoked for authentic flavor.Today, Vienna Beef today is a whole lot more than hot dogs. Still headquartered in Chicago, we manufacture and distribute a wide variety of foods, from our flagship sausages and deli meats to soups, chilis, entrees, condiments, desserts and Kosher specialties. Yet no matter what we’re cooking up, we adhere to the same standards that have made us the favorite of hot dog afficionados from Chicago to Europe and beyond. We choose natural ingredients because we believe they really matter when it comes to taste-real cream for our soups, our own meats for our chilis, harvest-fresh vegetables in our entrees and condiments. And we pay just as much attention to the preparation. Most of our products are cooked in small batches, and our food safety process is state-of-the-art.You'll find our products at supermarkets, quick-serve restaurants, hot dog stands, sports arenas and entertainment venues across the United States and around the world. We even ship our gifts directly to dog devotees and other food fans wherever they may live. Vienna Beef. It’s the taste of Chicago that knows no bounds.

Kirin Holdings is a top beer maker in Japan through its Kirin Brewery Co. In addition to its domestic Kirin-branded beers, the firm owns brewers that serve overseas markets, such as Australia's Lion Nathan. The company makes the alcoholic fruit drink chu-hi and owns some 50% of Japanese wine producer Mercian Corporation. Expanding beyond beverages, Kirin also has operations in the health- and functional-food, and pharmaceutical-manufacturing sectors.

AnaCon Foods Company manufactures an extensive line of high quality flavor particulate products used by food processors as extenders or replacements for natural fruit and nut pieces and for sweet flavor bits.AnaCon's "Bits-O-Flavor" fruit-like and sweet ingredient bits and "Wheat Germ Nuts" nut analogs impart the appearance, taste, texture, color and aroma of their natural counterparts to a wide array of processed foods at competitive prices. Fruit flavored and sweet Bits-O-Flavor show superior performance in such diverse applications as bagels, frozen waffles and pancakes, cereals, quick bread/muffin mixes, refrigerated dough products, ice cream products, cookies and candies. Product offerings include fruit flavored bits with real fruit, with all natural or artificial flavor; bits with natural color, artificial color, color that "bleeds " into the surrounding product or color that remains confined to the flavor bit; textures designed to hold shape in the finished product and textures that diminish during processing.

Fall Creek Vineyards was established in 1975 by Texas businessman/rancher, Ed Auler and his wife, Susan. The vineyards are located eighty miles northwest of Austin in the Texas Hill Country where the sandy loam soil, warm days and cool breezes off Lake Buchanan provide an excellent microclimate for growing premium wine grapes.The inspiration for the winery came in 1973 when the Aulers, on a trip to France, noted remarkable similarities in the soil, terrain and microclimate of parts of the French wine country and their own ranch. “I became convinced that certain parts of the Texas Hill Country would be ideally suited to grape growing,” says Ed.Fall Creek Vineyards is named after gorgeous, spring-fed Fall Creek, which flows through the Auler family’s ranch near the winery. Fall Creek empties into the Colorado River at the spectacular Fall Creek waterfalls. The 90-foot waterfalls have been a landmark since the time of early man and continue to be one today. Vanishing Texas River Cruise provides tours of the Fall Creek waterfalls daily.

Fru-Veg Marketing, Inc., is one of the nation’s leading importers of fine produce from the best growers of Europe and Latin America. The company’s philosophy is founded on the principle of selecting the finest growers in each region. By representing only the top growers each region has to offer, it is able to offer unrivaled quality and volume. Fru-Veg’s success stems from surpassing the benchmarks of its competitors and working closely with its customers to meet their needs on a year-round basis. Through quality and consistency, it ensures that all customers receive the maximum shelf life of products. This, coupled with the constant flow of marketing ideas and product development, has enabled Fru-Veg to launch and maintain a variety of products, from the flourishing Petit Gourmet line of pre-packed vegetables, to organically grown green asparagus.Annual visits to each grower in Europe, Central and South America allows Fru-Veg to build new partnerships, reinforce deep-rooted ones and discover new products. Its work begins in the fields where solid relationships are forged with growers whose dedication to the quality of their product meets with the company’s expectations. Equally important are regularly scheduled personal visits to major chain stores in the U.S. and Canada, where Fru-Veg develops seasonal programs with its customers.

For more than 110 years, The J.M. Smucker Company has been committed to offering consumers quality products that help families create memorable mealtime moments. Today, Smucker is the leading marketer and manufacturer of fruit spreads, retail packaged coffee, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, sweetened condensed milk, and health and natural foods beverages in North America. Its family of brands includes Smucker's®, Folgers®, Dunkin' Donuts®,Jif®, Crisco®, Pillsbury®, Eagle Brand®, R.W. Knudsen Family®, Hungry Jack®, White Lily® and Martha White® in the United States, along with Robin Hood®, Five Roses®, Carnation®, Europe's Best®,and Bick's® in Canada. The Company remains rooted in the Basic Beliefs of Quality, People, Ethics, Growth and Independence established by its founder and namesake more than a century ago. The Company has appeared on FORTUNE Magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the United States 12 times, ranking number one in 2004.The J. M. Smucker Company is the owner of all trademarks, except Pillsbury is a trademark of The Pillsbury Company, LLC used under license; Carnation is a trademark of Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., used under license; and Dunkin' Donuts is a registered trademark of DD IP Holder LLC used under license.

Despite what your toddler says at bedtime, good things do come out of the dark. Franklin Organic Mushrooms, which does business as Franklin Farms, has sprouted into one of the top growers and harvester of certified organic mushrooms in the US. The company's mushroom crop, grown completely without pesticides, includes agaricus (white "button" mushrooms), portabella, shiitake, crimini, oyster, enoki, beech, and maitake. It also produces meat-alternative vegetarian products made from soy and mushrooms, including Veggiburgers, Veggiballs, Veggidogs, and Chick'n Nuggets. The company was founded in 1983.

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