Standard Candy Company is the maker of the Goo Goo Cluster, a milk chocolate candy filled with caramel, marshmallow, and peanuts. Considered one of the first combination candy bars (as opposed to solid bars), the company's Goo Goo cluster has been around since 1912 and since that time Standard has added to its offerings, which now include Supreme and Peanut Butter Goo Goo versions. It also makes a line of Cinnabon-branded clusters through a licensing agreement, as well as the Cumberland Ridge brand of pecan rolls. Standard Candy sells its products at retailers in Tennessee and other southern US states, as well as through its Web site.

Sebastiani’s first century in Sonoma winemaking began when Samuele (pictured right) emigrated from the Tuscany region of Italy in 1895 and started Sebastiani nine years later. A stonemason by trade, he quarry-mined the Sonoma hills for cobblestones that were used to build the streets of San Francisco. He worked long hours and saved carefully to buy land in Sonoma County, from which he would make wine for the Sonoma community and San Francisco’s restaurants.The winery was the only one in Sonoma County to continue operations through Prohibition, making a small amount of sacramental and medicinal wines. It has been joked, and perhaps with some grain of truth, that during this time there was a resurgence of people becoming very religious.

Mr. Altshuler learned the art of candy making, and after struggling for years, finally achieved success with his Rocky Road® candy bar. He named his business the “Annabelle Candy Company” after his daughter, and began manufacturing Rocky Road in San Francisco. The item quickly gained popularity throughout the western United States where it has its strongest hold today, and is currently ranked among the top 35-40 best selling chocolate bars on the West Coast. Annabelle Candy Company moved across the San Francisco bay to its present location in Hayward, California. Sam Altshuler passed away in 1971, leaving control of the Company to his daughter, Annabelle Altshuler Block. In 1972, the Company purchased Golden Nugget Candy Company, of San Francisco, the makers of Big Hunk® and Look® candy bars, and began manufacturing those products. In 1978, Annabelle engineered the acquisition of the Cardinet Candy Co., which manufactured U-NO® and Abba Zaba® candy bars. All of these items, in addition to Rocky Road, are now being made in the Hayward factory.

Valley Fruit and Produce was founded in 1920. Val-Pro is a leading supplier of California fresh fruits and vegetables to customers. Doing business as Valley Fruit and Produce, it packages and ships a variety of fresh produce including apples, bananas, lettuce, and melons to retail and foodservice customers. Val-Pro company has a 92,000 square-foot warehouse facility in Los Angeles, as well as space in the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. Its dispatch office is equipped with a fleet computer system to track the company's more than 30 delivery trucks.

The Eckes-Granini Group based in Nieder-Olm near Mainz (Germany) is a financially sound and independent family-owned enterprise with annual turnover amounting 827 million Euros. “We bring people the best of fruit for a healthy and enjoyable life” – that is the guiding principle behind everything we do. Competent, committed employees, strong brands and a long-term strategy devoted to sustainable value enhancement are pillars of strength at Eckes-Granini. Since the early 1990s, we have pursued a consistent course toward internationalization. Today, we are represented by 14 national organizations in Europe and employ roughly 1,461 people. We shall continue to seek ways to achieve further growth in future – through organic development as well as acquisitions and strategic partnerships. The internationally renowned premium brand granini and our strong national and regional brands are the foundation of our business. Enjoyment and health, innovation and tradition – these are the goals to which we are dedicated as an independent brand producer in the beverage industry. Superior quality is our highest priority – from the selection of fruits and raw materials to our gentle production process to the finished product.

Owned and operated by the Rodriguez family, La India Packing Company was founded in 1924. Located in Laredo, Texas, la india packing company sells authentic Hispanic herbs, spices, and teas. It offers tejano and fajita seasoning, pica rico (for seasoning fruits), Mexican chocolate and more. Its products are sold in bulk, boxed, and bagged. They are available online at La India's Web site and at la india packing company's store in Laredo, where the owners also operate a small restaurant called the Tasting Room Cafe. La India's spices are also carried by such retail outlets in Texas as Albertsons, H.E.B, Kmart, and Wal-mart.

The Hirzel Canning Company is a can-do kind of business. Located in Toledo, Ohio, the firm packs and distributes canned tomato and sauerkraut products under the brand names Dei Fratelli (tomatoes, salsas, pasta, pizza, and sloppy Joe sauces, and tomato soup and juice). To top your brats, Hirzel also makes Silver Fleece brand sauerkraut. Its products are sold through grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the Midwestern, Central, and Southeastern US states. The family-owned business was founded in 1923 by Carl R. Hirzel, who started out selling sauerkraut from wooden barrels. Today Hirzel's food products are sold in cans, glass, and flexible packaging.

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is trying to put an al dente in the noodle market. It is a supplier of branded and private-label pasta products and flours to retail, food service, and food ingredient companies in North America. Its mills have an annual capacity to grind more than 12 million bushes of grain; its production facilities can produce 500 million pound of pasta (and makes more than 100 different shapes). Brand names include Dreamfields, Pasta Growers, Pasta Sanita, Primo Piatto, and Zia Briosa. Under license, the company distributes Ronzoni, Prince, Creamette, and Mrs. Weiss pasta brands to the foodservice sector.

Advanced BioNutrition Corp. was founded in 2001, having as its roots technology developed at Martek Biosciences Corporation (NASDQ:MATK) many years earlier by a co-founder of Martek and the founder of Advanced BioNutrition.The growing importance of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) in human infant and maternal nutrition was seen by the imaginative scientists that started ABN to be a path to be paralleled in the animal field. The team focused initially on aquaculture, which was utilizing 65% of all fishmeal and 80% of all fish oil produced as sources of DHA to fuel the unprecedented growth of that industry. ABN believed that there was an impending crisis in the overfishing of this resource and focused on a program to produce an environmentally responsible, sustainable alternative using algae, not fish.Squeeze a handful of algae and you'll usually just get mush. However, Advanced BioNutrition (ABN) has figured out a way to wring docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), arachidonic acid (ARA), and other essential fatty acids from specific algae for use as nutritional ingredients in aquaculture (i.e., fish farming) and domestic farm animal feeds. The company markets these long-chain fatty acids under the AquaGrow brand. ABN also develops oral and injectable vaccines to treat various aquatic animal diseases, which adversely affect the aquaculture industry's profits. ABN offers vaccines for treating diseases in salmon and shrimp, two of the most commercially farmed seafoods.

R.E.A. Holdings maintains oil palm operations -- the cultivation of oil palms and the production of crude palm oil -- in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. R.E.A. Holdings company owns about 65,000 hectares of land, and has access to 125,000 hectares, of which about 35,000 hectares (about 33,000 acres) are in production at any given time. R.E.A. Holdings company's two mills produce all of its crude palm oil and palm kernels and its fleet of barges transport the oil to a shipping terminal downstream. REA's facilities also include residential "villages" for field and plant workers. The majority of the company's sales are in Indonesian and other parts of Asia.

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