Val Verde Vegetable Co. is a leading grower and packager of fresh produce that sources products primarily from farms in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The company ships such fresh produce as cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes, as well as a variety of melons. In addition to US growers, Val Verde Vegetable also sources fresh produce from Mexico. The family-owned company was started by president Frank Schuster in 1987.

Frozen Specialties company makes private-label frozen pizzas (in value-priced, lean, and microwaveable variations) and a frozen pizza-flavored snack called Pizza Bites for the North American convenience and grocery store markets. Its pizzas are primarily sold under store-brand names at major grocery chains. Frozen Specialties, Inc., (also known as FSI) is a top player in the frozen pizza industry and produces more than 100 million pizzas every year. Investment firm Swander Pace Capital is the majority owner of Frozen Specialties.

From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the Northwest dairy industry was on the rise. By 1909, Washington State was one of the nation's top producers of canned evaporated milk, butter and cheese. Dairy farmers realized that teamwork was the best way to market their dairy products. The result — local county dairy cooperatives began to form. In 1918, five Puget Sound co-ops joined marketing forces to create the United Dairymen's Association. Since the Northwest produced more milk than its citizens used, UDA worked with Seattle food broker Umberto Dickey to develop distant markets for the co-ops' manufactured products. In 1930, the UDA bought Dickey's company, Consolidated Dairy Products Company.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

Cooperative Regions of Organic Producers Pool (CROPP) is one of the largest organic farmer cooperatives in the US. Its 1,341 farmer/members produce the co-op's Organic Valley Family of Farms brand of fluid and shelf-stable milk, along with cheese, butter, and soy milk. Beyond the dairy barn, the cooperative also offers organic citrus juices, produce, eggs, meats, and poultry. Organic Valley retail products are sold at food retailers, and its ingredients are marketed to other organic food processors. Wisconsin-headquartered CROPP's member/farmers are located in California, Florida, and the northeast, northwest, and midwest regions of the US.

Greenridge Fruit markets a rainbow of apple varieties, including Golden Delicious, Paula Red, and Ginger Gold. The produce packing company is a worldwide distributor of fresh apples, blueberries, peaches, plums, and pumpkins, as well as other fruits and vegetables. Apples are its primary product. Greenridge Fruit, a family-owned enterprise, purchases harvests from some 40 growers in Michigan. It's located in a region of West Michigan known as "The Ridge"; this region accounts for approximately 40% of Michigan's apple crop.

All those University of Wisconsin sports fans have a place to buy meat. Badgerland Meat and Provisions stores, wholesales, and distributes beef, pork, and poultry products in its home state, as well as parts of Illinois and Michigan. It sells to grocery chains, meat markets, restaurants and warehouses stores. The company gets its meat from producers such as American Foods, Excel, Farmland Foods, Gold Kist, and Iowa Turkey. Badgerland also operates a case-ready business for which the company cuts, packs, and distributes more than 300,000 pounds of pre-packaged and pre-priced pork products every week.

DPI Specialty Foods Midwest is a regional operating unit of specialty food wholesaler DPI Specialty Foods. DPI Specialty Foods company supplies supermarkets, specialty food stores, and other food retailers with a range of food and non-food items, including imported foods, organic and natural goods, and ethnic food items. DPI Midwest serves customers in more than a dozen Midwestern states.

Thailand’s largest and best-known, and among Southeast Asia’s largest alcohol beverage producers, Thai Beverage Public Company Limited (ThaiBev) was incorporated in Thailand in October 2003 to consolidate Thailand’s leading beer and spirits businesses under a single holding company. It was listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on May 30, 2006, as one of the largest listing events there in 10 years, raising approximately S$1.57 billion or Baht 38 billion, which was used to pay off short-term debts. Since listing, ThaiBev has implemented a strategy to allow it to expand overseas. To this end, its wholly-owned subsidiary, International Beverage Holdings Limited (“IBHL”) is charged with this task. To date, IBHL has set up sales offices in 6 countries and commenced active promotion of sales to countries like the USA, UK, Australia, and others of two of ThaiBev’s products, Chang Beer and Mekhong rum. Expansion will also include whiskies made in Scotland by IBHL’s subsidiary Inver House.

Gold Digger Apples provides fruits in an array of colors, including gold, but its produce isn't dug up from the ground. Rather, it's picked from trees and bushes. In addition to apples, the company packs and ships cherries, nectarines, peaches, pluots, and pears to US and foreign foodservice operators, retail food outlets, and food wholesalers. Gold Digger grows such apple varieties as Braeburn, Jonagold, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious, which are custom packaged in tray packs, bags, loose bushels, and gift boxes. The company also owns Okanogan Estate & Vineyards.

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