Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of food, and household and institutional cleaning products in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Lam Soon company’s food products include flour, edible oils, and vegetable fats for catering industries and consumers. Its cleaning products comprise liquid dish washing detergents, laundry powders, liquid laundry detergent, fabric softeners, and floor cleaners. Lam Soon company offers its flour products under the American Roses, Golden Statue, Super Locomotive, Crown, and L'arce De Triomphe brand names; oil products under the Knife and Red Lantern brand names; and detergent products under the AXE, Labour, and Pow brand names. In addition, it provides trucks rental service; warehousing and logistics services; Internet marketing services; trustee services; and silo facilities, as well as involves in property holding.

Pendleton Grain Growers (PGG) gets the pendulum swinging faster for farmers wanting to take their harvests to market. The agricultural cooperative provides its member-farmers with a full range of farm products and services. PGG offers its approximately 2,400 members crop-processing, marketing, agronomy, and irrigation services, along with hardware, farm equipment, and fuel. It operates about 30 grain-storage facilities and a fleet of nearly 15 storage-to-terminal delivery trucks. PGG was founded in 1930 to create bulk handling, transportation, and storage services for wheat farmers in the Pendleton, Oregon, area.

If you thought only Cookie Monster bought cookies in bulk, talk to the folks at Voortman Cookies. The company bakes up to 20 million cookies daily and distributes them to more than 50,000 grocery stores throughout Canada and the US. Voortman's cookies and wafers are sold in packages and from bulk display units. Voortman cookies contain no trans fatty acids (hydrogenated vegetable oils), a move made to position its cookies as being a healthier alternative to other cookie brands. An affiliated bakery, also named Voortman Cookies and operated by some of co-founder William Voortman's children, sells cookies in the southwestern US.

The drive-up self-serve vendor of drinking water operates about 1,200 corporate and franchised locations. The 42-square-foot vendor units are located in retail parking lots in about ten US states, including California, Florida, Ohio, and Texas. Customers supply their own containers in one, three, and five gallon quantities and fill them up for an average price of 35 cents per gallon. Watermill Express was founded in 1984 by a couple in Brighton, Colorado who were unsatisfied with their local municipal drinking water, which had been declared unsafe for pregnant women and infants.

Bright Harvest was founded in 1967 in Clarksville, Arkansas. Its products were marketed under the Kim's, Chef Francisco, and Ore-Ida labels as part of the Heinz company until 1999, when CEO Don Kerr acquired the company through Kerr Industries. Bright Harvest Sweet Potato manufactures and sells frozen sweet potatoes and value-added sweet potato products under the Bright Harvest brand name. It is the top processor of sweet potatoes in the US and supplies the USDA.) The company's offerings include center cut, candied patties, and mashed sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato casserole.

Zetar decided in 2005 that chocolate sounded like a good place to start ... and the company hasn't stopped licking its fingers since. Zetar Plc was founded in 2004 and acquired UK confectionery company Kinnerton Group in 2005. Zetar went public that year, as well, and established two divisions: confectionery and snack foods. Zetar's second, third, and fourth acquisitions came in 2006 when it snapped up dried fruit and nut supplier Readifoods, dried fruit importer Humdinger, and US-based Salamanda, manufacturer of chocolate- and yogurt-coated nuts. Continuing its journey down the buy-up path, the next year it acquired bakery group, Britannia, and Lir Chocolates.

Raisio plc makes grain-based foods for people and feed for animals. It also produces malt for beverage makers and starch-based ingredients for food companies. While strong in Finland, the company's food business has grown in Russia and Poland, where it sells pasta and porridges. In 2007 Raisio sold its food diagnostics business, which accounted for only 2% of sales, to Ciba Specialty Chemicals (Ciba bought Raisio's chemical business in 2004.) Focusing on its grain-based products, in 2009 Raisio sold its margarine business to Bunge for E80 million ($109 million). In keeping with this focus, Raisio bought UK snack and candy maker Glisten in 2010.

Set up in 1964 as a joint venture with UK-based James Finlay and Company to develop value-added tea, the Tata Tea Group of Companies, which includes Tata Tea and the UK-based Tetley Group, today represent the world's second largest global branded tea operation with product and brand presence in 40 countries. Among India's first multinational companies, the operations of Tata Tea and its subsidiaries focus on branded product offerings in tea but with a significant presence in plantation activity in India and Sri Lanka. The consolidated worldwide branded tea business of the Tata Tea Group contributes to around 86 per cent of its consolidated turnover with the remaining 14 per cent coming from Bulk Tea, Coffee, and Investment Income. The Company is headquartered in Kolkata and owns 27 tea estates in the states of Assam and West Bengal in eastern India, and Kerala in the south.

Founded in 1988, ITI Tropicals is owned by president Gert Van Manen. ITI Tropicals packs a lot of fruity flavor into not very itty-bitty packages. ITI Tropicals company imports tropical fruit purees, concentrates, waters, essences, and other products, focusing on banana, coconut, guava, mango, papaya, and passion fruit. It also carries more exotic fruits such as mangosteen, mora-berry, acerola, lulo, tamarind, and guanabana. ITI distributes its products, which come in frozen or aseptic packaging and range in size from 5-gallon pails to 220-gallon drums, to food manufacturers throughout the US.

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.

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