Chartwells Educational Dining Services is a foodservice operator for schools and universities. It offers a full menu of meal planning and catering services to satisfy the tastes and nutritional requirements of students in more than 500 public school districts. The higher education division provides dining services to more than 200 colleges and universities. In addition, its FLIK Independent Schools division serves more than 115 independent private schools and academies. Chartwells is a division of Compass Group USA, the North American operating unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Symons Frozen Foods is no simpleton when it comes to frozen fruits and vegetables. Symons Frozen Foods company processes and packages frozen produce, including corn, peas, carrots, green beans, and bush berries supplied by contract growers. It operates two quick-freeze facilities in the State of Washington, producing the Mountain Mist, Symons Best, and private labels. Symons sells its fruits and vegetables to foodservice, industrial, and retail food customers. Symons Frozen Foods company also exports its frozen products to customers in North America and Asian and European countries.

Sakata Seed started out in 1913 with a few sacks of seeds; over the last 90 or so years it has sprouted an empire of growth. The company produces, distributes, and sells vegetable seeds (for both agriculture and home gardens), flower seeds, grass seeds, bulbs, vegetable seedlings, tree seedlings, garden trees, fruit tree seedlings, lilies, house plants, roses, cacti, gardening materials, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, gardening literature, and landscaping materials such as sod. It also has a division that researches cultivation and horticultural engineering. Sakasta's products are distributed from production centers in more than 20 countries.

Endangered Species Chocolate makes confections out of cocoa obtained from family farmers and cooperatives. Endangered Species Chocolate, LLC offers some 30 different products, including candy bars such as dark chocolate with hazelnut toffee, milk chocolate with cherries, and smooth white chocolate; it also makes organic bars and chocolate pieces. Endangered Species' products are sold at retailers such as Target and at specialty and health-food stores, including Whole Foods, throughout the US. Ten percent of the company's after-tax profits is donated to environmental conservation groups.

ConAgra Foods fills Americans' refrigerators, freezers, and pantries and, ultimately, their tummies. The company is a US top food producer, offering packaged and frozen foods. ConAgra's brands are a cornucopia of America's well-known foods, including Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hunt's, Jiffy, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Slim Jim, and Van Camp's. It is also one of the country's largest foodservice suppliers, offering them convenience foods and ingredients. The company has sold off its agricultural segments and a number of non-core brands to focus on branded and value-added packaged foods. In mid-2010 it acquired the assets of American Pie, maker of Marie Callender's frozen desserts.

Sioux Honey Association is one of the world's leading honey manufacturers, with about 315 member-beekeepers in more than 30 states. The cooperative produces more than 40 million pounds of honey each year, including such varieties as clover, orange, and sage. Sioux Honey markets its products to food retailers, food manufacturers, and foodservice operators in the US, as well as in the Middle and Far East, Central and South America, and Europe under the Sue Bee, Clover Maid, North American, Aunt Sue, Natural Pure brand names. In addition, it offers private-label services. The co-op also makes a honey-sweetened energy drink called Buzz.

Wilkinson-Cooper Produce, Inc. is a fresh vegetable wholesaler and shipper. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce products include corn, cucumbers, endives, green beans, parsley, peppers, radishes, squash, watercress, and zucchinis. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce ship wholesale mixed vegetables from Florida between November and May, and from Georgia in June and July, fall October and November. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce company has been shipping vegetables across the continental US, as well as Canada and Europe, since 1965.

The Real Good Food Company has made a successful meal out of what larger food companies pushed off their plates. The Real Good Food company has been built up by the acquisition of smaller manufacturers that belonged to high-end convenience food makers who sold them off since they were no longer considered "core operations" -- some six since 2003. It's been a sweet tasty ride. Real Good Food's sugar products are made by subsidiary Renshawnapier. Its baking ingredients operations are under the purview of its Haydens Bakeries subsidiary, which makes yeast-dough products. Real Good's large retail customers include Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.

Michigan Sugar is the largest beet-sugar processor east of the Mississippi. The agricultural cooperative is owned by some 1,250 beet-sugar farmers who purchased the company from Imperial Sugar in 2002. Michigan Sugar manufactures both private-label and branded consumer, foodservice, and industrial products. Its sugars include granulated, confectioner's and brown sugar, along with molasses and liquid sucrose. It also manufactures sugar by-products such as beet pulp, which is used for animal feed and fertilizer. Michigan Sugar's flagship brand is Pioneer Sugar, but the company also sells to institutions under the name Big Chief Sugar.

M.P. Evans Group PLC (incorporated in England & Wales) is listed on AIM. The Group's assets consist of oil-palm plantations (both majority and minority held) in Indonesia and Malaysia, the latter with property-development value, and beef-cattle interests in Australia. It is the board's intention to increase its total Indonesian areas under oil palm to some 70,000 hectares of environmentally-sustainable oil palm. This, in turn, will ultimately lead to an increase in the Group's equivalent annual palm-oil production from the current 60,000 tonnes to around 400,000 tonnes. Demand for palm oil is strong in its traditional use as a food, and additionally as a feedstock for the bio-fuel industry. In addition to the expansion in Indonesia, the board's policy is to expand the Group's Australian beef-cattle interests so that, ultimately, approximately 70% of the Group's assets will be in Indonesian oil-palm plantations and 30% in Australian beef cattle.

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