Weil Brothers Cotton is an international cotton merchant. Weil Brothers buys ginned cotton from US producers and markets it worldwide. Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the company was founded in 1878. It has been part of Weil Brothers & Stern Limited, a cotton trader in the UK, since 1991. As such, it handles all sales and administration of the UK company's US, Central and South American, and Chinese operations; it also oversees the company's Australian office. Due to volatile price fluctuations and severe losses in US cotton futures during 2008, Weil Brothers is slated to shut down operations in 2010, as is Weil Brothers & Stern.

Intelligentsia Coffee’s mission is to provide our customers, staff, and community with an unparalleled and complete coffee and tea experience in an environment steeped in understanding, knowledge, skill, service and mutual respect. Intelligentsia exists to provide both a fulfilling work environment for our employees and the highest quality products for our customers. Both goals are equally necessary to the success of our business.

Domingo Ghirardelli immigrates to the United States from his homeland of Italy, he has dreams of striking it rich in the California Gold Rush. After trying his hand and failing at mining, he settles on opening a tent-store in nearby Stockton, CA, selling various supplies and confections to fellow miners. With his new business proving successful, Domingo decides to open a store and hotel in San Francisco. After a major fire in 1851 destroys his businesses, he begins to rebuild. In 1852, he forms a new confectionary company that is to become the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company. Today, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has built on its signature taste and time-honored manufacturing processes to become America’s premium chocolate company.

Borg Produce Sales company is headquartered in Los Angeles, where it operates 130,000-square-feet of storage space and maintains its fleet of 20 refrigerated delivery trucks. Borg Produce Sales is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables serving Southern California. It supplies grocery retailers and other customers with a wide array of fresh produce, including asparagus, bell peppers, cauliflower, corn, and zucchini, as well as tropical fruits (bananas, mangoes, papaya). In addition, Borg Produce imports such products as grapes, kiwis, and peaches from Chile, along with Clementines (a variety of mandarin orange) from Spain.

Smithfield Foods Ltd was formed in 2004 from a merger between two independent meat companies. The Norwich Food Company, which specialised in the supply of meat, poultry and game to retailers, wholesalers, food processors and caterers, and Ridpath PEK, an importer of canned and deli meats established in the UK since the mid 1970's.There was little overlap in their product ranges or client base and the merger has produced a company with a wide range of skills and experience across many industry sectors, from retail to wholesale and independent trading.

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes refrigerated food products to the grocery and food service industries. Its products include organic foods, such as burritos, salsas, and side dishes; Mexican foods, such as meals, snacks, and tortillas; entrées, original cuts, seasoned cuts, pastas, and sauces; salads, such as pasta, broccoli, apple, Caesar, Chinese chicken noodle, crunchy pea, and cheesy baked potato; potatoes; desserts, dips and spreads, and meats; foodservice products, such as refrigerated potatoes, entrée salads, Italian salads, salad kits, dressings, salsas and dips, and desserts; recipes; and smoked meats and sausages.

In 1904, J.K. Crowley purchased a small dairy business in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and founded the Crowley Dairy Company. In 1915, he moved his company to Binghamton, N.Y., where, now known as Crowley Foods, it is still headquartered. In the 100 years since J.K. Crowley founded the company, Crowley Foods has continued to grow. Consumers can find high quality, award-winning dairy products bearing the Crowley name from New York State to Ohio to Florida and as far west as the Mississippi River. Today, Crowley Foods is made up of six dairy food brands that are leaders in their market areas - Crowley, Heluva Good, Rosenberger's Dairy, Axelrod, Maggio Cheese, and Penn Maid Dairy. Our company manufactures and distributes a full line of dairy products, refrigerated beverages, frozen desserts, and specialty products, which we sell to retail food and foodservice customers. Crowley Foods is owned by HP Hood LLC, a manufacturer and distributor of dairy products throughout the United States, headquartered in Lynnfield, M.A.

Sweet success may come in a bottle -- at least at Sweet Leaf Tea it does. The company, founded on the belief that nothing beats a glass of Southern-brewed sweet tea, offers organic ready-to-drink iced iced teas as well as diet and fruit-flavored versions of its teas. It bottles some 10,000 gallons of tea a day at its three production plants. The company's beverages are distributed at food retailers, convenience stores, hotels, restaurants, and other outlets throughout the US. Sweet Leaf's teas come in 11 classic iced-tea flavors and three lemonade flavors and are available nationwide at retailers including Kroger, Safeway, and Whole Foods. The company is owned by investment firm Catterton Partners.

Natural Selection Foods took root on a three-acre raspberry farm. Today it's a leading supplier of packaged organic salads to retailers and foodservice operators nationwide. Natural Selection Foods company's more than 100 different products, which also include organic fruits and vegetables, juice, cookies, and granola, are sold in 75% of US grocery stores under the Earthbound Farm brand name. Natural Selection's growers operate some 33,000 certified organic acres in the US (Arizona, California, Colorado, and Washington), Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. In 2006 the California company recalled its fresh spinach and salad mixes containing spinach, which were the subject of an FDA nationwide recall due to an outbreak of E. coli.

Baloian Packing Co, Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Fresno, California. The company was formerly known as Pam Pak Distributors, Inc. and changed its name to Baloian Packing Co, Inc. in 1985. Baloian Packing Co, Inc., doing business as Baloian Farms, Inc., engages in growing, packing, and marketing fruits and vegetables. The company offers peppers, such as green, red and yellow bell peppers, and jalapenos; leaf lettuce and mixed vegetables, including green leaf, red leaf, romaine, butter/boston, spinach, parsley, cilantro, green onions, radishes, bok choy and napa cabbage products; and melons that consist of honeydew, casaba, crenshaw, galia, jaun canary, orange flesh honeydew, persian, santa claus, and sharlyne products. It also provides red onions and specialty vegetable products, which include red onions, turnips, rutabagas, yams, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, beets, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, and green beans; and summer and winter squash products, which encompass acorn, banana, butternut, kabocha, spaghetti, yellow crookneck, and yellow straightneck and zucchini products.

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