Meiji-brand sweets include chocolate and non-chocolate candy and chewing gum, along with personal care products, such as throat gargle. Its pharmaceutical division offers antibiotics, generic drugs, and anti-anxiety medications for humans, as well as veterinary drugs. Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd. is also involved in commercial leasing and sports complex management. Formerly called Meiji Seika Kaisha, a well known candy and pharmaceutical maker, the company merged with Japanese dairy producer Meiji Dairies Corp. in 2009 to form Meiji Holdings.

Fish, fowl, or human, Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company (CPF) feeds them all. The company, Thailand's largest food conglomerate, makes animal feed; raises pigs, ducks, and chickens; and sells their meat via its livestock division. The aquaculture unit of the company, which includes Seafoods Enterprise and Thai Prawn Culture Center, produces and processes shrimp, prawns, and some finfish. CPF also sells eggs, sausage, and other value-added food products. The company has some 75 subsidiaries, including chicken farms in Turkey; feed production and aquaculture operations in China, Laos, Malaysia, and Russia; and a fast-food restaurant in Shanghai. Parent Charoen Pokphand Group owns about 40% of CPF.

Glenn Foods was founded by company president Glenn Schacher in 1979. Under the Glenny's brand name, the company makes about 20 different varieties of low-fat and low-sodium snack foods, including soy chips, as well as baked potato chips, veggie chips, and American fries. It also offers nutrition bars, cookies, marshmallow treats, 100-calorie brownies, and healthy candies, all of which are distributed to retail food and drugstore outlets throughout the US.

Schwebel Baking was founded in 1906 by Joseph and Dora Schwebel and remains a family-owned and -operated company. Schwebel Baking produces a noseful of wonderful aromas, baking up bagels, bread, buns, rolls, pita bread, and tortillas for the consumer food industry. Schwebel Baking company's brands include Schwebel's, Schwebel's Selects, Roman Meal, Country Hearth, Milton's, Vogel's, and Aladdin's. Its products are available in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York at retail food stores, restaurants, and about 25 company-owned bakery outlet stores. It also licenses its brands to other producers, and customers can have bread shipped directly to their homes.

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.

Yamhill Valley Vineyards knows a whole lot more than peanuts about Pinots. Its 150-acre estate in Oregon's Willamette Valley produces Pinot wines; most are are sold under the Yamhill label. Its Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir Reserve, Pinot Gris, and Pinot Blanc, along with its Tall Poppy Reserve Pinot Noir, are available in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. The wines are sold at restaurants and specialty wine shops, and through Yamhill Valley's Web site and tasting shop. Retail prices range from $12 to nearly $50 a bottle. The company was founded in 1983 by husband-and-wife team Elaine McCall and Denis Burger.

Got some hungry cattle? Tell 'em to loosen their golden belts and hit the feedlot. Golden Belt Feeders operates four cattle feedlots and markets more than 125,000 head of fattened cattle per year in the Arkansas River Valley of Kansas. The company raises its own cattle as well as offering custom cattle-feeding for other ranchers. Golden Belt takes care of the feeding, nutrition, and health of the animals it fattens for market. In addition it offers risk-management and financing services. Golden Belt Feeders was founded by owners Merlin and Nelva Grimes in 1968.

Parrish and Heimbecker, Limited (P&H) is a Canadian family-owned firm with over 100 years of experience in agribusiness, with locations stretching across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax. P&H has grown into a diversified, vertically integrated company that is committed to agribusiness and the entire agri-food industry. Parrish and Heimbecker is not your run-of-the-mill grain elevator company. Originally founded in 1909 as an operator of grain storage elevators, Parrish and Heimbecker has since expanded and become a diversified agriculture business. While it still operates its elevator business, the company also owns and operates flour milling and poultry subsidiaries. They include wheat miller, Ellison Milling; P&H Foods, a producer of Butterball turkey products in Canada; and Cook's, a supplier of edible beans, peas, lentil, coarse grains, and oilseeds. Parrish and Heimbecker has offices, distribution centers, and grain elevators on Canada and the northern US.

Brown Packing Company knows the difference between a foreshank and a flank. The Illinois company, which also does business as Dutch Valley Foods, slaughters, prepares, and packs veal and lamb for food retailers. The company also offers other branded meat products, such as organic Dakota Beef, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, King's Pride Fresh Chilled Australian Lamb, and grass-fed Tallgrass Beef, and Tracy Lynns Veal, which contains no preservatives or other additives. Brown Packing was founded in 1944.

Wellness Foods makes its living without the use of artificial flavorings, colorings, or preservatives. Wellness Foods manages a group of businesses that manufacture fresh and healthy breakfast, snack, and drink products for consumers in the UK and Ireland. Its key businesses include Orchard House (fruit juices), Stream Foods (Fruit Bowl brand fruit snacks), Grove Fresh (fruit juices and smoothies), Dorset Cereals (muesli cereal), and Rowse Honey. Wellness Foods which produces its products at facilities located around the UK, sells its products through such major UK grocers as Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison, Tesco, and Waitrose. Wellness Foods is owned by Irish horseracing tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier.

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