A.V. Thomas Produce knows a sweet potato is not just a yam by another name. The California grower produces, packages, and sells several varieties of yams and the yam's sweeter cousin, the sweet potato. (Though the names are used interchangeably in this country, most US-grown "yams" are actually sweet potatoes.) With 1,700 acres in production, its brands include Best West, Court House, Nature's Pride, Oriental Beauty, Royal Flush, Sweetie Pie, Thomas, and Winner; it is also a major US producer of organic sweet potatoes, which it sells under the Natural Beauty label. Founded in 1960 by Antonio Vieira Tomas, an immigrant from the Azores Islands, A.V. Thomas is owned and run by Tomas's nephew, CEO Manuel Vieira.

Robertet bottles "eau de profit" and essences of jasmine and ginger. The French company makes fragrance and flavor ingredients for use in the food, perfume, and aromatic-product industries. They are used around the world in perfumes, essential oils, and cleaning products, as well as for flavorings by food and beverage companies. Robertet creates traditional and new products. It develops new extraction methods and tries to spot and develop trends in areas like perfumery, aromatherapy, and aromachology (the study of the effects of smells on human behavior). Robertet has operations in Asia, North and Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The Maubert family owns a controlling interest in Robertet.

PinguinLutosa is a Belgium-based company that specializes in the development, production and sale of frozen vegetables, potato products and ready-to-use culinary preparations. The Group also produces and sells fresh pre-cooked potato products. The Company's activities are divided into two operating segments: the potato division, accounting for 47.99 % of total revenue in 2009, and the frozen vegetables division, accounting for 52.01 % of total revenue. The Company has six vegetable production sites situated in agricultural areas in Europe (West- Flanders, Southern France, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) and two production sites in Belgium (Leuze-en-Hainaut and St. Eloois-Vijve), with three production companies located at these sites. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Austria and Brasil, among others.

Campagna - Turano Bakery, which does does business as the Turano Bakery, manufactures fully and partially baked European-style artisan breads. Campagna - Turano Bakery company's more than 400 varieties include French baguettes, ciabatta bread, focaccia, and kaiser rolls, as well as sweet baked goods including cannoli, biscotti, cakes, and cookies. Operating three commercial bakeries, Turano serves restaurant, in-store bakery, and retail grocery customers throughout the US. Its foodservice operation supplies customers in Illinois, Wisconsin, and northwestern Indiana with parbaked and fully baked goods.

CEO William Mann and president William Huggins formed Pretzels, Inc. in 1978. Pretzels, Inc., is a leading regional snack food maker that manufactures pretzels and other extruded snacks products mostly under the Harvest Road brand. Its products include cheese balls, cheese curls, and corn puffs in addition to several varieties of pretzels. Pretzels company also makes private label snacks for third-parties.

For a company more than 600 years old, Antinori certainly has a lot of spirit(s). It is one of Italy's largest and most prestigious wineries, producing more than 10 million bottles of wine each year. The company owns 4,200 acres throughout the country's Tuscany and Umbria regions, as well as investments in vineyards in Napa Valley, California, and Szekszard, Hungary, among other locations. Antinori, known for rebelling against traditional wine-making methods, has created unusual wines (such as its Tignanello) that defy classification. Antinori also runs a handful of restaurants in Italy, Austria, and Switzerland. The family-owned and -run company traces its roots to 1385.

American Crystal Sugar Company is a world-class agricultural cooperative specializing in the production of sugar and related agri-products. American Crystal is owned by approximately 3,000 shareholders who raise 500,000 acres of sugarbeets in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota. As the largest beet sugar producer in the United States, American Crystal utilizes innovative farming practices, low-cost production methods and sales and marketing leadership to produce about 15 percent of America’s highest quality sugar. The Company operates sugar factories in Crookston, East Grand Forks and Moorhead, Minnesota; Drayton and Hillsboro, North Dakota; and in Sidney, Montana under the name Sidney Sugars Incorporated. American Crystal's technical services center and corporate headquarters are also located in Moorhead. Located in Edina, Minnesota, United Sugars Corporation markets American Crystal's sugar to retail and industrial customers throughout the nation. Midwest Agri-Commodities Company, based in Corte Madera, California, globally markets American Crystal's agri-products such as sugarbeet pulp and molasses.

Schreiber Foods is a $3+ billion global enterprise and the world’s largest customer-brand dairy company. We provide products to the biggest names in fast food and are the world's largest supplier of private-label dairy products to grocery chains and wholesalers.More than great cheese. We are much more than just a cheese company – we are a global leader in dairy innovation. We are more than 5,000 employees – we call ourselves partners – working together around the globe to provide custom-designed, high-value products and services to our customers. Breadth of products. We know that no single line of products is right for everyone. That’s why we focus on the needs of each customer and its marketplace. From cream cheese to natural cheese to high-end specialty cheese and yogurt, we are a global leader in dairy innovation.

Smith Dairy Products Company makes and distributes dairy products and beverages, marketed mainly under its Ruggles (ice cream), SMITH'S (fluid milk, ice cream, cottage cheese, and sour cream) brands. Smith Dairy also offers teas, juices, punches, and dips. Its customers include food retailers and foodservice businesses in Indiana and Ohio. Founded in 1909 by John and Peter Schmid, the family-owned and -operated dairy is known for its bright yellow plastic milk jugs, which it claims block out light rays which break down milk's vitamins and minerals and affect its flavor. The company also owns Wayne Dairy in Richmond, Indiana, and Pacific Valley Dairy in Pacific, Missouri.

IBR has developed a unique environmental technology, which efficiently digests organic waste materials and produces biological fertility products that have revolutionary and far-reaching potential in commercial agriculture.On the one hand, IBR offers municipalities and generators of biodegradable waste a profitable alternative to landfill disposal, composting and/or incineration, while reducing toxic leachate, greenhouse gas emissions and noxious odours. On the other hand, by converting biodegradable waste into products beneficial to soil fertility and plant health, IBR is stemming the current one-way flow of nutrients and organic matter from the soil by providing food producers with the means to reverse their increasing dependence on chemical inputs.

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