L&H Packing Company disassembles beef. The company's San Antonio, Texas, facilities produce boneless beef, preserved hides, tripe and other offal products, rendered blood and bone meal, as well as tallow for wholesale distribution. It has the capacity to process more than 260,000 cows per year. L&H Packing was founded in 1963 by Al Leonard and Dwayne Harral and is still owned and operated by the Leonard family. In business since 1979, L&H's sister company, Surlean Foods, provides chicken, pork, and beef entrees along with soups, sauces, marinades, and rubs to the foodservice industry.

Abe Entner began producing a line of premium, handcrafted syrups in Peekskill, New York in 1922. Because of the innovative attention-to-detail methods he perfected, his syrups soon earned a reputation for their intensely rich and accurate flavor. In 1988, Abe's grandson, Allan Stuart, continued the family tradition of micro-brewing each batch by hand, following the same time-honored techniques that made the syrups famous.Today Entner-Stuart Syrups produces gourmet syrups and other specialty products in Albany, Oregon. Entner-Stuart Premium Syrups research and development department is constantly creating new syrup flavors and inventing new products. The commitment remains to making a superior product both in taste and quality. Each product is made by entner stuart highly trained team of experienced bottlers and produced in small batches to ensure excellence. We at Entner-Stuart Syrups consider ourselves a family that is committed to providing entner stuart customers with only the best, both in product and service.

From seed veggies hanging on the vine, Hartung Brothers does it all. The agribusiness company produces seed corn and vegetable crops (cucumbers, peas, snap beans, sweet corn, beets, greens, and carrots) at farms in Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Hartung Brothers subsidiary H&N Logistics offers vegetable, fertilizer, and machinery transportation using its fleet of 100 trucks. Twin brothers Don and Dan Hartung (president and vice president), formed the company in 1975 while they were still in high school. In 2009 the company sold its fertilizer division to The Andersons.

Viskase Companies forces hot dogs, sausages, and salami to shape up and ship out. The company is one of the world's leading producers of non-edible cellulose casings used to manufacture sausage and hot dogs. Viskase's casings are sold under brand names such as NOJAX (skinless hot dogs have "no jackets"), VISFLEX, and VISMAX. The company also produces SEALFLEX SILVER heat-shrinkable plastic bags for the meat poultry, and cheese industries. In the non-food arena, Viskase makes MEMBRA-CEL for use in dialysis. Viskase has production facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, and the US. Billionaire and corporate raider Carl Icahn owns about 72% of Viskase.

That sweet smell of success might be coming from the ovens at Bahlsen. One of Germany's leading manufacturers of biscuits (or as Americans call them, cookies), the company makes Leibniz butter biscuits, a favorite among consumers since it was introduced in 1891. Bahlsen also makes upscale products such as chocolate-dipped Pick Up! snack bars. With five production facilities in Europe, the company exports products to about 80 countries and offers private-label production services. The family of founder Hermann Bahlsen, led by his grandson Werner Bahlsen, continues to control the company.

Grupo Mac Ma is partial to sweets. Operating through a number of subsidiaries, the holding company produces, distributes, and sells cookies, biscuits, and chocolates throughout Mexico. Focused on high quality and gourmet markets, the company sells its treats under the Mac'Ma and Chocolates Ferback brands. Grupo Mac Ma also makes and sells quality pasta products under the Pinerolo brand. The company sells its products through department stores, grocery stores, and its own chain of about 60 Mac'Ma stores, which account for about 35% of sales.

Sioux-Preme Packing Co. is unique in the meat packing industry-we're one of the few mid-sized, pork processors who has survived and prospered in the highly competitive, rapidly changing environment the industry has experienced in the last three decades. Since 1969 we've been producing quality pork products to meet the needs of growing consumer demands. Our specialties include providing custom harvest and processing for customers who require special needs, such as segregation related to antibiotic free, natural, organic, or breed specific products.

Bellying up to a PowerBar won't slake your thirst, but it might boost your energy. A leader in the world of high-carbohydrate snacks, PowerBar originally designed its energy bars for athletes. However, its products are now available in a variety of flavors and are just as likely to be pulled out of purses and desk drawers and eaten as meal replacements. PowerBar also markets a sport drinks called Endurance and a carbohydrate gel that comes in chocolate, vanilla, double latte, and various fruit flavors. The company, a unit of Nestle, sells its products in supermarkets and at health-food and sports retailers throughout the world.

Jackson Family Wines (JFW) plucks its success right from the vine. One of California's largest winemakers, JFW produces the top-selling chardonnay in the US: Kendall-Jackson brand Vintner's Reserve. The company's other leading (and most expensive) wine is Grand Reserve. Sold in restaurants, stores, and via the company's Web site (where legal), JFW's libations -- in addition to its well-known chardonnay -- include merlot, sauvignon blanc, pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon, and zinfandel. JFW owns and farms 14,000 acres of vineyards running along the California coast. Founder and billionaire Jess Jackson and his family own JFW.

Pamlico Packing Co. Inc. was founded in 1941 and is owned and operated by the Cross family. Pamlico Packing company sells fresh and frozen fish and other seafood items to more than 200 wholesalers, restaurants, hotels, and retail food outlets in the US's mid-Atlantic region. Pamlico's products include shellfish and fin fish. Much of its seafood is harvested from the Pamlico Sound off the shores of North Carolina; more exotic species are brought in from Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, and Vietnam.

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