PM Beef Holdings is a leading processor and supplier of meat products to consumers, retailers, and foodservice operators. Its PM Beef Group supplies private-label and branded (Nature's Pride and Angus Beef Preferred Stock) case-ready beef to food retailers, as well as other specialty meat products for restaurants and other hospitality operators. The company also sells a variety of steaks and other beef cuts direct to consumers through its Web site. It has operations in Minnesota and Virginia. PM Beef was started in the 1990s by billionaire John Kluge (founder of holding company Metromedia) and James Ukrop (Ukrop's Super Markets).

Imperial Sugar is committed to protecting the health and safety of everyone who plays a part in our operations, lives in the communities in which we operate or uses our products. We will not be satisfied until we succeed in eliminating all injuries, occupational illnesses, unsafe practices and risks to food safety. Imperial Sugar will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and apply responsible standards where laws and regulations do not exist. The company's commitment begins with a visible and active leadership that engages employees and service providers to manage health and safety performance. This commitment is supported by a safety system based on the principles from OSHA Voluntary Protection Plan (and PSM Supplement) and OHSAS 18000.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

Meat Commodities, Inc. was established in 1974 and began business as a domestic beef brokerage firm. During the 1980's the company expanded to include both brokerage and trading in the U.S. and Canada. In 2003, Meat Commodities, Inc. started a transportation brokerage company, M.C. Transportation, L.L.C. The year 2005 saw the establishment of a Retail Division, including its own featured branded product: "Haywood and Yancey" Fine Foods. Today Meat Commodities, Inc. is a diversified trading company committed to providing the best products, service, and industry expertise available while trading beef, pork, and chicken products.

Barkley Seed has sowing possibilities. The firm supplies grain seeds, mainly wheat and barley. Its seed varieties are adapted to five growing regions in the US -- the Central Plains, East, Northern Plains, Northwest, and Southwest -- depending on customer location. Choosing not to sell on the retail market, Barkley focuses on the research and development of identity-preserved seed varieties (those that maintain their genetic makeup). R&D is largely funded through royalties, which are generated from seed sales to licensed growers. Barkley licenses growers nationwide and operates facilities in Arizona and California. In 2009 it sold WestBred, its indirectly owned wheat germplasm unit, to biotech giant Monsanto.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

For nearly a century, Fresh Mark has been a leading supplier of smoked and processed meats to the retail and food service industries. Our commitment to quality and safety has enabled us to grow from a regional provider to a nationwide supplier of bacon, ham, wieners, deli and luncheon meats, dry sausage and other specialty meat items. Fresh Mark’s customers include major grocery chains, well-known restaurants and food service operators throughout the country. Many of our products are also distributed and enjoyed internationally. As one of the largest private companies in the industry, our expertise, quality manufacturing and innovative product and service offerings also rank Fresh Mark among the top 40 of the nation’s leading 150 meat and poultry companies as measured by National Provisioner magazine. However, our true measures of success are our customers. For years our growing base of loyal customers has come to rely on the quality, safety and consistency of Fresh Mark’s Sugardale® and Superior’s Brand® Meats products. These partnerships and inherent trust are at the very core of our past, present and future.

Oakshire Mushroom Farm has the right to dole out Dole products. The company is the exclusive grower of Dole's fresh mushrooms. Its mushroom varieties include white, portobello, and shiitake. Its subsidiary Oakshire Mushroom Sales markets and distributes the products to customers in the retail food and foodservice distribution sectors, as well as to food-manufacturing companies. Its other subsidiary, Golden Oak Spawn, produces a line of hybrid mushroom spawn for other commercial mushroom growers; it also offers shiitake home-growing kits for people perhaps looking for a new hobby. Oakshire Mushroom Farm was founded and is owned by president Gary Schroeder.

Salvatore Ferrara came to America from Nola, Italy in 1900 and founded Ferrara Pan Candy Company in 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of his immigration from Italy, Mr. Ferrara was skilled in the art of making Italian pastries and sugar coated candy almonds. Sugar coated candy almonds, otherwise known as "confetti", continues to be a tradition at Italian weddings. Salvatore Ferrara had become proficient in the English language. Since he was fluent in both English and Italian the Santa Fe Railroad hired him as an interpreter between crews and their foreman. He worked at the Santa Fe Railroad for four years. In 1908 he came to Chicago and opened a retail pastry and confection shop. From 1908 to 1919 the sugar coated almond business experienced substantial growth and Mr. Ferrara was shipping to an extensive market in the Midwest.

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