SunOpta was founded in 1973. SunOpta Inc. has three business segments: SunOpta Foods, Opta Minerals Inc. (Opta Minerals) and SunOpta BioProcess Inc. (SunOpta BioProcess). SunOpta Foods operates in the natural, organic and specialty foods and natural health product sectors. SunOpta Foods is comprised of five operating groups: Grains and Foods Group, Ingredients Group, Fruit Group, International Sourcing and Trading Group and Distribution Group. Opta Minerals processes, sells and distributes silica-free loose abrasives and other specialty industrial minerals to the foundry, steel, roofing shingle and marine/bridge cleaning industries. SunOpta BioProcess operates facilities in Brampton, Ontario and pilot plant facilities in Waterdown, Ontario.

This company offers more than just the flavor of the month. It has more than enough flavors for not only the month, but for the day, the hour, and the minute. As the world's #1 spice maker, McCormick & Company offers a tasty assortment of herbs, spices, seasonings, marinades, flavorings, sauces, and extracts. The company distributes its own products, which are sold to consumers under brands including Club House, Ducros, McCormick, and Schwartz, as well as private labels. Its customers include food retailers, the foodservice industry, and industrial food-processors worldwide. McCormick has operations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Taxco Produce began as part of the Dallas Farmers Market in 1985; it is owned by its founders. Taxco Produce taxis food from south to north on the North American continent. Taxco Produce company imports Mexican soft drinks, meats, cheeses, candy, and grocery items into the US. It also provides paper products and cleaning supplies. Taxco Produce supplies the foodservice industry in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It has more than 1,000 customers, including restaurants, grocery stores, and other food outlets.

Saputo Cheese USA manufactures and distributes a wide range of cheeses to the retail, industrial, and foodservice markets. The company's fresh and aged Italian-style cheeses are sold under brand names such as Saputo, Stella, and Dragone. With Cheese Head mascots, its Frigo brand was designed to be kid friendly but adults like it too -- Frog is a leading US brand of string cheese. The company's deli cheeses are sold under the Lorraine brand. Saputo also makes and sells whey protein concentrate to food manufacturers. The company is a subsidiary of Canadian cheese giant, Saputo.

P.L. Thomas was founded by Marvin Flowerman and Paul Greene in 1955 and is owned by the Flowerman family. P.L. Thomas company makes ingredients for the food, nutraceutical, and cosmetic industries. It provides hydrocolloids (i.e., water-soluble gums), stabilizers, flavors, and other ingredients for food manufacturers. It also offers botanical extracts, specialty nutraceuticals, herbal powders, mineral gluconates, and other items for nutritional supplement makers. For cosmetic maters it offers oils, vitamins, antioxidants, collagen producers, and ceramides. P.L. Thomas company provides global sourcing, custom ingredient manufacturing, and product development services.

Nodine's Smokehouse smokes and sells bacon and other meats, poultry, fish, and cheeses to wholesale customers throughout the US. Its products have been sold at well-known outlets such as Dean & DeLuca and Zabar's. In addition, Nodine's Smokehouse operates a retail store in Goshen, Connecticut, and sells its products online. The family-owned company, which also offers fundraising opportunities, is run by Johanne Nodine and her husband, Ronald. Nodine's Smokehouse was founded in 1969.

The primary mission at Utz is to maintain Utz Quality Foods hard-earned reputation as the premier snack food company in Utz Quality Foods expanding market area. Utz Quality Foods will constantly strive to improve Utz Quality Foods leadership position and grow through the hallmarks of superior quality and service. Utz Quality Foods specific goal — to manufacture and merchandise the best possible products with a commitment to customer satisfaction that is second to none — must never be jeopardized by Utz Quality Foods goals for growth.

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.Founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association, the cooperative served as a marketing agent to offer the crops of its members - under the brand name "Sunsweet" - to consumers at better prices than were offered by individual growers.Today, Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. After nearly nine decades, Sunsweet boasts an enviable brand recognition of 85 percent in American households, placing it in the very top rank of long-standing successful American products.

When co-ops work co-operatively, you wind up with organizations like Federated Co-Operatives Limited -- a co-op of co-ops. The company provides retail and administrative services to its some 1,300,000 individual owner/members, which are made up of about 265 retail cooperatives located across western Canada. Federated's members run the gamut and include co-op's made up of food stores, pharmacies, clothing stores, general merchandisers, building material enterprises, crop and feed suppliers, gas stations, convenience stores, and travel services. Federated members have access petroluem products through the co-op's refiner CCRL; they can also buy groceries through Federated's food operations, The Grocery People.

At the Wensleydale Creamery we pride ourselves on the quality and authenticity of our products. We are dedicated to ensuring all of our cheeses are made using traditional recipes that have been handed down through the generations. Skill and art is applied to all our products through the handcrafting process and all our cheeses are matured naturally to give the perfect flavour balance.

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