World Variety Produce was founded in 1984 by president Joe Hernandez. World Variety Produce, which does business under the brand Melissa's/World Variety Produce, is a leading importer and distributor of specialty produce from around the world that offers more than 800 varieties of exotic fresh and dried fruits and vegetables. It supplies produce to grocers, supermarkets, and other retailers, as well as foodservice operators. World Variety Produce also sells products to consumers through its Web site. In addition to fresh produce, the company markets condiments, sauces, soy products, and specialty ingredients used in Latin and Asian cooking.

Soup means M'm! M'm! Money! for Campbell Soup. The company is the world's biggest soup maker; in the US its most popular selections are chicken noodle, tomato, and cream of mushroom. Campbell also makes meal kits, Franco-American canned pasta, Pace picante sauce, V8 beverages, and Pepperidge Farm baked goods (yes, it makes the Goldfish crackers you hide in your desk at work). Its Australian division produces snack foods and that Aussie favorite, Arnott's biscuits. The company has manufacturing facilities located throughout the world. In addition to North America, its principal markets are France, Germany, Belgium, and Australia; in all, Campbell's products are sold in more than 120 countries.

Hudson River Fruit grows apples grown along, you guessed it, the Hudson River in New York State. The company harvests, packs, and distributes nearly 20 varieties of apples. Its apple offerings include Gala, Ginger Gold, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, McIntosh, Red Delicious, and Rome. The company also offers, Bosc, Clapp, Bartlett, and Seckel pears. It operates fruit orchards, a packing and storage facility, and a fleet of delivery trucks. With roots dating back to 1932, when Izzie Albinder bought a pushcart and began selling apples in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn, Hudson River Fruit is owned and operated by the founding Albinder family.

Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? At Cal-Maine Foods, it's the egg, and the company's 27 million laying hens can attest to that. It is one of the largest fresh shell egg producers in the US. Cal-Maine sells its eggs to US food retailers. It produces value-added specialty eggs (organic, Omega-3 enhanced, free range) that it sells under the Egg-Land's Best and Farmhouse labels. The company controls all aspects of the business, from hatching chicks, making feed, housing hens, and distributing eggs. Its operations include two breeding facilities, two hatcheries, five distribution centers, 19 feed mills, 37 shell-egg production operations, 26 pullet-growing facilities, and 31 processing and packing sites.

Founder, Jim Bernau, purchased the Estate site in 1983 and cleared away the old pioneer plum orchard hidden in scotch broom and blackberry vines. He planted Pinot Noir (Pommard and Wadenswil clones), Chardonnay (Dijon and Espiguette) and Pinot Gris. In the beginning he hand watered the vines with thousands of feet of hose.Numerous classes at UC Davis, and seminars from here to France, sharpened Jim’s viticultural skills and in 1989 he was ready to build his dream--a world class winery in the Willamette Valley—and make cool-climate varietals, especially Pinot Noir, in sufficient quantities to be served and sold in the best restaurants and bottle shops in the world.

Kikkoman Corporation is a Japan-based company primarily engaged in the food manufacturing business. Kikkoman Company operates in four business segments. The Domestic Food Manufacturing and Sale segment offers soy sauce and soy sauce-related seasonings; processed tomato products under the brand name Del Monte; vegetable and fruit juice; cans; wine; mirin (sweet cooking rice wine); and other food products. This segment also offers soy milk drinks, commercial food materials and health food products, among others. The Domestic Others segment provides drugs, chemical products, as well as real estate, logistic and indirect services. The Overseas Food Manufacturing and Sale segment provides soy sauce; processed tomato products under the brand name Del Monte; cans; soy milk drinks and health food products, among others. The Overseas Food Wholesales segment provides oriental food products.

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen knows that the egg probably came first, but it's chicks that sell best. Comprised of two units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys. Its chicken brands include Arbor Acres, L.I.R., and Ross; its turkey brands are Nicholas and British United Turkeys (B.U.T.) The company also offers biosecurity programs for poultry operations that designed to keep pathogens out of the food chain. Aviagen has customers worldwide and is owned by the privately owned German holding company, the EW GROUP.

Elamex is a Mexican company with manufacturing operations in Mexico and the United States. Elamex, S.A. de C.V. is involved in the production of food items related to its candy manufacturing and nut packaging operations as well as real estate holdings in Mexico. Elamex's competitive advantage results from its demonstrated capability to leverage low cost, highly productive labor, strategic North American locations, recognized quality and proven ability to combine high technology with labor-intensive manufacturing processes in world-class facilities. To be a world class manufacturing business and value added provider with the objectives of superior customer satisfaction, employee growth and development, long term supplier relationships with the ultimate goal of shareholder value.

Makers of acclaimed national brands- Ne-Mo’s baked treats with their famous homemade goodness, and Cutie Pie, America’s favorite real-fruit snack pie. Horizon Food Group is also a strategic private label baker for many of the most recognizable hotel chains, restaurant chains, specialty grocery chains and weight management companies.Headquartered in beautiful San Diego, California, Horizon Food Group has three manufacturing plants, located in Southern California and Utah. Horizon Food Group distributes products nationally to grocery chains, mass retailers, convenience stores, foodservice outlets, club stores and schools. Explore our brands, and find out how our private label capabilities can grow your business.

Kemps LLC, manufactures and markets milk, ice cream and related dairy products under a variety of strong brands including Kemps, Hood, Hagan, Green's and Arrowhead. The company also manufactures a wide range of private label dairy products for major retail and food service customers. The company, with headquarters located in St. Paul, Minnesota, has over 1,450 employees serving customers in markets throughout the upper Midwest, New England, Mid Atlantic and Gulf States region. Kemps operates four fluid processing facilities located in Duluth, Rochester and Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Cedarburg, Wisconsin: a cultured plant in Farmington, Minnesota; and ice cream facilities in Rochester, Minnesota and Suffield, Connecticut. The company also owns Beckers Dairy, a food service distributorship located in downtown Chicago.Kemps is well known in the industry for introducing innovative new products and has received frequent recognition for a number of successful first to market product launches including Kemps Frozen Yogurt, Kemps Yo-J, and Kemps Squeezable Sour Cream.

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