New Belgium Brewing Company Inc traces its origin to a bike ride through Belgium that inspired the company's founder, Jeff Lebesch to start the business. That jaunt is commemorated with the company's flagship product, Fat Tire ale. The regional Colorado brewery's other beers go by names such as Blue Paddle, Mothership Wit, and Skinny Dip, and a series of labels under the Lips of Faith name. New Belgium makes some 350,000 barrels of beer a year and distributes them throughout the US. The US's third largest craft brewer by sales in 2008, the company attributes its success to its "whimsical approach to business."

Clearwater Seafoods Income Fund harvests, processes, and distributes fresh and frozen fish and shellfish. It holds major offshore rights to harvest clams, crab, lobster, scallops, and shrimp off the northeastern coast of Canada. The Canadian company sells seafood to customers worldwide. Clearwater Seafood operates its own fleet of ships, along with off-shore and on-shore processing facilities. Founder and CEO Colin MacDonald retired in 2010; food industry veteran Ian Smith was appointed CEO. MacDonald remained as chairman.

Japanese pro baseball fans know the Nippon Ham Fighters, the team owned by Nippon Meat Packers (NMP). NMP, in turn, knows meat. The company is one of Japan's top beef-, pork-, and chicken-processing firms. Its meat business comprises all stages of production, from raising the animals and making their feed to processing the meat to delivering it to customers. In addition to fresh meat, NMP makes ham, sausage and deli meat; it offers dairy foods (including Luna brand yogurt and foodservice cheese) and ramen noodles. Its marine farming activities supply toppings and fillings for foodservice sushi. NMP makes probiotic beverages and a health drink, called Celeb no Jikan, made from pig placenta.

Founded in 1951 by Mr Stanley P Morrison and Mr J Howat, Morrison Bowmore Distillers Limited is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Limited and is one of the major names in Scotch whisky.With three Malt Whisky Distilleries situated in the major production areas of Islay, the Highlands and the Lowlands and significant blending, bottling and warehousing facilities, the company has established a leading role in the export of Bulk blend, Vatted Malt and in particular `Bottled in Scotland’ Blends and Single Malts. The success of Morrison Bowmore Distillers Limited is based upon maintenance of traditional values and innovation in the marketplace.

Calbee America markets and distributes healthful snack foods, including a variety of chip products. Its offerings, including Snapea Crisps (dried green peas coated with corn oil, powdered rice, and salt), Saya (snow-pea crisps), and Shrimp Flavored Chips, are supplied to retailers throughout the US. If you are a die-hard junk-food junkie, Calbee does make regular potato chips and corn chips (Grill-A Corn). Calbee America company is a subsidiary of Japan-based Calbee Foods.

August Goetze purchased the Baltimore Chewing Gum Company five generations ago in 1895 – but don’t let the name mislead you – candy was his business. Goetze’s passion ultimately led him to focus on perfecting a single, signature product. With soft, chewy caramel wrapped around a sweet fondant center, Caramel Creams® were born. Their unique taste has been delighting candy fans ever since – and setting the standard for consistent quality in the American candy business. As Goetze’s Candy Company, we have enjoyed more than a century of customer satisfaction. From horse and cart deliveries in downtown Baltimore, Goetze’s cooks and processes candy daily, for shipments all over the globe. As a 5th generation family business, we’re sure to keep growing into the future without losing touch with a tradition of quality – and a history of extremely loyal customers!

MGP Ingredients puts the proof in the bottle and the texture in most everything else. The company processes wheat flour into food ingredients, such as wheat proteins and wheat starches used by other manufacturers. By-products from this process are mixed with corn and made into a variety of alcohol products that are used in distilled beverages, foods, and fuels. MGP also makes plant-based polymers for use in place of petroleum-based plastic items, such as disposable cutlery and CD cases, and a wood-composite resin used to make decking material. MGP is in the process of changing itself from a commodities provider to a maker of value-added food and non-food ingredients. It has operations in Kansas and Illinois.

We didn’t set out to become the nation’s leading natural frozen food brand. All we wanted to do was create a business that would allow us to earn a living by providing convenient and tasty natural vegetarian meals for people like ourselves, who appreciated good food, but were often too busy to cook "from scratch." We started on a "shoestring," using our own house and barn as headquarters. The founding meetings were held in the same room where we were married and where our daughter Amy was born.This was in 1987, before the idea of "organic" food had become well known, and when there were very few frozen meals available for vegetarians to eat, either in health food stores or supermarkets. We were, however, very fortunate in being in the right place at the right time. The number of vegetarians had increased dramatically, as had consumer awareness of the harmful effects on their health and the environment of chemicals in the food supply.

Roquette Frères S.A. produces and sells starch and starch derivatives for customers and industries in France and internationally. It transforms renewable resources corn, wheat, potatoes, and peas into a line of ingredients for a range of food and non-food industries. The company offers starch products, sugars and dietary fibers, organic acids and their salts, polyols, bioethanol, and derivatives of fermentation and fine chemistry products, as well as fibers, oils, and soluble products. The company also provides raw materials and excipients that are used in various pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications, including cyclodextrins; paper corrugating adhesives for adhesives, corrugated board, fine papers, packaging board, and publication paper applications; a range of nutritional and functional animal feed ingredients for calf, dog, cat, fish, shrimp, horse, pig, piglet, poultry, and ruminant; and intermediary products that are used to modify or enhance the manufacture of final products. Its products used in the food, halal food, beverage, and health food industries.

Elizabeth Shaw won't mind if you eat that after-dinner mint before dinner. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd. manufactures premium liquor and mint-laced chocolates. Its product line includes truffles and liqueur-filled, as well as its best known -- chocolate mint crisps -- all sold under the Elizabeth Shaw brand. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd.'s boxed confections are sold in supermarkets in the UK and exported widely to other countries The company is owned by Icelandic confectionery company, Nói Síríus. From humble beginnings of Elizabeth Shaw chocolate in a Teddington kitchen, the brand has gone from strength to strength and is now a major household name, on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the UK and exported widely throughout the World.

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