The family-owned and -operated Fazio Marketing, Inc. was founded in 1984 by Don Fazio and his son Tony. Fazio Marketing harvests, packs, and ships table grapes and raisins. Offering about 15 varieties of grapes (based on seasonality), the company grows its juicy crops mainly in California's Central Valley with some operations in the Coachella Valley. Fazio Marketing company, which also makes grape juice, sells its products under the Tri-Boro brand name. Tri-Boro Fruit Co., Inc. is a subsidiary; the name salutes the company's origins as a grape marketer in New York City.

United Dairymen of Arizona is an agricultural milk marketing cooperative incorporated in 1960. Our founding, a merger of two dairy associations, ensured a stable market for dairy producers and an adequate supply of fresh milk and dairy products of the highest possible quality for consumers. UDA’ membership consists of approximately 90 producers, averaging 1200 head per dairy, representing approximately 90% of the milk in the state. UDA’s modern manufacturing facility in Tempe operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and produces high, medium and low heat nonfat dry milk (including vitamin fortified products), MPC, cream, butter, skim milk, condensed skim milk and lactose powder. We provide product for a cheese manufacturer on-site. UDA’s plant can process 10 million pounds of milk per day, and regularly acts as a balancing plant for other processors in the region. UDA is also the largest supervised kosher milk facility in the country, capable of producing over 1000 metric tons of kosher powder within two weeks. UDA is among the few remaining full service dairy co-ops in the country. We offer our members installation, emergency repair, preventive maintenance, and transportation services along with chemical, equipment and pharmaceutical supplies.

American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

Southern FS has been cultivating farmers since 1931. That's when the predecessor companies to this locally-owned agricultural co-op began sowing the seeds of support for Illinois producers. It has operations in Alexander, Franklin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties in Illinois. Southern FS offers farmers a wide variety of products and services, from landscape planning to livestock feed and tractor fuel.

Arrowac Fisheries uses more advanced techniques than spear-fishing to bring in its catch. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. harvests, buys, processes, and markets fresh and frozen seafood products under the Arrow, Merco, and Ocean Dawn brands. Products include herring, salmon, sardines, sea bass, flounder, crab, shrimp, and shark meat. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. Merco Intertrade division provides international marketing services. Arrowac's fishing and processing operations are located along the Pacific coasts of Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. is owned by president Frank Mercker, who founded Arrowac in the 1970s.

DeWied International Inc. is a third generation family business founded in 1932 in Sacramento California. DeWied has always held itself to the highest standards and produces the highest quality of natural casings in the industry. Today DeWied is headquartered in San Antonio Texas and is one of the largest selectors of hog casings worldwide. The markets have changed over time and DeWied continues to innovate and improve its products, maintaining its position of quality leadership.From offices and warehouses in strategic locations DeWied supplies the products demanded by today’s high quality sausage producers worldwide. Natural hog casings are handled from the packing house to the end user under DeWied’s exacting standards. DeWied is able to provide detailed quality control reports and complete traceability of its product back to the source raw material.

Meat and potato lovers avoid D'Arrigo Bros. The family-owned business does business as Andy Boy and is best known for its green vegetables, such as broccoli, fennel, hearts of romaine, and cauliflower. The fresh produce grower and distributor also supplies radicchio, cactus pears, and several varieties of lettuce. D'Arrigo Bros. serves customers in the retail food, foodservice, and the food wholesale sectors. The company, which farms some 24,000 acres, was founded by brothers Andrea and Stefano D'Arrigo in 1923. It began using the Andy Boy brand name, featuring Andrea's three-year-old son, Andrew "Andy" D'Arrigo, in 1927.

Givaudan SA is a Switzerland-based Company engaged in the fragrance and flavor industry. Givaudan Company has three divisions: Flavor, Fragrance and Innovation. The Flavor division creates flavors for beverages, sweet goods, savory and dairy products, as well as ingredient systems. The Fragrance division is engaged in creating fragrance ingredients, fragrances for air care, laundry care, home care products, and fine fragrances, which are used for perfumes and colognes. The Fragrance division has two fine fragrance studios in Paris, France, and New York, the United States. Givaudan Company's fragrance ingredients business focuses on design, production and commercialization of Perfumery raw materials. The Innovation division is engaged in research and development of flavors and fragrances. It also operates a perfumery school. As of December 31, 2009, Givaudan Company had 53 wholly owned subsidiaries in Switzerland, Argentina, Australia and China, among others, and two majority owned subsidiaries.

Primex International Trading Corp. was founded in 1989 by Ali Amin, whose family has been involved in producing pistachios for four generations. It first started planting pistachio orchards in 1990. In 2008 the company shipped about 30 million pounds of pistachios and more than 40 million pounds of almonds. Primex International Trading is a leading exporter and international trader that specializes in dried fruits and nuts. Through affiliate offices located around the world, the company ships such products as almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans, as well as apricots, figs, and raisins. Primex also has its own pistachio orchards and a processing plant in California.

Do you have an oh-so-bad craving for something chewy? Oberto Sausage Company has the answer: Its Oh Boy! meat snacks. The company manufactures more than 400 varieties of dried meat products, such as jerky (in beef, pork, and turkey versions), snack sausages. All these goodies are sold under the brand names Lowrey's Meat Snacks, Oh Boy! Oberto, Pacific Gold, and Smoke Craft. Oberto's products are available across the US and Canada in supermarkets, club and convenience stores. In 2009 the company ended its 10-year distribution agreement with Frito-Lay.

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