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.

Stone Bridge Cellars, which operates as Joseph Phelps Vineyards (JPV), produces up to 80,000 cases of cabernet sauvignon, chardonnay, and dessert wines a year. The wines, aged in oak barrels made in France, are sold under the Joseph Phelps Insignia label. The winery, which was founded in Callifornia's Napa Valley in 1972, practices biodynamic farming, which, along with the usual organic farming methods, includes having onsite honeybee hives and allowing sheep to graze the vineyards when the grape vines are dormant. Wines are available through the company's Web site in states that allow such shipments; JVP also owns Freestone Vineyards in Sonoma County.

At A. Moksel the best of times are the wurst of times. One of Germany's largest meat processors, it slaughters and packages meat at its more than 15 slaughterhouses and processing and merchandising facilities (all located in Germany). The company then distributes the fresh and value-added meat products, mainly in Europe. Not content to limit itself to just one or two types of meat, Moksel processes beef, pork, veal, lamb, poultry, and wild game. It also offers sausage and seafood. Moksel's customers include grocery retailers and wholesalers, butcher shops, and catering operations throughout the world.

Caribe Food was founded in 1970 by Guillermo P. Rodriguez. Caribe Food imports and exports fresh fruits and vegetables, specializing in tropical produce. It distributes its products to customers including supermarkets, restaurants, and wholesale companies throughout North and South America and the Caribbean. Caribe's products include plantains and apple bananas (those cute little bananas in the grocery's produce section); even more exotic are malangas, cassava, and yampi. Caribe company's more familiar fruits and vegetables include avocados, papayas, mangos, broccoli, lettuce, carrots, oranges, pears, onions, and potatoes.

Neco Foods wants you to sink your teeth into its array of tasty comestibles. Neco Foods company, located in Palm Beach County, Florida, offers an array of smoked fish, seafood dips and spreads, fresh soups and salads, finishing butters, and sauces. Neco's appetizers and value-added seafood and non-seafood items are sold under the Atlantis Foods brand name. Its products are distributed to retail food outlets, club stores, and foodservice institutions, including restaurants, throughout the US. Neco also offers its customers new product development, individual product specifications, handling variations, and menu applications.

Shari's Berries International makes and sells chocolate-dipped strawberries. Shari's Berries product line includes yogurt-dipped strawberries, and chocolate-dipped champagne bottles and drinking goblets. Its signature item is strawberry roses -- chocolate-dipped strawberries mounted on stems and sold by the dozen and half dozen. Shari's Berries confections are available in retail stores located in and around Sacramento, California, as well as through TV and catalog sales and on the company's Web site. Shari Fitzpatrick founded the company in 1989. In 2006 the company was sold to Provide Commerce.

Young and Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. is a public limited company that began life in 1890.Its principal activities comprise the management and operation of its pub estate (including its hotel division) and the selling of food and drink through it. As at 29 March 2010, it had 121 managed pubs and 99 tenanted ones, principally located in London and the South East. It also has a 40% shareholding and interest in a brewing and distribution joint venture, Wells & Young's Brewing Company Limited. Its shares are admitted to trading on AIM and you should click on the "Companies Act and AIM Rule compliance" page in the investors section of youngs.co.uk for the information about Young's that is required to be mentioned or disclosed under the Companies Act 2006 and the AIM Rules.

As the world's population grows, so does demand for quality foods, feed ingredients for livestock, alternative fuels, and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional chemicals. As one of the world's leading agricultural processors, ADM plays a pivotal role in meeting all of these needs.We produce the food ingredients, animal feeds and feed ingredients, biofuels and other products that manufacturers around the world use to provide wholesome food and a better life to millions of people around the globe.

West Central Cooperative serves farmers in west-central Iowa. The full-service, farmer-owned agricultural co-op is made up of some 3,100 farmers in 10 counties. It provides administrative services, agronomy services grain marketing (82 million bushels per year), and feed, seed, fertilizer, and soybean processing to its members. The cooperative also operates facilities, the Renewable Energy Group, which converts soy oil into alternative energy fuels. West Central Cooperative traces its roots to the Farmers Elevator Company, which was formed in 1907 to market grain; it became a cooperative (Farmers Cooperative Association of Ralston) in 1933.

Schulze and Burch Biscuit Co. which invented the saltine cracker in 1949, was founded by German immigrant Paul Schulze, Sr., in 1896. Schulze and Burch Biscuit company makes and markets toaster pastries under its Toast'em Pop-ups brand, as well as for private- and branded-label customers. It also makes Snackin' Fruits pastry bars, and it offers contract manufacturing for such food items as cereal bars, granola bars, breakfast cereal, crackers, and fruit snacks for other food companies. Schulze and Burch Biscuit operates two manufacturing facilities in the Chicago area.

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