Chartwells Educational Dining Services is a foodservice operator for schools and universities. It offers a full menu of meal planning and catering services to satisfy the tastes and nutritional requirements of students in more than 500 public school districts. The higher education division provides dining services to more than 200 colleges and universities. In addition, its FLIK Independent Schools division serves more than 115 independent private schools and academies. Chartwells is a division of Compass Group USA, the North American operating unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Vita Food Products, Inc. engages in the processing and sale of herring, cured, and smoked salmon products and other complementary specialty food products primarily in the United States. The company’s products include pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces, as well as lox and nova salmon. It also provides other specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauces, as well as refrigerated seafood. Vita Food Products markets its seafood products under the Vita, Elf, and Grand Isle brand names. The company, through its subsidiary, Vita Specialty Foods, Inc., manufactures and distributes honey and Vidalia onion-based salad dressings under the Virginia Brand name. In addition, it offers gourmet salad dressings and beverages under the Oak Hill Farms brand name; and hot sauce-based products under the Scorned Woman brand name. Further, the company provides rubs and spices, condiments, dressings, gifts, dessert toppings and syrup, marinades, snacks, tea concentrates, and wing sauces. It offers products through a national distribution network of food brokers to supermarket chains and wholesale clubs, as well as to institutional/food service operations, such as restaurant chains, hotels, country clubs, cruise lines, and other bulk purchasers.

Ag Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP®) is a farmer-owned cooperative engaged in the procurement, processing, marketing, and transportation of grains and grain products.Since its formation in 1983, AGP has been committed to the success of its owners. Today, that is 184 local cooperatives representing over 250,000 farmers throughout the Midwest, and five regional cooperatives representing farmers throughout the United States and Canada.AGP operates nine soybean processing plants including six plants in Iowa, located at Eagle Grove, Emmetsburg, Manning, Mason City, Sergeant Bluff, and Sheldon. Other AGP processing plants are located at Dawson, Minnesota, St. Joseph, Missouri, and Hastings, Nebraska. The Hastings plant is the first farmer-owned soybean processing facility in that state.

J. Lohr Winery pours it on. It produces red, white, sparkling, and non-alcoholic wines. The winery's vintages are divided into tiers with the more expensive wines falling under the J. Lohr Cuv�e Series, J. Lohr Vineyards Series, and J. Lohr Estates labels. Its less expensive wines bear the Cypress Vineyards and Painter Bridge labels. The company also makes a line of non-alcoholic wines called ARIEL. It grows mainly red varietals of grapes on some 3,000 acres that it owns and farms in the Arroyo Seco, Paso Robles, and Napa Valley regions of California.

LiDestri Foods, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Fairport, New York. LiDestri Foods, Inc. has manufacturing facilities in Dundee, New York; Fresno, California; and Pennsauken, New Jersey. LiDestri Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes pasta sauces, dips, and salsas. It provides beverages, drinks, oils, cooking wines, vinegars, cooking wines, spirits, and soups, as well as beef and poultry products. LiDestri Foods company also offers contract manufacturing services, as well as packaging solutions.

As of August 1st, 2000, Urban Juice and Soda Company Ltd. officially changed its name to Jones Soda Co ("JONES"). The story of the company began in 1987 when company founder and president, Peter van Stolk, recognized the potential of emerging "alternative" products in the beverage industry. The company's start in the beverage world was not as a manufacturer of its own brand, but as a distributor in western Canada of other successful lines, including Just Pik't Juices, Arizona Iced Tea and Thomas Kemper sodas. By 1994, Jones was firmly established as a full line beverage distributor in western Canada, with a reputation for picking winners.

You say tomato, I say kumato. Mastronardi Produce grows more than a dozen varieties of specialty tomatoes, including the sweet brown-skinned kumato, under the SUNSET brand. It also grows cucumbers, baby eggplant, peppers, and strawberries, and some varieties are also organically grown. Mastronardi's produce is grown in greenhouses year-round. The company maintains more than 1,400 acres of greenhouses in Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the US. Mastronardi Produce also has its own microbiology laboratory and food safety program, and all of its crops are non-GMO. The company began growing vegetables in the 1920s and remains owned by the Mastronardi family.

Tri-Union Seafoods tries hard to unite seafood lovers under the Chicken of the Sea banner. Tri-Union Seafoods company, which does business as Chicken of the Sea International, produces one of the top brands of canned tuna in the US (along with StarKist and Bumble Bee). Tri-Union cans tuna (Albacore and light), salmon, crab, shrimp, oysters, clams, sardines, and mackerel for sale in North America. Tri-Union Seafoods company also offers other value-added seafood products, including frozen and shelf-stable pouches (including smoked salmon), and "peel & eat" cups (salmon and tuna).

COOPERATIVE ELEVATOR CO. is an agricultural cooperative situated in Michigan's "thumb"- a rich agricultural region offering fertile soils, tiled fields, adequate rainfall, and temperatures moderated by Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay.The region combines trained and experienced producers, excellent work ethics, good transportation, a strong agricultural infrastructure, diversified crop and livestock enterprises, and progressive farming practices to create a spirit of cooperation and partnering.The cooperative is owned by over 900 farmer producers and has been in business since 1915. Cooperative Elevator Co. is headquartered in Pigeon, Michigan and has plants in Akron, Bad Axe, Deckerville, Elkton, Fairgrove, Gagetown, North Branch, Pigeon, Ruth, and Sebewaing. We provide quality farm inputs to member patrons. These farm supplies include feed, seed, fertilizer, chemicals, and petroleum.

Brothers Mike and Dave Weaver are the owners. Weaver Meats was a retail butcher shop, with over 70+ feet of meat and deli cases. It was a full service operation. In the mid 1980's they started making Beef Jerky and Snack Sticks. With their outstanding quality and savory flavor their sales really took off.They had people coming from 3 different counties to purchase their top quality Meat Snacks. People wanted them to ship it out of state to friends and relatives. They also had many requests to sell their Meat Snacks to some local bars and taverns. However, being a retail exempt store they could not sell their products outside of their immediate store in Mentor-On-The-Lake.Therefore, after much thought and sadness(15 years of friends and customers) they sold their retail store in August 1996. Then in February 1997 ground was broken for their new state of the art USDA inspected Meat Snack processing plant in Painesville, Ohio.

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