Founded by farmers in 1937 as Consumers Cooperative Oil Company of St. James, the company has expanded from its roots in petroleum marketing. During its first 30 years, it found additional strength in crop production and grain marketing, and, ultimately, in bulk feed, bulk petroleum, and custom spraying. The company took the name Watonwan Farm Service in 1965.In 1967, a merger with Lewisville Farmers Co-op Elevator launched two decades of expansion. Grain operations in St. James began the same year. By 1979, when Ormsby Farmers Grain Company merged with WFS, grain storage had grown to 300,000 bushels and total locations numbered four. Grain capacity rose steadily to one million bushels by 1993, and convenience stores expanded the cooperative’s mix of services. In 1994, acquisition of LH Grain Co. added two-unit train load out facilities and five elevators. Through a long-term lease agreement in 1996, the company assumed assets from Grain Land Co-op.In 1999, WFS acquired Blue Earth County Service Co. by retiring 100% of equity to its stockholders and also purchased the assets of the former Truman Farmers Elevator. WFS then added five facilities formerly owned by Agro Distributing, LLC, in 2000.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

Renshawnapier (formerly Napier Brown Foods) has found a sweet spot in the food biz. The Liverpudlian company is a supplier of sugar (Whitworths and nbf), marzipan and other baking ingredients (Renshaw), as well as icings (Regalice), and jams (R&W Scott). Renshawnapier company also makes caramel, cooking chocolate, sauces, and syrups, as well as dairy ingredients (milk powders, stabilizers, emulsifiers, boxed fats, and dextrose, glucose, and fructose). It serves customers in the food manufacturing, retailing, wholesaling, and foodservice sectors throughout the UK. It also exports its products to mainland Europe and the US. Renshawnapier is owned by The Real Good Food Company.

Mariani Packing was founded in 1906 by Paul Mariani, Sr., grandfather of current company chairman and CEO, Mark Mariani. Mariani Packing company produces dried fruits, which are sold in bulk, under private labels and the Mariani brand to retail food stores and other food manufacturing companies in more than 50 countries worldwide. Its products include dried apples, apricots, cranberries, mangoes, and plums, as well as raisins and sun-dried tomatoes. Mariani Packing company operates five production facilities in California.

Founded in 1952, Sun Orchard Fruit is owned and operated by the Riessen family. Sun Orchard Fruit Company, Inc. Company Profile Sun Orchard Fruit doesn't grow any fruit. Instead, it gets fruit where it needs to go. Sun Orchard Fruit Company stores, packages, and delivers apples grown by New York farmers. It fresh-packs some 500,000 cartons of apples harvested by 60 growers in central and western New York and ships them to food wholesalers and retailers around the globe. Sun Orchard Fruit Company handles 17 of the the most popular Eastern varieties of eating apples including Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, and Empire.

Mercer Landmark Inc. is a locally owned farm cooperative located in West Central Ohio with 18 facilities in Mercer, Darke, Van Wert, Paulding and Defiance counties. Mercer Landmark is a landmark for farmers and other residents of rural west and central Ohio, and not just because you can see the company's grain elevators from miles away. The company stores and markets corn, soybeans, and wheat; it also offers agronomy services and sells animal feed, seed, poultry litter, diesel, gasoline, propane, and crop insurance. Mercer Landmark operates more than a dozen facilities. It also operates Mercer Soy, a processor of soybeans into high-protein meal and oil for use as animal feed. Mercer Landmark hs been in business since 1933.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

Gerber's more than 200 baby offerings include the almost ubiquitous glass jars of baby food. Gerber Products company, which had its beginnings in 1927 in Dorothy Gerber's kitchen, also makes baby cereal, juices, and toddler food, along with baby bath and skin care products, bottles, teethers, pacifiers, breastfeeding accessories, spill-proof cups, and infant toys. Its Gerber Life Insurance Company offers various whole and term life products. Gerber feeds, soothes, and amuses babies worldwide.

Cal Citrus Packing Company traces its origin back to 1958 when H.A. Luallen founded Luallen Soil Service and began purchasing an initial base of investor ranches, which soon grew to 1,500 acres. The company continued to grow and by 1969 the next logical step was to purchase a packing house, thereby establishing Cal Citrus Packing Company. This original packing house is now known as the “East” house and is located along the railroad tracks on Valencia Street in Lindsay, Ca.Cal Citrus Packing Company has a grower base of approximately 4,000 acres and packs and ships an average of 2.5 million cartons of fresh citrus yearly. The company maintains an employee base of 150 to 200 local people, many of whom have been with the company since the beginning, and share their vast experience with the sharp new team members hired to meet the demands of today’s business technology. Cal Citrus is proud of its Central California “Lindsay Citrus Belt” heritage and is committed to maintaining our reputation of quality and integrity.

Distell Group Limited is South Africa’s leading producer and marketer of fine wines, spirits, ciders and ready-to-drinks (RTDs). The Group is listed on JSE Limited. Distell employs over 4 200 people and has an annual turnover in excess of R7.9 billion.Distell was created in 2000 by the merger of Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery (SFW) and Distillers Corporation.SFW has long been a major force in the wine industry in South Africa. This company was the brainchild of William Charles Winshaw, an American medical doctor who came to South Africa in 1900 at the time of the Anglo Boer War. In 1925, SFW was created with Winshaw remaining as the MD of the organisation until 1962 when, at the age of 92, he retired. SFW, as the name implies, excelled at producing quality wines for the full spectrum of consumer needs. This company was also instrumental in the creation of a major new segment in our alcoholic beverage industry - ciders or alcoholic fruit beverages as we know them. One of the company's key strengths has always been innovation.

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