Continental Catering, Inc. was founded in 1984. Continental Catering is a leading event catering company serving clients in San Diego and Orange counties. It specializes in corporate events, wedding receptions, and theme parties, and offers a wide range of food options from Incredible Italian Gala and Fantastic Mexican Fiesta to Gourmet To Go and picnic menus. In addition to food preparation, Continental Catering provides event support services, including floral arrangements, rental equipment, photography, and transportation.

The family-owned and -managed Ateeco Inc. was founded by Ted Twardzik in 1952; the product was named after his mother, Mary Twardzik. Ateeco, manufacturer of the traditional Polish specialty dish, potato-stuffed pasta. The company makes and ships more than 11 million frozen Mrs. T's brand pierogies every week. Its customers include retail food, convenience, and club stores, and foodservice providers across the US, as well as US military commissaries around the world. Mrs. T's pierogies come in about a dozen varieties, including potato and cheddar; sauerkraut; and potato, sour cream and chives.

Fireside Coffee was first made by Carol Davis to give as a special gift for friends and relatives at Christmas time. In 1988, after rave reviews, Carol decided to try her hand at selling her special Cinnamon Chocolate coffee at local craft fairs. Fireside Coffee Co. was born. By 1991, Carol had added several more delicious flavors to the Fireside Coffee line and had begun selling her coffees to stores and at folk art shows across the country. The tradition continues today. You can still find Carol doing several of the shows yearly (she loves to stay in touch with her customers), but Fireside now has multiple teams of exhibitors and sales reps to help her out. In 1993, Carol's home-based business had expanded to a two-building production and office facility in the small town of Swartz Creek, Michigan, where it continues today. Its product line has increased to 8 flavors of Fireside Coffee that is available in both regular and decaf, 5 flavors in sugar free, two seasonal flavors and Fireside Chai in three flavors. Despite the many changes and growth stages over the years, Carol's commitment to quality and her family values have made Fireside Coffee Company, Inc. an honest and caring company. They are active in their local community and make many donations yearly to promote local school and charity events. Fireside Coffee Company's top priority is total customer satisfaction and it is apparent in every contact with the Fireside Family...including every delicious sip of Fireside Coffee and Fireside Chai.

Wet Planet Beverages touts its flagship soda as an alternative to coffee that contains twice the caffeine as the big-name brands made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi. As if twice the caffeine contained in a can of Coke wasn't enough, the company added taurine, guarana, ginsing and B vitamins to Jolt. Marketed heavily to college students, Jolt's most lucrative markets are in the US, Australia, Japan, and Germany. WPB also manufactures Napa Valley natural sodas and for the adult crowd, it offers Thornwood Estates and Autumn Frost wines. Launched in 1985 under the banner "All the sugar, twice the caffeine," Jolt was a pioneer in energy drinks.

Since its founding in 1969, the National Raisin Company has been owned by the Bedrosian family. National Raisin might secretly like to twist the old adage to go something like -- a raisin a day (actually, maybe cup) keeps the doctor away. Located in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley raisin-growing region, the company processes more than 100 million pounds of raisins every year. National produces organic and conventional raisins for retail customers under the Champion and Bonner Organic labels. It also grows and dries plums (prunes) and apricots, also sold under the Champion brand name. In addition, National's foodservice operation offers currents, raisin juice concentrate, and raisin paste.

granoVita UK company supplies vegetarian and vegan organic food products to UK health food retailers. granoVita company's products include edible and essential oils, breakfast cereals, cookies, energy bars, household cleaners, soy drinks, and vegetable pat's. Many of its products are also nut, wheat, dairy, and/or gluten-free and, increasingly, organic and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Most of granoVita's products are manufactured by the German food company De-Vau-Ge Gesundkostwerk GmbH, founded and owned by the Seventh-Day Adventist church. CEO Dr. Nigel Phillips started granoVita in 1991.

American Seeds, LLC is a holding company established to support regional seed businesses with capital, genetics and technology investments. These investments will allow the operating companies of American Seeds to more directly connect their customers to significant innovations in genomics-based breeding and other new technologies while continuing to operate autonomously and locally, providing great services to their customers and building the value of their brands. American Seeds is a wholly owned subsidiary, reporting into Monsanto's U.S. Crop Production business along with the company's existing branded and licensing businesses.

A. Smith Bowman's distilling roots date back to the years before Prohibition. In 1935, after the Repeal of Prohibition, Abram Smith Bowman and his sons relocated to Virginia continuing the family tradition with the distillation of bourbon. The original distillery was located on the Bowman family homestead in Fairfax County, Virginia called Sunset Hills Farm. In response to the rapid growth of Northern Virginia, the distillery was moved in 1988 and is now nestled in Spotsylvania County near the city of Fredericksburg, 60 miles away from the original location.As a small and privately owned company, A. Smith Bowman Distillery continues the time-honored traditions on which it was founded. Considered a micro-distillery by today's standards, A. Smith Bowman produces an assortment of hand-crafted spirits distilled from only the finest natural ingredients and using the latest technology. This micro-distillery focuses on the production of premium spirits honoring the legacy of Virginia's first settlers.

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is trying to put an al dente in the noodle market. It is a supplier of branded and private-label pasta products and flours to retail, food service, and food ingredient companies in North America. Its mills have an annual capacity to grind more than 12 million bushes of grain; its production facilities can produce 500 million pound of pasta (and makes more than 100 different shapes). Brand names include Dreamfields, Pasta Growers, Pasta Sanita, Primo Piatto, and Zia Briosa. Under license, the company distributes Ronzoni, Prince, Creamette, and Mrs. Weiss pasta brands to the foodservice sector.

Golden Agri-Resources Ltd. engages in cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees, and processing fruit bunches into crude palm oil and palm kernel in Indonesia and internationally. Golden Agri-Resources company owns, operates, and manages oil palm plantations and mills and refineries, as well as operates an integrated deep sea port and storage facilities. It produces a range of domestic and international refined branded products, such as cooking oil, margarine, butter oil substitute, shortening and fats for end-customers, restaurants, hotels and cafes, as well as industrial markets. As of December 31, 2008, golden agri resources company had a total planted area of approximately 392,000 hectares, 3 refineries, and 5 kernel crushing plants. Acquisitions In 2008, golden agri resources company acquired Eco Investment Limited and PT Soci Mas.

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