Michael Foods, Inc. is a leading food processor and distributor with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products, and with net sales exceeding $1.5 billion.At Michael Foods, our customers' wants and needs serve as a foundation for all we do. We have become a leader in the food industry by introducing innovative, value-added food technology and customer solutions.Our brands, Papetti's®, Crystal Farms®, AllWhites®, and Simply Potatoes® to name a few, are recognized and valued by customers and consumers across the nation.

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.

The family-owned and -operated Joe Granato, Incorporated was founded by its namesake, the late Joe Granato, in 1964. Joe Granato is a fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaler. The Salt Lake City company purchases produce from farmers in Arizona and California and distributes it to customers in Utah and neighboring states through a partnership with Pride Transport. It also imports produce from overseas. They partner with such companies as Taylor Farms, Sunkist Growers, Growers Express and Bolthouse Farms.

Tate & Lyle -- one of the world's largest makers of white and raw cane sugar -- will soon have to look elsewhere. Headquartered in London, Tate & Lyle makes sugar by-products such as molasses used in animal feed, and sugar and high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and starches used in foodstuffs. It is a top supplier of sucralose, the no-calorie sweetener sold in some 50 countries worldwide under the brand name SPLENDA. Serving multiple sectors, Tate & Lyle's customers include manufacturers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, industrial, and animal-feed industries. The firm is exiting the Sugars business to focus on value-added Specialty Food Ingredients.

Orion Seafood International caters to the crab lover; not to mention the lobster lover and the shrimp lover. As a worldwide distributor and marketer, the company serves up such products as snow and king crab meat, lobster claws and tails, scoopable lobster salad, and cooked and raw shrimp. Customers include foodservice providers, supermarket chains, retailers, and cruise lines. Orion's Grill-Cuts brand shrimp for grilling is sold ready-prepped, frozen, and packaged at such grocery stores as Albertsons, Hannaford, and Hy-Vee. Privately held, Orion Seafood International was co-founded by CEO Charles Anastasia in 1988. Orion Seafood International company sources its products from North America, South America, Asia, and Russia.

PinguinLutosa is a Belgium-based company that specializes in the development, production and sale of frozen vegetables, potato products and ready-to-use culinary preparations. The Group also produces and sells fresh pre-cooked potato products. The Company's activities are divided into two operating segments: the potato division, accounting for 47.99 % of total revenue in 2009, and the frozen vegetables division, accounting for 52.01 % of total revenue. The Company has six vegetable production sites situated in agricultural areas in Europe (West- Flanders, Southern France, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) and two production sites in Belgium (Leuze-en-Hainaut and St. Eloois-Vijve), with three production companies located at these sites. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Austria and Brasil, among others.

Tayto (N.I.) is the undisputed king of crisps in Northern Ireland and is expanding its empire. The family-owned company was already nearing the top of the snack market sector when it acquired its larger rival, UK biscuit and snack maker, Golden Wonder, in 2006. Continuing to expand its presence throughout the UK, Tayto purchased Wales-based Real Crisp company the following year. In 2008 it purchased the Red Mill Snack Foods with its Mr Porky and Transform-A-Snack brands, making it one of the leading snack-food makers in the UK.

The folks at Sunrise Growers are up long before the sun rises, hand-picking fresh strawberries from the fields. The company, which also raises, processes, and supplies fresh red bell peppers, markets and ships its produce throughout the US, as well as to Pacific Rim countries. Sunrise serves customers in the retail food, food manufacturing, and foodservice industries. The company's sister business, Frozsun Foods, processes part of Sunrise's crop, some of which it combines with other fruits, into frozen packs, toppings, purees, juicestock, and other beverage bases.

Indiana Packers Corporation has grown from a start-up operation in 1991 with a production capacity of 4,200 hogs per day to a leading processor of premium pork products in the United States with a current daily production capacity of 16,800 hogs. Indiana Packers Corporation, with continuing modernization and upgrades is one of the newest pork processing facilities in the United States. In order to maintain a leadership role and to improve product quality and service, Indiana Packers has recently invested over a hundred million dollars in new construction and plant improvements and continues to look for opportunities to insure the production of safe, premium, high quality pork products.The Company’s dedicated workforce of over 1,700 people prides themselves in their work, their products and the customers they know they serve. Their workmanship is recognized and appreciated by our domestic customers and our global export customers alike. In addition to the offerings of fresh pork, at Indiana Packers Corporation you will find a variety of smoked meat products such as ham, bacon, and sausage that fits your retail and food service needs. These products are also enjoyed not only in the United States but in a number of global markets as well.Indiana Packers Corporation is a true Midwest processing facility centered in the heart of the Corn Belt. By housing its corporate offices, sales, processing and shipping all in one centralized location, the oversight of production operations and product quality is shared by the entire management team, further serving the needs of our customers.

The Patron Spirits Company hopes to make ultra-premium patrons of as many people as possible. The world's #3 tequila maker produces five varieties of Patron "ultra-premium" tequila in Jalisco, Mexico (where its main ingredient, the Weber Blue agave plant, grows). It also makes Patron Citronge, an orange liqueur, and Patron XO Cafe, a blend of coffee and tequila. Patron's liquor line up includes Pyrat Caribbean rum (US distribution only) and Ultimat Polish vodka (which it owns). The company distributes its various products in 100 countries where it targets upscale retailers and duty-free shops. Caribbean Distillers Corporation, which owns Pyrat and distributes Ultimat globally, owns Patron Spirits Company.

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