Founded in 1972 by father and son, Leonard and Brooks Firestone, Firestone Vineyard has enjoyed 35 years of family stewardship. Recently, so that they might concentrate on their burgeoning beer business and smaller Curtis Winery, the Firestone family decided to sell their iconic winery. In doing so, they turned to fellow Santa Barbara vintner Bill Foley (Foley Estates Vineyard and Winery, Lincourt Vineyards) as the logical next shepherd for the famous property. As the Firestone’s identified earlier on, Bill, too, recognized Santa Barbara County as the ideal location for the production of world class wines. Bill has vowed to continue the Firestone tradition in striving for the very best in vineyard management and cutting edge winemaking discipline. The vineyard focuses on optimal physiological balance in the vines yielding wines that are brightly flavored, crisp and delicious. Estate Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah vineyards are located on a series of mesas that have gravelly sub-soils, ideally oriented for perfect exposure. The Firestone Vineyard tasting room offers regular winery tours, delicious wines to sample and an idyllic setting for al fresco picnics. Visit the “new” Firestone Vineyard and experience the vision of hospitality that is shared by Bill Foley and the Firestone Family!

Robert Colescott founded Southern Specialties in 1990. Southern Specialties is really something special. The Pompano Beach, Florida-based company imports and markets regular and tropical fruits and vegetables. It offers white and green asparagus, specialty lettuces, hot peppers, baby vegetables, berries, papayas, mangoes, avocados, star fruit, and more, sourced from North, Central, and South America. Southern Specialties company serves retail and wholesale food companies, big box stores, and foodservice operators in the US and Canada. Southern has offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Florida, Texas, Mexico, and Peru. Southern Specialties company's retail products are sold under the brand names Paradise and Southern Selects.

DFA is one of the world's largest dairy cooperatives, with some 17,000 member/farmers nationwide. Some 1.8 million cows belonging to member/farmers produce about 62 billion pounds of milk a year, which DFA markets. Along with fresh and shelf-stable fluid milk, the co-op produces cheese, butter, dried whey, dried milk powder, and other dairy products for industrial, wholesale, and retail customers worldwide. It also offers contract manufacturing services. The co-op has some 30 manufacturing sites located throughout the country. DFA, which netted more than $8 billion in sales in 2009, is a major supplier to US dairy powerhouse, Dean Foods.

Founded in 2004, Monogram Food Solutions began operations when a group of Memphis investors purchased King Cotton and Circle B Brand foods from Sara Lee Corporation of Chicago. The purchase signified a homecoming for the brands. King Cotton was founded nearly 70 years ago in Memphis. King Cotton and Circle B are among the leading brands in retail sales of hot dogs, corn dogs, sandwich meats, and smoked sausages in the Memphis and Mid-South area.The former president of the Sara Lee Foods Dinner Group, Wes Jackson, continued Monogram's growth with the help of established relationships with key industry contacts. This was the precursor to licensing brands featuring NASCAR® and Jeff Foxworthy.

Ready Pac Foods is a leading producer of fresh-cut produce, offering packaged salads, sliced fruits, and mixed vegetables. Ready Pac Foods company's customers include supermarkets and other food retailers, including club stores and mass-market retailers. In addition, Ready Pac makes private-label salad products for retailers, including Trader Joe's. It also supplies fresh-cut produce and salad blends to restaurant operators and other foodservice businesses. Ready Pac products are available throughout the US and Canada.

Few products have achieved the iconic status of PEEPS®, the yellow, chick-shaped marshmallow confection beloved by children and adults alike. But, as popular as PEEPS® has become, it is only one of the many delicious products produced by Just Born, an 87-year-old, family-owned confectionery company based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Just Born candy tradition actually began in 1910 when Sam Born emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. A candy maker by trade, Born used innovative technology to produce chocolate sprinkles, known as Jimmies, and the hard chocolate coating for ice cream bars. In 1916, Born invented a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

The Cambria Winery grows chardonnay, pinot noir, and syrah grape varietals on its 1,400-acre vineyard located 17 miles from the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Maria Valley just north of Santa Barbara, California. All of its wines are made from these estate-grown grapes, which are hand picked from the vine. Cambria proprietor, Barbara Banke, is also vice chairman of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, which she co-founded with her husband, Jess Jackson. Cambria's wines can be purchased at beverage retailers in the US and from the company's Web site, but all online purchases are subject to state restrictions.

Gentile Bros. Company is the oldest trading member of the Blue Book. For decades, we have been servicing the retail chains and foodservice distributors with quality produce from around the world with the specialized services customers demand. Gentile Bros. Company specialized services include: Customized packaging of all commodities, Ripening and processing of tomatoes, bananas, melons and tree fruit, Complete specialty program, USDA certified organic repacker, Internet, EDI and VMI capabilities, Flexibility to service all customer's needs, Complete re-packaging division, Freight Forwarders and Brokerage sales.

Formerly Sodexho Alliance, Sodexo is the world's #2 contract foodservice provider (after Compass Group), with operations in about 80 countries. Its subsidiaries offer corporate foodservice and hospitality services, vending services, and foodservices for educational institutions and other public-sector clients. Other operations include event concessions, health care foodservices, and such outsourced on-site service solutions as cleaning, groundskeeping, and laundry. Its US-based subsidiary, Sodexho, Inc., is one of the largest contract foodservice providers in North America. Sodexo company has some 33,900 service sites worldwide.

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