At National Beverage, we always strive to be the best at everything we do. That's why we continually work to improve our performance and focus on those things that will make us a better company. One way we accomplish our goals is by creating a culture of creativity and imagination among our talented team of associates. By opening the doors to new ideas, we enable our people to add value and quality to our company. This spirit is evident in every aspect of our business - R&D, Operations, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Management. The passion to serve our business partners and our valued consumers with the finest and most innovative beverage products available, year-in and year-out, provides the foundation for outstanding financial performance, well ahead of others in the industry. This makes National Beverage Corp. valuable to shareholders and attractive to prospective team members who seek the opportunity to make a difference. Most distinctive about National Beverage Corp. is the speed, efficiency and thoroughness of our actions. We are a company that is always moving rapidly in a very clear direction. Our sights are set on specific goals of the marketplace; yet our values and integrity, both individually or as a cohesive team, remain high and are never compromised.

Founded as C.V. Finer Foods in 1990, World Harbors was a unit of spirits producer Angostura Holdings until 2010, when it was sold to Mizkan Americas, the US operations of Japanese food company, the Mizkan Group. World Harbors is a leading maker of cooking sauces and marinades. Its products include Australian-style barbeque sauce (Bar-B Sauce), Asian- and Mediterranean-inspired sauces, steak sauces, and Buffalo-style wing sauce. It also makes mixers and sauces under the Angostura brand, as well as a line of natural products marketed under the banner Acadia Naturals.

Anthony-Thomas Candy Company makes boxed chocolate confections, including buckeyes (peanut butter-filled), truffles, cordials, butter cremes, and chocolate-covered nuts. It also makes candy bars, novelty shaped chocolates, and jelly beans. Anthony-Thomas Candy Company's products are sold in and around Columbus through the company's 15 retail candy stores (Anthony-Thomas Candy Shoppes). Anthony-Thomas Candy Company produces an average of 50,000 pounds of chocolate daily at its 152,000 square foot factory in Columbus.

Wolverine Packing was founded by the late Al Bonahoom who operated exclusively as a lamb and veal processor until the early 1960’s. During this time, the company went through many transitions and eventually evolved into one the leaders in the lamb and veal slaughter business. Wolverine Packing was a pioneer in the development of fresh vacuum-packed lamb and veal, which today is the industry standard.If Mary lost her little lamb anywhere near Detroit, it probably ended up at Wolverine Packing. The company is a leading packing plant that slaughters and processes lamb, along with veal, beef, pork, and poultry. Its offers boxed meat and portion control products, along with such value-added meat products as breaded veal patties. Wolverine Packing serves both food retailers and foodservice customers nationwide, as well as private-label customers. The family-owned meat packing business was started by the late Al Bonahoom.

Cott Corporation is one of the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage companies and the world's largest retailer brand soft drink provider, with business dealings in more than 60 countries around the globe. The principal markets for our manufacturing and sales are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Mexico. Cott Corporation are a company built with entrepreneurial spirit and grown through discipline, focus, innovation and customer partnership. We market or supply more than 200 retailer and licensed brands of beverages in 20 manufacturing facilities. We partner with the world's leading grocery and mass merchandise retailers to build their private label or retailer brand programs with high-quality, affordable carbonated soft drinks, sparkling and flavored waters, energy drinks, sports drinks, juices, juice drinks and smoothies, ready-to-drink teas and other non-carbonated beverages. Around the world, consumers also enjoy our company-owned brands, which include Cott, RC, Vintage, Vess, Stars & Stripes, Ben Shaws, Carters, Red Rooster, Red Rain and So Clear. At Cott, we have set out to own VALUE. We are creating a new portfolio of value brand beverages to delight consumers with premium flavors, packaging and taste experiences for less cost than you would expect. We do it by focusing on just three things: becoming the lowest cost producer, being the retailer's best partner, and driving a pipeline of innovation.

Ruiz Company President Edward Ruiz started making flour tortillas in 1952 with his brother. Ruiz Mexican Foods is a leading maker of flour tortillas for the foodservice and food manufacturing industries. Ruiz company, which operates as Ruiz Flour Tortillas, makes traditional Mexican-style tortillas, as well as specialty varieties for customers needing low fat or zero trans fat food items. It also makes gourmet tortillas available in such flavors as apple cinnamon and jalapeeo chili. In addition to tortillas, Ruiz Mexican Foods makes flat breads and pita bread, along with other ethnic bread products.

Culinaire International, Inc. was founded by CEO Richard Gussoni in 1993. Culinaire International makes trips to the zoo, university food court, and music venue a little more palatable. Culinaire International is a leading contract foodservice operator that provides dining and hospitality services at entertainment venues, hotels and convention centers, and private clubs. Its foodservice and concessions operations include the Fort Worth Zoo, Meyerson Symphony Center, UT Southwestern, and Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach. Culinaire International also offers catering and corporate dining services, and it operates Dallas area restaurants Ristorante Nicola, Sea Change, and Omaha Steakhouse

Dole Food Company, Inc. was founded in 1851. Dole Food Company, Inc. (Dole) is a producer, marketer and distributor of fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Company operates in three business segments: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and packaged foods. The fresh fruit segment contains operating divisions that produce and market fresh fruit to wholesale, retail and institutional customers worldwide. The fresh vegetables segment produces and markets fresh-packed and value-added vegetables and salads to wholesale, retail and institutional customers, primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. The packaged foods segment contains several operating divisions that produce and market packaged foods including fruit, juices, frozen fruit and healthy snack foods.

Billington’s sugars are all unrefined which means they have been simply made by pressing out, cleaning and crystallising the juice from the sugar cane. Billington’s sugars range from a light golden to a dark treacly brown colour as the natural molasses of the sugar cane has been retained within each crystal to give the sugar a delicious flavour and aroma. Billington's offers a complete range of natural, unrefined sugars to meet all your sugar needs. Whether the recipe is sweet or savoury there is the perfect sugar for you.The unrefined soft brown sugars are perfect for baking. Billington's Light and Dark Muscovados are unrivalled in their rich flavour, colour and aroma and are the finest of the soft brown sugars. The unrefined golden baking sugars add a subtle flavour and natural colour. Golden Caster is the natural alternative to refined white caster sugar and Golden Icing Sugar is delicious in butter cream or makes a great meringue.

E.D. Smith & Sons is one of Canada's leading jam, pie-filling, and ketchup manufacturers. It also makes barbecue and pasta sauces, fruit topping, mayonnaise, salsas, and syrups. E.D. Smith & Sons company's products are offered under the E.D. Smith brand, as well as under private labels to grocery stores, foodservice suppliers, and industrial food manufacturers throughout North America. Family-owned for four generations, E.D. Smith was acquired by US-based TreeHouse Foods in 2007.

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