Diet Gourmet provides nutritionally balanced or weight-loss oriented meals to homes and offices in the Dallas, Houston, and Austin, Texas areas; meals are also available at its many pickup locations in the cities. Diet Gourmet also provides event catering services, and it operates a restaurant in Houston. The foodservice firm, which was founded in 1989 by president Donna Leonard, specializes in selling low-calorie meals, as well as vegetarian, carbohydrate-friendly, and high-protein meals.

Duck Delivery Produce, founded by a graduate of the University of Oregon (the Oregon Ducks), is a leading supplier of custom-cut fresh fruits and vegetables serving restaurants and other foodservice operators, as well as some retail customers in Washington and Oregon. It also distributes such specialty products as fruit shortcakes, vegetable trays, nacho trays, packaged salads, and watermelon boats. Duck Delivery company has processing and distribution centers in Portland, Oregon and in Sumner, Washington. Duck Delivery Produce is owned by United Salad Co., a wholesale supplier of fruits and vegetables.

Graceland Fruit, Inc. was founded in 1973 by president and CEO Donald Nugent. Graceland Fruit makes dried, refrigerated, and frozen fruit and vegetable ingredients for the food-manufacturing industry. Its product lines include infused dried fruit, infused dried vegetables, Soft-N-Frozen fruit, and Fridg-N-Fresh vegetables. Graceland Fruit has also expanded into the fruit juice concentrate industry through a partnership with Milne Fruit Products.

Meiji-brand sweets include chocolate and non-chocolate candy and chewing gum, along with personal care products, such as throat gargle. Its pharmaceutical division offers antibiotics, generic drugs, and anti-anxiety medications for humans, as well as veterinary drugs. Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd. is also involved in commercial leasing and sports complex management. Formerly called Meiji Seika Kaisha, a well known candy and pharmaceutical maker, the company merged with Japanese dairy producer Meiji Dairies Corp. in 2009 to form Meiji Holdings.

There's quite a larder up in this TreeHouse. The company is one of the US's largest producers of private-label and branded pickles (Farmans, Nalley's, Peter Piper, and Steinfeld). Pickle sales accounted for 20% of TreeHouse Foods' 2009 sales. Its non-dairy creamers (Cremora and Mocha Mix) are also top sellers, ringing up about 22% of sales in 2009. But its big 2009 seller (by a mere 1%) was its soup (mostly private label) and infant feeding segment (Nature's Goodness and private label). The company also manufactures aseptic (shelf-stable) and refrigerated foods, including cheese sauces, marinades, condiments, jams, puddings, and the branded liquid egg substitute, Second Nature.

Gilster-Mary Lee is a leading Private Label food manufacturer, headquartered in Chester, Illinois, a small, southern Illinois town located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Gilster produces over 8,000 items in over 500 different private label brands, as well as its own Hospitality label. Approximately 3,000 employees work in 14 different manufacturing facilities across four states. Gilster-Mary Lee company-owned truck fleet delivers products daily throughout the US and Canada, as well as shipments destined for markets throughout the world.

Clougherty Packing processes pork products, including fresh-cut pork, prepared bacon, sausages, and boneless and bone-in cooked ham. The company distributes its meat to retailers under the Farmer John brand name. It is a sponsor for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers and makes the hot dogs long-time baseball fans know as Dodger Dogs. The company's Web site offers recipes and cooking and serving tips featuring Clougherty products. Founded by the Clougherty family in 1931, the company was purchased by Hormel Foods in 2004.

Guest Services was founded in 1917 as a private company to serve governmental agencies. Guest Services company provides contract foodservices and hospitality-management services nationwide. It operates cafeterias and onsite restaurants, catering to businesses, hotels, hospitals, conference centers, and government operations, including the US Supreme Court, the US House of Representatives, and the National Park Service. Guest Services also provides special-event catering and offers management services to leisure and resort facilities, including marketing, human resources, procurement, quality-assurance, and information technology services.

Founded by Donald Wentzel in 1958 near Milford, Indiana, Maple Leaf Farms began as a small duck operation producing 280,000 ducks its first year. Maple Leaf Farms' commitment to "quality you can count on" fueled its growth over the next several years as its duck operation grew to more than 1 million in 1964. Although Mr. Wentzel passed away in 1968, his son-in-law Terry Tucker has carried on his vision at Maple Leaf Farms.The Tucker family continues to set the direction for the company, based on its values of commitment to family, friends, personal fulfillment, community involvement, and, of course, quality products. Today, this family-owned company dominates the North American duck market with innovative, value-added products of unequalled quality that create, "The Meals You Remember."

IBR has developed a unique environmental technology, which efficiently digests organic waste materials and produces biological fertility products that have revolutionary and far-reaching potential in commercial agriculture.On the one hand, IBR offers municipalities and generators of biodegradable waste a profitable alternative to landfill disposal, composting and/or incineration, while reducing toxic leachate, greenhouse gas emissions and noxious odours. On the other hand, by converting biodegradable waste into products beneficial to soil fertility and plant health, IBR is stemming the current one-way flow of nutrients and organic matter from the soil by providing food producers with the means to reverse their increasing dependence on chemical inputs.

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