Mead Johnson & Company was founded in 1905 in Jersey City, New Jersey, by Edward Mead Johnson, Sr. E. Mead launched his business after leaving Johnson & Johnson, which he had co-founded with his brothers.Mead Johnson & Company introduced its first major infant feeding product in 1910 and followed it the next year with the product that would set the company on its path to leadership in infant and children's nutrition. A carbohydrate milk-modifier, Dextri-Maltose® became the first clinically supported, physician recommended infant feeding product in the United States.In 1915, the company relocated to Evansville, Indiana to have better access to the raw materials needed to manufacture Dextri-Maltose.Over the next several decades, Mead Johnson built upon its leadership in science-based nutrition, introducing many innovative infant feeding products while expanding into vitamins, pharmaceutical products, and enteral and parenteral nutrition.

Northwest Naturals makes the ingredients that give juice, cereal, smoothies, sorbets, and sherbet their natural flavor. Northwest Naturals company's fruit-based ingredients include all-natural juice concentrates, bases, essences, flavorings, purees, and sweeteners in an exhaustive list of selections. (Ever heard of aroniaberry? Me neither. But sure enough, Northwest has a concentrate for it.) Northwest Naturals company, which was founded in 1981 in Seattle, maintains a technical staff to research new ways to provide its customers with flavor and color using 100% natural ingredients. Northwest Naturals company is a subsidiary of juice maker, Tree Top.

In 1932, Karl Ehmer started his first butcher shop on 46th Street and Second Avenue in New York City, NY. Due to the depression, Mr. Ehmer was forced to make product at night and work a full time job uptown during the day. Mrs. Ehmer ran the shop during the daylight hours. In the 1940's, as times improved, Mr. Ehmer began to look for a larger manufacturing facility and found one in a German community in Queens, called Ridgewood. From this facility he manufactured products for six stores.Karl Ehmer is where you expect the wurst, and you'll get it. The company specializes in traditional German sausages and other meats, selling its wares at retail stores and to wholesale customers. Karl Ehmer's started with a single butcher's shop in Manhattan in 1932, then later moved to a German-American community in Queens, where its headquarters remains. The retail chain has dwindled to about 10 stores (five of which are in New York), but the company has stepped up its sales to regional distributors, high-end food emporiums like Dean & DeLuca, and other grocers, while also selling through its Web site. Brothers Mark and Alan Hanssler, grandsons of Karl Ehmer himself, acquired the company in 1993.

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.

You say tomato, I say kumato. Mastronardi Produce grows more than a dozen varieties of specialty tomatoes, including the sweet brown-skinned kumato, under the SUNSET brand. It also grows cucumbers, baby eggplant, peppers, and strawberries, and some varieties are also organically grown. Mastronardi's produce is grown in greenhouses year-round. The company maintains more than 1,400 acres of greenhouses in Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the US. Mastronardi Produce also has its own microbiology laboratory and food safety program, and all of its crops are non-GMO. The company began growing vegetables in the 1920s and remains owned by the Mastronardi family.

Cawy Bottling Co., Inc. products are distributed throughout the US, Canada, Spain, and Central America. The company, established in Cuba in 1948, moved to the US in the early 1960s as a result of the takeover of the island (and Cawy's operations) by Fidel Castro. Cawy's first product introduction to the US market was Cawy Lemon Lime. The company soon expanded to offer other fruit-flavored drinks (pineapple-flavored Jupi�a, Cawy's biggest seller) and herbal drinks such Materva, a yerba mate-enhanced soda. (Yerba mate is said to benefit the immune system.)

Venus Wafers hopes consumers will think its crackers are out of this world. The company manufactures and sells specialty crackers, breads, pizza crusts, and breadsticks under such labels as Haute Cuisine, Sunflower, CaPeachio's, and Nejaimes Lavasch. Its products are sold through gourmet food shops and online. Venus Wafers was founded in 1930 by Napolean Barkmakian; the Barkmakian family still owns and operates the business.

Stapleton-Spence Packing Company was founded in 1951. Stapleton-Spence Packing Company engages in sourcing, packing, marketing, and distributing fruits, fruit juices, dried fruits, and nut products. It offers bulk prunes, bagged prunes, prune concentrate, raisins, dried fruits, and nuts; fruit based industrial products, such as fresh plum puree and plum good plum powder; and prune juice, pineapple and apple juice, cranberry juice cocktail, pomegranate juice cocktail, and concord grape juice. The company also provides contract packing services; fruit dehydration services; and consulting services in the areas of product development, food processing, and raw material processing and marketing. It serves baking, dairy, beverage, and meat industries. The company exports its products to Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, China, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, the Middle East, and Canada.

Home to internationally acclaimed Made in Michigan craft beer including the beloved Celis brand beers. Brewing Company feature Merindorf Meats, The Distillery, the Winery, the Pub & Patio, as well as our own thingsBEER store, catering to home brewers and vintners. Michigan Brewing Co lso pride ourselves on hosting the best customers around

The family-owned David Michael & Co., Inc. was founded in 1896. David Michael & Co. has developed and manufactured flavors and flavor ingredients for use by food and beverage manufacturers. David Michael company's brands include Vanguard, Biovan, Supervan, DMChoice, Mixevan, Michtex, MichaelLite, and Michaelcap. It produces more than 40,000 flavors, stabilizers, and natural colors. With corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, the company has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. David Michael worked with Balchem to produce microencapsulated flavorings, which were introduced in 2004 under the MichaelCap brand name.

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