Barilla is Italy's and the world's #1 dry pasta maker. It is also a leader in the pasta sauce business in continental Europe, in the bakery products business in Italy, and in the crispbread business in Scandinavia. Barilla Holding sells its 1,500 products in more than 125 countries. The business encompasses Barilla (pasta, sauces), along with additional pasta and baked goods operations. Along with Barilla, the company's brands include Mulino Bianco and Pavesi (breads, cookies, cakes, crackers), Voiello (pasta), and Wasa (crackers). It also sells readymade pasta and frozen meals.

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.

Fiorucci Foods brings traditional Italian deli meats to a US audience. The company produces and sells Italian specialty meats -- including salami, prosciutto, pepperoni, and pancetta -- along with its very own aged-in-Oak-barrels balsamic vinegar to retail food customers and restaurants throughout the US. Its products are sold in supermarkets or delivered to foodservice operators. Fiorucci Foods is the US subsidiary of Italian deli meat company, Cesare Fiorucci, which was founded in 1850 and expanded into the US market in 1985. Cesare Fiorucci, formerly a family-owned firm, is 65% owned by investment firm, Vestar Capital Partners.

Horizon Milling, LLC was founded in 2002. Horizon Milling, LLC, a flour miller, provides flours for baking, food manufacturing, and private-label applications. Its products include wheat and flour products, wheat-based products, bakery flours, retail grocery flours, durum and semolina flours, and specialty flours. Horizon Milling company’s products are used in various applications, including breads and rolls, cookies and crackers, cakes, pies and pastries, bars, energy bars, muffins, pizza, pasta, noodles, batters, biscuits, baking mixes, bagels, salty snacks, dumplings, spaghetti, short pastas, coatings, blending, pancakes, and waffles. Horizon Milling also offers animal feed and vitamins. In addition, it offers technical support/consulting, risk management, and supply chain/logistics services. Horizon Milling company offers its products through distributors to bakery and other flour based manufacturers, and retail bakers.

AMPC strives to offer the best quality products with competitive pricing. AMPC provides full disclosure of product specifications, analysis and nutritional information.

Routin makes flavored syrups for desserts, cocktails, coffee, and tea. Routin brand names include 1883 de Philibert Routin (which is the year and founder of its establishment), Flavors of Summer, Fruiss, Ibiza, and Montania. Routin company operates its Routin America subsidiary from New York, while its headquarters resides in France.

Williams Sausage is a leading regional meat processor that produces sausage, ham, and bacon products for both retail and wholesale customers. Its product lines include several varieties of pork sausage, cured hams, and smoked bacon. The company also markets microwavable pork biscuit sandwiches and smoked pork sausages. Most of its meat products are sold under the Williams brand; it also markets sausage and bacon under the Old South banner. The family-owned company was founded by Harold Williams in 1958.

Elmer Candy Corporation makes Easter sweet. Although it has been in business since 1855, the company began focusing on seasonal (Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day) candy in the 1970s, following the increased competition it faced from the large US confectioners (Mars, Hershey). It now concentrates solely on Easter, offering dark or milk chocolate versions of the Gold Brick Egg and Heavenly Hash Egg, along with the Pecan Egg. Elmer Candy Corporation also makes chocolate syrup for ice cream under the Gold Brick Topping brand name. Elmer Candy is owned and operated by the Nelson family and traces its roots back to German immigrant Christopher Miller, who began his life in the US by opening a candy shop in New Orleans.

The family-owned Twin City Foods, Incorporated was formed by Arne Lervick in 1943. Twin City Foods is a leading producer of private label frozen vegetables with growing fields and four processing plants in Michigan and Washington. Boasting more than 200 million pounds of on-site cold storage capacity, the company packs and ships beans, carrots, corn, and peas for both domestic and international markets. Twin City Foods serves customers in such industries as food manufacturing, foodservice, and retail. It also supplies frozen products for the organic food segment.

Puratos Group N.V. got its start in 1919 selling ice cream and confectionery mixes in Brussels. Puratos doesn't make baked goods -- it makes them better. Its menu of bakery ingredients, such as bread improvers, flavorings, enzymes, emulsifiers, and yeast, are used by commercial bakers the world over. Puratos also concocts specialty ingredients used in patisserie (pastry) making, including custards, fruit and cream fillings, glazes, marzipan, meringues, and icings. Through its Belcolade subsidiary, it is a leading Belgian chocolate maker, serving professional chocolatiers. With approximately 60 production plants in 40 countries, Puratos sells its products to some 200,000 customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

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