Diversified conglomerate LOTTE Holdings, with interests in retail, sports, and restaurants, is best known as one of Japan's leading confectioners. Its Lotte Co. unit makes a wide array of candies and other treats, including gum, chocolate, and cookies. LOTTE also owns fast-food chain, Lotteria, which has locations in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. It also owns several retail chains including Korea's LOTTESHOPPING. In addition, LOTTE owns the Chiba Lotte Marines professional baseball club. Other business interests include soft drinks and ice cream manufacturing, leisure and entertainment venues, magazine publishing, and real estate.

Bengard Marketing serves as a sales agent between produce growers, packers, and distributors. Bengard Marketing Company purchases fresh fruit from California growers, as well as produce from other US and international growers, and markets it to retail and wholesale customers. Bengard Marketing's products include grapes and pears. Bengard Marketing company is operated by the Bengard family.

Graves Brothers produces grapefruits and oranges on the graves of timberlands. The company's orchards are located on about 6,500 acres of its former Florida timberland. It grows, packs, and distributes citrus fruit under the Orchid Grapefruit, Coral Produce, and Cypress Florida Citrus labels. Graves Brothers has customers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its varieties include ruby red, flame, Rio star, and white seedless grapefruit; navel, Hamlin, Valencia and temple oranges; and Orlando and Minneola tangelos. The company also has interests in timber, farmland, and real estate in South and North Carolina and Georgia. The company is owned and operated by the founding Graves family.

Peco Foods hopes you'll do more than peek at their poultry parts. Producing some 18 million pounds of poultry every week, the company processes private-label and store brand chicken for US retail and foodservice customers. It also exports items to Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Peco's frozen, deli, and tray-pack products include boneless, skinless chicken breasts and tenderloins; boneless thighs; and jumbo legs and wings; as well as value-added breaded and flavored products. As a fully integrated processor, the company operates feed mills and hatcheries to support its poultry production facilities.

Dawn Foods is a leading manufacturer of dry mixes for baking products, including American-style cookies, doughnuts, and muffins. It also makes pizza dough mixes, powdered gravy, and other baking ingredients. In addition to mixes, the company markets frozen muffins and cakes, as well as icings, toppings, and fillings. Dawn Foods markets mostly to customers in the food service and retail industries, but it also makes consumer products under the Weight Watchers brand. It is the UK outpost of US-based Dawn Food Products.

Chef Ken Coley started San Diego Catering Concepts in 1997. San Diego Catering Concepts is a contract catering company that specializes in weddings, tailgate parties, picnics, and corporate events. In addition to catering, it offers event planning services, party equipment, and other related party and consulting services throughout the San Diego area.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably because Seara Alimentos packed it up and shipped it there. One of Brazil's largest meat processors, Seara Alimentos produces frozen, refrigerated, pre-cooked, and processed chicken and pork for the worldwide retail and wholesale food and foodservice markets. Its products include whole chickens, chicken cuts, sausage, pork smoked ham, cold cuts, salami, hot dogs, and frozen entrees. Founded in 1956, the company also operates a port terminal that has refrigerated-meat warehousing capacity. The US's Cargill, which had owned Seara since 2005, sold it to the large Brazilian beef processor, Marfrig, in 2010 for $900 in cash and debt assumption.

Hanover Foods Corporation is the largest independently owned food company in the eastern United States. Hanover Foods produce millions of cases of frozen vegetables, frozen pretzels, canned vegetables, canned beans, refrigerated, fresh, glass-packed, and snack food items. For over 85 years, Hanover Foods Corporation has been an active leader in the growing, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution of an amazing variety of food products. Hanover Foods exceeds consumer demands in the retail, food service, fresh home meal replacement, private label, military, club store and industrial venues.

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. is a Japan-based company engaged in five business segments. The Marine Products segment is engaged in fishing, cultivation, processing and sale of seafood products. The Food segment manufactures and sells processed food products such as frozen food products and common temperature food products, among others. The Logistics segment is engaged in the refrigeration storage of marine products, as well as the transportation of frozen and chilled products. The Fine Chemical segment manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, health food and pharmaceutical materials. The Others segment is engaged in the construction and repair of ships, as well as the marine transportation and engineering business. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had 73 subsidiaries and 35 associated companies.

Birds Eye Foods, Inc. manufactures and markets processed foods. Birds Eye Foods offers flavors and toppings, frozen and fresh vegetables, pie fillings and toppings, snacks, chips, soups, chili and chili ingredients, and salad dressings. Birds Eye Foods company also provides popcorn, pretzels, pickled beets, tortillas, pork rinds, cookies, meat snacks, nuts, meals, side dishes, mayonnaise, chip dips, canned foods, and other condiments. Birds Eye Foods offers its products through grocers and supermarkets.

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