The family- and employee-owned Joy Cone Co. was founded in 1918 by Lebanese immigrant, Albert George, as the George & Thomas Cone Company. Joy Cone company makes and markets ice cream cones for both retailers and foodservice customers. Joy Cone produces more than 1.5 billion cake, sugar, and waffle cones, cups, and bowls per year. It delivers products in the US and Canada using its own fleet of trucks. Joy Cone company also ships its products worldwide and offers custom product development and manufacture. Joy Cone operates from two locations-one in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, and another in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Universal Robina Corporation (URC) is a jack-of-all-foods. The Philippine company offers bakery, beverages, biscuits, candy, chocolate, noodles, and tomato products. URC's branded food products account for 77% of the company's sales; its major brands include Chippy snacks, Nips chocolates, Magic Flakes crackers, Cream-o cookies, and Great Taste and Blend 45 instant coffees; and Nissin ramen and instant cup noodles. URC also mills and refines sugar and flour, produces hogs and day-old chicks, manufactures animal feeds and veterinary compounds, and makes plastic film for packaging consumer products. URC is a subsidiary of Philippine conglomerate, JG Summit Holdings.

McKee acquired Blue Planet in 1974. Blue Planet Foods provides the food-manufacturing industry with cereal blends, granola-bar bases, grain-based extruded products, and ingredients for bread bases, as well as donut and dessert toppings, and ready-bake pie crusts. Its bulk products include bulgur wheat, granola, granola cereals, oat bran, and steel-cut oats. Blue Planet Foods also makes breakfast cereals and pie crusts for retail sale under the brand name Heartland, as well as pie crusts under the Hearty Life label. It offers private-label manufacturing and co-packing services to its customers.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

Well, of course grape growers want to hang out in a bunch! The more than 1,200 grower/owners who belong to the National Grape Cooperative Association harvest purple, red, and white grapes from almost 50,000 acres of vineyards in order to supply its wholly owned subsidiary Welch Foods. Welch's makes and sells juices, jams, and jellies under the Welch's and Bama brands. Other co-op products include fresh eating grapes, which are distributed by C.H. Robinson Worldwide, as well as dried fruit and frozen juice bars. National Grape Cooperative growers maintain vineyards in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Washington, and in Ontario, Canada. In 2009 the co-op sold more than 40,000 tons of grapes.

The Green Valley Pecan Company is one of the world's foremost suppliers of quality pecans. Our location, in the height of the Sonoran Desert just 15 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, provides the perfect environment for pecan cultivation. Family owned and operated since 1948, The Green Valley Pecan Company has 5000 acres of orchard and a modern on-site processing and storage plant. This means we're able to control every aspect of pecan production, from orchard operations to packaging, ensuring a consistently high quality end product.

Frog's Leap Winery owns operates organic vineyards and a winery and distributes its wines through its store, its tasting room, and thorough mail order. Frog's Leap bottles Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, and a number of blends. Frog's Leap was founded in 1981 by John Williams, who is credited as an early pioneer of organic grape-growing in Napa Valley. Frog's Leap was founded on land that was a commercial frog farm in the late 1800s -- thus, its name.

Michael Angelo's was founded in 1982. Michael Angelo's Gourmet Food produces fresh and frozen Italian entrees, snacks, appetizers, and desserts as well as pasta and pizza sauces. The company, which has no warehouse, claims to cook its meals from scratch every day and ship them to stores within 36 hours. Its products are available in major US food retailers, specialty food stores, and discount stores, including Albertson's, BJ's Wholesale Club, Publix, Whole Foods, Safeway, and SAMS CLUB.

The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) is a non-profit, independent membership organization that represents the export trade interests of U.S. milk producers, proprietary processors, dairy cooperatives, and export traders. The Council was founded in 1995 by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), the farmer-funded marketing, promotion and research organization, to build global demand for U.S. dairy products and assist the industry in increasing the volume and value of exports.

Founded in 1967, Balchem provides state-of-the-art solutions and the finest quality products for a range of industries worldwide. Our Company consists of three business segments: ARC Specialty Products; Food, Pharma and Nutrition; and Animal Nutrition and Health. Balchem employs over 300 people worldwide who are engaged in many diverse activities, developing our company into chosen market leadership positions.

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