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.

AWB Limited markets wheat and other grains grown on farms Down Under. AWB's activities include the pooling, marketing, trading, financing, risk and logistical management of wheat. Other crops that it handles include include barley, sorghum, and oilseeds and its seeds division provides seed for those crops. AWB made the transition from government-owned to farmer-owned in 1999 and is now a publicly traded company, although it continues to be monitored by the Wheat Export Authority. AWB also owns rural-services company, Landmark, which operates some 400 retail supply outlets for Australian farmers. AWB's other operations include wool marketing services and fertilizer production.

AK Acres Popcorn Company began in the early 80's as an extension of the farming operations of Dennis Kunnemann and his father Arnold Kunnemann. Upon realizing the tremendous popcorn production potential of southwest Nebraska they decided to cease active farming and devote their time exclusively to contracting, processing, and marketing high quality popcorn. AK Acres Popcorn Company has since grown into one of the largest popcorn producers in the high plains region. Today AK Acres operates two processing facilities and has the capacity to process and store over thirty million pounds of popcorn every year.AK Acres Popcorn Company operates primarily as a worldwide popcorn wholesaler. The majority of our customers are distributors, packagers, snack food retailers, and poppers who purchase our popcorn in bulk.

Natures Way Foods Ltd. company was founded in 1994 when Tesco asked farmer, David Langmead, to produce a salad product it required. Langmead's brother, Robert, a former food consultant to Unilever, joined him and together they created the Natures Way as a sister company to Langmead Farms. Once simply a lettuce farm, the company now prepares and packages ready-made salads, and watercress for sale through major UK grocery retailers and restaurants; it also provides bagged ready-to-eat fresh fruit.

Seneca Foods Corporation is a producer and distributor of processed fruits and vegetables. The Company’s product offerings include canned, frozen and bottled produce and snack chips and its products are sold under private label, as well as national and regional brands that the Company owns or licenses, including Seneca, Libby’s, Aunt Nellie’s Farm Kitchen, Stokely’s, Read and Diamond A. The Company packs Green Giant, Le Sueur and other brands of canned vegetables, as well as select Green Giant frozen vegetables for General Mills Operations, LLC (GMOL). As of March 31, 2010, the Company’s facilities consisted of 20 processing plants located throughout the United States, two can manufacturing plants, two seed processing operations, a small farming operation and a limited logistical support network. The Company also maintains warehouses, which are generally located adjacent to its processing plants.

Wet Planet Beverages touts its flagship soda as an alternative to coffee that contains twice the caffeine as the big-name brands made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi. As if twice the caffeine contained in a can of Coke wasn't enough, the company added taurine, guarana, ginsing and B vitamins to Jolt. Marketed heavily to college students, Jolt's most lucrative markets are in the US, Australia, Japan, and Germany. WPB also manufactures Napa Valley natural sodas and for the adult crowd, it offers Thornwood Estates and Autumn Frost wines. Launched in 1985 under the banner "All the sugar, twice the caffeine," Jolt was a pioneer in energy drinks.

Sea Pearl Seafood Co., Inc. is a family-owned and -operated business and was founded in 1966. Sea Pearl Seafood's favorite gem is the shrimp. The Louisiana-headquartered company processes and packages fresh and frozen shrimp procured from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico under the Sea Pearl, Bayou La Batre, and Neptune brand names. Its farm-raised and wild shrimp products include peeled, headless, head-on, rock, royal red, and individually quick-frozen shrimp. Sea Pearl Seafood also offers its customers custom and private-label packaging.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

In 1985, The Gatorade Company established an award honoring America’s elite high school student-athletes. Now in its third decade, the Gatorade Player of the Year award has become one of the most prestigious accolades in high school sports. The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one award-winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school boys football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, boys baseball, girls softball and boys and girls track & field. The selection process for Gatorade State and National Players of the Year is administered by ESPN RISE, the multimedia high school division of ESPN, in partnership with The Gatorade Company.

Castle & Cooke, Inc. and Dole Food Company, Inc. are privately held companies owned by David H. Murdock, who also serves as chairman and chief executive officer of both companies since 1985. Castle & Cooke and Dole Food Company (formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange), were acquired by Mr. Murdock in 2000 and 2003, respectively. The food-related businesses operate as Dole Food Company, and all other businesses operate as Castle & Cooke.Mr. Murdock's combined companies make up one of the largest privately-held companies in America, with approximately 63,000 employees operating in more than 90 countries around the world. This website focuses on the collection of assets under the Castle & Cooke umbrella of companies. Among Castle & Cooke's greatest assets are its plentiful land and real estate holdings, much of which can be traced back more than 150 years to when Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke began their business partnership by operating a general store in Hawai'i. The spirit, vision, integrity and perseverance of these two men sparked the formation of a company that grew to global proportions over the years.The company’s diversified businesses have operations in over 24 states and include the development and ownership of real estate, leasing of transportation equipment, manufacture of brick and building materials, oil and gas holdings, aviation services, and ownership of public warehouses. In Hawai'i the company also owns 98% of the 90,000 acre island of Lana’i and two award winning Four Seasons Hotels.

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