River Ranch Fresh Foods is a leading supplier of packaged salads to the retail food and foodservice industries. River Ranch Fresh Foods company produces salad mixes and fresh cut vegetables to supermarkets and other grocery stores under the labels Popeye Fresh (through a licensing agreement with King Features) and River Ranch. It also offers private-label services with a range of products including salad kits and premium salad blends. In addition, River Ranch supplies restaurants and other foodservice operators with spinach, lettuce, and mixed salads. River Ranch Fresh Foods company was acquired in mid-2010 by competitor Taylor Fresh Foods, which is also based in Salinas, California.

Greyston Bakery company employs the chronically unemployed (ex-convicts, ex-substance abusers), getting them off the streets and into the workforce. It produces brownies in varieties that include chocolate fudge, espresso, walnut -- and though some purists might beg to differ -- blondies. All bakery profits go to the Greyston Foundation, which funds a variety of social programs including child-care centers and health clinics. The bakery's award-winning sweets have been served at the White House and it is the sole supplier of brownie products for Ben & Jerry's. was founded in 1982 by Zen Buddhist priest (and applied mathematician and aerospace engineer) Bernard Tetsugen Glassman.

Retail farm-supply and grain-marketing cooperative GROWMARK can mark its growth by the grain. A member-owed agricultural co-op, GROWMARK serves farmers in the midwestern US and Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1980, it has more than 250,000 members. Under the FAST STOP name, the co-op runs more than 300 fuel stations and convenience stores in the Midwest. Its Seedway subsidiary sells commercial vegetable seed and farm seed for turf, and grains including alfalfa, corn, wheat, and soybeans. GROWMARK also offers fertilizer, seeds, ethanol, biodiesel, and farm financing. Its MID-CO COMMODITIES subsidiary trades grain and offers advice regarding futures and options.

Taxco Produce began as part of the Dallas Farmers Market in 1985; it is owned by its founders. Taxco Produce taxis food from south to north on the North American continent. Taxco Produce company imports Mexican soft drinks, meats, cheeses, candy, and grocery items into the US. It also provides paper products and cleaning supplies. Taxco Produce supplies the foodservice industry in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It has more than 1,000 customers, including restaurants, grocery stores, and other food outlets.

Koninklijke FrieslandCampina N.V. provide people around the world with all the good things milk has to offer, with products that play an important role in people’s nutrition and well-being. Together with our member dairy farmers, we are milk experts who are continually expanding our knowledge of the applications of milk.

Elizabeth Shaw won't mind if you eat that after-dinner mint before dinner. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd. manufactures premium liquor and mint-laced chocolates. Its product line includes truffles and liqueur-filled, as well as its best known -- chocolate mint crisps -- all sold under the Elizabeth Shaw brand. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd.'s boxed confections are sold in supermarkets in the UK and exported widely to other countries The company is owned by Icelandic confectionery company, Nói Síríus. From humble beginnings of Elizabeth Shaw chocolate in a Teddington kitchen, the brand has gone from strength to strength and is now a major household name, on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the UK and exported widely throughout the World.

Chickens are always on the menu at this company. Perdue Incorporated is one of the largest poultry (chicken and turkey) producers in the US. The company operates live production and processing facilities in about 15 US states through its some 2,250 contracted poultry farmers. The Perdue Farms division processes and packs 3 billion pounds of chicken and 268 million pounds of turkey a year. Perdue sells poultry through retail food outlets and to foodservice customers, most of which are located in the eastern half of the US; the company also exports worldwide. Its Perdue Agribusiness unit processes grain for animal feed and pet food ingredients, makes vegetable oils, and manufactures fertilizer and renewable fuel.

St. Ours & Co. was founded in 1979 by president, Frederick St. Ours. St. Ours company manufactures the St. Ours brand of seafood broths, condiments, and seasonings. Its products are distributed across North America and in Europe. St. Ours company sells clam and other broth mixes as a spray dried powder, for use in recipes such as clam chowder, shrimp creole, crawfish scampi, and she-crab soup. It also wholesales frozen shellfish.

Main Street Ingredients, LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes functional food ingredients for dairy, nutritional, and food industries in North America. It offers dairy ingredients, such as buttermilk, lactose, milk proteins, whole milk, whey, whey proteins, nonfat dry milk, and casein and caseinates. The company also provides non-dairy proteins, including wheat gluten, wheat protein isolates, soy protein concentrates, and soy protein isolates. In addition, it offers specialty powders, such as non-dairy creamers, shortening powders, cheese powders, cream powders, cultured buttermilks, yogurt powders, sour cream powders, and whipped topping bases, as well as gums. Further, the company provides sports nutrition products, including smoothie mixes, sports drinks, amino acid fortified drinks, ready-to-drink formulations, and creatine drinks. Furthermore, it offers products for healthy living, such as weight-loss beverages, colon health, fiber and cleanse products, greens, antioxidants, immunity products, non-GMO formulas, and organic formulations.

Abe Entner began producing a line of premium, handcrafted syrups in Peekskill, New York in 1922. Because of the innovative attention-to-detail methods he perfected, his syrups soon earned a reputation for their intensely rich and accurate flavor. In 1988, Abe's grandson, Allan Stuart, continued the family tradition of micro-brewing each batch by hand, following the same time-honored techniques that made the syrups famous.Today Entner-Stuart Syrups produces gourmet syrups and other specialty products in Albany, Oregon. Entner-Stuart Premium Syrups research and development department is constantly creating new syrup flavors and inventing new products. The commitment remains to making a superior product both in taste and quality. Each product is made by entner stuart highly trained team of experienced bottlers and produced in small batches to ensure excellence. We at Entner-Stuart Syrups consider ourselves a family that is committed to providing entner stuart customers with only the best, both in product and service.

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