That’s just one man’s perception of what makes the perfect cup of coffee - so strong it keeps the neighbours awake! Back then of course, he wouldn’t have had a great deal of choice. Now when you ask for coffee you get a menu: ground or whole bean? Caff or de-caff? Americano, cappuccino, espresso, frappé macchiato, mocha or latte? Coffee these days is big business. Petroleum aside, it is the biggest natural commodity in international trade. Some 25 million people in 50 countries worldwide depend on it for their livelihood. And among the connoisseurs, good coffee is treated with the same reverence as fine wine. All this from an innocuous-looking bean discovered, according to legend, by an African goatherd. He thought his goats seemed unusually jumpy when they ate this particular bean. Trying it for himself, he felt alert and invigorated. But it was a passing monk that made the first cup of coffee from the beans by crushing them into a powder and pouring on boiling water. His fellow monks were greatly impressed by his ability to pray all night and word soon got around.

O'Leary Potato Packers Ltd. (OPP) was established in 1986 to better manage and distribute the shipments of growers' products to clients at competitive prices. The company acquires a large amount of product from local growers. O'Leary Potato Packers Ltd. enjoys considerable success as a result of its strong management and dedicated staff, who through significant team efforts, attain the goals established by the company. Our services for all Prince Edward Island growers include grading, packaging, purchasing, and marketing. We also deliver quality products for use throughout North, South and Central America.

Compass Group Canada is a regional operating unit of global contract foodservices provider Compass Group offering catering, corporate dining, and vending services throughout Canada. Its operating units include Canteen (vending services), Eurest Dining (corporate dining and catering), Morrison (health care foodservices), Eurest Services (building maintenance and security services), and The Hurley Group (janitorial services and facilities management). Compass Group Canada also runs concessions for sports facilities and museums and provides foodservices in remote locations, such as mines and offshore drilling rigs. In French-speaking Quebec, the company operates through Groupe Compass Quebec.

Craft Brewers Alliance, Inc (CBAI), headquartered in Portland, Oregon is a leading brewer of high quality hand crafted beers in the United States. CBAI offers a diverse portfolio of award-winning products from The Redhook Ale Brewery of Woodinville, Washington and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Widmer Brothers Brewing Company of Portland, Oregon, Kona Brewing Company of Kailua Kona, Hawaii and Goose Island Beer Company of Chicago, Illinois. Most of our 31 beers are distributed regionally and a few of our more prominent beers can be found nationally. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by for a cold pint of beer in one of our onsite pubs, browse our retail shops for some new gear or take a guided tour of our state of the art breweries. If you’re not able to stop by in person, please visit each brewery’s website via the Breweries page to learn more about our beers, play exciting games and find out what we’re up to at each of our breweries.

Red Chamber imports, exports, and processes a boatload of finfish (basa, catfish, cod, haddock, swordfish, halibut, tuna, mahi-mahi, orange roughy, perch, pollock, and salmon), as well as oysters, octopus, lobster, scallops, mussels, crab, surimi (imitation crab), and squid. It offers raw frozen and cooked white and black tiger shrimp. Red Chamber started as a small family-owned restaurant in Los Angeles.

As the largest producer of peat moss in North America, Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund supplies everything but the sun to help plants grow. The company produces and distributes peat moss, peat-based and bark-based growing mixes, fertilizers, and agricultural minerals for commercial growers and home gardeners under various brand names including Sunshine, Nature's, Lakeland, and Black Gold. It also produces private- label growing mixes for large home and garden retailers such as Wal-Mart, Lowe's, and Home Depot. Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund operates through Sun Gro Horticulture Canada and subsidiary businesses.

Ruiz Foods company produces some 200 frozen Mexican foods under the El Monterey and Tornados brand names, including burritos, taquitos, enchiladas, and tamales. Its value-added convenience products can be found in grocery stores throughout the US; it also serves foodservice clients. Ruiz Foods manufactures its products at its main 300,000-sq.-ft. facility in Dinuba, California, and, in order to meet the demand for its products in the eastern and midwestern US, two more in Texas. In a move to provide healthy food products, in 2006 the company removed all trans fats from its El Monterey brand products.

Stonyfield Farm is banking on choosy moms to spend a few cents more to save the planet -- or at least buy the company's natural yogurts and ice cream. Founded in 1983, Stonyfield Farm uses certified organic milk and uses no gelatins, fillers, artificial flavors, colors, or sweeteners in its products. For customers allergic to cows' milk, it offers a line of soy-based yogurts. A longtime leader among health-food store brands, its products are now distributed across the US through national supermarket chains, natural food stores, and wholesale club stores, as well as overseas. Stonyfield is a subsidiary of France's Groupe Danone.

Milk Specialties Global is an industry-leading manufacturer of nutritional ingredients for the health and wellness, performance nutrition and functional food industries, with manufacturing facilities in WI, MN, NE, IL and CA. The core of MSG’s business is in high protein ingredients (such as whey protein isolates and concentrates – 34% to 80%, milk protein concentrates – 70% to 85%, micellar casein and isolates as well as hydrolysates), lactose and permeate as well as value added ingredients. Please contact Benoit Turpin, VP Sales and Marketing at bturpin@milkspecialties.com for more information.

Nestle USA covers every other-side-of-the-Atlantic craving, from a child's sweet tooth to a grown-up's caffeine fix to Fido's appetite. Nestle USA company is a subsidiary of the world's largest food company, Switzerland's Nestle S.A. Nestle USA offers hundreds of products, including frozen pizza (Tombstone, DiGiorno), chocolate and confections (Baby Ruth, Goobers), beverages (Nestea, Taster's Choice, Nescafe, Nesquick), juices (Libby's), milk products (Carnation), ice cream (Edy's, Dreyer's, Heagan-Dazs), baking goods (Toll House, Libby's), and frozen prepared foods (Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine). Nestle S.A.'s bottled water brands and pet and infant-nutrition products are distributed in the US by separate subsidiaries.

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