At ak-mak Bakeries, four generations of the Soojian family have been very busy. Since 1893, the Soojians have been baking their Armenian flat-bread. Sold under the ak-mak label, the stone-ground, whole-wheat flat crackers are staple products on the shelves of natural foods retailers. Popular at first with dieters and diabetics, the crackers have found favor with the general public and can be found at major retail food outlets nationwide. The company also makes sheets of "country-style" whole-wheat cracker bread, pita bread, and rice cakes. Its products are made with no preservatives or bleaches.It is our desire to provide the highest quality affordable product available to the health conscious consumer. To that end we are often asked about promotions or coupons. To insure that our customers get the best value possible, we prefer to sustain the lowest pricing possible continuously. Promotions cost a considerable amount of money and resources to implement, and then additional costs to administer. This philosophy also aids in another area we feel strongly about and that is to not abuse the environment through the unnecessary use of printed materials such as coupons, advertisements, mailings, etc.

Founded by Donald Wentzel in 1958 near Milford, Indiana, Maple Leaf Farms began as a small duck operation producing 280,000 ducks its first year. Maple Leaf Farms' commitment to "quality you can count on" fueled its growth over the next several years as its duck operation grew to more than 1 million in 1964. Although Mr. Wentzel passed away in 1968, his son-in-law Terry Tucker has carried on his vision at Maple Leaf Farms.The Tucker family continues to set the direction for the company, based on its values of commitment to family, friends, personal fulfillment, community involvement, and, of course, quality products. Today, this family-owned company dominates the North American duck market with innovative, value-added products of unequalled quality that create, "The Meals You Remember."

SK Food Group company makes sandwiches, wraps, hoagies, subs, panini, burgers, and a breakfast sandwich that looks very much like an Egg McMuffin (made by the Golden Arches folks) which SK sells under the Oven Pride label. Its products, which are aimed at busy consumers, are sold to big box retail operations, conveniences stores, and vending machines. SK Food company also offers custom private-label products for restaurants, eatery franchises, and high-end food retailers. Headquartered in Seattle, its production facilities are located in Reno, Nevada.

Stanley Orchard Sales is now a major wholesale distributor of apples and pears. Founded by husband-and-wife team Morris and Sadie Cohn, who purchased a farm in Hudson Valley back in 1931, and run by the third-generation of the family (president and CEO Ronald Cohn is Morris and Sadie's grandson), the firm owns approximately 1,000 acres of orchards in New York State. Stanley Orchard sells more than 1 million bushels of apples every year and imports South American apples and pears, as well as other fruit.

Del Monte Meat Company was originally founded in 1926 in San Francisco, California. Since that time, we have expanded our operations to include facilities in Sacramento and Oakland which have been serving their surrounding areas for quite some time. All of our facilities are USDA inspected and serve only the highest quality meats to Northern California.Del Monte Meat Company supplies beef, pork, lamb, veal, poultry and seafood products. We also inventory a large variety of deli and sausage items, smoked and cured meats, fully-cooked, ready to serve meats and frozen portion-controlled products. Our staff of highly-skilled butchers are able to provide fresh, portion-controlled products to satisfy all of our customer's needs on a fresh, cut-to-order basis.

Jamaica Producers Group is all things banana. It grows 'em, ripens 'em, packages 'em, and even bottles 'em. (And yes, it owns "banana boats.") The company's products include fresh bananas, banana snacks, and banana-flavored (and other fruit-flavored) juices, all under the Sunjuice label. Its foods group process the fresh produce and makes dried-fruit snack products. The company's produce is exported from its approximately 3,900 acres of Jamaican farmland to customers in the UK, the European continent, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic through its shipping company (the one with the boats; although, really, we should refer to them as state-of-the-art ocean-going steamships).

Mavericks these days are the ones who don't use chemicals. Maverick Ranch, doing business as Maverick Ranch Natural Meats, only processes and distributes meat that has had limited or no exposure to antibiotics, pesticides, or steroids. Its meat products include natural beef, pork, buffalo, lamb, chicken, chicken eggs, turkey, turkey eggs, and an array of sausage, all of which it sells to more than 2,000 grocers in the US. Maverick's flagship product, extra lean ground beef is 96% fat free. Along with its fresh meats, the company offers fully-cooked meat entrees.

Fowler Packing Company was established in 1950 by Sam Parnagian, and through the years has grown and expanded under the active management of Sam’s four sons and other family members. Today, Fowler Packing is one of the largest shippers in the fresh produce business, handling over 8 million boxes of stone fruit, table grapes, and mandarins. More than two-thirds of the fruit is owned and farmed by the Parnagian Family, with the balance coming from experienced and dedicated growers closely associated with the business.

In 1982, two Salinas, California businessmen, Bob Antle and George Tanimura, shook hands on a deal that would forever impact the fresh vegetable industry, and Tanimura & Antle was born. The produce giant has been a leader in quality and innovation ever since. Tanimura & Antle’s philosophy was deceptively simple: to become the “industry leader in quality, innovation, and grower, customer and employee relations”. The Company’s dedicated focus has paid off, earning Tanimura & Antle the reputation for having the best quality fresh vegetables available year-round.

Pescanova Alimentacion has a product line that goes swimmingly well. Pescanova Alimentacion company is a vertically integrated seafood business -- it operates fish farms and harvests fish in the open sea; it then processes and distributes its catch/harvest and offers fresh fish, frozen fish, value-added fish products, and fish meal). Pescanova's wild-catch fish are sold under the Empresas brand. In 2008 Pescanova Alimentacion company added to its frozen seafood operations in Spain with the acquisition of Frictar for some $56 million.

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