Victoria Packing was founded by Pelligrino Aquilina in 1929 and is a family-owned business. Victoria Packing Corporation company manufactures more than 300 mostly Italian food products, including canned vegetables, edible oils, sauces, condiments, spices, and dips for sale in grocery stores and warehouse clubs, and to foodservice companies throughout the US. Victoria has operations in New York, the Midwest, and New England. Victoria Packing Corporation company also provides private-label and co-packing services for more than 50 firms.

Marich Confectionery Co. product development team is responsible for some of the industry's most innovative new products. Marich Confectionery Co. combine the art and science of candy making, developing products through ardent experimentation. We passionately explore the taste, texture, and appearance until we find the perfect balance. Customers know they can turn to us to develop new and exciting products, while maintaining a consistent level of excellence throughout the product line. Marich Confectionery Co. dedicate ourselves to finding the best ingredients and treating them with careful attention. Each of our ingredients comes to us from people who believe in their products--the coffee roaster who takes painstaking care with his beans, the fourth-generation chocolate making family, the dedicated growers of our nuts and fruits. Through the years, we have cultivated relationships with these preferred suppliers who are as careful with what they bring to us as we are with what we deliver to customers.

Specialty Foods Group, Inc (SFG) is a leading U.S. producer and marketer of a wide variety of premium branded and private-label processed meat products. SFG products are available through a wide-range of outlets including national and regional supermarkets, independent food retailers, delicatessens, club stores, convenience stores and foodservice distributors.Lunchmeat is always on the menu at Specialty Foods Group. The company, a manufacturer and distributor of processed meats and poultry, churns out hams, hot dogs, bacon, corned beef, and other deli meats under private labels and brands names such as Field, Mickelberry's, Nathan's Famous, Scott Petersen, Kentucky Legend, Swift Premium, and Fischer's. The company operates two plants in the US that serve supermarkets, club stores, convenience-store chains, and foodservice outlets both in the US and some international markets.

L&H Packing Company disassembles beef. The company's San Antonio, Texas, facilities produce boneless beef, preserved hides, tripe and other offal products, rendered blood and bone meal, as well as tallow for wholesale distribution. It has the capacity to process more than 260,000 cows per year. L&H Packing was founded in 1963 by Al Leonard and Dwayne Harral and is still owned and operated by the Leonard family. In business since 1979, L&H's sister company, Surlean Foods, provides chicken, pork, and beef entrees along with soups, sauces, marinades, and rubs to the foodservice industry.

Red Blossom Farms is rapidly growing to be one of California’s leading strawberry producers. Incorporated in 2004, we’ve since grown to over 2,600 acres in California’s premier growing regions: Baja California, Irvine, Oxnard, Santa Maria and Salinas/Watsonville. With strawberry consumption growing faster than any other fruit in the produce department, we continue to develop our grower resources in order to meet increasing consumer demand with a continuous supply of sweet, delicious, strawberries year round. Red Blossom strawberries are hand-picked and field-packed December through October. Each packed pallet is expedited from the field to one of Red Blossom’s fully modernized, forced air coolers. After every berry is chilled to an optimal 32-34 F, they're ready to be distributed throughout North America and beyond. We pride ourselves in cultivating a team of inspired growers, shippers, buyers and retailers dedicated to bringing the enjoyment of fresh, delicious strawberries from the field to the consumer.At Red Blossom, we’re excited about strawberries’ increasing demand, amazing nutritional value and widespread appeal... but then it’s easy to be enthusiastic about producing beautiful, healthful, ever-popular strawberries!

The National Fruit Flavor Company was formed in 1917 by Ira Harkey and Virgil Browne in New Orleans. By 1921, the company had achieved national and international distribution, due primarily to the success of its flagship carbonated beverage product, Orange Squeeze, which was sold to independent bottlers throughout the United States and in five foreign countries.In 1961, Adam Gambel purchased the company from Ira Harkey and expanded its products and services. In addition to the beverage flavors, National Fruit Flavor successfully developed flavors and concentrates for the food service, dairy, bakery and vitamin supplement industries. The company, still owned and operated by the Gambel family, currently occupies a 42,000 square foot facility (above) on 4 acres in Elmwood Business Park, located halfway between Downtown New Orleans and the New Orleans International Airport.

Rudi's Organic Bakery was founded as a local bakery in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976 and began producing organic products in 1990. Rudi's Organic Bakery company is part of Charter Baking, which is owned by investment firm Charterhouse Group. Rudi's Organic Bakery produces organic artisan breads in flavors such as Country French and Tuscan Roasted Garlic and sandwich bread in low-carb and whole grain varieties. Other products include hamburger buns, hot dog rolls, and tortillas. It is launching its Rudi's Gluten Free Bakery line, with sandwich, multigrain, and cinnamon-raisin varieties, in July 2010. Its baked goods are available at supermarkets and natural food stores throughout the US.

Cooper Farms' poultry products fly far from the coop. The company raises turkeys (180 million pounds of live bird per year) on its Ohio farm and supplies pre-cooked (oven-roasted, smoked, and cured breasts and deli meats) and ready-to-cook turkey products to retail and foodservice customers in the US and Mexico. Cooper Farms also provides private-label packaging services for other food manufacturers. Additional items produced by the company include eggs (400 million a year), weaned pigs (90 million live pounds per year), poults (baby turkeys) (14 million per year), and animal feed (400,000 tons per year). Cooper makes feed for diary and beef cattle, as well as for swine.

Established in 1908, Commercial Creamery Company is a leading developer and manufacturer of specialty food ingredients. Our expertise and ongoing research in spray-dried cheese powders and other specialty dairy powders are unmatched. We can create the ingredients needed to produce a variety of delicious foods, including unique snack seasonings, rice and pasta dishes, entrées, baked goods, dips, dressings, sauces, and soups. Commercial Creamery Company operates from two locations (see map and photos). Spokane, Washington is home to our corporate headquarters, research & development department, and our pilot plant. Jerome, Idaho is the home of our large scale production facility (over 100,000 square feet) and extensive quality control facilities. The Jerome plant has received the American Institute of Baking's highest rating for the last several years. Commercial Creamery specializes in working with our customers to provide exactly what they need. Our facilities are designed for maximum flexibility and precision, allowing control of flavor, color and composition. Our pilot plant in Spokane allows small-scale production trials with enormous versatility. Once a trial run is successful, we can move on to full-scale production, delivering in volume the exact flavor and appearance you want.

When co-ops work co-operatively, you wind up with organizations like Federated Co-Operatives Limited -- a co-op of co-ops. The company provides retail and administrative services to its some 1,300,000 individual owner/members, which are made up of about 265 retail cooperatives located across western Canada. Federated's members run the gamut and include co-op's made up of food stores, pharmacies, clothing stores, general merchandisers, building material enterprises, crop and feed suppliers, gas stations, convenience stores, and travel services. Federated members have access petroluem products through the co-op's refiner CCRL; they can also buy groceries through Federated's food operations, The Grocery People.

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