The French Gourmet has served San Diego with what many consider this city's finest full-service catering since 1979. Besides its large catering and wholesale division The French Gourmet is well known for its showcase French restaurant and bakery. The founder and owner of The French Gourmet Inc. is Michel Malécot, a professional French Chef and astute businessman known throughout San Diego County both for his expertise as a Chef and as a firm believer in the quality control of his product.

The year 2009, in addition to seeing the conclusion of our Third Group Medium-Term Management Plan, marks the 120th anniversary of Asahi Breweries’ forerunner, and the 60th anniversary of the Company’s founding. As such, we remain committed to business initiatives, particularly in alcoholic beverages but also, of course, in soft drinks, food and pharmaceuticals, and overseas, that will encourage further Group growth and profitability. As in the past, the Asahi Breweries Group will continue to greatly value opportunities to interface with customers, taking to heart the customer feedback received in a never-ending cycle of management reform. In all corporate activities, be assured that respect for the customer’s viewpoint and the spirit of Asahi will always remain key considerations in the actions of each corporate officer and employee. Your support will be vital to the success of the Asahi Breweries Group as we boldly face the challenges that lie ahead this year.

You could say that the Young Pecan Company is a shell company but in a good way. Relieving some 100 million pounds of pecans of their shells every year, the company is one of the largest pecan processors in the world. It has state-of-the-art laser shelling operations in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Florence, South Carolina; and Zaragosa, Mexico, as well as buying operations and storage facilities in Albany, Georgia. Farming no nut orchards of its own, Young Pecan purchases pecans from growers located near its plants. It sells its shelled pecan products to mainly domestic and international food manufacturing companies, with some distribution in retail food outlets. The company was purchased by the King Ranch in 2006.

For nearly a century, Fresh Mark has been a leading supplier of smoked and processed meats to the retail and food service industries. Our commitment to quality and safety has enabled us to grow from a regional provider to a nationwide supplier of bacon, ham, wieners, deli and luncheon meats, dry sausage and other specialty meat items. Fresh Mark’s customers include major grocery chains, well-known restaurants and food service operators throughout the country. Many of our products are also distributed and enjoyed internationally. As one of the largest private companies in the industry, our expertise, quality manufacturing and innovative product and service offerings also rank Fresh Mark among the top 40 of the nation’s leading 150 meat and poultry companies as measured by National Provisioner magazine. However, our true measures of success are our customers. For years our growing base of loyal customers has come to rely on the quality, safety and consistency of Fresh Mark’s Sugardale® and Superior’s Brand® Meats products. These partnerships and inherent trust are at the very core of our past, present and future.

The Mushroom Company was founded as the Mushroom Canning Company in 1931 by a group of mushroom farmers. In order to better reflect its range of products and services, it changed its name to The Mushroom Company in 2006. The Maryland company raises, processes, markets, and distributes all manner of the familiar fungi. It makes quick-blanched refrigerated, frozen, and canned mushrooms. It also offers mushroom sauces and bases, mushroom slices, pizza-diced mushrooms, and breaded appetizers, all under the MGA and MGA Gourmet labels. The Mushroom company it provides customized processing and private-label packaging services for other food manufacturers and food retailers.

Fact Corporation, through its subsidiary, Food and Culinary Technology Group Inc., operates in the functional food industry. The company engages in the development, licensing, and supply of functional bake mixes to customers who manufacture, distribute, and market bakery and pasta products to consumers through various conventional and alternative channels, including retail, food service, and specialty markets. The company also develops home-use retail baking mixes under its Nutrition First brand for cookies, brownies, and other products. Functional Food Business FACT Group holds the rights to certain formulations for the production of dough and batter based functional food products ranging from breads, bagels, pastas, and pizza shells, to sweet baked goods, snack bars and confectionery, and other foods derived from a dough, batter or mix. FACT Group sells its Nutrition First premixes and products to manufacturers, distributors and food service clients, who incorporate the premix into finished products to market and sell to the end consumer under their own retail brand/label. FACT Group’s premixes enable customers to make claims on their end products pertaining to various market positions, including, a reduction in refined carbohydrates, increased fiber, low or no sugar, organic and natural positioning, weight management benefits, and other tangible benefits.

Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. is a Japanese dairy company. Familiarly known as Meg Milk, its products include fluid milk, yogurt, cream, margarine, fruit juices, and frozen desserts. The company also offers home milk delivery services. In 2009 the company merged with Japan Milk Community by means of a stock swap. Snow Brand Milk and Japan Milk were merged into the company now known as Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. The move reflects the consolidation in Japan's dairy industry, which is due, in part, to rising raw ingredient costs and weak consumer demand. Later that year, Tadashi Idota was appointed president of the company.

Since its inception in 1983, Glacier Water has experienced significant growth in machine placements and has created an extensive network of approximately 17,000 water vending machines located throughout the United States and Canada. Glacier’s vending machines are manufactured with state-of-the-art components from well-known suppliers. Quality and reliability are not sacrificed by Glacier’s ability to offer a low price. Glacier’s indoor water vending machine was introduced especially for inside the retail store and to give consumers a new alternative to expensive bottled water sold off the shelf. In addition to having the same multi-stage filtration/treatment system as the outdoor machine, many retailers make available a supply of empty reusable containers near the indoor machine.

Virgin Drinks Group Ltd. has gone beyond colas to make and distribute energy drinks, tea, flavored colas, vodka and other alcoholic beverages. Although the company has scaled back its US offerings, it sells its drinks throughout the world. Virgin Drinks brewed up more business with the launch of Virgin Th�, the company's tea brand, in France in 1996. Virgin Th� is now also distributed in Switzerland and Italy. Virgin Colours offers colas in twelve fruity flavors.Young upstart Virgin Drinks wants to take some of the fizz out of soft-drink venerables Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Having first launched operations as Virgin Cola in 1994.

Die BRAU UNION ÖSTERREICH AG hat sich mit der konsequenten Weiterführung der Markenpolitik und der überdurchschnittlichen Leistungsbereitschaft der Mitarbeiter einen wichtigen Platz mit einem Marktanteil von rund 50% in der Reihe österreichischer Erfolgsunternehmen erarbeitet. 
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 Die Marken der BRAU UNION ÖSTERREICH (wie z. B. Heineken, Gösser, Zipfer, Kaiser, Puntigamer, Reininghaus, Wieselburger, Schwechater, Edelweiss, Schlossgold) stellen neben den Mitarbeitern das größte Unternehmenskapital dar. Sie sind der Garant für das gesamte, vom Konsumenten erwartete Qualitäts- und Leistungsspektrum. Die Brauereistandorte des Unternehmens befinden sich in Falkenstein/Osttirol, Göss, Puntigam und Schladming/Steiermark, Kaltenhausen/Salzburg, Schwechat und Wieselburg/NÖ und Zipf/OÖ.
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