Atkins has pushed beef off its plate in favor of a protein shake. Atkins Nutritionals, which once touted the meat-heavy Atkins diet, makes nutritional bars and shakes. The number of products offered by the company is down from the more than 300 items it made at the height of the low-carbohydrate diet craze. Atkins no longer offers strictly low-carb dieting advice, but instead focuses on nutrition. As with other weight-loss companies, Atkins offers memberships and diet plans. Its Web site has an online support group called the Community Forum. The company's branded food products are sold in retail outlets worldwide.

The Natural Fruit Corp. was founded in 1984 by Colombian brothers Simon (president) and Jorge Bravo, Sr. (EVP). Natural Fruit Corp. company manufactures and markets frozen snacks made from 100% natural fruit -- no artificial anything. Its signature product is the Chunks O' Fruti frozen fruit bar, but the company also makes frozen yogurt bars and Allyson JAYNE brand frozen fruit drink mixes. Natural Fruit Corp. company's fruit-filled foods are distributed throughout the US and internationally.

Wellness Foods makes its living without the use of artificial flavorings, colorings, or preservatives. Wellness Foods manages a group of businesses that manufacture fresh and healthy breakfast, snack, and drink products for consumers in the UK and Ireland. Its key businesses include Orchard House (fruit juices), Stream Foods (Fruit Bowl brand fruit snacks), Grove Fresh (fruit juices and smoothies), Dorset Cereals (muesli cereal), and Rowse Honey. Wellness Foods which produces its products at facilities located around the UK, sells its products through such major UK grocers as Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison, Tesco, and Waitrose. Wellness Foods is owned by Irish horseracing tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier.

Old-fashioned flavor -- its products are made with cane sugar (rather than high-fructose corn syrup) and are packaged in genuine glass bottles. The company manufactures some 50 fruit-flavored sodas, cola, ginger ale, root beer, and creme soda under the Faygo name. It also makes Fago non-alcoholic mixers (club soda and tonic water). Although, it is best known for its "pop," the beverage maker offers Ohana brand iced tea, lemonade, and fruit punch. The wide range of Faygo pop flavors include Blueberry, Vanilla Creme, Redpop, Dr. Faygo, Moon Mist, and Black Cherry. The company, whose products are available throughout the US, is a subsidiary of National Beverage Corp.

The Bama Companies is a leading maker of bakery products for the foodservice industry. Its products include hand-held pies, whole pies, biscuits, cookies, crumb crusts, and frozen dough. It also produces frozen cakes, donuts, and dessert items. With four manufacturing facilities, including one in Bejing, Bama Companies distributes its food products to more than 20 countries. Its customers include such fast food giants as McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. The family-owned company was formed by Cornillia Alabama "Bama" Marshall in 1927.

M.P. Evans Group PLC (incorporated in England & Wales) is listed on AIM. The Group's assets consist of oil-palm plantations (both majority and minority held) in Indonesia and Malaysia, the latter with property-development value, and beef-cattle interests in Australia. It is the board's intention to increase its total Indonesian areas under oil palm to some 70,000 hectares of environmentally-sustainable oil palm. This, in turn, will ultimately lead to an increase in the Group's equivalent annual palm-oil production from the current 60,000 tonnes to around 400,000 tonnes. Demand for palm oil is strong in its traditional use as a food, and additionally as a feedstock for the bio-fuel industry. In addition to the expansion in Indonesia, the board's policy is to expand the Group's Australian beef-cattle interests so that, ultimately, approximately 70% of the Group's assets will be in Indonesian oil-palm plantations and 30% in Australian beef cattle.

United States Bakery was founded in 1906 by Engelbert and Joseph Franz and is still owned by the Franz family. United States Bakery also known as Franz Bakery, owns and operates six regional bakeries, as well as a chain of some 50 bakery thrift stores, all located in the Northwestern US. In addition to selling baked goods at its retail outlets, United States Bakery sells a variety of breads, pastries, bagels, donuts, and cookies to grocery stores, restaurants, and foodservice operators.

Wixon Inc. was founded in 1907. Wixon, Inc. develops, manufactures, packages, and delivers ingredients and finished products for the food and beverage industry in the United States. Its products include bread and baking mixes, sauces, gravies, marinades, microwave meals, flavors, sweet, savory, blended seasonings, pet foods, and spices. The company serves alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beverages, baking goods, confectionary, meat and poultry products, sausage, snack foods, dairy products, private label/specialty foods, and tobacco flavors/additives industries.

A dream come true, BARÓN DE LEY is a winery which was devised and founded in 1985 by a small group of prestigious Rioja professionals which decided to create a project which was unique at that time in the Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja: a winery modelled on the Médoc châteaux, bringing together all the conditions that make a wine a work of art. Con este fin, los creadores de BARON DE LEY adquirieron la finca de Imas, ubicada en el término municipal de Mendavia y sobre la margen izquierda del río Ebro; un lugar privilegiado para el cultivo de la viña por sus condiciones climáticas y las características de los suelos, en el cual 90 hectáreas fueron plantadas.

Heathrow Natural Food & Beverage, Inc. (HRNF) is a national distributor of Botanical and Natural Super Foods. Its products include the Functional Gum line of ACAI Plus, Resveratrol Plus & Maqui Plus which uses chewing gum as a unique and powerful delivery system. In addition to Gum, Heathrow Natural plans on extending its antioxidant lineup of products into natural Fruit Bars & Stick Packs which are mixed with water or other liquids.Heathrow Natural Food & Beverage, Inc. is part of the $100 Billion Dollar Wellness Industry, which is growing at 10% per year. The nutritional supplements segment is the largest sector of the market at 27% of sales. Heathrow Natural is committed to providing healthy and natural choices for the growing segment of the population seeking a healthy and active lifestyle.

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