PEZ Candy wants its treats heads above the rest. The US division makes tiny brick-shaped candies and imports the zany dispensers for them that are popular with kids and adult collectors. PEZ makes its colorful candies in the US; its dispensers, which feature a figurehead, are made in Hungary and China. PEZ's products are available through US retailers, including Wal-Martand Target, and in more than 60 other countries worldwide. The firm's product has spawned a number of lively Web sites, avid collectors' clubs, and brisk dispenser sales on eBay. PEZ originated in Austria in 1927 as a small peppermint candy and arrived in the US in the 1950s; the parent company, PEZ International, is still located in Austria.

Back in the mid-80’s, restaurants, wholesalers and just about every other company in the food industry wished that someone would come along and provide top quality dairy products nationwide, while offering great prices and unwavering consistency. In 1985 such a company finally emerged. That company was DARIFAIR® FOODS, INC.. Chartered as America's first "national" dairy supplier, Darifair was an instant success. In the years to follow, lots of competition would come and go but Darifair remained an industry leader recognized for high-value dairy items, great service and a dedication to innovation. Today, Darifair continues to grow and pioneer. In just the last few years, the company has expanded it's product line to include culinary items, introduced revolutionary products like Identi-cal Plus Cream Replacer and has just moved to an expanded headquarters featuring a cutting-edge research kitchen.

actus Feeders, headquartered in Amarillo, Texas, has 10 large-scale cattle feedyards across the Texas High Plains & southwest Kansas. Since its founding in 1975, Cactus Feeders has grown into a $750 million company that employs about 500 people. Cactus Feeders is the world's largest cattle feeding operation. We buy cattle every day, so you can get more money for your cattle with Cactus Feeders. Employees own 40 percent of Cactus Feeders through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee ownership means that each employee has a personal stake in the performance of the cattle and the success of Cactus Feeders. For our cattle feeding customers, this translates into a level of care and feeding for their cattle that only ownership can provide.

Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. is a Japan-based holding company principally engaged in the marine product business. The Company operates in four business segments. The Marine Product segment encompasses the catching, farming, purchase, processing and the sale of fish. The Food Product segment manufactures and sells canned foods, frozen foods, stock farm products and other processed foods. The Storage and Distribution segment is engaged in the provision of frozen storage and distribution services for fish. The Others segment is involved in the storage of feed, the marine transportation business, the leasing of real estate, the hotel business, the manufacture and sale of packaging machines, as well as the manufacture and sale of fur. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had 126 subsidiaries and 70 associated companies in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, China and other countries.

Kids, always telling jokes that make their parents groan, ask why the chicken crossed the road. But it's you who should cross the road -- to get to Koch Foods -- because the company is ready with a whole henhouse full of poultry products. Its products include value-added fresh and frozen chicken, such as chicken tenderloins, tenders, strips, boneless breasts, and wings, along with diced and pulled white and dark meat, and whole and whole cut-up chickens. Koch's customers include companies in the retail food and foodservice sectors throughout the US, as well as overseas.

Tate & Lyle -- one of the world's largest makers of white and raw cane sugar -- will soon have to look elsewhere. Headquartered in London, Tate & Lyle makes sugar by-products such as molasses used in animal feed, and sugar and high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and starches used in foodstuffs. It is a top supplier of sucralose, the no-calorie sweetener sold in some 50 countries worldwide under the brand name SPLENDA. Serving multiple sectors, Tate & Lyle's customers include manufacturers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, industrial, and animal-feed industries. The firm is exiting the Sugars business to focus on value-added Specialty Food Ingredients.

Empresas Polar also sells both domestic and imported wines and distributes PepsiCo beverages (through its Pepsi-Cola Venezuela subsidiary). It addition to beverages, the company is also a top Venezuelan food providers, processing corn and selling pasta, pasta sauce, canned food, and palm oil. The company's other product lines include animal feed and cleaning products. Empresas Polar started out as a small brewery in 1941 and has grown to become one of the largest private companies in Venezuela.

Gentile Bros. Company is the oldest trading member of the Blue Book. For decades, we have been servicing the retail chains and foodservice distributors with quality produce from around the world with the specialized services customers demand. Gentile Bros. Company specialized services include: Customized packaging of all commodities, Ripening and processing of tomatoes, bananas, melons and tree fruit, Complete specialty program, USDA certified organic repacker, Internet, EDI and VMI capabilities, Flexibility to service all customer's needs, Complete re-packaging division, Freight Forwarders and Brokerage sales.

Indianapolis Fruit Company is a leading regional distributor of fresh fruits and vegetables serving retail grocers in the greater Indianapolis area and more than a dozen surrounding states. It delivers a wide variety of produce, including garden cut vegetables, garlic and herbs, and organic products. Sister company Piazza Produce provides fruits and vegetables to foodservice operators. Family-owned Indianapolis Fruit was formed in 1947 and merged with Piazza Produce in 1997.

Jelly Belly Candy Company beginnings are traced back to a family named Goelitz. When two young brothers emigrated from Germany to make their mark in America, they set the family on its candymaking course. In 1869, just two years after arriving in America, Gustav Goelitz bought an ice cream and candy store in Belleville, Ill., and his brother, Albert was sent out in a horse drawn wagon to sell their sweets to nearby communities. Then the second generation of the family jumped on the band wagon of candy innovations by making a new type of candy, then called "buttercream" candies, including Candy Corn, a sweet we've made since about 1900 (and still use the same recipe). These candies carried the family through the Great Depression and two world wars. Today, the great-grandsons of Gustav Goelitz, the fourth generation, are still carrying on the tradition of making candy.

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