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.

Gerber's more than 200 baby offerings include the almost ubiquitous glass jars of baby food. Gerber Products company, which had its beginnings in 1927 in Dorothy Gerber's kitchen, also makes baby cereal, juices, and toddler food, along with baby bath and skin care products, bottles, teethers, pacifiers, breastfeeding accessories, spill-proof cups, and infant toys. Its Gerber Life Insurance Company offers various whole and term life products. Gerber feeds, soothes, and amuses babies worldwide.

Wet Planet Beverages touts its flagship soda as an alternative to coffee that contains twice the caffeine as the big-name brands made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi. As if twice the caffeine contained in a can of Coke wasn't enough, the company added taurine, guarana, ginsing and B vitamins to Jolt. Marketed heavily to college students, Jolt's most lucrative markets are in the US, Australia, Japan, and Germany. WPB also manufactures Napa Valley natural sodas and for the adult crowd, it offers Thornwood Estates and Autumn Frost wines. Launched in 1985 under the banner "All the sugar, twice the caffeine," Jolt was a pioneer in energy drinks.

Schwebel Baking was founded in 1906 by Joseph and Dora Schwebel and remains a family-owned and -operated company. Schwebel Baking produces a noseful of wonderful aromas, baking up bagels, bread, buns, rolls, pita bread, and tortillas for the consumer food industry. Schwebel Baking company's brands include Schwebel's, Schwebel's Selects, Roman Meal, Country Hearth, Milton's, Vogel's, and Aladdin's. Its products are available in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York at retail food stores, restaurants, and about 25 company-owned bakery outlet stores. It also licenses its brands to other producers, and customers can have bread shipped directly to their homes.

McKee acquired Blue Planet in 1974. Blue Planet Foods provides the food-manufacturing industry with cereal blends, granola-bar bases, grain-based extruded products, and ingredients for bread bases, as well as donut and dessert toppings, and ready-bake pie crusts. Its bulk products include bulgur wheat, granola, granola cereals, oat bran, and steel-cut oats. Blue Planet Foods also makes breakfast cereals and pie crusts for retail sale under the brand name Heartland, as well as pie crusts under the Hearty Life label. It offers private-label manufacturing and co-packing services to its customers.

Taher, Inc. is a contract food service management company providing K-12 school lunch management, campus dining, senior dining, business dining and catering, summer camp dining, and vending and office coffee services to clients in 10 states. Since its founding in 1981 by President and CEO Bruce Taher, the company has focused on serving fresh foods expertly prepared by a team of chefs, Taher Food Service Managementmonitored by a group of seasoned veterans, and delivered at a reasonable price. Taher serves over 34 million meals per year, and employs and/or supervises over 2,000 employees. Supporting each of Taher's field sites is a regional staff of dietitians, merchandising and creative design professionals, purchasing personnel, and specialists in information technology, facility design, and operations.

Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG started in a small pastry shop on Marktgasse in Zurich's old town in 1845. Confectioner David Sprüngli-Schwarz and his 29 year old son Rudolf Sprüngli-Ammann, who also trained to be a confectioner, dared to do something new: they decided to make chocolate. In particular and in keeping with the new fashion that came from Italy –solid bars - just like François-Louis Cailler in Vevey and Philippe Suchard in Neuchâtel had already done.

Colavita USA is a leading importer and distributor of Italian foods, notably olive oil, pastas, sauces, and vinegars sold under the Colavita label. It supplies products to retail grocery store chains, specialty food stores, and wholesale distributors, as well as restaurants, caterers, and other foodservice operators. Colavita USA, L.L.C. was started by John J. Profaci, who struck a distribution agreement with Italy's Colavita family in 1978. Rome-based Colavita S.p.A owns 80% of the US importer.

Elmer Candy Corporation makes Easter sweet. Although it has been in business since 1855, the company began focusing on seasonal (Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day) candy in the 1970s, following the increased competition it faced from the large US confectioners (Mars, Hershey). It now concentrates solely on Easter, offering dark or milk chocolate versions of the Gold Brick Egg and Heavenly Hash Egg, along with the Pecan Egg. Elmer Candy Corporation also makes chocolate syrup for ice cream under the Gold Brick Topping brand name. Elmer Candy is owned and operated by the Nelson family and traces its roots back to German immigrant Christopher Miller, who began his life in the US by opening a candy shop in New Orleans.

KeHE Distributors is a leading wholesale supplier of ethnic and gourmet foods serving more than 15,000 retail grocery stores across the country. It distributes more than 40,000 items including such ethnic offerings as African American, Asian, Hispanic, and kosher food products, as well as a wide variety of organic and natural food products. Additionally, KeHE company provides e-commerce services through subsidiary Eye Level Solutions. KeHE Distributors company's KeHE Direct unit provides online ordering services for its customers. Arthur Kehe started the employee-owned KeHE Distributors, LLC in 1952.

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