Prima Limited has ground its way to the top. Beginning as a flour miller in Singapore in 1961, the company has grown into a diversified group of companies with worldwide operations. While flour is still the mainstay of Prima, its other businesses include feed milling, food manufacturing (including bakery products and ready meals), foodservice operations, restaurants (noodle shops). Not neglecting to keep up with the fast-paced, modern world, it manufactures supply-chain and logistics computer software. And, after all that, Pima has time left to do property management.

Primex International Trading Corp. was founded in 1989 by Ali Amin, whose family has been involved in producing pistachios for four generations. It first started planting pistachio orchards in 1990. In 2008 the company shipped about 30 million pounds of pistachios and more than 40 million pounds of almonds. Primex International Trading is a leading exporter and international trader that specializes in dried fruits and nuts. Through affiliate offices located around the world, the company ships such products as almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans, as well as apricots, figs, and raisins. Primex also has its own pistachio orchards and a processing plant in California.

Producers Rice Mill dries, mills, and markets more than 50 million bushels rice each year, which it sells both domestically and overseas. The growers' cooperative is one of the largest private-label producers of rice in the US, packaging more than 100 brands for the retail food, foodservice, private-label, and food-manufacturing industries. Its brands include ParExcellence, LeGourment, Golden Harvest, Classic Grains, Granada, Mandalay, Bamboo 103, Calrose, and Thai Orchard. It also processes rice for animal feeds such as Buck Grub deer feed and Equi-Jewel horse feed.

Puleva Biotech SA (Biotech) is a Spain-based company engaged in the production and sale of functional food products based on natural ingredients. Puleva Biotech Company specializes in the nutrition research, including patents on infant formulas; the process for extraction and purification of Omega-3 acids, and the development of functional dairy products. Its products are distributed under the Eupoly-Epa and Hereditum brands and its ingredients include healthy fats, probiotics bacteria, prebiotics non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDOs), hydrolyzed proteins and antioxidants. In addition, Puleva Biotech Company’s biotechnology projects are focused on the production and purification of functional lipids, the optimization of industrial enzymes and the microbial fermentation. Puleva Biotech Company is a parent of Grupo Puleva Biotech, a group which comprises Espanola de ID SA and Puelva Food SL. Puleva Biotech Company’s majority shareholder is Ebro Puleva SA, with 50.9% of its interests.

Pura Foods is in a slick business. A subsidiary of US agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, Pura Foods refines and processes edible oils, shortenings, margarines, and other spreads for the bakery, foodservice, and retail food sectors in the UK, as well as in selected overseas markets. Pura Foods company's oils include coconut, palm, rapeseed, and sunflower. Because of concern about genetically modified grains and livestock, as well as allergy and health issues, the company does not refine animal fats, soya, maize, or ground nuts. Pura's brands include Bake-lite, Peerless, Wesson Green, Pura, Leonara, and Frymax.

Puratos Group N.V. got its start in 1919 selling ice cream and confectionery mixes in Brussels. Puratos doesn't make baked goods -- it makes them better. Its menu of bakery ingredients, such as bread improvers, flavorings, enzymes, emulsifiers, and yeast, are used by commercial bakers the world over. Puratos also concocts specialty ingredients used in patisserie (pastry) making, including custards, fruit and cream fillings, glazes, marzipan, meringues, and icings. Through its Belcolade subsidiary, it is a leading Belgian chocolate maker, serving professional chocolatiers. With approximately 60 production plants in 40 countries, Puratos sells its products to some 200,000 customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Purcell Jojoba International company then processes the trees' nuts into oils, esters, and beads so they can be used in consumer products such as lipstick and other makeup. The oil is also used in the making of shampoos and conditioners, moisturizers and shaving lotions, self-tanners and lip balm, cuticle softeners, nail oils and hardeners, baby lotions, oils, and items for the bath. Purcell Jojoba International company grows more than 750,000 trees on 2,000 acres in Arizona and produces 12,000 drums of jojoba oil a year. Purcell's customers include some of the leading manufacturers in the consumer-products sector.

PureCircle Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the production and distribution of natural sweeteners. PureCircle company offers PureVia, a naturally occurring sweetener found in the leaves of the Stevia plant; Reb A-75, a mixture of sweet glycosides isolated from the Stevia plant with a Rebaudioside A content; and Steviol Glycosides, a mixture of sweet compounds existing in the Stevia leaf. It operates primarily in the United States, Malaysia, and the People’s Republic of China. PureCircle company has a joint venture agreement with Imperial Sugar Company to develop a specialty product line combining the natural benefits of sugar and stevia.

PYCO Industries is a member-owned cooperative with cottonseed oil mills located in Lubbock, Texas. Used by food manufacturers and other foodservice companies, its oil is shipped to customers across the country. The coop also markets whole cottonseed as well as such byproducts as cottonseed hulls and cottonseed meal used in livestock feed. Cottonseed linters, another byproduct, is used by manufacturers for mattresses and upholstery padding, as well as in the paper and plastics industries. PYCO boasts more than 60 cotton gins in the southern US.

QAF Limited is an investment holding and management company. The principal activities of QAF Company consist of the manufacture and distribution of bread, bakery and confectionery products; provision for warehousing logistics for food items; trading and distribution of food and beverages; production, processing and marketing of meat; feedmilling and sale of animal feeds and related ingredients; production, processing and sale of dairy products, and manufacture and sale of fruit juice-concentrate and investment holding. QAF Company operates in five segments: food manufacturing, bakery, primary production, trading and logistics and investments and others. As of May 6, 2009, QAF Limited announced that its interest in Australian incorporated joint venture company, Diamond Valley Pork Pty Ltd (DVP), has increased from 51% to 80%.

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