StarKist Co. is a leading producer, distributor and marketer of shelf-stable seafood products in the United States. A category leader in innovation, StarKist was the first brand to introduce the StarKist Flavor Fresh Pouch®; StarKist Tuna Creations®, a line of lightly marinated tuna; and, a dolphin-safe policy. As America’s favorite tuna, StarKist represents a 65-year tradition of quality, innovation and consumer trust and is well known for its charismatic brand icon, Charlie® the Tuna, who swam into the hearts of tuna fans in 1961 and is still a fan favorite today. StarKist Co. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dongwon Group.

Steinbeck County Produce is owned and operated by the Huntington Family. The Huntington’s family’s roots run deep in the Salinas Valley soil, and Steinbeck company is one of the few remaining family-run agricultural businesses in the Salinas Valley. In 1949 Lou Huntington, Sr. began farming tomatoes, potatoes, sugar beets and onions in Soledad, CA. His son, Lou Jr. joined him in 1963 after graduating from California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo with a degree in Ag Business. The business grew and the products grown changed, with asparagus, lettuce and mixed vegetables added to the deal. Land along the Salinas River from Salinas to Soledad was acquired over time, and the third generation of Huntington’s graduated from college and began working for the company.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

Sterling Foods was founded in 1971 and acquired by TGF Management at the end of 2008. TGF is joined by private equity firm Austin Ventures and members of Sterling's management team as part owners. Sterling Foods, LLC company produces a variety of specialty baked goods for national restaurant and supermarket chains, weight-management companies, the US military, and K-12 schools. Its products include gourmet cakes, loaf cakes and muffins, biscuits and bread, and cookies and brownies. Olive Garden and Red Lobster are among its customers; it is also the largest supplier of shelf-stable baked goods to the US Department of Defense.

Stirling Foods® began with a simple mission: To produce the highest-quality flavoring syrup possible and sell it at a competitive price to retailers in the Seattle and Tacoma area of Washington State. But . . . a funny thing happened on the way to the market! In spite of minimal advertising and no sales staff, Stirling Gourmet Flavors® were soon in demand throughout the Northwest. The company grew rapidly as orders poured in from across the country. Stirling® is now one of the top flavoring syrup manufacturers in North America, shipping products across the nation and around the world.Was it luck? Was it timing? Clearly, Stirling® brought a quality product to the right market at the right time. Today Stirling® is an industry leader because we offer the highest quality gourmet flavoring syrups available, at a reasonable price, with customer service that knocks the socks off our competitors. Stirling syrups are used in specialty coffee beverages and teas, iced non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, baked goods and culinary creations. Stirling's customers include independent specialty coffee shops, gourmet product retailers, high-end restaurants, and at-home consumers.In addition to this tremendous growth, Stirling Gourmet Flavors® has been honored with multiple American Tasting Institute Gold Medal Awards for product excellence. These awards are given by an independent panel of chefs from across the nation, and they provide even more proof that Stirling Gourmet Flavors® are "Simply The Very Best".

Like many old world pasta products, our story begins in the early 1900’s, with the Pucci family immigrating to the United States from Italy. In 1922, the Pucci’s opened up the Cicero Macaroni Company to manufacture noodles of all different shapes and sizes for local restaurants and pasta sellers. Robert B. Strom, Chairman of Strom Products, Ltd. purchased the factory in 1968, and many of the old world pasta-making techniques and recipes were passed down to him. Bob continued to build the company, making it a major manufacturer of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and many other products. In 1976, with the invention of No Yolks Noodles, the world's first no-cholesterol noodle, Strom Products launched a whole new chapter in it's noode-making life. Today Strom markets a number of different shapes and sizes of No Yolks Noodles, Wacky Mac Pasta and Wacky Mac Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. With quality and the highest standards in mind, no other Pasta maker can match the taste, texture and nutritional value of Strom Products!

Sudzucker knows you can't get blood from a turnip, but it definitely knows you can get zucker (sugar) from a beet. Producing some 5 million tons of sugar a year, the company is one of the world's largest sugar producers. Sudzucker and its partially owned affiliate, AGRANA, and subsidiaries, Raffinerie Tirlemontoise and Saint Louis Sucre, make frozen entrees and pizzas; bakery additives such as fruit concentrates, starch products, and sugar substitutes; food-portion-control containers; and bioethanol. Southern German beet farmers control Sudzucker's largest shareholder, Suddeutsche Zuckerruben-Verwertungsgenossenschaft ("SZVG"), which holds more than 55% of company shares.

Summit Foods is the acme, the apex, the peak, the tops. The UK company manufactures frozen, microwaveable snacks, sausages, burgers and readymeals. It offers beef burgers (some 100,000 a day), cheeseburgers, beef burgers, Southern-fried chicken burgers, doner (lamb) kebabs, chicken kebabs, gamon (ham) sandwiches, and meat-filled pita breads. It also makes packaged frozen meals such as a cheeseburger with fries. Summit's products are available under its own Snacksters brand as well as private labels. Summit Food's customers include food retailers and foodservice operators such as Tesco and Wm Morrison.

Founded in 1952, Sun Orchard Fruit is owned and operated by the Riessen family. Sun Orchard Fruit Company, Inc. Company Profile Sun Orchard Fruit doesn't grow any fruit. Instead, it gets fruit where it needs to go. Sun Orchard Fruit Company stores, packages, and delivers apples grown by New York farmers. It fresh-packs some 500,000 cartons of apples harvested by 60 growers in central and western New York and ships them to food wholesalers and retailers around the globe. Sun Orchard Fruit Company handles 17 of the the most popular Eastern varieties of eating apples including Gala, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, and Empire.

Sun-Maid has served consumers and customers since 1912 by providing premium quality raisins and dried fruits from the raisin and fruit farms of California to homes and eating establishments around the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid Growers of California is owned by family farmers who grow raisin grapes all located within 100 miles of each other in the Great Central Valley of California, midway between Los Angeles to the south and San Francisco to the north. This fertile agricultural valley produces some of the best fruits and vegetables in the world, including a wide assortment of grapes, peaches, plums, apples, figs, apricots, blueberries, strawberries, and melons. When appropriate, Sun-Maid reaches beyond this geographical area to source a complete array of dried fruits.

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