Gold Digger Apples provides fruits in an array of colors, including gold, but its produce isn't dug up from the ground. Rather, it's picked from trees and bushes. In addition to apples, the company packs and ships cherries, nectarines, peaches, pluots, and pears to US and foreign foodservice operators, retail food outlets, and food wholesalers. Gold Digger grows such apple varieties as Braeburn, Jonagold, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious, which are custom packaged in tray packs, bags, loose bushels, and gift boxes. The company also owns Okanogan Estate & Vineyards.

This bunch of Florida siblings Lykes land, lots o' land. Family-owned Lykes Bros. concentrates its efforts on its 337,000 acres of land holdings -- which is home to the company's diverse operations, which include cattle ranching (20,000 head), forestry, and sod and sugarcane farms. The company also grows landscaping trees, leases grazing and farm land, oversees pine and eucalyptus forests, and offers hunting (deer, quail, turkey) and fishing tours on its 1,867-acre Silver Lake Preserve. The company was founded by Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes in 1900 and is owned by the descendants of his seven sons.

American Rice, Inc. (ARI) one of the world's foremost marketing and milling companies, supplies USA origin rice in familiar, trusted brands to consumers worldwide. ARI has long been recognized as an industry leader and innovator. Beginning as an agricultural marketing cooperative, it was ARI that first developed a standardized rough rice grading system for US rice farmers. Today, ARI markets about 10% of USA grown rice and offers a growing family of top quality rice products: white, brown, parboiled long grain and medium grain rice under established brand names that are favorites worldwide. With locations in the south and on the west coast, ARI services diverse markets in the USA and worldwide. Internationally, ARI markets rice in over 50 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Mexico, the Caribbean and the European Union. ARI's ABU BINT brand rice, the most recognized food product in Saudi Arabia holds the dominant position in that large market.

Founded in 1975, Viscofan Group is the world leader in manufacturing and distribution of artificial casings for the meat industry. Technical innovation, product quality and customer service are our main drivers.Viscofan helps butchers make order out of chaos, or at least sausage out of scraps. The company is one of the world's largest makers of artificial sausage casings. It has casings operations in about 15 countries in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Viscofan sells its cellulose, collagen, and plastic casings and food film to food processors; it produces both edible small diameter and non-edible large diameter collagen and plastic casings. Its Industrias Alimentarias de Navarra (IAN) subsidiary makes canned vegetables, sauces and salad dressings under the Carretilla brand. Viscofan sells its products in more than 120 countries. The company was founded in 1975.

Grapette International, Inc. began as part of the original Grapette Company in Camden, Arkansas in 1939. The company gained national prominence with its flagship Grapette and Orangette sodas, which are now sold exclusively in Wal-Mart stores nationwide under the Sam's Choice brand. Grapette International has evolved into a full-service flavor manufacturer. We provide customized flavors, ingredients, and value-added products to customers in the United States and around the world. Centrally located in Malvern, Arkansas, the company produces the flavors for Grapette and Orangette sodas as well as a spectrum of flavors used in brands throughout North America, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia.

Founded in 1972 by father and son, Leonard and Brooks Firestone, Firestone Vineyard has enjoyed 35 years of family stewardship. Recently, so that they might concentrate on their burgeoning beer business and smaller Curtis Winery, the Firestone family decided to sell their iconic winery. In doing so, they turned to fellow Santa Barbara vintner Bill Foley (Foley Estates Vineyard and Winery, Lincourt Vineyards) as the logical next shepherd for the famous property. As the Firestone’s identified earlier on, Bill, too, recognized Santa Barbara County as the ideal location for the production of world class wines. Bill has vowed to continue the Firestone tradition in striving for the very best in vineyard management and cutting edge winemaking discipline. The vineyard focuses on optimal physiological balance in the vines yielding wines that are brightly flavored, crisp and delicious. Estate Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah vineyards are located on a series of mesas that have gravelly sub-soils, ideally oriented for perfect exposure. The Firestone Vineyard tasting room offers regular winery tours, delicious wines to sample and an idyllic setting for al fresco picnics. Visit the “new” Firestone Vineyard and experience the vision of hospitality that is shared by Bill Foley and the Firestone Family!

San Francisco-based Diamond Foods is a high-growth innovative packaged food company focused on building, acquiring and energizing brands including, Kettle Chips, Emerald snack nuts, Pop Secret popcorn, and Diamond of California snack and culinary nuts. The Company's strategy is to build brands from the ground up as well as identify opportunities in under-developed brands and then add value by making a relevant connection to the contemporary consumer. Diamond's products are distributed globally in stores where snacks and culinary nuts are sold.Founded in 1912 with a strong heritage in the walnut market under the Diamond of California brand, Diamond Foods completed its initial public offering in July, 2005. The Company has approximately 1,700 year-round employees and its stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol DMND.

With the May 2003 acquisition of Panamerican Beverages, Inc. (Panamco), Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. is now the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, accounting for almost 10% of Coca-Cola’ s global sales. KOF is the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, delivering approximately 2 billion unit cases a year and accounting for approximately 40% of Coca-Cola’s volumes in the region. Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. produces Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Lift and other trademark beverages of The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico (a substantial part of central Mexico, including Mexico City and Southeast of Mexico), Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide), Panama (nationwide), Colombia (most of the country), Venezuela (nationwide), Brazil (greater São Paulo, Campiñas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias) and Argentina (federal capital of Buenos Aires and surrounding areas), along with bottled water, beer and other beverages in some of these territories.

Eh, what's up, Doc? What's up is the crop at Bolthouse Farms. The company is one of the country's largest producers of fresh-cut carrots. Bolthouse offers all things carrot, including fresh and frozen whole carrots, carrot sticks and chips, carrot (and other) chilled juices and smoothies, and those cute little pre-cut and pre-peeled baby carrots for both retail consumers and foodservice industry customers. Its other products include orange juice, passion fruit juice, fruit smoothies, chai tea, Bom Dia açaí juice, and lemonade. The company also makes a line of Bolthouse Farms-branded salad dressings. Bolthouse Farms grows its carrots year-round and ships more than 35,000 tons of Bugs' favorite every month.

Corn Products International has seen many changes during its hundred years in operation. It has created new products that have led to the growth of its industry; built some of the largest corn-refining facilities in the world; joined forces with partners that have extended its global reach and product offerings; entered – and exited – various markets throughout the world; and, finally, reinvented itself as a company that focuses entirely on its core ingredient business.The company’s hundred year journey has been eventful. Click on the timeline images for highlights of Corn Products International’s history, or click here to view the 1998-2008 Decade of Global Growth.

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