J.R. Brooks knew he had a better way to pack and ship tropical produce. And to prove this point, he rode a boxcar filled with his freshly grown Florida green-skinned avocados from Homestead, Florida to market in New York City.That was 1928.Today the company is headed up by his son, CEO Neal Palmer (Pal) Brooks and President Craig Wheeling.The firm has built a reputation as a premier supplier of tropical fruits and vegetables across North America.Key to this competitive edge is Brooks Tropicals' capability to harvest over 70% of what the firm sells, specializing in Caribbean Red and Caribbean Sunrise papayas, SlimCado avocados, starfruit or carambola, Persian limes and Uniq Fruit.

Allens produces a full line of canned and frozen vegetables and beans (including the Popster's absolute fave -- spinach). The Arkansas-based company's brands include Allens, Butterfield, Popeye, Royal Prince, Sunshine, and Trappey's, along with Freshlike and Veg�All. Its customers include US companies in the retail food, foodservice, and food-manufacturing sectors. Founded in 1926, Allens remains a family-owned and -operated business and is the largest privately owned vegetable company in the US.

AAK refines vegetable oils for specialised products which meet our customers' high requirements. In partnership with its customers, AAK develops leading global positions with a high level of profitability.AAK should be the first choice for customers whose production relies on high value-added vegetable oils. This is what has made AAK the world's leading producer of speciality vegetable fats. The products are used as substitutes for dairy fat and cocoa butter, as transfree solutions for fillings for chocolate and confectionery products, as well as by the cosmetics industry. Raw materials are obtained from areas such as Asia and West Africa. AAK is committed to sustainable development and is one of the prime moved behind RSPO, Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and GreenPalm Ltd. Through these initiatives, AAK has contributed to the natural extraction of palm oil through natural agricultral development without ruthless exploitation.

Patrick Cudahy, established in 1888, calls itself the "Home of Sweet Apple Wood Smoked Flavor," and that says it all. The company makes sliced ham, salami, and specialty Italian and deli meats for sandwich shops, delicatessens, and fast-food operators. Its retail products include sausage, bacon, boneless hams, lean ham and turkey products, and sliced luncheon meats. The company has expanded its products to include Hispanic and Latino specialties, including such items as chorizo, salami higueral, salchichon servecero, and more. Patrick Cudahy also makes foodservice products and oils for industrial and institutional use. Patrick Cudahy is owned by meat giant Smithfield Foods, which purchased it in 1984.

Akey works to prevent achy breaky hearts in American farm animals. North American Nutrition Companies (NANCO), which does business as Akey, provides blending, manufacturing, distribution, and nutritional services to the feed, livestock, and poultry industries around the world. The company provides diet formulation, feeding-program recommendation, and product-development services. It also manufactures feed-grade drugs, vitamin and mineral products, and specialty feed mixes. In addition to dairy and beef cattle, calves, swine, and poultry, Akey make products for sheep , goats, lamb, horses, and camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas). The company is a subsidiary of Dutch agricultural company Provimi.

In 1920 with the help of their eleven children, Tomaso and Addolorata Di Camillo opened their first bakery in Niagara Falls, New York. From basement ovens in this store, the Di Camillo family began baking bread and delivering it to their neighbors in horse-drawn wagons.Today second, third, and fourth generation members of the Di Camillo family continue this uninterrupted tradition of making wholesome hearth-baked bread and classic Italian cookies and confections for our friends and neighbors. Although our menu of breads and biscotti has greatly expanded, and our neighbors can be found all over the world, our standards, our traditions, and the pride in the products that we make remain the same.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

Legacy Bakehouse LLC company traces its roots back to 1917, and is owned by CEO Mike Heyers. Legacy Bakehouse LLC company makes bread-based baked, toasted, and fried snack products, such as rye chips, bagel chips, and snack mix. Its products are manufactured at its 59,000 sq. ft. facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and are sold under the Pinahs brand name. The snacks are distributed to retailers, catalogs, and food service companies. Legacy Bakehouse also offers private label custom products, bulk sizing, and research and development services.

Dominion Citrus Income Fund company is one of Canada's leading food suppliers, providing fresh fruits, vegetables, and juices to more than 400 customers in the food retail, food service, and food distribution sectors. Products are imported from around the world and distributed to customers primarily in Ontario and Quebec. Dominion Citrus also offers international logistics, marketing, packaging, procurement, ripening, and transportation services through various business divisions. Chairman Michael Blair owns about 16% of Dominion Citrus company.

Specialty Foods Group, Inc (SFG) is a leading U.S. producer and marketer of a wide variety of premium branded and private-label processed meat products. SFG products are available through a wide-range of outlets including national and regional supermarkets, independent food retailers, delicatessens, club stores, convenience stores and foodservice distributors.Lunchmeat is always on the menu at Specialty Foods Group. The company, a manufacturer and distributor of processed meats and poultry, churns out hams, hot dogs, bacon, corned beef, and other deli meats under private labels and brands names such as Field, Mickelberry's, Nathan's Famous, Scott Petersen, Kentucky Legend, Swift Premium, and Fischer's. The company operates two plants in the US that serve supermarkets, club stores, convenience-store chains, and foodservice outlets both in the US and some international markets.

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