The family-owned and -operated Baumer Foods, Inc. was founded in 1923 by Alvin and Mildred Baumer. Baumer Foods company produces a variety of sauces and condiments, including hot, steak, wing, teriyaki, soy, and Worcestershire sauces, spicy mustards, and jams and jellies, all under the Crystal brand name. It also sells Figaro brand Hickory Liquid Smoke and Mesquite Liquid Smoke. Manufacturing 3 million gallons of its Crystal hot sauce yearly, Baumer Foods distributes its foods to some 75 countries worldwide.

Atlantic Premium Brands doesn't operate along the Atlantic Ocean but it does have a boatload of premium regional meat brands. The company processes and distributes packaged value-added meats under names such as J.C. Potter, Blue Ribbon, Texas Traditions, Richard's Cajun Foods, Carlton, and Cajun Favorites. It also offers its customers private-label products and services. Atlantic Premium's meats include smoked and breakfast sausages, ham, bacon, and meat-based entrees. The Northbrook, Illinois-headquartered company distributes its products to US supermarkets and discount stores.

The Andersons earns its daily bread on a mix of grains, trains, and corncobs. The agricultural company's main business (and most lucrative at 71% of 2009 sales) -- the Grain & Ethanol Group -- consists of the buying, conditioning, and reselling of corn, soybeans, and wheat, which it acquires from US grain farmers and stores, using a system of elevators and terminals located in the Midwest. But there's more -- the company has five operating segments. In addition to the Grain & Ethanol Group, its other segments are the Plant Nutrient Group, the Retail Group, the Turf & Specialty Group, and the Rail Group. The Andersons has operations in seven US states, as well as rail-leasing interests in Canada and Mexico.

Peco Foods hopes you'll do more than peek at their poultry parts. Producing some 18 million pounds of poultry every week, the company processes private-label and store brand chicken for US retail and foodservice customers. It also exports items to Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Peco's frozen, deli, and tray-pack products include boneless, skinless chicken breasts and tenderloins; boneless thighs; and jumbo legs and wings; as well as value-added breaded and flavored products. As a fully integrated processor, the company operates feed mills and hatcheries to support its poultry production facilities.

Tofutti's ice cream like pint size desserts have been available around the country for years. But did you know that the man, David Mintz, who put the fun back in ice cream also makes a wide variety of other dairy-free soy based products? But there are others like our dairy-free Better Than Cream Cheese & Sour Supreme that can add a tasty soy enriched lift back into your recipes. Then there are our 3 old fashioned totally nondairy soft chew cookie favorites: Chocolate Chip cookies, Oatmeal Raisin, and Peanut Butter. And of course, there is our totally dairy free pizza called Pizza Pizza.

No, it's not the redwoods that California Giant produces -- it's strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. In order to supply its customers with berries throughout the entire year, the company has growing operations in California, Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, Florida, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. California Giant's berries are distributed to customers in the retail grocery, foodservice, and restaurant industries around the world. It also has extensive research and breeding operations, testing more than 15,000 new berry varieties every year. California Giant was founded in the 1970s by president Bill Moncovich and his partners.

L. Carroll Cole started Cole's Quality Foods, Inc. as a bakery in 1943. Cole's is controlled by the family of chairman W. Scott Devon.Cole's Quality Foods is a leading manufacturer of frozen bread products including breadsticks, cheese bread, garlic bread, and Texas toast. It has two manufacturing facilities in Michigan and one in Iowa. The products are marketed under the Cole's brand through grocery, warehouse, and convenience stores nationwide; Cole's also supplies frozen bread to customers in the foodservice industry.

Virgin Drinks Group Ltd. has gone beyond colas to make and distribute energy drinks, tea, flavored colas, vodka and other alcoholic beverages. Although the company has scaled back its US offerings, it sells its drinks throughout the world. Virgin Drinks brewed up more business with the launch of Virgin Th�, the company's tea brand, in France in 1996. Virgin Th� is now also distributed in Switzerland and Italy. Virgin Colours offers colas in twelve fruity flavors.Young upstart Virgin Drinks wants to take some of the fizz out of soft-drink venerables Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Having first launched operations as Virgin Cola in 1994.

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.

Few products have achieved the iconic status of PEEPS®, the yellow, chick-shaped marshmallow confection beloved by children and adults alike. But, as popular as PEEPS® has become, it is only one of the many delicious products produced by Just Born, an 87-year-old, family-owned confectionery company based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Just Born candy tradition actually began in 1910 when Sam Born emigrated to the U.S. from Russia. A candy maker by trade, Born used innovative technology to produce chocolate sprinkles, known as Jimmies, and the hard chocolate coating for ice cream bars. In 1916, Born invented a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops.

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