Barth-Haas Group pulls out all the hops. The group grows, processes, stores, and trades hops -- one of the ingredients essential to the brewing of beer. It has customers worldwide, which it serves from its operations in Australia, China, Germany, the US, and the UK. Barth-Haas owns and operates hop farms, processing plants, cold-storage warehouses, CO2-extraction facilities, and development and testing laboratories. The group's flagship German subsidiary, Joh. Barth & Sohn, accounts for more than 50% of the group's total sales.

The family-owned company was formed by Louis Craven and his sons, Sam and Ben, in 1950; it is managed by Craven descendants. L. Craven & Sons has a knack for finding sweet deals. The wholesale distributor purchases and resells closeout lots of candy, snacks, and other food items. It also shops the closeout and secondary markets for general merchandise, including office supplies, health and beauty products, and pet supplies. L. Craven & Sons buys surplus, distressed, and returned merchandise and repackages and relabels it for distribution. Before distributing, the products are stored in a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse.

Ter Beke is an innovating Belgian fresh food group that commercialises its assortment in ten European countries. The group has two core activities: processed meats and fresh ready meals. It has nine plants in Belgium, the Netherlands and France and employs approximately 1,800 persons. In 2009 Ter Beke realised a turnover of 392,4 million EUR. Ter Beke is listed on Euronext Brussels.This company has a big slice of the European meat market. Ter Beke is the leading producer of processed meat and fresh prepared meals in Belgium supplying deli meats and other meat products to grocery stores, delicatessens, and butcher shops under the Daniel Coopman and L'Ardennaise brands. Its ready meals operation markets Mediterranean-themed foods such as lasagna, moussaka, and pasta under the Come a casa and Vamos banners, and it produces pizzas under the Pronto brand. Ter Beke has seven processing plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France; it sells its products throughout much of Europe. The family of founder Frans Coopman owns about 35% of the company.

Del Monaco Specialty Foods, Inc. was founded in 1964 by its namesakes, the late Mike Del Monaco and his wife Ernestine. Del Monaco Specialty Foods cooks up and freezes Italian-style food items for the foodservice industry. Del Monaco's certified-organic food products include pastas, sauces, ravioli, tortellini, gnocchi, polenta, pestos, and desserts. It offers American-style foods as well, including barbecue sauce, pot pies and New England clam chowder. It makes its own Del Monaco products and also offers services such as recipe creation, duplication, and enhancement, plus the manufacture of custom products.

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen knows that the egg probably came first, but it's chicks that sell best. Comprised of two units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys. Its chicken brands include Arbor Acres, L.I.R., and Ross; its turkey brands are Nicholas and British United Turkeys (B.U.T.) The company also offers biosecurity programs for poultry operations that designed to keep pathogens out of the food chain. Aviagen has customers worldwide and is owned by the privately owned German holding company, the EW GROUP.

From a little acorn the mighty oak does grow ... an adage that Syngenta Seeds is squarely behind. The company's big business is based on little seeds of all types, commercial and retail flower and vegetable, and field crop. A subsidiary of global agricultural giant Syngenta AG's US business, Syngenta Seeds is comprised of NK Seeds, Garst, Golden Harvest, Hilleshög, and Rogers -- all of which take seed production from the research and development phase all the way through to sales and distribution. Syngenta Seeds' products are available worldwide.

Borg Produce Sales company is headquartered in Los Angeles, where it operates 130,000-square-feet of storage space and maintains its fleet of 20 refrigerated delivery trucks. Borg Produce Sales is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables serving Southern California. It supplies grocery retailers and other customers with a wide array of fresh produce, including asparagus, bell peppers, cauliflower, corn, and zucchini, as well as tropical fruits (bananas, mangoes, papaya). In addition, Borg Produce imports such products as grapes, kiwis, and peaches from Chile, along with Clementines (a variety of mandarin orange) from Spain.

Chupa Chups (pronounced "choopa choops") might be hard to say, but its products just roll off the tongue. A Spanish confectioner, the company makes some four billion lollipops a year and it offers more than 100 different flavors. The company produces Smint Xylicare "dental" candy, which it claims protects teeth from cavities, as well as Cremosa sugar-free strawberry and cream-flavored lollipops. It also licenses the Chupa Chups brand to makers of clothing, footwear, and personal care products. Founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, Chupa Chups was owned and run by the Bernat family until 2006, when it was sold to leading Italian confectioner Perfetti Van Melle.

For over fifty years, the Manfredini family has been cultivating and selling the finest mushrooms available in the industry. Growing quality mushrooms began with my father, Frank, who started a small growing operation in Landenberg, PA, in 1946. In 1948, after my graduation, I followed in my father's footsteps, joining the family business. Originally named "Frank Manfredini and Son", I had a much greater vision, and in the early 1980's, the company was renamed "Manfredini Enterprises Inc". In the early 1990's, we constructed a new office/warehouse facility on the original family homestead. Exciting new lines of produce were added to our full line of mushrooms. Spring mix, spinach, and sprouts are just a few of the items that are now handled and distributed daily along with our mushrooms. In 1997, The Manfredini Team welcomed my son, Dominic J., to the staff to assist in the ever-growing company, adding the third generation of Manfredini's. Today we employ over forty people and continue to expand our product line and distribution range across the United States. Despite all our growth and success, we haven't lost sight of consistently delivering the finest quality and service possible to our customers. We are very proud of our accomplishments, and we believe that Frank would be too.

Blue Diamond® Growers is the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. Founded in 1910, the cooperative is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. Blue Diamond® led the development of California's almond industry from a minor domestic specialty crop to the world leader in almond production and marketing. We continue to build markets and create new products, new uses, and new opportunities for members of Blue Diamond® Growers. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, approximately 3000 California almond growers deliver California almonds annually to their cooperative. The crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, and the sixth largest U.S. food export. The California crop is valued annually at over $2 billion dollars.

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