Mention "Sara Lee" and everyone thinks cheesecake, but the North American Retail segment of Sara Lee Corporation can fill your tummy in other ways too. In addition to its frozen cakes, pies, and cheesecakes, the subsidiary manufactures packaged deli meats and cheeses and frozen baked goods. It has a plate full of sausage brands (Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farms) and a string of hot dog and lunch meat brands (Ball Park, State Fair), making it a major US meat processor. Its bakery brands include its famous frozen cheesecake. Sara Lee North American Retail also offers the one-cup, at-home brewing system, Senseo.

Nonpareil Corporation company grows and ships fresh potatoes and manufactures value-added potato products such as hash browns, mashed potatoes, and potato flakes, which it distributes to US foodservice operators. Nonpareil also supplies ingredients, including flavor additives made from potatoes, to other food manufacturers. Nonpareil company's potatoes are grown on a 10,000 acres in Nebraska and 3,000 acres in Idaho. The Nonpareil Corporation was founded in 1946 by Harold and Robert Abend; it continues to be owned and managed by members of the Abend family.

Fiorucci Foods brings traditional Italian deli meats to a US audience. The company produces and sells Italian specialty meats -- including salami, prosciutto, pepperoni, and pancetta -- along with its very own aged-in-Oak-barrels balsamic vinegar to retail food customers and restaurants throughout the US. Its products are sold in supermarkets or delivered to foodservice operators. Fiorucci Foods is the US subsidiary of Italian deli meat company, Cesare Fiorucci, which was founded in 1850 and expanded into the US market in 1985. Cesare Fiorucci, formerly a family-owned firm, is 65% owned by investment firm, Vestar Capital Partners.

Pinnacle Foods Finance LLC engages in manufacturing, marketing, and distributing dry and frozen packaged food products in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Dry Foods, Frozen Foods, and Birds Eye Foods. The Dry Foods segment offers baking mixes and frostings; shelf-stable pickles, peppers, and relish; table syrup; canned meat; and barbecue sauce. This segment offers its products under the Duncan Hines, Vlasic, Mrs. Butterworth’s, Log Cabin, and Armour brand names. The frozen foods segment provides single-serve frozen dinners and entrees, frozen prepared seafood, frozen breakfast, bagels, and frozen pizza under the Hungry-Man, Swanson, Mrs. Paul’s, Van de Kamp’s, Aunt Jemima, Lender’s, and Celeste brand names. The Birds Eye Foods segment offers frozen vegetables, frozen multi-serve dinners and entrées, and specialty foods comprising fruit pie fillings and toppings, chili and chili ingredients, and snack items under the Birds Eye, Birds Eye Steamfresh, Birds Eye Voila!, Comstock, Wilderness, Brooks, Nalley, Tim’s Cascade, and Snyder of Berlin brand names.

Pendleton Grain Growers (PGG) gets the pendulum swinging faster for farmers wanting to take their harvests to market. The agricultural cooperative provides its member-farmers with a full range of farm products and services. PGG offers its approximately 2,400 members crop-processing, marketing, agronomy, and irrigation services, along with hardware, farm equipment, and fuel. It operates about 30 grain-storage facilities and a fleet of nearly 15 storage-to-terminal delivery trucks. PGG was founded in 1930 to create bulk handling, transportation, and storage services for wheat farmers in the Pendleton, Oregon, area.

It takes two parents -- one Dutch and one British -- to make one Unilever. Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC, together with their group companies, constitute a global food, personal care, and household products powerhouse. The company's vast portfolio of products includes eleven brands that ring up more than $1 billion each annually. They include Hellmann's (mayonnaise), Knorr (soups), Lipton (tea), Dove and Lux (soaps), and Sure and Degree (antiperspirants). Unilever's consumer goods are sold in more than 170 countries. The company was the world's #1 consumer products maker until Procter & Gamble purchased Gillette in 2005. Based in England, Unilever PLC trades on the London and New York stock exchanges.

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.

Seatrade International was founded in 1981 by Stephen Barndollar as an export marketing and trading company. In 1988, Seatrade moved into primary fish processing and opened its first production facility in Portland, Maine. Following a relocation to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the early Nineties, further plants were opened in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and the company now has a work force of 150 people. The company headquarters remain in Portsmouth where our plate freezers (daily capacity 20 mt) and our holding freezer are located.In 1997, Seatrade began producing fresh scallops and is today one of the largest packers of fresh and frozen scallops in the United States. The company not only sources scallops all over the world but also exports fresh and frozen product into European and Asian markets. With over two decades of experience in the seafood business, Seatrade has earned a reputation for quality and customer service. As members of the American Scallop Association and the National Fisheries Institute, Seatrade is committed to economic integrity in the industry. Seatrade is also a proud supporter of Ocean Trust, a foundation dedicated to ocean conservation and sustainable fisheries.

Hudson River Fruit grows apples grown along, you guessed it, the Hudson River in New York State. The company harvests, packs, and distributes nearly 20 varieties of apples. Its apple offerings include Gala, Ginger Gold, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, McIntosh, Red Delicious, and Rome. The company also offers, Bosc, Clapp, Bartlett, and Seckel pears. It operates fruit orchards, a packing and storage facility, and a fleet of delivery trucks. With roots dating back to 1932, when Izzie Albinder bought a pushcart and began selling apples in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn, Hudson River Fruit is owned and operated by the founding Albinder family.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC, is a leading sheller and processor of peanuts and peanut products with headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia. Golden Peanut's primary product lines include raw shelled and inshell peanuts, peanut flours, peanut extracts, roasted aromatic and refined various peanut oils, and peanut seed. Golden Peanut serves peanut growers and operates plants in all major peanut growing areas of the United States and Argentina. Golden Peanut are proud to be a leading supplier of peanut products to manufacturers worldwide.

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