Appropriately enough given its market presence in Europe, "kraft" is German for "strong" -- although the company actually derives its name from its American founder, James Lewis Kraft, who started the company that became global food giant Kraft Foods when he set up his cheese business in Chicago in 1903. Kraft Foods Deutschland markets Kraft's world-famous brands, including Maxwell House coffee, Miracle Whip salad dressing and Philadelphia cream cheese, as well as brands with specifically German roots, including Jacobs and Kaffee HAG coffees. Through its production sites in Germany, Kraft produces cheese, ketchup, coffee, chocolate, and other comestibles.

If nibbling on a chicken wing while surfing the Net is your thing, Charoen Pokphand (CP Group) is the company for you. CP Group, Thailand's largest agriculture conglomerate, supplies seafood, poultry, and pork products; it also has an expanding suite of telecom offerings. CP's agri-business, which includes subsidiary Charoen Pokphand Foods, produces pet and livestock feed and horticultural products and machinery. It also distributes vegetable and flower seeds, fertilizer, and cultivates seafood. The telecom side of things includes fixed-line and mobile phone service, cable TV, Internet service, and Web design and development under the name True Corporation.

Culinaire International, Inc. was founded by CEO Richard Gussoni in 1993. Culinaire International makes trips to the zoo, university food court, and music venue a little more palatable. Culinaire International is a leading contract foodservice operator that provides dining and hospitality services at entertainment venues, hotels and convention centers, and private clubs. Its foodservice and concessions operations include the Fort Worth Zoo, Meyerson Symphony Center, UT Southwestern, and Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach. Culinaire International also offers catering and corporate dining services, and it operates Dallas area restaurants Ristorante Nicola, Sea Change, and Omaha Steakhouse

Ferrero has come out of its shell and spread sweetness across the globe. The Italian company, one of the world's largest chocolate producers, makes treats such as Rocher chocolates and its original product, the chocolate-hazelnut spread, Nutella (originally called Pasta Gianduja). The confectioner's other products include Mon Chéri hazelnut chocolates and Raffaello, a coconut and almond filled candy. Ferrero also makes chocolate-covered snack cakes, wafers candy bars, creme-filled eggs under the Kinder brand name. On the non-chocolate side of things, the company makes Tic Tac breath mints. Ferrero S.p.A. is owned and managed by the founding Ferrero family.

Depending on what stage of life you're currently inhabiting, you're likely to associate Pepperidge Farm with either "all grown up now" Milan cookies or "yippee" Goldfish crackers -- a staple of most preschoolers' diets -- and, truth be told, lots of adults' workplace desk drawers as well. A subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company, Pepperidge Farm is part of the company's Baking and Snacking segment, which accounts for about a quarter of Campbell's total sales. Products in the Pepperidge Farm line include fresh bread and rolls, cookies, crackers, stuffing mixes, and ready-made croutons, as well as frozen puff pastry.

A leading US meatpacker, National Beef Packing (NBPC) pays close attention to what Americans eat for dinner. The company produces boxed, case-ready, portion-controlled, and branded fresh beef products for more than 900 domestic and export customers. In order to woo the natural-foods consumer, the company offers the Naturewell Natural Beef and NatureSource products, which are made from corn-fed, naturally raised beef cattle. Its refrigerated trucking unit, National Carriers, transports the company's beef within the US. NBPC is owned by beef producers, who control 68% of the company through their ownership of U.S. Premium Beef. U.S. (Premium provides cattle to NBPC for processing.)

Aaahhhh ... Bacon... Now that we have your attention, you'll want to know that Nueske's Meat Products slow-smokes pork bellies over applewood for 24 hours to make a bacon that's in hot demand. The company also produces hams, sausage, and poultry products, which it sells to foodservice and retail food customers. Nueske's meats and specialty gift foods are also available directly to consumers through its mail order catalog and Web site. R.C. Nueske began to market meats using his family's Old World recipes to Wisconsin customers in 1933. The company distributes its products both nationally and internationally.

Tom Lange Company was founded in 1960 as a three-man operation in St. Louis, Missouri, Tom Lange has grown to encompass 35 offices in the US and Canada. Produce subsidiaries include Lange Trading, Global Fresh Import & Export, M&M Marketing, Carlsbad Produce, and South Seas Fruit. Tom Lange Company wants you to eat your veggies. One of the largest purchasers and distributors of fresh fruits and vegetables in the US, Tom Lange supplies its comestibles to clients in the retail, wholesale, and food service trades. Tom Lange company also provides third party logistics services specializing in truckload freight movement.

Empresas Polar also sells both domestic and imported wines and distributes PepsiCo beverages (through its Pepsi-Cola Venezuela subsidiary). It addition to beverages, the company is also a top Venezuelan food providers, processing corn and selling pasta, pasta sauce, canned food, and palm oil. The company's other product lines include animal feed and cleaning products. Empresas Polar started out as a small brewery in 1941 and has grown to become one of the largest private companies in Venezuela.

Founded by two native Floridians from citrus growing families, Cliff Burg- owner -CEO and 6th generation Floridian and Pat Schirard-President and 4th generation Floridian, keep Florida’s citrus industry close to their hearts. In a time when the giant national juice companies have turned to blending off-shore juices into their products, Indian River Select™ remains one of the few premium juice companies that can proudly say that we are still 100% FLORIDA. As Cliff likes to say, “Grown, Picked and Squeezed in Florida.” As consumers become more concerned about the origins of their food, Cliff assures our customers that as long as he owns Indian River Select™ it will always be 100% Florida juice. Indian River Select™ was founded in 1996. Cliff knew that he could produce a juice that was of a higher quality and better taste than the brands he was buying in the local grocery stores. He signed on Pat, with his vast knowledge of the Florida citrus industry and Indian River Select™ was born in the heart of the Indian River Citrus District at the Ft Pierce Farmer’s Market. After many expansions and renovations our plant and headquarters still reside in the Farmer’s Market. What makes Indian River Select™ so special and why are our customers so loyal? We take the center cut of the Florida citrus harvest, using only mid to late season oranges and grapefruit, picked at their peak. This fruit is then gently squeezed and processed in small runs, to a higher standard (brix), thus giving our juice a richer, sweeter, fresher taste. Our loyal customers consider Indian River Select™ to be the best juice they have ever tasted.

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