Karaoke singers can find courage in bottles from Takara Holdings. Through its Takara Shuzo subsidiary, the company is a leading distiller of "shochu", a traditional Japanese liquor. It also produces sake, "mirin" (a sweet cooking wine used for seasoning), "happoshu" (a low-malt beverage), and low-alcohol beverages, including fruit-based and vitamin-fortified drinks. A second subsidiary, Takara Bio, conducts gene research and is a leading Japanese supplier of reagents for DNA research; it also produces health foods and seasonings for the Japanese consumer. Takara Holdings also owns cardboard box, label making, transportation, and real estate leasing, warehousing and logistics businesses, among others.

Less is more at the Carl Buddig & Company, which manufactures and markets some of the thinnest lunch meats available. The company's most popular brand, Original Buddig, is a svelte 10-15 calories per slice and comes in choices such as beef, chicken, turkey, ham, pastrami, and corned beef. It also offers Old Wisconsin brand smoked beef jerky sticks and snack bites, along with wieners, bratwurst, Polish sausage, summer sausage, and ring bologna. Carl Buddig's meat products are available in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and are sold at retail food outlets, including Kroger, Albertson's, Safeway, Food Lion, Giant, Roundy's, and others.

Burke Corporation's products are top of the line. They top off pizzas, pasta, and tacos. The company makes cooked meat products for use by other food manufacturers, foodservice companies, and restaurants. Burke's meats include breakfast patties, chicken strips and pieces, shredded beef, meatballs, Mexican-style meat fillings, and pizza toppings (beef and pork crumbles and pepperoni). Its brands include Premoro (Italian meats), Tezzata (Mexican meats), and MagniFoods (specialty meats). The company also provides bulk packaging and custom formulation services. Burke was acquired by Hormel Foods in 2007.

Begun in 1914 when seven Missouri farmers got together to buy binder twine, the agricultural cooperative MFA today ties together 45,000 farmers in Missouri and adjacent states. It is one of the US's oldest regional co-ops, supplying its member/owners with agronomy, distribution, financing, and purchasing services. It runs some 100 retail farm supply centers and works with independent dealers. MFA supplies animal feeds, seed, fertilizer, and crop protection products. In addition to feed, fertilizer, and seed, the co-op also provides its members with agronomy services, animal-health products, and farm supplies. It also offers marketing services, and is the publisher of Today's Farmer.

Bright Harvest was founded in 1967 in Clarksville, Arkansas. Its products were marketed under the Kim's, Chef Francisco, and Ore-Ida labels as part of the Heinz company until 1999, when CEO Don Kerr acquired the company through Kerr Industries. Bright Harvest Sweet Potato manufactures and sells frozen sweet potatoes and value-added sweet potato products under the Bright Harvest brand name. It is the top processor of sweet potatoes in the US and supplies the USDA.) The company's offerings include center cut, candied patties, and mashed sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato casserole.

"To be a leading and competitive company in South Africa and selected African countries, reaching every consumer on a daily basis with its most admired branded and trusted products, delivering improved and sustainable shareholder value by being a responsible corporate citizen and preferred employer" Clover is a branded foods and beverages group with a strong emphasis on value-added products. Clover's South African dairy business is the perfect enabler to reach the Group’s widely dispersed customers and consumers. Extraordinary care is taken to develop brands which will occupy the number one or two position in its chosen segments. It believes in the superior procurement, production, marketing, sales and distribution of these branded consumer goods (BCG) to its loyal consumers.

Alamance Foods, Inc. manufactures private label and branded water, flavored drinks, freeze pops and aerosol whipped cream. Our brands include "Triton Water", "Fun Pops", "Happy Drinks", “Fun Whip” and "Classic Cream". Alamance Foods, Inc. is making an effort to be environmentally friendly. You will see that Alamance Foods, Inc. tries to think about the environment in all aspects of our business. Please check back often to see our progress in going green.

Spangler Candy Company is a family-owned private company manufacturing candy since 1906. Our products include lollipops, candy canes, and marshmallow candies. Spangler Candy Company manufacture and market the licensed brand names of Jelly Belly, Shrek, Sour Punch, Smarties, and Cinnabon on select candy cane items. Spangler Candy Company produces 10 million Dum Dums and about 3 million candy canes a day, which are sold throughout the US and worldwide. In addition to its own brands, it also makes products for some of the world's largest candy companies. It has licensing agreements with Disney (for Disney-character candy) and Jelly Belly Candy (to make jelly-bean-flavored candy canes). Spangler Candy was founded in 1906 by Arthur and Omar Spangler, whose family still owns the company.

Maple Leaf Foods makes hot dogs and the buns to put them in. The company is Canada's largest pork processor and produces fresh and processed pork and poultry products under its flagship Maple Leaf brand. Its agribusiness group raises swine and poultry and includes Canada's largest rendering operation, Rothsay. The company owns almost 90% of leading bakery business, Canada Bread, which produces fresh and frozen baked goods, pasta, and pasta sauces. Maple Leaf owns and operates 37 bakeries and 34 fresh and packaged meat plants. A branch of the McCain family owns 32% of Maple Leaf Foods' voting stock; the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan fund holds 33%.

"Where's the beef?" In Brazil, if you're Marfrig. The company, through its GJ brand, is a top South American beef producer. Marfrig Frigor�ficos processes and exports (about 50% of sales) premium beef cuts and frozen cooked parts -- from tongues to shanks -- to consumer markets in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. It also supplies lamb, pork, and poultry, and other food products. It runs about 10 processing centers throughout South America, where it has a slaughter production capacity of about 10,000 animals per day, as well as a central storage facility. Marfrig is expanding internationally and has agreed to acquire US-based Keystone Foods for about $1.2 billion.

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