Indianapolis Fruit Company is a leading regional distributor of fresh fruits and vegetables serving retail grocers in the greater Indianapolis area and more than a dozen surrounding states. It delivers a wide variety of produce, including garden cut vegetables, garlic and herbs, and organic products. Sister company Piazza Produce provides fruits and vegetables to foodservice operators. Family-owned Indianapolis Fruit was formed in 1947 and merged with Piazza Produce in 1997.

Shari's Berries International makes and sells chocolate-dipped strawberries. Shari's Berries product line includes yogurt-dipped strawberries, and chocolate-dipped champagne bottles and drinking goblets. Its signature item is strawberry roses -- chocolate-dipped strawberries mounted on stems and sold by the dozen and half dozen. Shari's Berries confections are available in retail stores located in and around Sacramento, California, as well as through TV and catalog sales and on the company's Web site. Shari Fitzpatrick founded the company in 1989. In 2006 the company was sold to Provide Commerce.

Roquette Frères S.A. produces and sells starch and starch derivatives for customers and industries in France and internationally. It transforms renewable resources corn, wheat, potatoes, and peas into a line of ingredients for a range of food and non-food industries. The company offers starch products, sugars and dietary fibers, organic acids and their salts, polyols, bioethanol, and derivatives of fermentation and fine chemistry products, as well as fibers, oils, and soluble products. The company also provides raw materials and excipients that are used in various pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications, including cyclodextrins; paper corrugating adhesives for adhesives, corrugated board, fine papers, packaging board, and publication paper applications; a range of nutritional and functional animal feed ingredients for calf, dog, cat, fish, shrimp, horse, pig, piglet, poultry, and ruminant; and intermediary products that are used to modify or enhance the manufacture of final products. Its products used in the food, halal food, beverage, and health food industries.

Windsor Foods makes frozen foods for lovers of ethnic flavors. Windsor Foods company's brands include Bernardi (Italian), Golden Tiger (Asian), José Olé (Mexican), and The Original Chili Bowl (southwest) labels. Foods types include entrees, appetizers, barbecue, and chili. Windsor's customers include companies in the industrial and restaurant and other foodservice sectors, along with retail food, warehouse, club, and convenience stores. It provides private-label, custom-blending, custom-packaging, and marketing-support services for its customers. Located in Houston, Windsor operates nine production plants in six US states.

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning the apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods, although it's selling off that business too. Its North American Retail unit is a major packaged meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of frozen bakery products, including Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The fresh bakery segment supplies North America with prepackaged bread and other baked goods. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The North American Foodservice unit supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to foodservice operators across the continent.

Domecq Bodegas (formerly Bodegas y Bebidas) is fermenting the Spanish wine market. A subsidiary of Allied Domecq, the company owns "bodegas," or wineries, in all nine of Spain's main wine-producing regions and recently acquired a vineyard in Chile. Bodegas represents 12 wineries in Spain and is involved in every aspect of wine making -- from grape growing to marketing and exporting. Sales of high-quality wines account for most of the company's sales. Bodegas exports its wine to more than 60 countries on five continents. Allied Domecq bought the company in 2001 and renamed it Allied Domecq Bodegas (later changed to Domecq Bodegas). In 2005 parent company Allied was taken over by Pernod Ricard.

Maple Leaf Bakery, Inc.'s operations makes one's mouth water. The Des Plains, Illinois-based company makes and sells par-baked, and frozen bread, rolls, croissants, turnovers, and bagels throughout the US. The company is part of Canada Bread Co.'s bakery group, which is 89%-owned by Canada's Maple Leaf Foods. In 2002 the bakery acquired San Francisco-based artisan bread operation Grace Baking. Maple Leaf Bakery's products are available through instore bakeries at retail grocery stores and at club-stores, as well as to foodservice operators.

Flagship of China's Dairy Industry Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. is a dairy enterprise with spirit of innovation and social responsibility. It is the only one of Chinese enterprises which supplies dairy products for the Olympics. Under Yili Group there are five divisions：liquid milk, ice cream, milk powder, yoghurt and raw milk. More than 1,000 series of Yili brand products, such as: popsicle, ice cream, milk powder, milked tea powder, asepsis milk, yoghurt, and cheese are made by 130 affiliated enterprises of Yili Group. In course of the several tens of years' development, Yili has always been devoting to producing 100% safe and 100% healthy dairy products, and spreading concept of nutrition and health for Chinese. Meanwhile, Yili has been serving for the consumers' health and happy life according to the highest worldwide production standards. As the leading enterprise of dairy industry, Yili takes developing China's dairy industry as its mission. After taking the lead completion of the industrial upgrade, Yili began to devote to promoting China’s dairy industry development transfer from "quicker and better" to "better and quicker".

Heilongjiang Jiusan Oil & Fat company produces a variety of products from soybeans such as soybean oil (Grade 1), flakes, germs, isofavaone, and salad oil. Heilongjiang Jiusan also makes natural vitamin E, as well as soybean saponin, soybean mono-glyceride, soy tissue protein, and soy protein isolated. Its soybean oil, salad oil, flakes, and germs are certified NON-GMO (non-genetically modified organisms) products that have been tested by Hong Kong Dan Chips Limited. China Green Food Development Center has also certified the company's soybean and salad oil as green foods. The soybean industry in China, including Heilongjiang Jiusan, is heavily subsidized by the government.

Sara Lee mixes it up. And we're talking more than Ms. Lee's cheesecake recipe here. The parent company underwent a major restructuring in 2005 and one result was the creation of Sara Lee International Beverage and Sara Lee International Bakery. The operations oversee the non-US coffee, tea, and bakery business (bread, buns, rolls, specialty breads, refrigerated doughs, and frozen desserts) of Sara Lee in Australia, Brazil, and Europe. Its major beverage brands include Douwe Egberts, Senseo, and Caf� do Ponto; its top bakery brands are Ortiz, BonGateaux, and Sara Lee.

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