As a grower, the prime responsibility of Sharyland Farms is to produce a quality product for the various packing, shipping, and marketing of the farm's fruit and vegetables. Sharyland Farms contracts millions of pounds of raw product to various processors annually millions of packages are sold to the fresh market through packer and shipper arrangements. These packages are sold under various labels from the different packer-shippers. We are proud of our products and proud of our established relationship with the various packing facilities who market our products. We conduct extensive training sessions among our employees and entomologists to assure the highest quality in production, as well as strict compliance with all food safety regulations.The marketing philosophy of Sharyland Farms is to forward contract vegetables and grain to processors to assure the company a profit when fresh market prices fail to justify harvesting, packaging, and shipping costs. Our management is aware of the importance of diversification, as well as the increasing demand for prepackaged food in today's market, and explores every available means to market products internationally on a year round basis while maintaining outstanding quality and service.

VSP Products' bins of tomatoes laid out to dry. Formerly Valley Sun of California, VSP company contracts with tomato growers in the central section of the Golden State to purchase their "raw" material, and produces and markets sun-dried tomato products in packages and jars. Its customers include food manufacturers, foodservice operators, and retail food outlets throughout the US. VSP also provides custom tomato processing (diced, chopped, powdered, or julienned) and packaging services. Its retail customers include Golub (operator of Price Chopper supermarkets) and Costco.

Coke is it -- it being the world's #1 soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Its other brands include Minute Maid, Powerade, and Dasani water. In North America it sells Groupe Danone's Evian; it also sells brands from Dr Pepper Snapple Group (Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes) outside Australia, Europe, and North America. The firm makes or licenses more than 3,000 drinks under 500 brand names in some 200 nations. Although it does no bottling itself, Coke owns 34% of the world's #1 Coke bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE); 32% of Mexico's bottler Coca-Cola FEMSA; and 23% of European bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling.

Sakata Seed started out in 1913 with a few sacks of seeds; over the last 90 or so years it has sprouted an empire of growth. The company produces, distributes, and sells vegetable seeds (for both agriculture and home gardens), flower seeds, grass seeds, bulbs, vegetable seedlings, tree seedlings, garden trees, fruit tree seedlings, lilies, house plants, roses, cacti, gardening materials, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, gardening literature, and landscaping materials such as sod. It also has a division that researches cultivation and horticultural engineering. Sakasta's products are distributed from production centers in more than 20 countries.

Schulze and Burch Biscuit Co. which invented the saltine cracker in 1949, was founded by German immigrant Paul Schulze, Sr., in 1896. Schulze and Burch Biscuit company makes and markets toaster pastries under its Toast'em Pop-ups brand, as well as for private- and branded-label customers. It also makes Snackin' Fruits pastry bars, and it offers contract manufacturing for such food items as cereal bars, granola bars, breakfast cereal, crackers, and fruit snacks for other food companies. Schulze and Burch Biscuit operates two manufacturing facilities in the Chicago area.

Bonduelle SA engages in the production of processed vegetables in France and internationally. It offers fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables, as well as prepared food products. Bonduelle company’s fresh processed vegetables include green salads and raw vegetables without seasoning, such as lettuce, rocket, oak leaf, mixed green salad, corn salad, and curly endives; and delicatessen products. It also markets canned, frozen, fresh, and deli products under the Bonduelle brand to catering professionals. Bonduelle S.A. sells its products under Bonduelle brand in Europe and Latin America; Cassegrain brand in France; Frudesa and Salto brands in Spain; and Arctic Gardens brand in Canada. It offers its products through various distribution channels, such as retailers and discounters and restaurants, as well as corporate, school, and hospital foodservice operations.

At Lifeway Foods, we are on a mission. A mission that started in 1986 when we brought our unique probiotic recipe for Lifeway Kefir to America. Like all good missions, ours is simply expressed: We’re here to provide the best in probiotic and nutritious foods. We’re here to improve the health of our customers. And we’re here to leave the world a better place than we found it. On a lighter note, we’re also here to change the meaning of the word delicious, and to have a little fun along the way. You with us? Good, very good.

Standard Candy Company is the maker of the Goo Goo Cluster, a milk chocolate candy filled with caramel, marshmallow, and peanuts. Considered one of the first combination candy bars (as opposed to solid bars), the company's Goo Goo cluster has been around since 1912 and since that time Standard has added to its offerings, which now include Supreme and Peanut Butter Goo Goo versions. It also makes a line of Cinnabon-branded clusters through a licensing agreement, as well as the Cumberland Ridge brand of pecan rolls. Standard Candy sells its products at retailers in Tennessee and other southern US states, as well as through its Web site.

Founded by farmers in 1937 as Consumers Cooperative Oil Company of St. James, the company has expanded from its roots in petroleum marketing. During its first 30 years, it found additional strength in crop production and grain marketing, and, ultimately, in bulk feed, bulk petroleum, and custom spraying. The company took the name Watonwan Farm Service in 1965.In 1967, a merger with Lewisville Farmers Co-op Elevator launched two decades of expansion. Grain operations in St. James began the same year. By 1979, when Ormsby Farmers Grain Company merged with WFS, grain storage had grown to 300,000 bushels and total locations numbered four. Grain capacity rose steadily to one million bushels by 1993, and convenience stores expanded the cooperative’s mix of services. In 1994, acquisition of LH Grain Co. added two-unit train load out facilities and five elevators. Through a long-term lease agreement in 1996, the company assumed assets from Grain Land Co-op.In 1999, WFS acquired Blue Earth County Service Co. by retiring 100% of equity to its stockholders and also purchased the assets of the former Truman Farmers Elevator. WFS then added five facilities formerly owned by Agro Distributing, LLC, in 2000.

Spectrum Organic Products claims to be fat's better half. Using natural products such as olives, fish, seeds, and soybeans, the company makes cooking oils, shortenings, and margarine; fatty acid nutritional supplements; condiments (mayonnaise, vinegar); and nutritional supplements (flaxseed oil). It sells its products to the retail and foodservice markets under the Spectrum Naturals, Spectrum Essentials, and Spectrum Ingredients brand names. Spectrum Organic benefits from consumers' aversion to hydrogenated oils and their preference for healthier alternatives. Its consumer products are sold in health-food and grocery stores in the US and Canada.

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