"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.

The Ashers really love to smother things in chocolate. Asher's Chocolates manufactures chocolate and confections, including chocolate-covered pretzels potato chips, and graham crackers. Asher's Chocolates, Inc. also produces boxed assortments (including truffles, chews, nuts, cordials, and creams) and gift baskets, fudge, pecan-caramel patties, almond bark, and sugar-free assortments. Asher's Chocolates sells its products through its own retail store (in Souderton, Pennsylvania -- near Philadelphia), by mail- order, and online on its Web site. The family-owned company was founded in 1892.

Lancaster Brewing Company's Brewmaster is Bill Moore, where he oversees brewing operations. Bill has worked in the craft brewing industry for over 20 years, running some of the top breweries on the East Coast, including Independence, Stoudt’s and Sly Fox. Bill invites you come taste the Hand Crafted Ales and Lagers of Lancaster Brewing Company.

Started by Teresa Marzetti in 1896 as a small restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, T. Marzetti company is the specialty-foods division of Lancaster Colony. T. Marzetti is a leading manufacturer of specialty food products, including salad dressings, condiments, dips, and other food toppings mostly sold under the Marzetti brand. Its other offerings include croutons (Cardini and Chatham Village), dry and frozen egg noodles (Inn Maid and Reames), and frozen baked goods (Marshall's, Mamma Bella, and Sister Shubert's). T. Marzetti company sells its products throughout the US, primarily through retail grocers; however, it also supplies foodservice operators.

Carnivores have a friend in JBS. With a slaughter capacity of 73,900 cattle a day, the company is the world's largest beef processor and exporter. It distributes its products worldwide. In addition to fresh and processed beef and pork (it is the third largest pork producer in the US), JBS sells cooked beef, canned goods, and ready-to-eat meals; it also sells hides and other cattle parts. JBS markets its beef domestically under the Friboi brand. It also owns a majority of US poultry firm Pilgrim's Pride. The company's top export markets are Mexico, Russia, and the EU. JBS is in the process of a major growth phase, buying up meat operations in the US, Europe, and Australia.

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas company, a subsidiary of UK ingredient giant Tate & Lyle PLC, is one of a handful of companies that make high-fructose corn syrup -- the sweetener used by virtually all soft-drink manufacturers in the world. Offering more than 350 food and industrial starch products, the company is one of the largest corn refiners in the US. In addition to corn syrup, Tate & Lyle Americas also manufactures food and industrial ingredients such as fat replacers, starches, sweeteners (including sucralose, the main ingredient in SPLENDA), acidulates, citrates, savory flavors, animal-feed ingredients, and ethanol.

San Francisco-based Diamond Foods is a high-growth innovative packaged food company focused on building, acquiring and energizing brands including, Kettle Chips, Emerald snack nuts, Pop Secret popcorn, and Diamond of California snack and culinary nuts. The Company's strategy is to build brands from the ground up as well as identify opportunities in under-developed brands and then add value by making a relevant connection to the contemporary consumer. Diamond's products are distributed globally in stores where snacks and culinary nuts are sold.Founded in 1912 with a strong heritage in the walnut market under the Diamond of California brand, Diamond Foods completed its initial public offering in July, 2005. The Company has approximately 1,700 year-round employees and its stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol DMND.

You could say that the Young Pecan Company is a shell company but in a good way. Relieving some 100 million pounds of pecans of their shells every year, the company is one of the largest pecan processors in the world. It has state-of-the-art laser shelling operations in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Florence, South Carolina; and Zaragosa, Mexico, as well as buying operations and storage facilities in Albany, Georgia. Farming no nut orchards of its own, Young Pecan purchases pecans from growers located near its plants. It sells its shelled pecan products to mainly domestic and international food manufacturing companies, with some distribution in retail food outlets. The company was purchased by the King Ranch in 2006.

Greencore Group plc manufactures convenience foods and ingredients. Greencore Group company has manufacturing sites in four countries of the European Union. Segments Greencore Group company’s segments include Convenience Foods and Ingredients & Related Property. Convenience Foods The Convenience Foods division provides a range of chilled, frozen and ambient foods to major retail and foodservice customers in the United Kingdom, the United States, Continental Europe, and Ireland. Food to Go: Greencore Group company operates as a sandwich manufacturer and producer of prepared salads and sushi, with four facilities. Prepared Meals: Greencore Group company operates as a manufacturer of chilled prepared meals and producer of quiche and savoury flans with three facilities. Chilled Sauces and Soups: Greencore Group company operates as a supplier of chilled sauces and soups. Its facility at Bristol provides both own label and branded products for retailers across the United Kingdom. Grocery: Greencore Group company manufactures ambient grocery products. It produces a range of both branded and customer own-brand sauces, pickles, dressings and condiments. Frozen Foods: Greencore Group company supplies frozen Yorkshire puddings, Toad in the Hole and filled Yorkshire puddings, under both brand and customer own label. Cakes and Desserts: Greencore Group company produces celebration cakes and supplies Christmas cakes and chilled desserts. Foodservice: Greencore Group company supplies frozen desserts to the U.K. foodservice industry.

French champagne producer Laurent-Perrier toasts its place as one of the world's largest champagne producers. The company's middle market to high-end bubbly, incuding lables such as Laurent-Perrier, Champagne de Castellane, Salon, Delamotte, Jeanmaire, Oudinot, and Beaumet, is distributed primarily by controlled company channels in more than 120 countries through direct sales to restaurants, retailers, bars, and hotels. The company concentrates on sales in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier went public in 1999 by selling a little more than one-quarter of the company's shares. The de Nonancourt family controls the company.

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