Pilgrim's Pride couldn't be blamed if it spread its tail feathers and did a barnyard strut. As the world's #1 chicken processor, Pilgrim's operations entail breeding, hatching, raising, processing, and distributing of chicken. Prepared poultry products are sold under the Pilgrim's Pride and EatWellStayHealthy labels to retail food outlets and foodservice operators. The company sells fresh and refrigerated whole and cut-up poultry, value-added prepared chicken, and deli products. It also produces table eggs as well as chicken byproducts for use as animal feed. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008; it emerged from it in late 2009 and was acquired by Brazil's JBS.

The Allen family counts its chickens before and after they're hatched. Allen Family Foods is a vertically-integrated poultry operation that includes breeding, hatching, feed milling, and processing of its chickens. The Delaware-headquartered company operates its 28 of its own "growout" farms and contracts with more than 500 independent farmers, who raise the rest of the company's chickens. Allen offers whole frying, roasting, and rotisserie chickens, chicken parts, and tray packs It sells 600 million pounds of chicken a year to food retailers in the US and throughout the rest of the world. The company's fresh and frozen chicken is distributed in the US by Allen's 400-vehicle truck fleet.

Unilever N.V. is the numero uno Unilever. It has joint custody of food and personal care products giant Unilever. Along with Unilever PLC, the Netherlands-based firm operates Unilever as a joint venture. The three companies operate as the Unilever Group, which has a single board of directors and one set of financial statements. Unilever holds the No. 1 spot in manufacturing dressings, savory, and spreads with brand names Hellmann's, Knorr, Wish Bone, and Ragú. Its other top products include ice cream (Breyers, Ben & Jerry's), tea (Lipton), deodorants (Sure, Degree), and mass skin care (Dove). The company holds the No. 2 position in laundry detergents. Unilever also operates tea and oil plantations.

Tayto (N.I.) is the undisputed king of crisps in Northern Ireland and is expanding its empire. The family-owned company was already nearing the top of the snack market sector when it acquired its larger rival, UK biscuit and snack maker, Golden Wonder, in 2006. Continuing to expand its presence throughout the UK, Tayto purchased Wales-based Real Crisp company the following year. In 2008 it purchased the Red Mill Snack Foods with its Mr Porky and Transform-A-Snack brands, making it one of the leading snack-food makers in the UK.

Established in 1965, Monel Inc. is one of Florida’s most competitive distributors and exporters of: Chocolates, candy, confections, sauces, pastas, gourmet items, caviar, fresh salmon, pâtés, cookies, pastries, oils, specialty items, vinegars, canned products, basket items and much more.With more than 40 years experience in the industry, we stock over 4500 items and provide a complete assortment of world-recognized brands such as: Valor, Lindt, Ghirardelli, Perugina, Toblerone, Bahlsen, Delacre, Twinings, Desert Pepper, Anastasia, Kame, St. Dalfour, Dirty Chips, Volvic, Turin, Al Dente, Mantova, and countless others.

Baloian Packing Co, Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Fresno, California. The company was formerly known as Pam Pak Distributors, Inc. and changed its name to Baloian Packing Co, Inc. in 1985. Baloian Packing Co, Inc., doing business as Baloian Farms, Inc., engages in growing, packing, and marketing fruits and vegetables. The company offers peppers, such as green, red and yellow bell peppers, and jalapenos; leaf lettuce and mixed vegetables, including green leaf, red leaf, romaine, butter/boston, spinach, parsley, cilantro, green onions, radishes, bok choy and napa cabbage products; and melons that consist of honeydew, casaba, crenshaw, galia, jaun canary, orange flesh honeydew, persian, santa claus, and sharlyne products. It also provides red onions and specialty vegetable products, which include red onions, turnips, rutabagas, yams, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, beets, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, and green beans; and summer and winter squash products, which encompass acorn, banana, butternut, kabocha, spaghetti, yellow crookneck, and yellow straightneck and zucchini products.

AnaCon Foods Company manufactures an extensive line of high quality flavor particulate products used by food processors as extenders or replacements for natural fruit and nut pieces and for sweet flavor bits.AnaCon's "Bits-O-Flavor" fruit-like and sweet ingredient bits and "Wheat Germ Nuts" nut analogs impart the appearance, taste, texture, color and aroma of their natural counterparts to a wide array of processed foods at competitive prices. Fruit flavored and sweet Bits-O-Flavor show superior performance in such diverse applications as bagels, frozen waffles and pancakes, cereals, quick bread/muffin mixes, refrigerated dough products, ice cream products, cookies and candies. Product offerings include fruit flavored bits with real fruit, with all natural or artificial flavor; bits with natural color, artificial color, color that "bleeds " into the surrounding product or color that remains confined to the flavor bit; textures designed to hold shape in the finished product and textures that diminish during processing.

Natural Selection Foods took root on a three-acre raspberry farm. Today it's a leading supplier of packaged organic salads to retailers and foodservice operators nationwide. Natural Selection Foods company's more than 100 different products, which also include organic fruits and vegetables, juice, cookies, and granola, are sold in 75% of US grocery stores under the Earthbound Farm brand name. Natural Selection's growers operate some 33,000 certified organic acres in the US (Arizona, California, Colorado, and Washington), Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. In 2006 the California company recalled its fresh spinach and salad mixes containing spinach, which were the subject of an FDA nationwide recall due to an outbreak of E. coli.

For nearly a decade, Canyon Creek has been dishing up delicious foods to grocery retailers, restaurant chains, and other foodservice institutions throughout Canada. Well known for its gourmet soups, Canyon Creek also makes tasty sauses, easy gravies, fresh mashed potatoes and a variety of other side dishes and entrees.At Canyon Creek, company commitment to quality defines who canyon are. Canyon Creek foods are prepared with the freshest ingredients to meet the needs of today's health conscious consumers. They are conveniently packaged to ensure easy preparation straight from the kitchen to the customer. From canyon federally inspected full scale manufacturing plant in Edmonton, Alberta, canyon superior products are shipped coast to coast in Canada. Canyon Creek Edmonton facility is federally inspected but on top of that manufacturing facility is also HAACP approved. With fully integrated production facilities coupled with extensive research and development, Canyon Creek has the right ingredients for satisfying its customers with high quality, custom formulated food products.

Founded by Gasparé Indelicato in 1924, Delicato Family Vineyards goal has always been to grow the finest possible grapes, and then use those grapes to create premium wines at affordable prices. Nearly 85 years later, Gasparé's original vision continues with the third generation of Indelicato family members. Nowhere is this more evident in the fact that Delicato has been named US Wine Producer of the Year an unprecedented three times at the International Wine and Spirits Competition along with countless individual awards for its wines. Affordably priced and created with intense character, Delicato wines deliver incredible value far beyond their price point. Available in six varietals, Delicato truly is a wine that is perfect for real life.

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