ACH is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods (LON: ABF), a diversified international food, ingredient and retail group with global sales of $13.5 billion. At ACH Food Companies, Inc., we’re focused on brands that are #1 or #2 in their categories. In North America, we market, sell and manufacture a premier branded portfolio of cooking oils, spices and seasonings, baking ingredients and foodservice brands in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Since its listing, with the enthusiasm and support of the Beijing Municipal Government and various sectors in Hong Kong, Beijing Enterprises has successfully adhered to the mission of maximizing shareholders' interests. Leveraging on Beijing's edges and through the convergence of both the resources in Beijing and Hong Kong, we insist in a proactive and steady direction of operation as well as prudent and focused investment strategies. The scale of its businesses and assets are gradually expanding with improving operating results. Our strength as a whole enhanced significantly. Since 2004, Beijing Enterprises actively traces the changes of market orientation, reform in the state-owned assets administration system, and the progress of market-oriented operations for public utilities. We have established the market positioning of "an integrated public utilities company with municipal energy services as the core business segment" and created the overall strategic mission as "the major entity and the investment and financing platform under the Beijing Municipal Government for the operation and administration of infrastructure and public utilities". We have initiated the joint reorganization of Beijing Gas Group, and divested non-core business segments at an extensive scale. Through more than three years of uninterrupted dedication and devotion, Beijing Enterprises preliminarily achieved the strategic transformation from a conglomerate to a professional public utilities company.

Orion Seafood International caters to the crab lover; not to mention the lobster lover and the shrimp lover. As a worldwide distributor and marketer, the company serves up such products as snow and king crab meat, lobster claws and tails, scoopable lobster salad, and cooked and raw shrimp. Customers include foodservice providers, supermarket chains, retailers, and cruise lines. Orion's Grill-Cuts brand shrimp for grilling is sold ready-prepped, frozen, and packaged at such grocery stores as Albertsons, Hannaford, and Hy-Vee. Privately held, Orion Seafood International was co-founded by CEO Charles Anastasia in 1988. Orion Seafood International company sources its products from North America, South America, Asia, and Russia.

Natures Way Foods Ltd. company was founded in 1994 when Tesco asked farmer, David Langmead, to produce a salad product it required. Langmead's brother, Robert, a former food consultant to Unilever, joined him and together they created the Natures Way as a sister company to Langmead Farms. Once simply a lettuce farm, the company now prepares and packages ready-made salads, and watercress for sale through major UK grocery retailers and restaurants; it also provides bagged ready-to-eat fresh fruit.

Grupo Leche Pascual's principal activity is the packaging and preparation of milk, yogurt pasteurized after fermentation, juices, soft drinks, breakfast cereals, eggs and tortillas UHT liquid, mineral water, soya drinks, functional foods and other derivatives top quality milk and marketing of all of them. The marks by which the Group's products sold are: Pascual, Yosport, Zumosol, ViveSoy, Works, MásVital, Bezoya, Pascual and Essential Nature. On the other hand, the result of the expansion and continued growth of the Company, Grupo Leche Pascual has diversified its activities introduced in other economic sectors.

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of international brands across spirits, wine and beer. Many of our brands have been around for generations, while some have been developed more recently to meet new consumer tastes and experiences. Our great range of brands and geographic spread means that people can celebrate with our products at every occasion no matter where they are in the world. This is why 'celebrating life every day, everywhere' is at the core of what we do. Diageo is still a relatively young company – we have only exisited in our current form since 1997- but our brands and our business have a rich heritage.For example our earliest ancestor company formed in 1749, is Justerini & Brooks - wine merchants, and blenders of the famous J&B whisky range. 10 years after that, in 1759 Arthur Guinness signed the lease on the now world famous St James's Gate brewery in Dublin, going on to create a globally iconic brand.

AgFeed Industries readies hogs for the abattoir (i.e., the slaughterhouse). The company manufactures, distributes, and sells hog feed and feed additives, and owns almost 30 hog farms in China. It sells feed from its five plants to more than 650 large-scale pig farms (including its owns farms) and distributes feed to more than 1,000 retail locations. The company sells more than 75,000 tons of feed products a year under more than 20 different brand names. AgFeed Industries also raises hogs, including purebred Yorkshire, Landrace, and Duroc hogs, for slaughter. It produces more than 400,000 hogs per year and operates a 68-acre breeder pig farm to supply its farms with sows and boars. AgFeed was founded in 1995.

A leading US meatpacker, National Beef Packing (NBPC) pays close attention to what Americans eat for dinner. The company produces boxed, case-ready, portion-controlled, and branded fresh beef products for more than 900 domestic and export customers. In order to woo the natural-foods consumer, the company offers the Naturewell Natural Beef and NatureSource products, which are made from corn-fed, naturally raised beef cattle. Its refrigerated trucking unit, National Carriers, transports the company's beef within the US. NBPC is owned by beef producers, who control 68% of the company through their ownership of U.S. Premium Beef. U.S. (Premium provides cattle to NBPC for processing.)

The people who live in these glass houses are too busy picking tomatoes to throw stones. Village Farms International is one of the largest North American producers of hydroponically grown beefsteak and cherry tomatoes and tomatoes on-the-vine. The company operates four greenhouses covering some 230 acres in Texas and British Columbia. It also purchases and sells tomatoes, sweet peppers, and English seedless cucumbers grown by other greenhouses. Selling under the Village Farms and Home Choice brand names, the company's fresh produce is available year-round throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. Its greenhouses are located in Marfa and Fort Davis, Texas, and Delta, British Columbia.

Pendleton Grain Growers (PGG) gets the pendulum swinging faster for farmers wanting to take their harvests to market. The agricultural cooperative provides its member-farmers with a full range of farm products and services. PGG offers its approximately 2,400 members crop-processing, marketing, agronomy, and irrigation services, along with hardware, farm equipment, and fuel. It operates about 30 grain-storage facilities and a fleet of nearly 15 storage-to-terminal delivery trucks. PGG was founded in 1930 to create bulk handling, transportation, and storage services for wheat farmers in the Pendleton, Oregon, area.

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