Compass Group Canada is a regional operating unit of global contract foodservices provider Compass Group offering catering, corporate dining, and vending services throughout Canada. Its operating units include Canteen (vending services), Eurest Dining (corporate dining and catering), Morrison (health care foodservices), Eurest Services (building maintenance and security services), and The Hurley Group (janitorial services and facilities management). Compass Group Canada also runs concessions for sports facilities and museums and provides foodservices in remote locations, such as mines and offshore drilling rigs. In French-speaking Quebec, the company operates through Groupe Compass Quebec.

Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) has been producing high quality dairy products for over 120 years, making us the oldest dairy processor in Australia today. We are an Australian-owned company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange since 2004. Warrnambool Cheese and Butter is one of the largest employers in South West Victoria, with about 300 (full-time equivalent) employees based at our Allansford site.

n 2008, Danone recorded an organic growth rate of 8.4% — practical proof that its business growth model truly works. With its operating margin increasing for the 14th year running, the group further strengthened its global standing: world no. 1 in fresh dairy products, world no. 2 in bottled waters, world no. 2 in baby nutrition and European no. 1 in medical nutrition. The group’s performance is the result of a balanced strategy that builds on international expansion, a growing commitment to innovation, and strengthening health-oriented brands. In order to live up to its ambitions, Danone invests heavily in Research & Development — €208 million in 2008. One hundred percent of projects currently in the pipeline focus on health and nutrition. Three centuries after the benefits of Evian mineral water were discovered, over a century after Blédine was first marketed, and nearly a century after the first Danone yoghurt was retailed in a pharmacy, health innovation remains more than ever a driver of the group’s business growth. 2008 confirmed that the previous year’s acquisition of the Dutch group Numico was strategically sound. With this move, Danone incorporated into its strategy two profitable, fast-growing health-oriented business lines: medical nutrition and baby nutrition. They naturally round off the group’s brand portfolio and are perfectly aligned with its mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible. Today Danone is the only food group to focus totally on health.

Arrowac Fisheries uses more advanced techniques than spear-fishing to bring in its catch. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. harvests, buys, processes, and markets fresh and frozen seafood products under the Arrow, Merco, and Ocean Dawn brands. Products include herring, salmon, sardines, sea bass, flounder, crab, shrimp, and shark meat. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. Merco Intertrade division provides international marketing services. Arrowac's fishing and processing operations are located along the Pacific coasts of Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Arrowac Fisheries, Inc. is owned by president Frank Mercker, who founded Arrowac in the 1970s.

Frank P. O’Connor began a small, Toronto-based candy business selling hand-made chocolates. He adopted the name Laura Secord, after the Canadian heroine because she was an icon of courage, devotion and loyalty. Laura Secord started as a single shop on Yonge Street in Toronto. O’Connor turned the flat above the shop into a kitchen and prepared his own products. Success prompted the company’s expansion across Ontario and Quebec and in the 1930’s an office was opened in Winnipeg and drugstore agencies were appointed as Laura Secord outlets, or service shops.

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.Founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association, the cooperative served as a marketing agent to offer the crops of its members - under the brand name "Sunsweet" - to consumers at better prices than were offered by individual growers.Today, Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. After nearly nine decades, Sunsweet boasts an enviable brand recognition of 85 percent in American households, placing it in the very top rank of long-standing successful American products.

The Pennsylvania microbrewer makes Belgian-style craft beers and ales. Also offered is Blithering Idiot barley ale, meant to be carefully sipped and savored before a warm hearth. For those who lack the firewood, Blithering Idiot is still a good choice. At 11% alcohol, it will warm you up. The company's other colorfully named brands include Blasphemy, Decadence, Heresy, Insanity, and Old Heathen. Weyerbacher beers, both bottled and draft, are sold through retailers and taverns in about 15 US states, mainly along the East Coast.

John Nagle Co., a full-line wholesaler of fresh and frozen seafood, was founded in 1887 by John J. Nagle. Since then, four generations of the Nagle family have upheld their strong commitment to family traditions and values within the seafood industry. The founder’s great-grandson, Charles Nagle, is the company’s current president.

LoBue Bros. offers harvesting, packing, and marketing services to growers of California oranges. LoBue Bros company offers its customers several citrus varieties, including Navels and Valencias. The independent commercial packer, which was founded in 1934 with a modest 10-acre orchard, is one of the largest of its kind in the industry. LoBue Bros. -- named after Fred, Mario, and Joe Sr. -- began as a broker of cherries, prickly pears, and other produce. LoBue Bros company is still operated by descendants of the LoBue family.

Sebastiani’s first century in Sonoma winemaking began when Samuele (pictured right) emigrated from the Tuscany region of Italy in 1895 and started Sebastiani nine years later. A stonemason by trade, he quarry-mined the Sonoma hills for cobblestones that were used to build the streets of San Francisco. He worked long hours and saved carefully to buy land in Sonoma County, from which he would make wine for the Sonoma community and San Francisco’s restaurants.The winery was the only one in Sonoma County to continue operations through Prohibition, making a small amount of sacramental and medicinal wines. It has been joked, and perhaps with some grain of truth, that during this time there was a resurgence of people becoming very religious.

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