Premier Foods Company makes bread, spreads, pickles, vinegars, sauces, beverage mixes, and snack foods, as well as bulk condiments. Its big brand names include Ambrosia and Bird's custards, Mr Kipling cakes, Branston baked beans, Hartley jellies, Hovis bread, Loyd Grossman sauces, and Sun-Pat peanut butter. Premier's offerings are available at food retailers and foodservice providers throughout the UK. It has become a lead player in the UK food sector in recent years, with the acquisition of RHM and Campbell Soup's UK operations.

Well, of course grape growers want to hang out in a bunch! The more than 1,200 grower/owners who belong to the National Grape Cooperative Association harvest purple, red, and white grapes from almost 50,000 acres of vineyards in order to supply its wholly owned subsidiary Welch Foods. Welch's makes and sells juices, jams, and jellies under the Welch's and Bama brands. Other co-op products include fresh eating grapes, which are distributed by C.H. Robinson Worldwide, as well as dried fruit and frozen juice bars. National Grape Cooperative growers maintain vineyards in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Washington, and in Ontario, Canada. In 2009 the co-op sold more than 40,000 tons of grapes.

F&S Produce Company, Inc. is owned by president Sam Pipitone, who founded F&S in 1981. F&S Produce Company is a supplier of processed fresh produce, including chunked, diced, and sliced fruits and vegetables and prepared fruit and vegetable salads and trays; it also makes brined and pickled products. Customers include food processors, food service distributors, and chain account representatives. F&S processes more than 75 million pounds of produce annually. Affiliate Pipco Transportation distributes F&S company's products through a fleet of approximately 30 trucks and 50 refrigerated trailers.

Elizabeth Shaw won't mind if you eat that after-dinner mint before dinner. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd. manufactures premium liquor and mint-laced chocolates. Its product line includes truffles and liqueur-filled, as well as its best known -- chocolate mint crisps -- all sold under the Elizabeth Shaw brand. Elizabeth Shaw Ltd.'s boxed confections are sold in supermarkets in the UK and exported widely to other countries The company is owned by Icelandic confectionery company, Nói Síríus. From humble beginnings of Elizabeth Shaw chocolate in a Teddington kitchen, the brand has gone from strength to strength and is now a major household name, on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the UK and exported widely throughout the World.

Red Jacket Orchards is a leading apple and fruit grower with more than 600 acres of orchards in Upstate New York. The company produces more than 20 different varieties of apples, including Empire, McIntosh, and Red Delicious. Red Jacket also grows apricots, raspberries, and strawberries, along with peaches and plums. The company also produces cider and fruit juices. Red Jacket sells its produce direct to consumers through farmers markets and its own orchard store, as well as through supermarkets and grocery retailers. The company's orchards were originally planted in 1917 and have been operated by the Nicholson family since 1958.

Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. engages in the production and marketing of frozen and refrigerated food products in the United States. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. frozen products include pesto sauces, stuffed pastas, and pasta sheets, as well as value-added specialty Italian pastas, focaccia, and cooked meat products. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. markets and sells its products through a network of food brokers to retail, foodservice, and industrial customers, as well as to retail and foodservice distributors, and club-type stores. Armanino Foods of Distinction, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Hayward, California.

Smithfield Foods is a global food company that goes above and beyond to provide good food in a responsible manner. We remain 100 percent committed to environmental leadership, community involvement, employee safety, animal welfare and high-quality food.When Smithfield Foods waddles up to the trough, the other porkers stand back. Fat from acquisitions, the company is the world's largest hog producer and pork processor. Its products include fresh pork and processed, value-added pork products sold under the Armour, Cook's, John Morrell, Lykes, Patrick Cudahy, and Roegelein, and Cumberland Gap names. Smithfield distributes its meats in the US and internationally, mainly in Mexico, Western Europe, the UK, Poland, Romania, and China. In addition to pork, the company produces turkey and turkey products through its Armour-Eckrich operations and its 49% stake in the largest US turkey producer Butterball.

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.

They may not know why the chicken crossed the road but the folks at Crider apparently have figured out how to get them to climb inside its cans. The company is a leading chicken canner in the US and makes a number of fresh and fully-cooked chicken offerings. It also cans turkey, beef, and ham. Crider's products are supplied to food retailers, including club stores nationwide under branded and private-labels. The Georgia company was founded in 1944 by Ahtee and Emma Lou Crider and is still owned and operated by the founders' descendants.

Kodiak Fishmeal Company opened business with a new fish by-products processing facility in January of 1995. Its purpose is to produce top-grade fishmeals for use in the aquaculture and livestock feed markets as well as the agriculture business. The facility consists of 23,216 square feet and is capable of processing over 1,000 metric tons of fish per day.

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