company has subsidiaries in soft drinks, frozen food, newspaper publishing, and oil and gas exploration and development. ABARTA owns four Coca-Cola bottling companies, Kahiki Foods, ABARTA Oil & Gas, and the South Jersey Publishing Company, which publishes The Press of Atlantic City. ABARTA's Beverage Group is the country's eighth-largest bottler, selling 16 million cases a year from its four plants in Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Coatesville, Pennsylvania; and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

Chr. Hansen Holding A/S was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Hoersholm, Denmark. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S develops and supplies bioscience based ingredients for the food, pharmaceutical, nutritional, and agricultural industries worldwide. The company’s products include cultures comprising dairy cultures, meat cultures, and wine ingredients; enzymes and test kits; functional systems; phytonutrients and colors; probiotics for food and beverages, dietary supplements, pharmaceuticals, and infant formula; and animal health and nutritional products consisting of microbial feed additives and microbial silage inoculants.

American Seafoods is one of the largest integrated seafood companies in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The Company harvests and processes a variety of fish species aboard its sophisticated catcher-processor vessels, its freezer-longliner vessels and at its land-based processing facilities, and markets its products to a diverse group of customers in North America, Asia and Europe. In the U.S., American Seafoods is the largest harvester and at-sea processor of pollock and hake. In addition, American Seafoods harvests and/or processes additional seafood, including cod, scallops and yellowfin sole. The Company maintains an international marketing network through its U.S., Japan and European sales offices. American Seafoods operates in two principal business segments, at-sea harvesting and land-based processing. The at-sea harvesting segment includes the harvesting and processing of pollock, cod, hake and yellowfin sole. Processing of these whitefish species occurs on the Company's vessels while at sea. The land based processing segment includes the processing of groundfish, value added seafood and scallops at our facilities in Massachussetts.

The family- and employee-owned Joy Cone Co. was founded in 1918 by Lebanese immigrant, Albert George, as the George & Thomas Cone Company. Joy Cone company makes and markets ice cream cones for both retailers and foodservice customers. Joy Cone produces more than 1.5 billion cake, sugar, and waffle cones, cups, and bowls per year. It delivers products in the US and Canada using its own fleet of trucks. Joy Cone company also ships its products worldwide and offers custom product development and manufacture. Joy Cone operates from two locations-one in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, and another in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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.

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.

August Goetze purchased the Baltimore Chewing Gum Company five generations ago in 1895 – but don’t let the name mislead you – candy was his business. Goetze’s passion ultimately led him to focus on perfecting a single, signature product. With soft, chewy caramel wrapped around a sweet fondant center, Caramel Creams® were born. Their unique taste has been delighting candy fans ever since – and setting the standard for consistent quality in the American candy business. As Goetze’s Candy Company, we have enjoyed more than a century of customer satisfaction. From horse and cart deliveries in downtown Baltimore, Goetze’s cooks and processes candy daily, for shipments all over the globe. As a 5th generation family business, we’re sure to keep growing into the future without losing touch with a tradition of quality – and a history of extremely loyal customers!

Dawn Foods is a leading manufacturer of dry mixes for baking products, including American-style cookies, doughnuts, and muffins. It also makes pizza dough mixes, powdered gravy, and other baking ingredients. In addition to mixes, the company markets frozen muffins and cakes, as well as icings, toppings, and fillings. Dawn Foods markets mostly to customers in the food service and retail industries, but it also makes consumer products under the Weight Watchers brand. It is the UK outpost of US-based Dawn Food Products.

Dole Food Company, Inc. was founded in 1851. Dole Food Company, Inc. (Dole) is a producer, marketer and distributor of fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Company operates in three business segments: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and packaged foods. The fresh fruit segment contains operating divisions that produce and market fresh fruit to wholesale, retail and institutional customers worldwide. The fresh vegetables segment produces and markets fresh-packed and value-added vegetables and salads to wholesale, retail and institutional customers, primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. The packaged foods segment contains several operating divisions that produce and market packaged foods including fruit, juices, frozen fruit and healthy snack foods.

Tabasco is hot. Created in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, the popular pepper sauce is still made at the original site by McIlhenny Company on Avery Island, Louisiana. In fact, Tabasco actually created the pepper-sauce industry, and it remains a leader in its production and sale to this day. The sauce is distributed to foodservice clients (bars and restaurants) and food retailers in 160 countries. With a 600,000 bottle-a-day capacity Tabasco is labeled in more than 20 languages and dialects. McIlhenny also co-brands and produces other products such as pepper jelly, soy sauce, steak sauces, alcoholic beverages, and, not for the faint of heart, Tabasco lollipops. The McIlhenny family still owns and runs the company.

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