Boyd Coffee Company is a fourth generation family owned business founded by Percival Dewe Boyd. P.D. Boyd, born in New Zealand in 1879, came to the United States with his family in 1882. Landing in the great Northwest, PD Boyd worked in grocery and sales until he decided to go off on his own and start a business. Located in downtown Portland, Boyd peddled his wares from a red, horse-drawn wagon he had purchased for $5 and thus, founding the "Boyd Importing Tea Company." By 1910, the horse-drawn wagons were replaced with trucks. With the spread of the automobile, the business took a new direction, and by 1920, home delivery was terminated. As his business grew, and Boyd gained in popularity, his reputation as a perfectionist followed. His greatest passion was for quality coffee. He also proved to be an ingenious businessman. Boyd was the first US coffee distributor to loan coffee brewing equipment to restaurants and the food service industry, a tradition that spread throughout the industry. By 1939, PD Boyd had a branch office in Yakima, Washington and soon other distribution points were established. The "Boyd Blend" of coffee was in demand.

Elamex is a Mexican company with manufacturing operations in Mexico and the United States. Elamex, S.A. de C.V. is involved in the production of food items related to its candy manufacturing and nut packaging operations as well as real estate holdings in Mexico. Elamex's competitive advantage results from its demonstrated capability to leverage low cost, highly productive labor, strategic North American locations, recognized quality and proven ability to combine high technology with labor-intensive manufacturing processes in world-class facilities. To be a world class manufacturing business and value added provider with the objectives of superior customer satisfaction, employee growth and development, long term supplier relationships with the ultimate goal of shareholder value.

From a little acorn the mighty oak does grow ... an adage that Syngenta Seeds is squarely behind. The company's big business is based on little seeds of all types, commercial and retail flower and vegetable, and field crop. A subsidiary of global agricultural giant Syngenta AG's US business, Syngenta Seeds is comprised of NK Seeds, Garst, Golden Harvest, Hilleshög, and Rogers -- all of which take seed production from the research and development phase all the way through to sales and distribution. Syngenta Seeds' products are available worldwide.

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. is a Japan-based company engaged in five business segments. The Marine Products segment is engaged in fishing, cultivation, processing and sale of seafood products. The Food segment manufactures and sells processed food products such as frozen food products and common temperature food products, among others. The Logistics segment is engaged in the refrigeration storage of marine products, as well as the transportation of frozen and chilled products. The Fine Chemical segment manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, health food and pharmaceutical materials. The Others segment is engaged in the construction and repair of ships, as well as the marine transportation and engineering business. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had 73 subsidiaries and 35 associated companies.

Compass Group is the world's largest contract foodservices provider with operations in more than 50 countries. It provides hospitality and foodservice for a variety of businesses and such public-sector clients as cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools. It also offers vending, catering, and concessions services for a number of events and sports venues. Its foodservice brands include Chartwells, Crothall, and Levy Restaurants. In addition, Compass is a franchisee of such well-known chains as Burger King and Starbucks.

Roquette Frères S.A. produces and sells starch and starch derivatives for customers and industries in France and internationally. It transforms renewable resources corn, wheat, potatoes, and peas into a line of ingredients for a range of food and non-food industries. The company offers starch products, sugars and dietary fibers, organic acids and their salts, polyols, bioethanol, and derivatives of fermentation and fine chemistry products, as well as fibers, oils, and soluble products. The company also provides raw materials and excipients that are used in various pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications, including cyclodextrins; paper corrugating adhesives for adhesives, corrugated board, fine papers, packaging board, and publication paper applications; a range of nutritional and functional animal feed ingredients for calf, dog, cat, fish, shrimp, horse, pig, piglet, poultry, and ruminant; and intermediary products that are used to modify or enhance the manufacture of final products. Its products used in the food, halal food, beverage, and health food industries.

PM Beef Holdings is a leading processor and supplier of meat products to consumers, retailers, and foodservice operators. Its PM Beef Group supplies private-label and branded (Nature's Pride and Angus Beef Preferred Stock) case-ready beef to food retailers, as well as other specialty meat products for restaurants and other hospitality operators. The company also sells a variety of steaks and other beef cuts direct to consumers through its Web site. It has operations in Minnesota and Virginia. PM Beef was started in the 1990s by billionaire John Kluge (founder of holding company Metromedia) and James Ukrop (Ukrop's Super Markets).

Grim though it may seem, there was a time when people thought all coffee was the same. It was a time when there were no trendy espresso shops. A time when the term “Arabica” was not part of the average American’s vocabulary. A time when coffee usually arrived in a tin cylinder. A time called 1975. nd while most young Americans were perfecting their disco moves, one young man, Jeffrey Cohn, focused instead on a new venture—launching a specialty coffee company. Having grown up in a family of coffee entrepreneurs (his grandfather was the founder of coffee giant Superior Coffee), Cohn wanted to provide people with a higher-quality coffee than the one they could get to with a can opener—one that people could enjoy solely on the merits of flavor. In 1977, his vision became a reality with the establishment of “The Brewing Market” in Boulder, Colorado. Soon after opening his second shop in 1980, Cohn began roasting his own beans on-site, exposing Boulder to authentic, freshly roasted specialty coffees for the first time. In 1985, increasing demand in the wholesale market prompted Cohn to sell the Brewing Market and launch Allegro Coffee Company, an import, roasting and wholesale distribution venture. Cohn’s insistence on using only the purest quality ingredients and traditional, handcrafted roasting methods sparked the interest of Boulder’s natural foods retailers just as natural foods markets were beginning a phase of dynamic, nationwide expansion.

Moark LLC is one of the top egg producers in the US, owning more than 24 million laying hens in about a dozen facilities across the nation. Its eggs are sold under private-label and national brand names, such as Land O'Lakes All-Natural Farm Fresh Eggs. The company, whose hens produce some 126 million eggs a week, also produces specialty eggs including all-natural, cage-free, Omega-3-enhanced, and organic. Moark is also is a top franchisee of the Eggland's Best brand of eggs. The bulk of the company's eggs are sold as shell eggs, the rest are turned into other consumer and industrial egg products.

The family-owned General Produce Co., Ltd. was started by Tai Oy Chan in 1933. General Produce is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving both retail and foodservice customers in Northern California and parts of Oregon and Nevada. It supplies a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to supermarket chains and independent grocers, as well as restaurants, schools, and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to fresh produce, General Produce distributes such specialty products as flowers, ethic food items, and organic produce.

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