Founded in 1988, ITI Tropicals is owned by president Gert Van Manen. ITI Tropicals packs a lot of fruity flavor into not very itty-bitty packages. ITI Tropicals company imports tropical fruit purees, concentrates, waters, essences, and other products, focusing on banana, coconut, guava, mango, papaya, and passion fruit. It also carries more exotic fruits such as mangosteen, mora-berry, acerola, lulo, tamarind, and guanabana. ITI distributes its products, which come in frozen or aseptic packaging and range in size from 5-gallon pails to 220-gallon drums, to food manufacturers throughout the US.

PYCO Industries is a member-owned cooperative with cottonseed oil mills located in Lubbock, Texas. Used by food manufacturers and other foodservice companies, its oil is shipped to customers across the country. The coop also markets whole cottonseed as well as such byproducts as cottonseed hulls and cottonseed meal used in livestock feed. Cottonseed linters, another byproduct, is used by manufacturers for mattresses and upholstery padding, as well as in the paper and plastics industries. PYCO boasts more than 60 cotton gins in the southern US.

COOPERATIVE ELEVATOR CO. is an agricultural cooperative situated in Michigan's "thumb"- a rich agricultural region offering fertile soils, tiled fields, adequate rainfall, and temperatures moderated by Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay.The region combines trained and experienced producers, excellent work ethics, good transportation, a strong agricultural infrastructure, diversified crop and livestock enterprises, and progressive farming practices to create a spirit of cooperation and partnering.The cooperative is owned by over 900 farmer producers and has been in business since 1915. Cooperative Elevator Co. is headquartered in Pigeon, Michigan and has plants in Akron, Bad Axe, Deckerville, Elkton, Fairgrove, Gagetown, North Branch, Pigeon, Ruth, and Sebewaing. We provide quality farm inputs to member patrons. These farm supplies include feed, seed, fertilizer, chemicals, and petroleum.

The Group is a major private group in the Scotch whisky industry with a number of specialist operations covering every facet of Scotch whisky distilling, blending and bottling.The origins of the Group, today one of the largest companies in the Scotch whisky industry, stretch back to the 1850s when the company was founded in Glasgow by the Robertson family. Edrington continues to operate with the Robertson family values of Integrity, Independence, Involvement and Innovation.The Robertson family was also responsible for founding Highland Distillers back in 1887 and in autumn 1999, Edrington acquired Highland along with its powerful brands The Famous Grouse, The Macallan and Highland Park. These are distributed throughout the world through a series of distribution networks and partnerships.

Nisshin Seifun Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the flour milling, processed foods, health foods, biotechnology, pet food, engineering, and mesh cloth businesses in Japan and internationally. It manufactures and sells wheat flour, bran, bakery mixes, and ready-made and other food-related items; and pasta, pasta sauces, premixes, flour for consumer use, heat-and-serve products, dried noodles, and chilled and frozen food products, as well as deli dishes. The company also involves in the manufacture and sale of health foods, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and pharmaceutical products, as well as pet food. In addition, it designs and manages manufacturing and processing facilities for grains, food materials, and chemicals, as well as sells powder processing related equipment. Further, the company manufactures and sells bread yeast and other food ingredients, as well as ingredients for diagnostic drugs and drugs for research.

Eagle Family Foods, Inc It's been called "Magic" ... a can of Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk plus a few select ingredients and the results are, well, like magic! Rich chocolate candies, moist cookie bars, picture-perfect lemon pies, light and luscious cheesecakes, fudgy frostings, caramel flans and creamy smooth ice cream ... just a few of the classic desserts made with Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk.

The Andersons earns its daily bread on a mix of grains, trains, and corncobs. The agricultural company's main business (and most lucrative at 71% of 2009 sales) -- the Grain & Ethanol Group -- consists of the buying, conditioning, and reselling of corn, soybeans, and wheat, which it acquires from US grain farmers and stores, using a system of elevators and terminals located in the Midwest. But there's more -- the company has five operating segments. In addition to the Grain & Ethanol Group, its other segments are the Plant Nutrient Group, the Retail Group, the Turf & Specialty Group, and the Rail Group. The Andersons has operations in seven US states, as well as rail-leasing interests in Canada and Mexico.

LeaderBrand is a fresh produce grower and supplier. It grows, packs, and markets its broccoli, sweet corn, lettuce, squash, and other vegetables in New Zealand and the US, as well as Japan, South Korea, and other northeast Asian countries. Taking its products from the field to the market, vertically-integrated LeaderBrand also offers packaged fresh salad blends and slaws. In addition, it supplies food processors. LeaderBrand's customers include restaurant chains and grocery retailers. Business partnerships, with companies such as the fast-food chains Subway and Burger King, have proved lucrative for LeaderBrand Produce Company.

Centaur Grain guards the harvest and protects the profits. At least it tries to. The farm cooperative specializes in grain marketing and trading for its members. The co-op's storage facilities serve over 1,800 UK grain growers in Southern England and the eastern counties up to the Scottish borders. It offers four marketing plans and advisors to help its farmer members choose wisely. In addition to marketing, Centaur provides grain grading, cash flow management, warehousing, and online ordering services. It sells grain to retailers, bakeries, and bio fuel producers. Centaur was founded in 2001 with the merger of Group Cereal Services and Lingrain Limited.

If every chicken tells a story, then JFC has plenty of fine-feathered tales to tell. Starting out as a mail-order hatchery for other producers, the family-owned company has grown into a fully-integrated poultry processor through its Gold'n Plump Poultry business. The Gold'n Plump brand of fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products includes such items as rotisserie chicken in "grab and go" packages and bake-it-in-the-package entrees. JFC's poultry products are sold to retail food and foodservice customers nationwide. The company's primary product -- chickens -- is sourced through some 250 poultry farmers located in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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