Smart Chicken® was founded in 1998 with a vision to produce the safest and most natural fresh poultry available‚ A Higher Degree of Fresh Chicken™. We introduced air chill technology to the United States, replacing the standard immersion/absorption method of chilling poultry. In addition to minimizing the use of water during processing, air chilling allows us to guarantee that no water is ever added to our chicken, providing a more wholesome and satisfying dining experience.We believe it is important for you to know our chickens are raised and processed the right way, from egg to shelf. Our chickens are fed only the finest grain produced in America's Heartland, are never given antibiotics or hormones nor fed animal by-products. We pioneered the utilization of CAS in the United States so that our birds are handled with care in every aspect of production, from our spacious, free roam farms to our production facility and beyond. Our combination of humane treatment, sustainable practices and state-of-the-art facilities guarantee you a true, premium product.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is an international franchisor, confectionery manufacturer and retail operator in the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot factory, the Company manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks. The factory typically produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.

Lance, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, manufactures and markets snack foods throughout much of the United States and other parts of North America. Its products include sandwich crackers and cookies, potato chips, crackers, cookies, other snacks, sugar wafers, nuts, restaurant style crackers and candy. Lance has manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Iowa, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Ontario, Canada. Products are sold under the Lance®, Cape Cod®, Tom’s®, Archway® and Stella D’oro® brand names along with a number of private label and third-party brands. Lance distributes its products through its direct-store-delivery system, a network of independent distributors and direct shipments to customer locations. Products are distributed widely through grocery and mass merchant stores, convenience stores, club stores, food service outlets and other channels.Lance also produces Private Label Cookies and Crackers for major retailers across many classes of trade. These products span all three tiers of product quality - Value, Mainstream (National Brand Equivalent) and Premium. The Lance Private Brand product line includes Sandwich Crème Cookies, Traditional Crisp Cookies, Saltine Crackers and Snack Crackers.

Founded in 1851 as a small grocery store, William Jackson and Son today offers a line of bakery goods through its Jackson's Bakery business; and sells oriental food products under the Kwoks Foods brand. Other businesses include Tryton Foods, which sells Aunt Bessies Yorkshire Pudding batters, potatoes, and sausage balls. In mid-2004 the UK's #3 grocery chain, J Sainsbury, acquired the company's 114-store Jacksons Stores chain of convenience stores. William Jackson and Son is a family-owned business, which is headed by chairman Christoper Oughtred, the founder's great grandson.

When someone mentions Chiquita, you probably think just of bananas -but there's a lot more to Chiquita than just bananas! In fact, Chiquita's basket overflows with a huge selection of delicious fruit such as pineapples, grapes, melons and avocados. The company also distributes and markets value-added produce including natural fruit ingredients, healthy snacks and nutritious blends of convenient green salads.The company’s products and services are designed to win the hearts and smiles of the world's consumers by helping them enjoy healthy fresh foods. The company markets its products under the Chiquita® and Fresh Express® premium brands.Chiquita is truly a global company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, there are 23,000 employees and operations on six continents. Most employees are based in Central America.

The V&S Group has absolute power -- er, make that "Absolut" power. The company is Sweden's top supplier of wine and spirits, but it is best known for its Absolut vodka, which is sold in 126 markets. The group is comprised of three business units: V&S Absolut Spirits, V&S Distillers, and V&S Wine. V&S has a long-term agreement with Maxxium Worldwide, a spirits distribution consortium, for distribution of its beverages outside the Nordic countries and the US. In 2008 the company was auctioned off to Pernod Ricard by its owner, the Swedish government.

Bronco Wine has been known to buck the system. One of the nation's top wine producers, the vintner makes some 60 labels, including Charles Shaw, Forest Glen, and Coastal Ridge. Operating a 40,000-acre vineyard, the California bulk wine producer is the fourth largest wine seller in the US. It produces some 20 million cases of wine every year. Bronco Wine created a stir in the wine industry and continues to do so by selling its Charles Shaw brand for $1.99 at Trader Joe's Company locations. (The wine, dubbed "drinkable" by many, quickly gained the nickname Two-Buck Chuck.) Other Bronco labels include Carmenet, Crane Lake, and Ridge.

Agricultural producers unite is the rallying cry at this co-op. United Producers is an livestock cooperative that offers marketing, financing, and credit services to its member ranchers and farmers. It also provides risk management and production management services. The co-op has some 45,000 members in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri. All total, it operates more than 40 facilities and handles some 3 million head of livestock. In addition, it maintains a loan portfolio of more than $50 million. United Producers was founded in 1999 through the consolidation of Producers Livestock Association (Ohio/Indiana) and MFA Livestock (Missouri).

Flying Food Group, LLC was founded in 1983. Flying Food Group is a leading provider of in-flight catering services in the US. It supplies prepared meals to more than 60 air carriers from its more than 15 kitchen facilities located throughout the US. (Flying Food Group also has one flight kitchen location in Shanghai.) In addition to in-flight meals, its fresh food solutions unit supplies prepared snacks, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and meals to other foodservice companies and specialty food retailers. With six US fresh food operations, it serves customers such as HMS Host, Aramark, and Starbucks.

More than 600 employees of Advance Brands, L.L.C. create the delicious, convenient chicken, beef and pork products known nationwide as Fast Fixin'. The company's mission is the driving force behind the high quality and convenience of our products: to exceed our customers' expectations and to enable our employees and shareholders to flourish and prosper.Advance Brands knows its customers have precious little time. That's why it spends its time manufacturing more than 150 fully-cooked, frozen, convenience meat products for hurried, harried, and hungry customers. Its Fast Fixin', Fast Fixin' Restaurant Style, and Steak-EZE brands of value-added meat items are made using beef, chicken, pork, turkey and veal. Varieties include breakfast sausage links, sausage patties, and sausage biscuits with gravy. Advance's brands are available at food retailers throughout the US. The company is a privately owned joint venture between Cargill's Excel division and Advance Food.

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