Massimo Zanetti founded Segafredo Zanetti. Initially he developed the business within Italy, where it soon became a leader in the licensed and public premises market. The company then extended into the consumer market and large scale retail trade, before going on to conquer the international markets. Segafredo Zanetti is now the leading Espresso producer in Italy and throughout the world, with more than 70,000 clients and 50 million cups of espresso drunk each day. Its mission is to spread the taste, the culture and preparation method of the true Italian Espresso to the whole world.

Since launching in 1990, Plexus Cotton has rapidly grown into a global network of partnerships, with an annual turnover approaching half a billion dollars. Our influence and activities comprise farming, ginning, warehousing, logistics and marketing operations. This integration of expertise means that we’re agile and efficient, staying at the front of technological advances. Our market experience means we provide the best possible return to our growers and the best possible quality and price to our consumers, worldwide. Above all, at Plexus Cotton we work empathically with our partners, respecting the talents and needs of every individual involved from the soil to the shop rail.

Roll back the curtain of time to the spring of 1919 when two brothers, David and Ernest Horn, had a vision. They founded a company in agriculturally-prosperous York County, Pennsylvania with $500 in cash and a $2,000 loan. Included in the transaction was a horse-drawn wagon. Within two years they were able to buy a Model T pickup to make sales calls and deliveries to area farmers. The Horn brothers believed in treating their customer as they'd like to be treated -- always providing personalized service and quality products. By 1927 the Horns were ready to start manufacturing their own commercial poultry and livestock feed, and in 1935 they built their first complete feed manufacturing plant in York, PA.Over the years, the company flourished and grew from a small grist-type feed mill into a diversified, multi-state business. In 1985 the company acquired Ritter Food Service, a food distribution company, in the 1990s, several more strategic acquisitions were integrated into both the feed and food segments of the business. Today, Pennfield is a modern, innovative company headquartered in Lancaster, PA, and has the resources and commitment needed for continuing growth in the agricultural and food industries. This initiative will continue to be directed toward providing Pennfield customers with the finest products and service anywhere.

Founded by farmers in 1937 as Consumers Cooperative Oil Company of St. James, the company has expanded from its roots in petroleum marketing. During its first 30 years, it found additional strength in crop production and grain marketing, and, ultimately, in bulk feed, bulk petroleum, and custom spraying. The company took the name Watonwan Farm Service in 1965.In 1967, a merger with Lewisville Farmers Co-op Elevator launched two decades of expansion. Grain operations in St. James began the same year. By 1979, when Ormsby Farmers Grain Company merged with WFS, grain storage had grown to 300,000 bushels and total locations numbered four. Grain capacity rose steadily to one million bushels by 1993, and convenience stores expanded the cooperative’s mix of services. In 1994, acquisition of LH Grain Co. added two-unit train load out facilities and five elevators. Through a long-term lease agreement in 1996, the company assumed assets from Grain Land Co-op.In 1999, WFS acquired Blue Earth County Service Co. by retiring 100% of equity to its stockholders and also purchased the assets of the former Truman Farmers Elevator. WFS then added five facilities formerly owned by Agro Distributing, LLC, in 2000.

The FGN Group is a leader in plant genetic research and development for global biofuel, forestry and agricultural markets. The Group was formed by the merge of FGN Plc with CBD Technologies and has integrated the abiotic stress platform with the yield enhancement and processability technology from these entities into a powerful new package for the enhancement of biofuel, forestry and agricultural crops. It collaborates with renowned institutional partners worldwide and has thus been able to take an innovative and multi-faceted approach to significantly improve agronomic traits of value in plants. The FGN Group has strategic agreements with leading commercial companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors around the world and continues to actively partner its technologies. The Group has a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio that addresses environmental stresses in plants such as salinity, drought, cold, and heat and protects its developments on the modification of plant cell walls to enhance plant growth rates, yield and processability of plant fiber. FuturaGene technologies, by allowing plants to grow on marginal lands and to produce more usable fiber for industry, are a major contributor to ensuring food security and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, forest product and biofuel production.

Western Yeast Company produces cultured yeast and other dietary supplements for farm animals and livestock. Yeast aids in digestion and is especially helpful for pregnant or nursing animals and their young. Western Yeast makes supplements suitable for beef and dairy cattle, goats, horses, swine, chickens and turkeys, and sheep, as well as for dogs. The company also makes sanitizing products for controlling and.or eliminating odor from live animal operations and septic tanks. Western Yeast was founded by Dr. E. W. Newhaven in 1932 and incorporated in 1969.

Knox Nursery, Inc. is a Florida plug and liner producer that packs the Florida sun into every plant, providing our customers with a Better Built Plant in our GoPlug™ and Flori-Color™ liner production. Dutch rolling benches are incorporated throughout the whole operation and each tray is equipped with an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip that is an integral part of the software program Grower's Own™, developed by Knox Nursery, Inc. Annuals are an everyday business for Knox Nursery. Founded in 1962, the company grows 13,000 varieties of flowering annuals for a variety of customers, including landscapers and home improvement chain stores, nationwide. For the production of seedling annuals, which account for most of the company's sales, Knox Nursery spent about $6 million to build a growing facility that uses automation to cut labor costs, about in half. It operates its business on more than 20 acres in Florida. The company's major customers have included Ball Seed, Walt Disney World, and DPT Brokerage. The Knox family took the company private in mid-2005, citing the high cost of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

The family-owned DelGrosso Foods Inc. was founded in 1946 by Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso; the family also operates DelGrosso's Amusement Park adjacent to its sauce facilities in Tipton, Pennsylvania. DelGrosso Foods produces a variety of tomato sauces, including pasta sauce, pizza sauce, and salsa, as well as Italian-style meatballs. Its spaghetti sauce flavors include meat, mushroom, three cheese, and tomato basil. It sells products through grocery retailers under the DelGrosso brand. For upscale markets, it packages sauces under the premium La Famiglia DelGrosso brand. It also makes an organic sauce line and packs private label brands.

At Country Pure Foods, juice is our business. As one of the top independent juice processors in the country, it is our mission to deliver a fresh assortment of healthy, refreshing beverages to juice lovers everywhere. We distribute our products to the Foodservice, Retail, Convenience Store and Co-Pack markets through our company’s brands of Ardmore Farms®, Natural Country® and Glacier Valley®, and also provide contract packing for some of the nation’s best-known juice companies. We can target a nationwide customer base with our broad line of products and packaging alternatives. Country Pure Foods was formed by joining three outstanding companies: Natural Country Farms of Ellington, Connecticut, Ohio Pure Foods of Akron, Ohio, and Ardmore Farms of DeLand, Florida. Combined, we have over 150 years of experience providing fresh juice, packaging and distribution solutions. These three manufacturing locations enable us to service our customers with an impressive 99.5% order fill rate. To ensure the complete satisfaction of our customers, we support our innovative product line with a strong brand, national distribution, superior customer service and the highest quality manufacturing in the nation.

Since its founding in 1969, the National Raisin Company has been owned by the Bedrosian family. National Raisin might secretly like to twist the old adage to go something like -- a raisin a day (actually, maybe cup) keeps the doctor away. Located in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley raisin-growing region, the company processes more than 100 million pounds of raisins every year. National produces organic and conventional raisins for retail customers under the Champion and Bonner Organic labels. It also grows and dries plums (prunes) and apricots, also sold under the Champion brand name. In addition, National's foodservice operation offers currents, raisin juice concentrate, and raisin paste.

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