Feeling the need for a citrus organization, a group of citrus growers held their first meeting on June 1,1929. Just a few years later, in 1932, the first official meeting of the Edinburg Citrus Association was held in a school auditorium in Edinburg, Texas.The Edinburg Citrus Association has a grower membership throughout the Rio Grande Valley from the Gulf Coast westward. This loyal membership is the backbone of the company and represents thousands of acres of sweet and juicy Texas Red Grapefruit and Oranges.As the oldest and only surviving citrus fruit cooperative in Texas founded in the 1930s and 1940s, the Edinburg Citrus Association takes its responsibility seriously — both to its grower members and to its customers. Steeped in history but focused on the future, ECA has grown and evolved through the years as one of the leading packinghouses of the Texas Citrus Industry.

Fru-Veg Marketing, Inc., is one of the nation’s leading importers of fine produce from the best growers of Europe and Latin America. The company’s philosophy is founded on the principle of selecting the finest growers in each region. By representing only the top growers each region has to offer, it is able to offer unrivaled quality and volume. Fru-Veg’s success stems from surpassing the benchmarks of its competitors and working closely with its customers to meet their needs on a year-round basis. Through quality and consistency, it ensures that all customers receive the maximum shelf life of products. This, coupled with the constant flow of marketing ideas and product development, has enabled Fru-Veg to launch and maintain a variety of products, from the flourishing Petit Gourmet line of pre-packed vegetables, to organically grown green asparagus.Annual visits to each grower in Europe, Central and South America allows Fru-Veg to build new partnerships, reinforce deep-rooted ones and discover new products. Its work begins in the fields where solid relationships are forged with growers whose dedication to the quality of their product meets with the company’s expectations. Equally important are regularly scheduled personal visits to major chain stores in the U.S. and Canada, where Fru-Veg develops seasonal programs with its customers.

DPI Specialty Foods, DPI Specialty Foods Northwest supplies grocery retailers and foodservice operators with more than 5,500 different food and non-food items. It distributes a wide variety of specialty food products, including ethnic ingredients, gourmet products, and organic food items. DPI Specialty Foods Northwest supplies customers in the Pacific Northwest region and a small number of other western states. Parent DPI Specialty Foods is controlled by the Irish Dairy Board.

Makers of acclaimed national brands- Ne-Mo’s baked treats with their famous homemade goodness, and Cutie Pie, America’s favorite real-fruit snack pie. Horizon Food Group is also a strategic private label baker for many of the most recognizable hotel chains, restaurant chains, specialty grocery chains and weight management companies. Headquartered in beautiful San Diego, California, Horizon Food Group has three manufacturing plants, located in Southern California and Utah. Horizon Food Group distributes products nationally to grocery chains, mass retailers, convenience stores, foodservice outlets, club stores and schools. Explore our brands, and find out how our private label capabilities can grow your business.

Centerplate, Inc. was founded in 1995. Centerplate, Inc. offers food and related services to recreational facilities in the United States and Canada. Its services include food and beverage concession, and catering services in sports and other entertainment facilities, as well as banquet catering and food court operations in convention centers and in-facility restaurants. The company also provides food and related services, including merchandise services; and facility management services comprising event planning and marketing, maintenance, ticket distribution, program printing and advertising, and licensing rights for the facility.

CGB has been an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries since 1970, when it began modestly in a small office in St. Louis, Missouri with 3 employees. Today, CGB operates a global enterprise in more than 70 locations with over 1200 employees, overseeing a diverse family of businesses.The company provides an array of services for grain farmers, from financing and risk management to buying, storing, selling and shipping of the crop. CGB continues to be one of the largest shippers of grain on the inland river system.. The company’s entrepreneurial approach has thrived over 40 years as CGB has expanded in many new directions. Natural extensions have included the addition of soybean processing and fertilizer products.

Grupo Modelo,, founded in 1925, is the leader in Mexico in beer production, distribution and marketing, with 63.3% of the total (domestic and export) market share, as of December 31, 2009. It has a total annual installed capacity of 60 million hectoliters.Currently, it brews and distributes 13 brands, including Corona Extra, the number one Mexican beer sold in the world, Modelo Especial, Victoria, Pacífico and Negra Modelo. It exports five brands and is present in 160 countries. It is the importer of Anheuser-Busch InBev's products in Mexico, including Budweiser, Bud Light and O'Doul's. It also imports the Chinese Tsingtao brand and the Danish beer Carlsberg.

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.

Nestle UK and Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s foremost nutrition, health and wellness company www.nestle.com. Nestle employs almost 7,000 people across 23 sites in the UK and Ireland. Nestle UK is structured into Nestlé UK Ltd (food and beverage, confectionery and Nestlé Nutrition), Nestle Ireland, Nestle Purina Petcare, Nestle Waters, Cereal Partners UK (a joint venture with General Mills) and Lactalis–Nestle Chilled Dairy Company Ltd, a joint venture with Lactalis. Nestle UK make some of the UK’s most popular brands, such as Nescafe, Kit Kat, Carnation, Shredded Wheat, Buxton Water, Ski and Bakers Dog Food. It is estimated that around 95% of households in the UK consume Nestle products.

Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. is a Japanese dairy company. Familiarly known as Meg Milk, its products include fluid milk, yogurt, cream, margarine, fruit juices, and frozen desserts. The company also offers home milk delivery services. In 2009 the company merged with Japan Milk Community by means of a stock swap. Snow Brand Milk and Japan Milk were merged into the company now known as Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. The move reflects the consolidation in Japan's dairy industry, which is due, in part, to rising raw ingredient costs and weak consumer demand. Later that year, Tadashi Idota was appointed president of the company.

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