Where's the beef? It's in Argentina -- at Cresud, one of Argentina's largest agricultural companies. It raises beef and dairy cattle and cultivates grains, including corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat. Cresud, an agricultural REIT (real estate investment trust), is also one of Argentina's largest landowners (some 330,000 hectares). In addition, the company farms and ranches on leased lands. Cresud is in partnership with Tyson Foods and Cactus Feeders of Texas to raise cattle in feedlots. It also has a 70% holding in the agricultural Web portal, fyo.com.

Sara Lee chose cheesecake over clothing. Jettisoning the apparel business, Sara Lee now peddles mostly food and drink, along with some household goods, although it's selling off that business too. Its North American Retail unit is a major packaged meat maker (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean), and a leading manufacturer of frozen bakery products, including Ms. Lee's famous raid-the-refrigerator-at-midnight frozen cheesecakes. The fresh bakery segment supplies North America with prepackaged bread and other baked goods. Sara Lee International oversees coffee, tea, and bakery in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. The North American Foodservice unit supplies coffee, meat, and bakery to foodservice operators across the continent.

Finsbury Food Group has puffed up since it mixed up a recipe for a bakery roll-up. Starting with the purchases of Nicholas & Harris (specialty breads, muffins) and Memory Lane Cakes (boxed cakes, sponges), Finsbury has acquired more companies to fill up its bread box. Its subsidiary businesses include: California Cake Company (low-fat cakes, pies, muffins), Campbells Cake Company (unbaked desserts), United Central Bakeries (breads, breakfast goods), Livwell (Yorkshire Farm gluten-free breads and breakfast goods), Anthony Allen (Weight Watchers cakes), and Lightbody (Celebration cakes).

Wimm-Bill-Dann is the market leader in dairy products and children’s food in Russia and one of the leading players in the market for non-alcoholic drinks in Russia and the CIS. Wimm-Bill-Dann has more than 35 production facilities in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. More than 18,000 people work at WBD’s production facilities and trading affiliates. Our most recognized brands include: Domik v Derevne (Little House in the Village), Chudo (Wonder), Vesely Molochnik (Happy Milkman), Imunele and Lamber. We also have Russia’s best-known juice brand, J7. No less popular are our brands Lyubimy Sad (Favorite Garden), Chudo-Yagoda (Wonder-Berry), and Essentuki. Our Agusha trademark is Russia’s most recognized baby-food brand.

Dover Industries is a leading supplier of flour to the foodservice and baking industries with flour mills operating in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan. In addition to commercial flour products, it also makes private-label and retail flour as well as baking mixes. Dover's cone division makes ice cream cones under the Robinson brand name, Carousel straws and stir stix, and paper take-out food containers. Dover Industries company's cup division manufactures a wide variety of paper cups and cup-shaped containers for hot and cold food and beverages.

The Mountain View team was founded by Randy and Ruth Ataide, Bill and Becky Janzen, and Mike and Peggy Thurlow in 1994. Having known each other for many years but never working directly together, the principals determined that there was the need for a different type of produce company to enter the marketplace. Each of the principals believed that in the modern agri-business world, the small and medium sized Growers and Packers were being dominated by corporate concerns, and that the family farm way of life were in jeopardy. The Ataide, Janzen and Thurlow families wanted to try to do something about this situation.Joining with like-minded local farmers of nectarines, peaches, plums and apricots, Mountain View broke ground on a state-of-the-art cold storage and distribution facility located in the very heart of their Growers fields. Surrounded by orchards and vineyards, this facility was intended to demonstrate the commitment of the founders to the family farms they served, and to prevent their fruit from being hauled long distances after picking for sorting, packing, storage and shipping.

Campbell Company of Canada (Campbell Canada), 11 billion letters are used worldwide every year to make Campbell's alphabet soups. Fear not, this overview will not be anywhere near that long. The first foreign division of US parent Campbell Soup, Campbell Canada began operations in 1930 and has grown to be one of the country's major food manufacturers. Its products include canned and shelf-stable soups and broths, bottled sauces, and canned and bottled juices. It also manufactures value-added frozen food products for the foodservice industry.

A subsidiary of Continental Grain Company, Wayne Farms LLC is the sixth largest poultry producer in the United States. With a focus on quality every step of the way, "from farm to fork," more than 1.8 billion pounds of poultry is processed annually in our 10 facilities. Many of these products are marketed worldwide under the brands of WAYNE FARMS®, DUTCH QUALITY HOUSE® and PLATINUM HARVEST®. We employ approximately 8900 people who are dedicated to offering the highest quality, best value products possible.Wayne Farms is committed to being the company of choice…not only for our business partners, but also our communities and employees!

Anheuser-Busch InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top five consumer products companies. For 2009. Anheuser-Busch InBev generated revenues of 36.8 billion USD. With a dream to become The Best Beer Company in a Better World, the company has a strong, balanced portfolio. With four of the top ten selling beers in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev holds the No. 1 or No. 2 position in 19 key markets. It has a key presence in both developed and developing markets. Headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, Anheuser-Busch InBev leverages the collective strength of approximately 116,000 people based in operations in 23 countries across the world. The company works through six operational Zones; North America, Latin America North, Latin America South, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, and Asia Pacific, allowing our consumers around the world to enjoy our beers.

Founded by Irish immigrants, Wilson Farm has been in operation at its present location since 1884. James Alexander Wilson, W.M. Wilson, and brother-in-law George Reynolds came to Lexington from Enniskillen, Ireland. Here they were able to buy 16 acres of land and rent some of the surrounding fields for farming. James A. Wilson was the salesman, and the other partners worked the farm, growing vegetable crops and plants. Included among them were: cabbage, white turnip, celery, carrots, and beets. In the late 1800’s farmers from Lexington and nearby towns had to take their produce to Boston to sell at Quincy Market. In the evening many small farmers would bring their product to James A. Wilson, who would combine the partial loads in order to fill the market wagons. These market wagons were pulled by teams of road horses, as the work horses were retired for the day. On the return trip from market, the wagon would stop at the Boston area hotels and pick up garbage to be used to feed the pigs. If the driver fell asleep (as this sometimes happened), the horses knew the roads and could find their own way home. During the winter months, trips to the market were less frequent, thus vegetables were stored in pits. These pits were covered with salt marsh hay and boards - maintaining the temperature at 34-36°F until all the vegetables were sold at market. Slow winter days were spent in the barn repairing equipment.

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