Germain-Robin Alambic produces hand-distilled brandies and bourbons under the Anno Domini, Select Barrel XO, Shareholders Reserve, and Grappa labels. Germain-Robin products, said to rival the great French brandies (called cognac), are distilled from premium wine grapes such as Pinot Noir, Merlot, and Viognier (grappa is made from apples). Germain-Robin was founded by Ansley Coale and Hubert Germain-Robin who, according to company legend, set out to make brandy using an antique still found in an abandoned cognac distillery.

Big Rock Brewery Income Trust owns Canada's Big Rock Brewery, a leading regional beer maker that produces unpasteurized premium craft beers in accordance with the 1516 Bavarian Law of Purity. Its brands include Grassh�pper, Jack Rabbit Lager, McNally's Extra, and XO Lager. Big Rock Brewery also produces seasonal beers and Rock Creek dry apple cider. The brewery's products are sold in all the Canadian provinces except Quebec and New Brunswick. In addition to its own beers, Big Rock Brewery bottles and packages beverages for third-party customers.

Set up in 1964 as a joint venture with UK-based James Finlay and Company to develop value-added tea, the Tata Tea Group of Companies, which includes Tata Tea and the UK-based Tetley Group, today represent the world's second largest global branded tea operation with product and brand presence in 40 countries. Among India's first multinational companies, the operations of Tata Tea and its subsidiaries focus on branded product offerings in tea but with a significant presence in plantation activity in India and Sri Lanka. The consolidated worldwide branded tea business of the Tata Tea Group contributes to around 86 per cent of its consolidated turnover with the remaining 14 per cent coming from Bulk Tea, Coffee, and Investment Income. The Company is headquartered in Kolkata and owns 27 tea estates in the states of Assam and West Bengal in eastern India, and Kerala in the south.

Old-fashioned flavor -- its products are made with cane sugar (rather than high-fructose corn syrup) and are packaged in genuine glass bottles. The company manufactures some 50 fruit-flavored sodas, cola, ginger ale, root beer, and creme soda under the Faygo name. It also makes Fago non-alcoholic mixers (club soda and tonic water). Although, it is best known for its "pop," the beverage maker offers Ohana brand iced tea, lemonade, and fruit punch. The wide range of Faygo pop flavors include Blueberry, Vanilla Creme, Redpop, Dr. Faygo, Moon Mist, and Black Cherry. The company, whose products are available throughout the US, is a subsidiary of National Beverage Corp.

President Bob Moore and his wife, Charlee, founded Bob's Red Mill in 1978; fulfilling Moore's original intent to share his success with his employees, it became employee-owned in 2010. No changes to the company's staff or operations were made. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company stone grinds whole grains into bread mixes, cereals, natural and organic flour, and pancake and waffle mixes. Its 400-plus products are sold at grocery stores throughout the US and Canada; it also sells bulk mixes to large-scale food-manufacturing customers. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods company operates a visitor's center, store, and bakery/cafe in Milwaukie, Oregon.

J.W. Judson bought part ownership of the company and constructed a new factory on a part of the old Judson Ranch, which is now South Flores Street. In the 30's Judson added a starch department and started manufacturing candies with jelly and creme centers such as fruit drops, orange slices, jelly beans, and easter eggs. Mr. Judson started experimenting, trying to make a more tart jelly bean, and ended up inventing the "sour", one of the company's most popular items. J.W. Judson's sons purchased the company from Mr. Jenner and in 1945 changed the name to Judson Candies. Mr. Judson's son George Jr. then invented another popular item, the chewy praline. Pralines used to be prepared by scooping up the batter with an ice cream scooper, however that process was mechanized using an electronic depositor developed by Southwest Research Institute.

At House of Raeford Farms, a turkey can become a meatloaf, a pot roast, or a ham; a chicken can be transformed into fajitas, lunch meat, or a breaded dog-on-a-stick. The vertically-integrated North Carolina poultry processor supplies fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken and turkey products to retail food, in-store deli, and foodservice operators. It offers whole, cut-up, ground, boneless and bone-in meat, ready-to-heat entrees, as well as poultry sausage and smoked and breaded poultry products. Its brands include House of Raeford and Lakewood Plantation and are available throughout the US. Raeford has eight facilitates located in eight facilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan.

AK Acres Popcorn Company began in the early 80's as an extension of the farming operations of Dennis Kunnemann and his father Arnold Kunnemann. Upon realizing the tremendous popcorn production potential of southwest Nebraska they decided to cease active farming and devote their time exclusively to contracting, processing, and marketing high quality popcorn. AK Acres Popcorn Company has since grown into one of the largest popcorn producers in the high plains region. Today AK Acres operates two processing facilities and has the capacity to process and store over thirty million pounds of popcorn every year.AK Acres Popcorn Company operates primarily as a worldwide popcorn wholesaler. The majority of our customers are distributors, packagers, snack food retailers, and poppers who purchase our popcorn in bulk.

Operating under the Canadian Springs and Labrador Source brands, Aquaterra delivers 18.5-litre returnable and small format bottled water to more than 175,000 customers in Canada through retail, office, and home delivery channels. The company also provides services such as water cooler rental, sales and cleaning, and point of use water filtration systems. Aquaterra was formed in mid-2006 when France's Groupe Danone sold its Danone Waters of Canada business to the Toronto-based investment firm Birch Hill Equity Partners. Groupe Danone had acquired the company, known at the time as Sparkling Springs, from the Canadian investment bank Clairvest in 2003.

Our brewers employ no modern shortcuts. Each brew is virtually handmade with Early Tap Handlean all-malt mash in our handmade copper brewhouse, a veritable museum of the simple, traditional brewhouses of old. We strive to practice the art of classical brewing, and we employ state-of-the-art methods to ensure that our products are clean and clear, pure and fresh. Every bottle and keg of our precious beer is kept under refrigeration at the brewery, and at the warehouse of your local distributor. We know of no brewery in the world that matches our efforts to combine traditional, natural brewing methods with the most careful and modern methods of sanitation, finishing, packaging, and transporting.

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