SOLECO, one of Europe's largest prepared salad and vegetable producers, specializes in mixed bags. SOLECO (also known as The Florette Group) markets more than 200 products under the Florette brand, including salads, salad dressings, frozen vegetables, and soups. SOLECO company sells to retail and catering customers in Europe and the UK. The Florette brand is the European market leader in prepared salads. The products are prepared at five company production plants located in France, Spain, and the UK. A subsidiary of the agri-giant Agrial, SOLECO secures its mostly French produce from sister companies Prim'Co and Européenne Fruitière.

Friona Industries, L. P. began as single small feedyard in 1962 and has progressed to become one of the leading cattle feeding businesses in the world. The Friona of today has four state of the art commercial cattle feeding facilities with one time capacity of 275,000 head, which form the base of a vertically aligned production system that creates a consistent, reliable, safe, tender and flavorful fresh branded product line that is marketed in 2300 of the top retail stores in the U.S. Our experience in creating the facilitative link between the cow/calf sector and the eventual end-user at the retail level, has put our employees and our company in a unusual, information-based position as a facilitator of innovation and excellence in the beef industry. Our mission statement communicates our belief that creating a valuable and popular consumer beef product creates the cornerstone of an informed, communicative, and responsive beef industry that can bring value and profitability to all segments and all participants.

Thinking about alcohol makes this company starry-eyed. Constellation Brands is a leading beer, wine, and spirits maker. It offers more than 200 brands, which it sells in some 150 countries. Its wine division, anchored by its domestic winemaking subsidiary Constellation Wines U.S., is a global leader in wine production, offering brands such as Robert Mondavi and Vendange, as well as such premium labels as Ravenswood and Simi. The company also imports Corona and Tsingtao beers and markets distilled spirits, including Black Velvet whiskey and Svedka vodka. In the UK it produces and distributes cider, wine, and bottled water. CEO Robert Sands and his family control about 65% of Constellation's voting power.

Global Pacific Produce company is a leading provider of fresh fruits. Located in Henderson, Nevada, it sources and supplies such produce as apples, citrus, table grapes, pears, and stone fruit mostly grown in California and Mexico. Global Pacific's customers include international food retailers. Global Pacific Produce company supplies grocery store chains and other retailers located mainly in South America and Europe. Company president and CEO Chris Kilvington, who is originally from London, founded Global Pacific Produce in 2000.

Meiji-brand sweets include chocolate and non-chocolate candy and chewing gum, along with personal care products, such as throat gargle. Its pharmaceutical division offers antibiotics, generic drugs, and anti-anxiety medications for humans, as well as veterinary drugs. Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd. is also involved in commercial leasing and sports complex management. Formerly called Meiji Seika Kaisha, a well known candy and pharmaceutical maker, the company merged with Japanese dairy producer Meiji Dairies Corp. in 2009 to form Meiji Holdings.

When my grandfather, Frank Vignieri, borrowed $35 from my grandmother’s cookie jar to start a meat packing company in 1936, he couldn’t have imagined what that investment would turn into. The company, known as Kenosha Beef, quickly grew its Midwest customer base thanks to a reputation built on customer satisfaction, high quality standards, innovative ideas, and exceptional tasting food.For more than seven decades, Birchwood Foods has been a leader in providing quality beef for the foodservice and retail industries. My father, Charles Vignieri (pictured), continued to successfully grow the company while never losing sight of the traditions and family values it was founded on.

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.

Sebastiani’s first century in Sonoma winemaking began when Samuele (pictured right) emigrated from the Tuscany region of Italy in 1895 and started Sebastiani nine years later. A stonemason by trade, he quarry-mined the Sonoma hills for cobblestones that were used to build the streets of San Francisco. He worked long hours and saved carefully to buy land in Sonoma County, from which he would make wine for the Sonoma community and San Francisco’s restaurants.The winery was the only one in Sonoma County to continue operations through Prohibition, making a small amount of sacramental and medicinal wines. It has been joked, and perhaps with some grain of truth, that during this time there was a resurgence of people becoming very religious.

Forget Idaho. County Super Spuds has been growing Maine potatoes for five generations. The company operates through three subsidiaries -- the 500-acre Sunday River Farms (bought in 2004) grows the potatoes, JDR Transport (launched in 1992) ships them to food processors such as Penobscot McCrum, which was also bought in 2004. County Super Spuds is owned by the McCrum family. The company is located in Aroostook County, in northeastern Maine near the Canadian border, which was known as the Potato Capital of America in the early 20th century.

UniSea, Inc. produces an impressive variety of finished seafood products that are marketed and distributed throughout the world. UniSea company's Alaska operation consists of the state-of-the-art processing facilities, G1 and G2, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. UniSea also operates a secondary processing facility in Redmond, Washington. UniSea produces seafood products from Pollock, Pollock Roe, Pacific Cod, Black Cod, Snow Crab, King Crab, Halibut, Whitefish Meal, Fish Oil.UniSea's quality surimi is produced for many special markets with specific characteristics desired by the customer. The company also produces a number of other co-products including quality fish meal, fish oil and bone. UniSea's fish meal is known for its consistent top quality. The fish oil is used as fuel in the fish meal production process and is also a popular product marketed in Taiwan and Japan.

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