Founded to provide affordable, high-quality seed for Virginia farmers, Southern States Cooperative has grown into an agricultural powerhouse, serving its approximately 300,000 members, mainly in the mid-Atlantic and southern US states. The co-op makes and/or offers just about everything agricultural to its farmer/owners, including animal feed and fertilizer; seed processing; grain marketing; diesel, propane, and home-heating services; wholesale farm supplies; and even bib overalls. Its Southern States and Garden South stores sell farm supplies, garden products, and fuel through some 1,200 retail outlets in 23 states. Other services include crop financing, crop services, and an aquaculture program.

Glenn Foods was founded by company president Glenn Schacher in 1979. Under the Glenny's brand name, the company makes about 20 different varieties of low-fat and low-sodium snack foods, including soy chips, as well as baked potato chips, veggie chips, and American fries. It also offers nutrition bars, cookies, marshmallow treats, 100-calorie brownies, and healthy candies, all of which are distributed to retail food and drugstore outlets throughout the US.

Fleury Michon provides a full menu. The company offers processed meats, ready-made meals, and other convenience food products for the supermarket and the foodservice sectors. In addition to hams, poultry, roasts, and charcuterie (deli meats), it also makes surimi (imitation crab). Fleury operates the Graine d'App�tit chain of restaurants and vending kiosks. France accounts for most of the company's sales but it also sells ready-meals in Canada, Italy, Spain, and the US. Star chef and company culinary advisor, Jo�l Robuchon, develops many Fleury Michon recipes. While publicly traded since 2000, the majority of Fleury Michon stock is held by chairman Yves Gonnord.

Molson Coors Brewing Company is among the largest brewers by volume in the world, producing some 19 million hectoliters (502 million US gallons) of beer in 2009. With a portfolio of Molson-branded beers, led by the popular Molson Canadian, it dominates the Canadian beer market, accounting for 40% of the beer sold in that country. In the US, Molson Coors operates through joint venture MillerCoors (42%-owned with SABMiller), which markets Coors, Coors Light, and Molson products and is the second largest US brewer by volume. MCBC operates in Canada; its international sales are handled by its Molson Coors International (MCI) segment.

Founded in 1978, the DeBruce Companies are a growing $5 billion organization currently ranked 56th on the Forbes 500 list of private companies. It is the 4th largest privately held company in Kansas City, Missouri. DeBruce continues to be an innovative and aggressive industry leader, and ranks 7th in North America with storage capacity in excess of 140,000,000 bushels.

American Fruit & Produce Corporation supplies everything from apples to zucchini to US wholesale, foodservice, and retail customers. AFP also exports fresh fruits and vegetables from Florida ports to locations in the Americas and Europe. It is the largest US supplier of fresh produce to Caribbean countries. Hugo Acosta and his uncle, Delio Medina, opened their small produce outfit in Miami in 1983. The company has grown to include some 300,000 square feet of building situated on 32 acres in South Florida. American Fruit & Produce is still owned and operated by the its founders and their families.

Nutreco tames the hunger of both man and beast. Its agriculture division breeds and processes poultry in Spain though its Sada operations, where it is the #1 poultry producer. The company's Trouw Nutrition International division is one of Europe's largest animal-feed makers and also sells feed in Asia and North America. Its Skretting fish feed business offers feed for some 50 species of farmed fish. Founded in 1994, the Netherlands-based company has grown on a steady diet of acquisitions in Europe and abroad. Its focus is on animal-nutrition products, offering premixes and compound and specialty feeds.

Sun-Rype grew out of the fresh fruit business in the lush Okanagan Valley. In 1946, the BC Fruit Growers Association, who had already been in the apple business for over 50 years, created BC Fruit Processing Ltd. to produce and sell a pure 100% apple juice, made with apples straight from the orchard. They named their new juice "Sun-Rype," and that is how it all started. This 100% pure, wholesome juice quickly became popular with Western Canadian families — and in the initial years a variety of other products were also manufactured, including apple sauce, dehydrated apples and pie filling. Since those days, Sun-Rype has come a long way. We expanded our line of 100% juices to include a wide range of delicious fruits. We also added our popular and convenient fruit snacks to the Sun-Rype family. And in the past few years we took one of Western Canada's best known and loved brands and expanded across Canada to share Sun-Rype goodness with families everywhere! Since 2008, we are proudly offering our 100% Fruit Snacks across the United States.

Golden West Nuts is a grower-processor of California almonds. Golden West owns several almond ranches and also processes almonds from growers throughout California. Established in 1983, our processing facilities are located in Ripon, California. Our retail outlet, The Harvest Shop, is located in Chico, California. Our facilities are equipped with state-of-art processing equipment and utilize industry approved field-to-market quality control procedures.

That sweet smell of success might be coming from the ovens at Bahlsen. One of Germany's leading manufacturers of biscuits (or as Americans call them, cookies), the company makes Leibniz butter biscuits, a favorite among consumers since it was introduced in 1891. Bahlsen also makes upscale products such as chocolate-dipped Pick Up! snack bars. With five production facilities in Europe, the company exports products to about 80 countries and offers private-label production services. The family of founder Hermann Bahlsen, led by his grandson Werner Bahlsen, continues to control the company.

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