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.

As Mexico's leading chicken and chicken egg producer, Industrias Bachoco doesn't care if the chicken or the egg came first. The company operates poultry production and distribution facilities throughout Mexico and accounted for more than 30% of Mexico's total chicken production in 2008. Bachoco breeds, processes, and markets chicken (accounting for about 77% of the company's sales that same year). It produces and distributes eggs, swine, and animal feed. Although it brings in less than 1% of the company's sales, Bachoco also offers turkey and selected value-added beef products. (It raises no turkey or cattle, it only processes them.) The Robinson Bours family owns an 83% interest in the company.

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.

From piglets to poults and hogs to hens, Murphy-Brown supervises a growth industry. As the livestock production subsidiary of pork-processing giant Smithfield Foods, it is the world's largest hog producer and a leading US turkey producer as well. Through partnerships with contract farmers and its own farms, Murphy-Brown maintains about 1 million breeding sows and produces more than 17 million market hogs annually. Its turkey operations produce about 10 million turkeys a year. Along with its own animal production facilities, the company contracts with about 1,700 US farmers, who supply the company with hogs and turkeys.

Maison Burtin is really into bubbles. The French champagne maker (one of the largest in the world) produces its tantilizing tingly beverages from grapes grown in France's Champagne region. The company's bubbly is available under such brands names as Champagne Lanson, Noble Cuve Brut Rose, Black Label Brut, Ivory Label Demi-Sec, and Gold Label Brut Mill sim. Burtin has been making champagne since 1760. The vintner is part of France's Boizel Chanoine Champagne group.

Paternina makes part of the history of Spanish wine, of the history of La Rioja. It was inaugurated in 1896 and since then this Riojan wine cellar has been faithful to its history yet at the same time renewing itself. For dinner or dessert, Federico Paternina fills the glass. The company produces and distributes wine from Spain's famed La Rioja region. Its labels include Banda Azul, Clos, Conde de los Andes, and Monte Haro. Though wine provides a great majority of the company's sales, Paternina also produces brandy and sherry. Paternina sells worldwide, but Spain accounts for most of its revenues. The Eguiz�bal family bought the seized Federico Paternina vineyards in an auction (from the Spanish government) for a single peseta in 1984. Chairman Marcos Eguiz�bal Ramirez owns more than 80% of the company. Founded in 1896, the winery uses cellars dating back to the 1500s.

We believe the quality of our dairy products starts with the milk, and it's the care and treatment we give our cows that makes Rockview Farms milk a brand your family can trust.At our farms, everything is done naturally and with the animal's health in mind. Our cows have plenty of room to roam around in, sunshine to bask in, clean water to drink and fresh air to breathe. They are fed a nutritious diet of alfalfa hay and grains. Because we have our own farms, we have a consistent supply of delicious-tasting milk that we guarantee comes from cows that have never been given artificial growth hormones to stimulate milk production as most other dairies do.To maintain the high quality of Rockview Farms products, rigorous tests are performed at every step of the process to make certain milk is pure and meets our exacting standards. It's also kept colder than required so it stays fresh and reaches its destination at its peak.

General Custer ran into trouble at the Little Big Horn and Alexander Graham Bell made his famous telephone call to Mr. Watson. In St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Busch was brewing his first batch of beer. Meanwhile, across the state in the busy river town of St. Joseph, Dr. George Washington Chase faced a dilemma. In those days it was difficult raising a family on a doctor’s meager wages. Drawing upon his previous experiences while growing up back East, Chase decided to open a fruit and produce business. The business prospered and in the early 1920’s Chase built a modern four story factory in downtown St. Joseph. About this time the third generation of the Chase family, Charles, joined the Company.

The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC which dates back to 1915, became a grower-owned beet-sugar cooperative in 1997. The Amalgamated Sugar Company (also known as the Snake River Sugar Company) processes sugar beets for its member/farmers. The cooperative manufactures granulated, coarse, powdered, and brown consumer sugar products marketed under the brand name White Satin. It also provides private-label products for retail grocery chains. In addition, Amalgamated Sugar produces beet pulp, molasses, and other beet byproducts for use by food and animal-feed manufacturers.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

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