Northwest Naturals makes the ingredients that give juice, cereal, smoothies, sorbets, and sherbet their natural flavor. Northwest Naturals company's fruit-based ingredients include all-natural juice concentrates, bases, essences, flavorings, purees, and sweeteners in an exhaustive list of selections. (Ever heard of aroniaberry? Me neither. But sure enough, Northwest has a concentrate for it.) Northwest Naturals company, which was founded in 1981 in Seattle, maintains a technical staff to research new ways to provide its customers with flavor and color using 100% natural ingredients. Northwest Naturals company is a subsidiary of juice maker, Tree Top.

ConAgra Foods fills Americans' refrigerators, freezers, and pantries and, ultimately, their tummies. The company is a US top food producer, offering packaged and frozen foods. ConAgra's brands are a cornucopia of America's well-known foods, including Banquet, Chef Boyardee, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hunt's, Jiffy, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Slim Jim, and Van Camp's. It is also one of the country's largest foodservice suppliers, offering them convenience foods and ingredients. The company has sold off its agricultural segments and a number of non-core brands to focus on branded and value-added packaged foods. In mid-2010 it acquired the assets of American Pie, maker of Marie Callender's frozen desserts.

Enstrom Candies, Inc. handmade process uses almonds, butter, sugar, and chocolate to make the toffee, which comes in dark or milk chocolate varieties. It also makes other confections, including chocolates, truffles, caramels, toffee popcorn, and ice cream. But toffee is Enstrom's "bread and butter" -- it turns out 500,000 pounds of toffee every year. Enstrom Candies, Inc. confections are shipped to customers in the US and internationally. It also operates five retail candy stores in Colorado. Chet Enstrom started the company in 1960; his granddaughter Jamee, and her husband Doug Simons now oversee the company.

The Strauss Group, Israel’s second-largest food & beverage company, is today an international corporation with around 13,000 global employees operating twenty two production sites in twenty countries. In the last six years the Group has consistently achieved growth, generating around $1.62 billion in turnover at the end of 2009, of which 47% came from international activities. The Strauss Group is comprised of four core business units: Strauss Israel, Strauss Coffee, Strauss North America and Strauss Water. The Group is a leading player in coffee markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Brazil and Israel for roast & ground (R&G) coffee and other coffee related products and services. The Strauss Group is traded on the Tel Aviv 25 Index, which lists the largest public companies in Israel, and has achieved a top AA+ credit rating from Maalot, an affiliate of Standard and Poor’s. The Strauss Group is in partnership with leading multinationals Danone and PepsiCo; and Strauss Coffee recently entered into a partnership with TPG Capital, a leading private equity investment fund.

The National Fruit Flavor Company was formed in 1917 by Ira Harkey and Virgil Browne in New Orleans. By 1921, the company had achieved national and international distribution, due primarily to the success of its flagship carbonated beverage product, Orange Squeeze, which was sold to independent bottlers throughout the United States and in five foreign countries.In 1961, Adam Gambel purchased the company from Ira Harkey and expanded its products and services. In addition to the beverage flavors, National Fruit Flavor successfully developed flavors and concentrates for the food service, dairy, bakery and vitamin supplement industries. The company, still owned and operated by the Gambel family, currently occupies a 42,000 square foot facility (above) on 4 acres in Elmwood Business Park, located halfway between Downtown New Orleans and the New Orleans International Airport.

Established for more than 38 years, ADAS has a hard-earned reputation as a preferred supplier to the public and private sector.ADAS Holdings has found its place is at the junction of science, policy, and agriculture. Whether addressing the viability of bio-fuels, the management of water resources, or determining a carbon footprint, the company provides objective research and consulting services to both private and government-sponsored agricultural companies in the UK. ADAS employs more than 700 people who have expertise in nearly 60 areas of study, including biochemistry, hydrology, and plant pathology and can serve as expert witnesses, or just plain give expert opinions. ADAS serves clients in England, Wales, and Scotland, as well as overseas.

Mr. R. William "Bill" Becker owns Peace River Citrus Products, Inc., which owns two processing plants with a total processing capacity of 18 to 20 million boxes. The Arcadia plant started production in November 1994 and the Bartow plant began production in November 2003. After selling his part of a family citrus business in 1991, Mr. Becker began studying the future of the Florida citrus industry. This study indicated a lack of citrus processing facilities in the new citrus growing region of Florida.The Peace River Citrus Products, Inc. Arcadia plant was built in the town of Arcadia, Desoto County, Florida. Arcadia was chosen because it was positioned in the center of the new growing region and there were no processing plants within 50 miles. Mr. Becker furthered his position in the citrus processing industry with the purchase of the plant in Bartow, Polk County, Florida in October 2002. The plant in Bartow will process both oranges and grapefruit (white and red) while the plant in Arcadia will primarily be dedicated to processing oranges. The mission of Peace River Citrus Products, Inc. is to produce the highest quality citrus products, market them at competitive prices, provide superior customer service, and maximize returns to Florida citrus growers. With this mission in mind, Mr. Becker maintains his processing facility with state of the art equipment utilizing a cost efficient layout.

At National Beverage, we always strive to be the best at everything we do. That's why we continually work to improve our performance and focus on those things that will make us a better company. One way we accomplish our goals is by creating a culture of creativity and imagination among our talented team of associates. By opening the doors to new ideas, we enable our people to add value and quality to our company. This spirit is evident in every aspect of our business - R&D, Operations, Distribution, Sales, Marketing and Management. The passion to serve our business partners and our valued consumers with the finest and most innovative beverage products available, year-in and year-out, provides the foundation for outstanding financial performance, well ahead of others in the industry. This makes National Beverage Corp. valuable to shareholders and attractive to prospective team members who seek the opportunity to make a difference. Most distinctive about National Beverage Corp. is the speed, efficiency and thoroughness of our actions. We are a company that is always moving rapidly in a very clear direction. Our sights are set on specific goals of the marketplace; yet our values and integrity, both individually or as a cohesive team, remain high and are never compromised.

For Gold-Eagle Cooperative, service to its member/farmers is the golden rule. The firm is a member-owned agricultural co-op located in north central Iowa. It offers its members grain drying, custom crop spraying, feed, seed, fertilizer, and other bulk and packaged farm chemicals, storage and warehousing, as well as feed milling and marketing. The co-op runs a transportation fleet of grain-hoppers, feed-bottle trucks, and specialty trailers that take members' crops to and from its facilities. Gold-Eagle operates nine grain elevator/service center locations.

Farmland Dairies™ was founded in 1914 in Fairlawn, New Jersey. With 10 cows and a wagon, a young farmer and his family sold fresh milk by the ladle, house to house, in Fairlawn. By the 1930's, the family had built their first milk plant. In the 1970's, they built a state-of-the-art facility in Wallington, NJ and attained wider acclaim in 1986 by becoming the first outside dairy granted a license to sell milk in New York City in 70 years. "Big Apple" consumers immediately embraced Farmland and enjoy quality milk at lower prices to this day. With the creation of Special Request™ milk in the 1990's, Farmland gained national recognition for quality, fat-free milk with great taste. Special Request™ was one of the first milk products with a "no added rBST hormone" pledge. It also provided nutritional benefits superior to regular or lower fat milks. Consumers once again recognized Farmland's leadership, making Special Request™ the top selling milk in the NYC metro area. Proud of the traditions of our first 90 years, we continue to build upon the legacies of quality and innovation with new and improved products.

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