Less is more at the Carl Buddig & Company, which manufactures and markets some of the thinnest lunch meats available. The company's most popular brand, Original Buddig, is a svelte 10-15 calories per slice and comes in choices such as beef, chicken, turkey, ham, pastrami, and corned beef. It also offers Old Wisconsin brand smoked beef jerky sticks and snack bites, along with wieners, bratwurst, Polish sausage, summer sausage, and ring bologna. Carl Buddig's meat products are available in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, and are sold at retail food outlets, including Kroger, Albertson's, Safeway, Food Lion, Giant, Roundy's, and others.

The Golden State's sun and soil have been good to Newton Vineyard. Newton produces red and white wines from the terraced slopes of its 560-acres of land and winery located in St. Helena, California. Although it has only 120 acres under cultivation, the vineyard's numerous varieties (some unfiltered and containing no sulfites) include Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Claret, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Pinot Noir. The company was founded on one square mile of land by Peter and Su Hua Newton in 1977. Newton Vineyard has been part of a family of wines marketed by Verve Clicquot Ponsardin, a subsidiary of LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton, since 2001.

CHS is a diversified energy, grains and foods company committed to providing the essential resources that enrich lives around the world. A Fortune 100 company, CHS is owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives, along with thousands of preferred stockholders, across the United States. CHS supplies energy, crop nutrients, livestock feed, grain, food and food ingredients, along with business solutions, including insurance, financial and risk management services. The company operates petroleum refineries/pipelines and manufactures, markets and distributes Cenex® brand refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.

Japanese pro baseball fans know the Nippon Ham Fighters, the team owned by Nippon Meat Packers (NMP). NMP, in turn, knows meat. The company is one of Japan's top beef-, pork-, and chicken-processing firms. Its meat business comprises all stages of production, from raising the animals and making their feed to processing the meat to delivering it to customers. In addition to fresh meat, NMP makes ham, sausage and deli meat; it offers dairy foods (including Luna brand yogurt and foodservice cheese) and ramen noodles. Its marine farming activities supply toppings and fillings for foodservice sushi. NMP makes probiotic beverages and a health drink, called Celeb no Jikan, made from pig placenta.

he Gaviña family has been in the coffee business for over 130 years as growers, importers, and roasters of gourmet coffee. The most important word in this statement is family. A strong sense of family is at the heart of F. Gaviña & Sons, Inc., more commonly known as Gaviña. The Company, one of the largest and most successful coffee businesses in the western United States, is led by a team of four siblings: three brothers, Jose, Pedro and Paco, and one sister, Leonor Gaviña-Valls. We have been US specialty coffee roasters since 1967 and we are the largest privately held minority coffee roaster nationwide, producing more than 30 million pounds of roasted coffee a year. The installation of our new state-of-the-art roasting and packing facility is almost complete, with a capacity of 60 million pounds and expandable to 100 million pounds. Our leading specialty retail brands.

When co-ops work co-operatively, you wind up with organizations like Federated Co-Operatives Limited -- a co-op of co-ops. The company provides retail and administrative services to its some 1,300,000 individual owner/members, which are made up of about 265 retail cooperatives located across western Canada. Federated's members run the gamut and include co-op's made up of food stores, pharmacies, clothing stores, general merchandisers, building material enterprises, crop and feed suppliers, gas stations, convenience stores, and travel services. Federated members have access petroluem products through the co-op's refiner CCRL; they can also buy groceries through Federated's food operations, The Grocery People.

Founder, Jim Bernau, purchased the Estate site in 1983 and cleared away the old pioneer plum orchard hidden in scotch broom and blackberry vines. He planted Pinot Noir (Pommard and Wadenswil clones), Chardonnay (Dijon and Espiguette) and Pinot Gris. In the beginning he hand watered the vines with thousands of feet of hose.Numerous classes at UC Davis, and seminars from here to France, sharpened Jim’s viticultural skills and in 1989 he was ready to build his dream--a world class winery in the Willamette Valley—and make cool-climate varietals, especially Pinot Noir, in sufficient quantities to be served and sold in the best restaurants and bottle shops in the world.

United Apple Sales, L.L.C. is owned by president Ward Dobbins, who also controls apple packhouse H. H. Dobbins. United Apple Sales (UAS) is a leading supplier of fresh fruit in the US. It primarily distributes apples under the America's Fruit label from growers in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington to fresh produce buyers throughout the country. Its products include Empire, Red Delicious, Pink Lady, and Macintosh varieties. United Apple Sales company also distributes produce (pears and and other stone fruits) harvested in South America.

The family-owned business was founded in 1908 and is currently backed by investment firm Intracorp Capital. Holtzinger Fruit company (which also does business as C.M. Holtzinger Fruit) markets, packs, and ships conventional and organic apples, cherries, pears, and other produce to wholesale customers, including grocery chains, brokers, distributors, and exporters. Based in Washington, it is the sales agent for growers in the northwestern US, including Snokist Growers and Oregon Cherry Growers. Holtzinger has a licensing agreement to sell fruit in North America under the Green Giant label. Other brands include Royal Purple, Regal Red, and Blue Ribbon.

Since 1971, S-C Seasoning Company, Inc. has operated in the beautiful Ozark mountain setting of Harrison, Arkansas as a family owned and managed manufacturing company. For many years, company founders Spike and Steve Cavender made the unusual spice blend and gave it away to family and friends. As interest, as well as requests grew, Cavender's all-purpose Greek Seasonings' popularity soared and became a widely used "secret ingredient' by many people! Adding Cavender's Salt-Free Greek Seasoning to the product line in 1991 was well received by loyal Cavender's customers who had requested "their seasoning" without salt for many years.

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