The #1 dairy processor in Canada, Saputo makes Italian and European-style cheeses for sale to retail, foodservice, and industrial customers in Canada, the US, and Argentina. Its big brands include Armstrong, Frigo, Stella, and Treasure Cave. Saputo also produces fluid milk and yogurt, and distributes imported cheeses for the Canadian consumer retail market. Also in Canada, Saputo bakes up snack cakes, tarts, and cereal bars under such brands as Vachon and Granny's. Originally a small mozzarella maker, the company grows through acquisitions.

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.

Banfi is a private concern, founded in New York in 1919 by John Mariani, Sr. and today owned and operated by his grandchildren. The company is focused on the production and import of wine.Banfi Vintners is the sole U.S. importer of the Mariani family’s internationally renowned wine estates in Italy: Castello Banfi of Montalcino, Tuscany, and Vigne Regali Cellars of Strevi, Piedmont. Banfi also imports the wines of several other producers, including category leaders Bolla, Cecchi, Florio, Fontana Candida, Placido, Riunite, and Sartori from Italy, Concha y Toro and Emiliana from Chile, and Trivento from Argentina, Wisdom & Warter Sherries from Spain and Stone's Ginger wine from England. The company has ranked as North America’s leading wine importer for more than three decades.

SAPEC began decades ago in search of fool's gold, but its work since has been anything but daft. The family-run company was founded in 1926 to exploit pyrite (fool's gold) mines in Portugal. SAPEC gradually expanded into the production and commercialization of agriculture products, and today is an investment holding company with interests in all of the above. It conducts activities mainly in Portugal, but increasingly in Spain. SAPEC operates six main sectors: agrochemical, micronutrients, chemical distribution, food processing distribution, logistics, and energy. It also has holdings in real estate and information technology.

Lotus Bakeries focuses on authentic specialities from the biscuit and cake world: caramelized biscuits (speculoos), gingerbread, cake specialties, waffles and pepparkakor biscuits. Lotus Bakeries, with headquarters in Belgium, is a dynamic, internationally oriented company with production facilities in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden and Canada, own sales organizations in 9 European countries and in the United States of America/Canada and an export department for the other countries. With 1,245 employees, Lotus Bakeries produces and sells high-quality, tasty products under the Lotus, Peijnenburg and Annas brand names. By maintaining a health balance between tradition and innovation, Lotus Bakeries indulges consumers with a unique range of products. In 2008 the Group achieved a turnover of EUR 256.7 million. The shares of Lotus Bakeries are listed on Euronext Brussels.

Kagome Co. Ltd. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the manufacture, purchase and sale of food products. Kagome Company has two business segments. The Food segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of drinks, gifts, food and food products for business, the manufacture and purchase of fresh vegetables, the purchase and sale of agriculture-related materials, as well as the sale of seeds and seedlings. This segment is also engaged in the mail-order business of products of Kagome Company. The Others segment is involved in the logistics and real estate businesses. As of March 31, 2010, Kagome Company had 11 subsidiaries and four associated companies.

Bunge Milling is the largest dry corn miller in the world. It processes wheat, corn, and soybeans for domestic and import sales. Bunge's products include grits, corn flour, corn oil, bulgar wheat, hominy feed, soy oil, soybean hull pellets, and soybean meal and pellets, all of which are sold as ingredients to feed manufactureres, food processors, and the foodservice and bakery industries. Bunge Milling company's five mills are located in Mexico and the US. Bunge Milling is a division of Bunge North America, a subsidiary of Bunge Limited.

Golden Agri-Resources Ltd. engages in cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees, and processing fruit bunches into crude palm oil and palm kernel in Indonesia and internationally. Golden Agri-Resources company owns, operates, and manages oil palm plantations and mills and refineries, as well as operates an integrated deep sea port and storage facilities. It produces a range of domestic and international refined branded products, such as cooking oil, margarine, butter oil substitute, shortening and fats for end-customers, restaurants, hotels and cafes, as well as industrial markets. As of December 31, 2008, golden agri resources company had a total planted area of approximately 392,000 hectares, 3 refineries, and 5 kernel crushing plants. Acquisitions In 2008, golden agri resources company acquired Eco Investment Limited and PT Soci Mas.

Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad ("KLK"), a leading Malaysian plantation company, traces its origin back to 1906 when The Kuala Lumpur Rubber Company, Limited ("KLR") was set up in London to oversee some 600 hectares of rubber plantation, including some coffee, planted in Malaya, (now Malaysia). By 1960 through various acquisitions, the hectarage increased to 29,843 ha. covering Malaya, Indonesia and Nigeria. KLR's interests in Indonesia and Nigeria was disposed off in 1973 and 1976 respectively. Kuala Lumpur Kepong has a hand in everything from rubber gloves to lotion. The diversified company's plantation unit consists of 210,000 hectares (more than 500,000 acres) in Malaysia and Indonesia, which grow palm oil, rubber, and cocoa. Its subsidiary Crabtree & Evelyn sells personal care items worldwide; its Standard Soap unit makes private-label toiletry products that are sold in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the US. The company's Masif Lates unit makes rubber gloves for household and industrial use and its BKB Hevea operation makes engineered hardwood flooring. The company also manufactures oleochemicals and specialty chemicals through KLK Oleo, and has operations in property development.

Misionero Vegetables company provides bagged salads, lettuce, baby carrots, spinach, arugula, and an array of other vegetables for retail food and foodservice customers. Misionero's brands include the EarthGreens (organic) and GardenCut (conventional). Headquartered in California's Salinas Valley, the company ships its fresh produce throughout the US, as well as internationally from its facilities in California and Arizona. A family-owned and -operated business, Misionero was founded by Floyd Griffin some 35 years ago.

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