L&H Packing Company disassembles beef. The company's San Antonio, Texas, facilities produce boneless beef, preserved hides, tripe and other offal products, rendered blood and bone meal, as well as tallow for wholesale distribution. It has the capacity to process more than 260,000 cows per year. L&H Packing was founded in 1963 by Al Leonard and Dwayne Harral and is still owned and operated by the Leonard family. In business since 1979, L&H's sister company, Surlean Foods, provides chicken, pork, and beef entrees along with soups, sauces, marinades, and rubs to the foodservice industry.

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is trying to put an al dente in the noodle market. It is a supplier of branded and private-label pasta products and flours to retail, food service, and food ingredient companies in North America. Its mills have an annual capacity to grind more than 12 million bushes of grain; its production facilities can produce 500 million pound of pasta (and makes more than 100 different shapes). Brand names include Dreamfields, Pasta Growers, Pasta Sanita, Primo Piatto, and Zia Briosa. Under license, the company distributes Ronzoni, Prince, Creamette, and Mrs. Weiss pasta brands to the foodservice sector.

Jelly Belly Candy Company beginnings are traced back to a family named Goelitz. When two young brothers emigrated from Germany to make their mark in America, they set the family on its candymaking course. In 1869, just two years after arriving in America, Gustav Goelitz bought an ice cream and candy store in Belleville, Ill., and his brother, Albert was sent out in a horse drawn wagon to sell their sweets to nearby communities. Then the second generation of the family jumped on the band wagon of candy innovations by making a new type of candy, then called "buttercream" candies, including Candy Corn, a sweet we've made since about 1900 (and still use the same recipe). These candies carried the family through the Great Depression and two world wars. Today, the great-grandsons of Gustav Goelitz, the fourth generation, are still carrying on the tradition of making candy.

LeaderBrand is a fresh produce grower and supplier. It grows, packs, and markets its broccoli, sweet corn, lettuce, squash, and other vegetables in New Zealand and the US, as well as Japan, South Korea, and other northeast Asian countries. Taking its products from the field to the market, vertically-integrated LeaderBrand also offers packaged fresh salad blends and slaws. In addition, it supplies food processors. LeaderBrand's customers include restaurant chains and grocery retailers. Business partnerships, with companies such as the fast-food chains Subway and Burger King, have proved lucrative for LeaderBrand Produce Company.

Bodegas Riojanas brings fine wine to dinner tables throughout Spain and many places abroad. From growing grapes to aging wine and putting it in bottles, the company produces and distributes high-end wine from Spain's famed Rioja region. Its top labels include Canchales, Monte Real, Vi�a Albina, and Puerta Vieja. Bodegas Riojanas wine is sold across Europe, the US, and Latin America. The founding Fr�as-Artecho and Artecho-Nieto families still help run the company. Bodegas Riojanas also owns 83% of Bodegas Torreduero, another maker of Spanish wine and liquor.

Regal Marketing give the royal distribution treatment to fresh fruits and vegetables sourced worldwide. The more than 20-year-old firm is a brokerage for products grown in the US, as well as Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, New Zealand, and South Africa. Products shipped include Californian and Mexican grapes, New Zealand Royal Gala apples, and Chilean kiwi fruits.

You might say this company has a steak in the organic meat business. Dakota Beef is a leading supplier of organic beef and beef products that are free of antibiotics and growth hormones. It sources its beef from certified organic producers and operates a 33,000-square-foot, certified-organic processing plant capable of handling more than 100 head of cattle each day. The company supplies cuts of meat and ground beef to food wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers including Costco and Whole Foods Market. It also sells beef online to individual consumers. CEO Scott Lively founded the company in 2003.

Farmer-owned Prairie Farms Dairy has provided the freshest, highest quality dairy products for over 70 years. Our brand following is substantial as a leader in the dairy market. Over 700 farms strong, the knowledge and dedication of Prairie Farms’ farm families is represented in our full line of retail and foodservice dairy products. Prairie Farms network of local manufacturing plants and branch offices enables highly efficient, dairy fresh distribution throughout Mid-America and the South. From farm to family... Prairie Farms’ foundation is built upon products of uncompromising quality.

Pernod Ricard USA is the premium spirits and wine company in the U.S., and the largest subsidiary of Paris, France-based Pernod Ricard SA. In July, 2008, Pernod Ricard completed the acquisition of the iconic ABSOLUT® Vodka brand from the V&S Group, and Pernod Ricard USA is now the second-leading company in the U.S. by sales value. In addition to ABSOLUT®, Pernod Ricard USA’s leading brands include such prestigious spirits as The Glenlivet® Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Chivas Regal® Scotch Whisky, Jameson® Irish Whiskey, Seagram’s Extra Dry Gin®, Beefeater® Gin, Plymouth™ Gin, Martell® Cognac, Malibu®, Kahlúa® Liqueur, Hiram Walker® Liqueurs, Pernod® and Ricard®; such superior wines as Jacob's Creek® and Brancott Estate®; and such exquisite champagnes and sparkling wines as Perrier-Jouët® Champagne, G.H. Mumm™ Champagne and Mumm Napa® sparkling wines.The company is based in Purchase, New York, and has roughly 1,000 employees across the country.

The Robert Mondavi Winery's customers have grape expectations. The famous winemaker produces the ever-popular Woodbridge and Robert Mondavi Private Selection brands, as well as luxury brands like Opus One (in partnership with France's Rothschild family). The operation was acquired by one of the world's largest wine companies, Constellation Brands, in 2004 for $1 billion. The winery was founded in 1966 by Robert Mondavi, who died at the age of 94 in 2008.

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