Martori Farms is an American grower and shipper rooted in a century’s experience in fresh fruit and vegetables.Our origins trace back to the turn of the century, to a horse drawn wagon owned by one of the first members of the Martori family to set foot in the United States. He founded a solid tradition, as a fruit vendor on the streets of New York City. He distinguished himself by consistently offering only the freshest products of the finest quality. A firm handshake and his honest reputation guaranteed every transaction. That grassroots approach stayed in the Martori family. Today you’ll see at Martori Farms a fourth generation striving to honor that century old tradition.Over the years, Martori Farms has grown into a vertically integrated operation, shipping fresh fruits and vegetables year round throughout North America. We maintain direct control over all aspects of production, and we adhere to those same simple principles that sparked our grandfather’s success all those decades ago.

In business since 1978, Seabrook Brothers & Sons, Inc. is still run by the founding Seabrook family. Seabrook Brothers and Sons almost has an alphabet of products. From asparagus to water chestnuts, seabrook company grows, processes, and freezes a harvest of vegetables. In addition to producing items for retail sale under its Seabrook Farms label, seabrook company supplies vegetables to customers in the industrial ingredients, foodservice, and private-label retail sectors. It serves customers throughout the US, as well as in internationally in Canada, Chile, Israel, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. Seabrook also makes such value-added products as frozen skillet meals, creamed spinach, and butter and cheese sauces.

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.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

Bunge North America, Inc., through its subsidiaries, produces and markets agricultural commodities and food ingredients. Bunge company offers grain products that include soybean, sorghum, canola, corn, wheat, rice, and feed peas; oil seed products such as meal, pellets, and oil products; and milling, flour, and bio-fuels products. Additionally, it provides nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium products. Bunge company’s products are used in ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, snack foods, confections, cakes, cookies, muffins, breads, and animal feed. It caters to retail, livestock, poultry, agribusiness and food products, food and feed processing, foodservice, and bakery industries.

AgFeed Industries readies hogs for the abattoir (i.e., the slaughterhouse). The company manufactures, distributes, and sells hog feed and feed additives, and owns almost 30 hog farms in China. It sells feed from its five plants to more than 650 large-scale pig farms (including its owns farms) and distributes feed to more than 1,000 retail locations. The company sells more than 75,000 tons of feed products a year under more than 20 different brand names. AgFeed Industries also raises hogs, including purebred Yorkshire, Landrace, and Duroc hogs, for slaughter. It produces more than 400,000 hogs per year and operates a 68-acre breeder pig farm to supply its farms with sows and boars. AgFeed was founded in 1995.

Bronco Wine has been known to buck the system. One of the nation's top wine producers, the vintner makes some 60 labels, including Charles Shaw, Forest Glen, and Coastal Ridge. Operating a 40,000-acre vineyard, the California bulk wine producer is the fourth largest wine seller in the US. It produces some 20 million cases of wine every year. Bronco Wine created a stir in the wine industry and continues to do so by selling its Charles Shaw brand for $1.99 at Trader Joe's Company locations. (The wine, dubbed "drinkable" by many, quickly gained the nickname Two-Buck Chuck.) Other Bronco labels include Carmenet, Crane Lake, and Ridge.

LongDa Foodstuff Group Company processes fruits and vegetables, grains, meats, and fish for sale domestically and for export. Its products include flour, freeze-dried foods, frozen fruits and vegetables, noodles, peanut oil, processed pork, prepared foods, and soy sauces. Other subsidiaries include agricultural support companies, a 20-store chain of supermarkets, a furniture and wood work manufacturer, a paper and plastic packaging factory, and a slaughterhouse. Many of the LongDa operations are joint ventures with companies from Japan and Singapore.

Atlantic Premium Brands doesn't operate along the Atlantic Ocean but it does have a boatload of premium regional meat brands. The company processes and distributes packaged value-added meats under names such as J.C. Potter, Blue Ribbon, Texas Traditions, Richard's Cajun Foods, Carlton, and Cajun Favorites. It also offers its customers private-label products and services. Atlantic Premium's meats include smoked and breakfast sausages, ham, bacon, and meat-based entrees. The Northbrook, Illinois-headquartered company distributes its products to US supermarkets and discount stores.

Each waking day, Agropur cooperative responds to the call of some 3,533 dairy farmers who rely on this organization, which they jointly own, to enhance the fruit of their labour. 2,7 billion litres of milk are processed annually in 27 plants spread throughout Canada, the United States and Argentina. Generating sales close to 3,1 billion, the resulting products grace the tables of thousands of consumers from coast to coast. But before these products reach their tables, 5,225 employees and many contract agents assigned to milk collection and distribution combine their efforts and expertise to ensure that the final product meets all expectations. For more than 70 years, Agropur cooperative has been fine-tuning its art to continually better its know-how and its tasty offerings to consumers.

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