Endangered Species Chocolate makes confections out of cocoa obtained from family farmers and cooperatives. Endangered Species Chocolate, LLC offers some 30 different products, including candy bars such as dark chocolate with hazelnut toffee, milk chocolate with cherries, and smooth white chocolate; it also makes organic bars and chocolate pieces. Endangered Species' products are sold at retailers such as Target and at specialty and health-food stores, including Whole Foods, throughout the US. Ten percent of the company's after-tax profits is donated to environmental conservation groups.

Chosen for its Mediterranean-style environment, the Tuxca valley offers warm, dry weather all year-round, ideal for providing you with the best vine ripened tomatoes during any season. Who knew that nature could produce sweet tomatoes in a desert climate? Desert Glory did. The company produces bagged on-the-vine fresh tomatoes and cherry tomatoes under the brand name NatureSweet. Its organic products are grown year-round in a controlled growing environment in Mexico. Desert Glory's tomatoes are sold to retail grocery providers, as well as to restaurant and other foodservice companies throughout the US. Located in San Antonio, Texas, the company's customers include retail chains such as Kroger, SAMS CLUB, Wal-Mart, Super Target, Whole Foods, and Safeway.

California Dairies, Inc. is the number one dairy cooperative in the number one dairy state in the United States. California Dairies, Inc. is the result of a successful 1999 merger of three of California's most financially successful cooperatives; California Milk Producers, Danish Creamery and San Joaquin Valley Dairymen. All three cooperatives were rich in tradition and established their roots back near the turn of the 20th century. California Dairies, Inc. is owned by 620 California dairymen who ship over 18 billion pounds of milk to be sold and processed annually. These members have over $130 million of equity invested in the Company. The Company has sales of $3.5 Billion in all 50 states and 52 foreign countries. The owners have dairies located from San Diego County in the south to Marin County in the north. Most of the milk supply is located in the San Joaquin Valley from Kern County to San Joaquin County.

Delice de France imports frozen partially-baked and fully-baked specialty breads and other bakery goods into the UK. Delice de France company has some 500 products ranging from the traditional French baguette and Danish pastries to meat pies. Delice de France also offers ready-to-eat soups, cookies, and desserts. Delice de France company supplies its customers with Delice de France-branded merchandising products and specialized bakery equipment, and provides baking training for retailers' employees. Its customers include UK catering companies, hotels, universities, and restaurants.

Hudson River Fruit grows apples grown along, you guessed it, the Hudson River in New York State. The company harvests, packs, and distributes nearly 20 varieties of apples. Its apple offerings include Gala, Ginger Gold, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, McIntosh, Red Delicious, and Rome. The company also offers, Bosc, Clapp, Bartlett, and Seckel pears. It operates fruit orchards, a packing and storage facility, and a fleet of delivery trucks. With roots dating back to 1932, when Izzie Albinder bought a pushcart and began selling apples in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn, Hudson River Fruit is owned and operated by the founding Albinder family.

VION Food Group is an internationally operating foodstuffs group. VION has production and sales offices on every continent. VION produces high quality foods and ingredients for both humans and animals. ‘Passion for better food' is our motto.VION Food Group wishes to provide both people and animals with high quality foodstuffs (and the ingredients for them), made from natural products of agricultural origin. VION Food Group aims for sustainability in all its activities. Within an economic framework, our prime objective is caring for humans, animals and the environment.VION Food Group has more than 27,000 staff members worldwide and had an annual turnover of approximately €9,0 billion. This puts VION among the Netherlands' leading industrial companies, and also makes it one of the largest foodstuffs companies in the world. VION N.V. is the holding company within the VION Food Group. The holding company has a headquarter in the Netherlands that develops the strategy and creates the preconditions for the optimum management of the operational activities.

Societe Internationale de Plantation d'Heveas (SIPH) never gets "tired" of rubber. The company owns rubber plantations in West Africa and supplies Michelin (which owns 20% of the company) with natural rubber to make tires. SIPH owns about 125,000 acres of plantation land mostly in Ivory Coast, but also in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. However, about half of the 128,000 tons of rubber it produces comes from independent planters in those countries. SIPH also owns eight production sites in West Africa to market the rubber latex for export to Europe. The French/African agribusiness firm SIFCA Group owns more than 55% of the company.

Indiana Packers Corporation has grown from a start-up operation in 1991 with a production capacity of 4,200 hogs per day to a leading processor of premium pork products in the United States with a current daily production capacity of 16,800 hogs. Indiana Packers Corporation, with continuing modernization and upgrades is one of the newest pork processing facilities in the United States. In order to maintain a leadership role and to improve product quality and service, Indiana Packers has recently invested over a hundred million dollars in new construction and plant improvements and continues to look for opportunities to insure the production of safe, premium, high quality pork products.The Company’s dedicated workforce of over 1,700 people prides themselves in their work, their products and the customers they know they serve. Their workmanship is recognized and appreciated by our domestic customers and our global export customers alike. In addition to the offerings of fresh pork, at Indiana Packers Corporation you will find a variety of smoked meat products such as ham, bacon, and sausage that fits your retail and food service needs. These products are also enjoyed not only in the United States but in a number of global markets as well.Indiana Packers Corporation is a true Midwest processing facility centered in the heart of the Corn Belt. By housing its corporate offices, sales, processing and shipping all in one centralized location, the oversight of production operations and product quality is shared by the entire management team, further serving the needs of our customers.

Valley Fig Growers is located in Fresno, California. All of the commercially sold dried figs produced in the United States are grown in the Fresno area and north, in the fertile San Joaquin Valley. California represents 20% of the world production of dried figs. Valley Fig Growers was established in 1959 and is the largest handler of figs in North America. The cooperative has 30 grower members representing about 40% of the California fig industry.

Heilongjiang Jiusan Oil & Fat company produces a variety of products from soybeans such as soybean oil (Grade 1), flakes, germs, isofavaone, and salad oil. Heilongjiang Jiusan also makes natural vitamin E, as well as soybean saponin, soybean mono-glyceride, soy tissue protein, and soy protein isolated. Its soybean oil, salad oil, flakes, and germs are certified NON-GMO (non-genetically modified organisms) products that have been tested by Hong Kong Dan Chips Limited. China Green Food Development Center has also certified the company's soybean and salad oil as green foods. The soybean industry in China, including Heilongjiang Jiusan, is heavily subsidized by the government.

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