Lionel Hitchen (Essential Oils) Ltd. is owned and operated by founder Lionel Hitchen and his family. Lionel Hitchen (Essential Oils) knows a properly squeezed orange can yield more than just juice. Lionel Hitchen company manufactures natural concentrated citrus oils from oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits. Beyond those basics, the company extracts oils from plant parts, including leaves, buds, roots, seeds, and twigs. Lionel Hitchen uses these extracts to make steam distilled oils, alcoholic extracts, oleoresins, liquid seasonings, and dry herbs and spices. Lionel Hitchen is a major supplier to the UK beverage, cosmetic, food, and toiletry industries.

Boasting that it makes the largest family-owned retail coffee brand (Community Coffee) in the US, the company sells its brew in grocery and convenience stores, restaurants, hotels, and offices throughout the southeastern US. And there's more brewing: Some 30 CC's Coffee Houses have sprung up in Louisiana since the original coffee shop opened in 1995 in New Orleans. The company also offers whole coffee beans, teas, chicory, and coffee-related gifts and accessories at its coffee houses as well as online. Community Coffee is owned by the descendants of Henry Norman Saurage, who founded it in 1919.

Cherry Central Cooperative, Inc. was formed in 1973. Cherry Central Cooperative is a fruit marketing co-operative comprised of more than a dozen member cooperatives representing hundreds of growers in Michigan, New York, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. It processes cherries, cranberries, apples and other fruit products, including the Indian Summer and Wilderness brands of apple and cherry juices and ciders. Its Oceana Foods unit makes dried fruit sold under the Traverse Bay label, while its Dunkley International subsidiary makes fruit-processing equipment. Cherry Central's products are sold to retail, foodservice, and ingredient customers.

Borg Produce Sales company is headquartered in Los Angeles, where it operates 130,000-square-feet of storage space and maintains its fleet of 20 refrigerated delivery trucks. Borg Produce Sales is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh fruit and vegetables serving Southern California. It supplies grocery retailers and other customers with a wide array of fresh produce, including asparagus, bell peppers, cauliflower, corn, and zucchini, as well as tropical fruits (bananas, mangoes, papaya). In addition, Borg Produce imports such products as grapes, kiwis, and peaches from Chile, along with Clementines (a variety of mandarin orange) from Spain.

Certified by the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, Al Safa Halal is North America's leading provider of Halal -- an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted -- meats using the Zabiha (hand-slaughtering) process. In addition to fresh beef and chicken, the company offers Muslim communities convenience foods such as processed meats and frozen entrees, including pizza, wieners, and popcorn chicken, all marketed under the Al Safa brand name. Its products are distributed to grocery retailers and foodservice operations throughout North America. Al Safa Halal was founded in 1999 by the Muller family.

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.Founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association, the cooperative served as a marketing agent to offer the crops of its members - under the brand name "Sunsweet" - to consumers at better prices than were offered by individual growers.Today, Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. After nearly nine decades, Sunsweet boasts an enviable brand recognition of 85 percent in American households, placing it in the very top rank of long-standing successful American products.

Serving member-owners since 1920, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association Inc. is headquartered in Reston, Va., just minutes from the heart of the nation's Capitol, Washington, D.C. The cooperative markets milk for 1,500-plus dairy farmer owners throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the U.S. Known for being a leader in the dairy industry, Maryland & Virginia has an 85-plus year reputation for integrity, service and high quality products. Maryland & Virginia also owns and operates three fluid processing plants: Marva Maid in Newport News, Va., Marva Maid of Landover, Md., Maola Milk & Ice Cream in New Bern, N.C.; two manufacturing plants: one in Laurel, Md. and Valley Milk Products LLC in Strasburg, Va.; and a farm supply warehouse in Frederick, Md. with a satellite location in Hickory, N.C. Together Maryland & Virginia's milk marketing and value-added businesses work to fulfill the cooperative's mission to maximize member returns.

Scheid Vineyards, Inc. engages in the production and sale of wine grapes and bulk wine in the United States. It produces 17 varieties of wine grapes, such as Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, and Syrah. The company also converts a portion of its grapes to wine. In addition, the company provides vineyard management services. The company sells its wine grapes under short and long-term grape purchase agreements to a variety of winery clients. As of December 31, 2005, the company had approximately 5,700 acres of wine grape vineyards located in Monterey and San Benito counties in California. Scheid Vineyards, Inc. was incorporated in 1971 and is headquartered in Salinas, California.

Ginger has long been regarded as an essential remedy in the East, but recently Western medicine has been embracing the health benefits of ginger too. While there is not yet published research on Reed’s products, some traditional herbal health values associated with fresh or brewed ginger include headache relief, improved digestion, cardiovascular protection, relief of stomach upset, greater energy, menstrual relief, morning sickness, greater sperm motility, ulcer and arthritis aid, cancer protection, and more. Pamela Miller, D. Ac., D.Hom., our local expert in Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture, recommends Reed’s to many of her patients who have morning sickness or complain of headache with nauseousness. She also suggests it to parents and other patients who are looking for an alternative to commercial sodas.

Tereos SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in processing, marketing, and trading sugar beet, sugar cane, and cereals into a range of sugars, starch products, alcohols, bioethanol, and by-products intended for animal feed and the supply of electricity. It also engages in the production of fondant sugar. In addition, the company involves in the production and marketing of glucose syrup, maltodextrin, dextrose, and polyols from corn and wheat starch.

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