Founded in 1928 in New Iberia, Louisiana, Bruce Foods had been manufacturing original Cajun and Tex Mex food products for more than eighty years - long before these spicy cuisines were introduced to the rest of the world. Our Mexican food plant in El Paso, Texas was founded in 1931 and pioneered the first canned Mexican foods.Today, Bruce Foods is one of America's largest privately-owned food manufacturers with more than 1,200 employees, and four processing plants in the U.S. Bruce products are distributed throughout the U.S. and in more than 100 countries, and are carried by most of the top retail grocery chains worldwide so there's bound to be one near you.Known for bruce famous "Original" Louisiana brand hot pepper sauce, Cajun Injector Products, Bruce's Yams and Casa Fiesta Mexican food items, bruce manufacture a variety of more than 350 food products under nine premium brands - all authentic, all delicious and all natural.

Cains Foods, L.P. manufactures food products for retail and food service customers. Cains Foods offers various products, including mayonnaise, salad and coleslaw dressings, sandwich spreads, soups, marinades, condiments, crackers, dressings, chowders, and mustards, as well as tartar, savory, grilling, cocktail, and barbeque sauces. Cains Foods also provides co-pack/private label products, as well as offers various recipes, such as side dishes, entrees, sandwiches, salads, and appetizers. Cains Foods offers its products to supermarkets in New England and New York.

Neco Foods wants you to sink your teeth into its array of tasty comestibles. Neco Foods company, located in Palm Beach County, Florida, offers an array of smoked fish, seafood dips and spreads, fresh soups and salads, finishing butters, and sauces. Neco's appetizers and value-added seafood and non-seafood items are sold under the Atlantis Foods brand name. Its products are distributed to retail food outlets, club stores, and foodservice institutions, including restaurants, throughout the US. Neco also offers its customers new product development, individual product specifications, handling variations, and menu applications.

Gate Gourmet began in 1992 as the catering arm of Swissair; it is now part of the publicly traded gategroup. The foodservice company is one of the world's largest in-flight caterers, alongside rival LSG Sky Chefs. Gate Gourmet prepares more than 200 million meals a year for travelers from its 100 flight kitchens in more than 25 countries. Gate Gourmet company contracts for about 250 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Thai Airways. Gate Gourmet also offers consulting on menu and service design, cost monitoring, and logistics.

This bunch of Florida siblings Lykes land, lots o' land. Family-owned Lykes Bros. concentrates its efforts on its 337,000 acres of land holdings -- which is home to the company's diverse operations, which include cattle ranching (20,000 head), forestry, and sod and sugarcane farms. The company also grows landscaping trees, leases grazing and farm land, oversees pine and eucalyptus forests, and offers hunting (deer, quail, turkey) and fishing tours on its 1,867-acre Silver Lake Preserve. The company was founded by Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes in 1900 and is owned by the descendants of his seven sons.

Steinbeck County Produce is owned and operated by the Huntington Family. The Huntington’s family’s roots run deep in the Salinas Valley soil, and Steinbeck company is one of the few remaining family-run agricultural businesses in the Salinas Valley. In 1949 Lou Huntington, Sr. began farming tomatoes, potatoes, sugar beets and onions in Soledad, CA. His son, Lou Jr. joined him in 1963 after graduating from California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo with a degree in Ag Business. The business grew and the products grown changed, with asparagus, lettuce and mixed vegetables added to the deal. Land along the Salinas River from Salinas to Soledad was acquired over time, and the third generation of Huntington’s graduated from college and began working for the company.

Synutra International knows how to pack a nutritional punch -- and put it into a can. The company develops, manufactures, and sells enriched milk- and rice-powder products for infants and children. The company also makes powdered nutritional products for adults; however, most of the company's business comes from the sale of its infants' and children's powders. Synutra products are sold at more than 65,000 retail outlets located throughout mainland China. Chairman and CEO Liang Zhang owns 67% of the company.

Chickens are always on the menu at this company. Perdue Incorporated is one of the largest poultry (chicken and turkey) producers in the US. The company operates live production and processing facilities in about 15 US states through its some 2,250 contracted poultry farmers. The Perdue Farms division processes and packs 3 billion pounds of chicken and 268 million pounds of turkey a year. Perdue sells poultry through retail food outlets and to foodservice customers, most of which are located in the eastern half of the US; the company also exports worldwide. Its Perdue Agribusiness unit processes grain for animal feed and pet food ingredients, makes vegetable oils, and manufactures fertilizer and renewable fuel.

No vampires allowed at Vessey & Company. Not that they'd want to hang around at this California vegetable grower's operations anyway. Vessey's main crop is garlic (including the giant but mild elephant garlic), which it offers braided, peeled, or in bulk. Vessey also grows some 25 other conventional and organic crops, including artichokes, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, spinach, cauliflower, melons, and onions on its 10,000 acres. Located in the Imperial Valley, the company was founded in 1910 by Elton Vessey and is owned and operated by the fourth generation of the Vessey family.

Randall Foods looks at a chickens and cows and sees dinner. The company processes poultry, pork, and beef into fresh packaged chicken and meats, and distributes them to retail food outlets and foodservice operators in Southern California and Arizona under the Randall Farms brand name. It makes some 500 different products, offering a variety of fresh beef, chicken, and pork products. The company's value-added fresh meats are sold under the Easy Does It Meals brand contain everything to make a complete meal. Randall also offers a line of natural meats from animals free of artificial ingredients and raised using no antibiotics or growth hormones. President and CEO Stan Bloom owns the company.

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