Bright Harvest was founded in 1967 in Clarksville, Arkansas. Its products were marketed under the Kim's, Chef Francisco, and Ore-Ida labels as part of the Heinz company until 1999, when CEO Don Kerr acquired the company through Kerr Industries. Bright Harvest Sweet Potato manufactures and sells frozen sweet potatoes and value-added sweet potato products under the Bright Harvest brand name. It is the top processor of sweet potatoes in the US and supplies the USDA.) The company's offerings include center cut, candied patties, and mashed sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato casserole.

The family-owned General Produce Co., Ltd. was started by Tai Oy Chan in 1933. General Produce is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving both retail and foodservice customers in Northern California and parts of Oregon and Nevada. It supplies a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to supermarket chains and independent grocers, as well as restaurants, schools, and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to fresh produce, General Produce distributes such specialty products as flowers, ethic food items, and organic produce.

Akey works to prevent achy breaky hearts in American farm animals. North American Nutrition Companies (NANCO), which does business as Akey, provides blending, manufacturing, distribution, and nutritional services to the feed, livestock, and poultry industries around the world. The company provides diet formulation, feeding-program recommendation, and product-development services. It also manufactures feed-grade drugs, vitamin and mineral products, and specialty feed mixes. In addition to dairy and beef cattle, calves, swine, and poultry, Akey make products for sheep , goats, lamb, horses, and camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas). The company is a subsidiary of Dutch agricultural company Provimi.

Though its first product was sandwich steak, Murry's hit the road to success with its frozen French-toast sticks. The company now offers more than 150 frozen prepared beef, chicken, and pork products, along with its "we've achieved the American dream" French Toast sticks. Its products can be found in more than 10,000 grocery stores throughout the US; Murry's also offers private-label services and sells to restaurants, institutions, and other foodservice businesses. In addition, the firm operates some 30 Murry's supermarkets in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and Philadelphia. The company, founded in 1948, is owned and operated by the third generation of the founding Mendelson family.

Windsor Distribution was founded in 1995 by CEO and owner John Karalekas. Windsor Distributing's domain is the fruit and vegetable shipping and brokering business. Windsor Distributing company purchases fresh produce from growers throughout the US, as well as in Canada, and Mexico. Headquartered in Naples, Florida, it partners with fruit and vegetable shipping companies as Ocean Mist, Tanimura & Antle, and A. Duda & Sons to get the ordered products to its foodservice, retail, and wholesale customers. The firm has seven distribution centers spread across the country and offers a wide variety of produce, including asparagus, bell peppers, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, melons, lettuce, and tomatoes.

San Francisco-based Diamond Foods is a high-growth innovative packaged food company focused on building, acquiring and energizing brands including, Kettle Chips, Emerald snack nuts, Pop Secret popcorn, and Diamond of California snack and culinary nuts. The Company's strategy is to build brands from the ground up as well as identify opportunities in under-developed brands and then add value by making a relevant connection to the contemporary consumer. Diamond's products are distributed globally in stores where snacks and culinary nuts are sold.Founded in 1912 with a strong heritage in the walnut market under the Diamond of California brand, Diamond Foods completed its initial public offering in July, 2005. The Company has approximately 1,700 year-round employees and its stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol DMND.

Renshawnapier (formerly Napier Brown Foods) has found a sweet spot in the food biz. The Liverpudlian company is a supplier of sugar (Whitworths and nbf), marzipan and other baking ingredients (Renshaw), as well as icings (Regalice), and jams (R&W Scott). Renshawnapier company also makes caramel, cooking chocolate, sauces, and syrups, as well as dairy ingredients (milk powders, stabilizers, emulsifiers, boxed fats, and dextrose, glucose, and fructose). It serves customers in the food manufacturing, retailing, wholesaling, and foodservice sectors throughout the UK. It also exports its products to mainland Europe and the US. Renshawnapier is owned by The Real Good Food Company.

Niman Ranch started in the early 1970s on an eleven acre ranch in a small coastal town, just north of San Francisco. The animals were raised using traditional, humane husbandry methods and given wholesome all-natural feeds. Before long, Niman Ranch beef became a favorite in local grocery stores and at San Francisco Bay Area restaurants.In 1995, Niman Ranch added pork to its offering when Paul Willis, of Thornton Iowa was working to revitalize sustainable hog farming methods in the Midwest. Paul's commitment to raise hogs in a humane, old-fashioned way matched Niman Ranch's own principles. Niman Ranch now offered beef, pork and lamb - as rancher Jeannie McCormack had been raising lamb for Niman Ranch since 1992.

Finsbury Food Group has puffed up since it mixed up a recipe for a bakery roll-up. Starting with the purchases of Nicholas & Harris (specialty breads, muffins) and Memory Lane Cakes (boxed cakes, sponges), Finsbury has acquired more companies to fill up its bread box. Its subsidiary businesses include: California Cake Company (low-fat cakes, pies, muffins), Campbells Cake Company (unbaked desserts), United Central Bakeries (breads, breakfast goods), Livwell (Yorkshire Farm gluten-free breads and breakfast goods), Anthony Allen (Weight Watchers cakes), and Lightbody (Celebration cakes).

The largest dairy producer in Mexico is now the second largest in the US after it bought National Dairy Holdings and Farmland Dairies in 2009. Lala makes milk (pasteurized and ultra high temperature), cheese, yogurt, cream, butter, juice, and packaged desserts such as gelatin and flan under about a dozen brands in Mexico. In the US, operating as Lala Foods Inc., it offers milk, cheese, sour cream, and yogurt under the Lala and Vive brands, as well as a kids' line called Yomi. Lala operates more than 35 manufacturing plants and 160 distribution centers in Mexico, Central America, and the US. It was founded in 1949 as a dairy collective in Mexico.

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