The importance of cooperation -- it's one of life's most important lessons. Dating back to the early 1900s, the Farmers Cooperative Company learned that lesson early on. The 5,200-member co-op offers agronomy and grain marketing services to its members, who oversee some 3 million acres of farmland in central and north central Iowa. It operates 40 grain elevators and provides soil testing, and mapping services. It sells supplies including seed, feed, and fertilizer, to its members. Farmers Cooperative is an acquisitive operation. Since the 1960s it has acquired more than 20 other agricultural co-ops, grain elevators, fertilizer manufacturers, and other farm-related businesses.

Campagna - Turano Bakery, which does does business as the Turano Bakery, manufactures fully and partially baked European-style artisan breads. Campagna - Turano Bakery company's more than 400 varieties include French baguettes, ciabatta bread, focaccia, and kaiser rolls, as well as sweet baked goods including cannoli, biscotti, cakes, and cookies. Operating three commercial bakeries, Turano serves restaurant, in-store bakery, and retail grocery customers throughout the US. Its foodservice operation supplies customers in Illinois, Wisconsin, and northwestern Indiana with parbaked and fully baked goods.

In the 1930's, Hubert Hansen and his three sons began selling fresh, non-pasteurized juices to film studios and retailers in Southern California under the Hansen's® name. n the 1970's, Tim Hansen, the grandson of Hubert, developed and marketed a variety of Natural sodas and pasteurized shelf stable, 100% juices also under the Hansen's® label. Products marketed by the Corporation include: Hansen's® Natural Sodas, Signature Sodas, fruit juice Smoothies, Energy drinks, Energade® energy sports drinks, E²0 Energy Water®, functional drinks, Sparkling Lemonades and Orangeades, multi-vitamin juice drinks in aseptic packaging, Junior Juice® juice, iced teas, lemonades and juice cocktails, apple juice, cider and juice blends, Blue Sky® brand carbonated beverages, Monster Energy* brand energy drinks, Lost® Energy* brand energy drinks and Rumba* brand energy drinks, and Joker Energy brand energy drinks.

KeHE Distributors is a leading wholesale supplier of ethnic and gourmet foods serving more than 15,000 retail grocery stores across the country. It distributes more than 40,000 items including such ethnic offerings as African American, Asian, Hispanic, and kosher food products, as well as a wide variety of organic and natural food products. Additionally, KeHE company provides e-commerce services through subsidiary Eye Level Solutions. KeHE Distributors company's KeHE Direct unit provides online ordering services for its customers. Arthur Kehe started the employee-owned KeHE Distributors, LLC in 1952.

Chupa Chups (pronounced "choopa choops") might be hard to say, but its products just roll off the tongue. A Spanish confectioner, the company makes some four billion lollipops a year and it offers more than 100 different flavors. The company produces Smint Xylicare "dental" candy, which it claims protects teeth from cavities, as well as Cremosa sugar-free strawberry and cream-flavored lollipops. It also licenses the Chupa Chups brand to makers of clothing, footwear, and personal care products. Founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat, Chupa Chups was owned and run by the Bernat family until 2006, when it was sold to leading Italian confectioner Perfetti Van Melle.

M.P. Evans Group PLC (incorporated in England & Wales) is listed on AIM. The Group's assets consist of oil-palm plantations (both majority and minority held) in Indonesia and Malaysia, the latter with property-development value, and beef-cattle interests in Australia. It is the board's intention to increase its total Indonesian areas under oil palm to some 70,000 hectares of environmentally-sustainable oil palm. This, in turn, will ultimately lead to an increase in the Group's equivalent annual palm-oil production from the current 60,000 tonnes to around 400,000 tonnes. Demand for palm oil is strong in its traditional use as a food, and additionally as a feedstock for the bio-fuel industry. In addition to the expansion in Indonesia, the board's policy is to expand the Group's Australian beef-cattle interests so that, ultimately, approximately 70% of the Group's assets will be in Indonesian oil-palm plantations and 30% in Australian beef cattle.

Clougherty Packing processes pork products, including fresh-cut pork, prepared bacon, sausages, and boneless and bone-in cooked ham. The company distributes its meat to retailers under the Farmer John brand name. It is a sponsor for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers and makes the hot dogs long-time baseball fans know as Dodger Dogs. The company's Web site offers recipes and cooking and serving tips featuring Clougherty products. Founded by the Clougherty family in 1931, the company was purchased by Hormel Foods in 2004.

Welcome to Tyson Fresh Meats, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc., and the world's leading supplier of premium beef and pork. Headquartered in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, Tyson Fresh Meats maintains 17 production sites throughout North America and employs nearly 41,000 team members.That steak that you're going to dig into tonight may very well have come from Tyson Fresh Meats. As a top US processor of beef and pork, Tyson slaughters and sells fresh beef and pork and case-ready ground beef and pork products. Its brand names include Chairman's Reserve Beef and Supreme Tender Pork. Its customers include the US food retailers, foodservice operators, and meat processors. Tyson does not raise its own cattle, but has buyers who purchase on the open market. It has swine buyers as well; however, it does raise some of its own pigs. Non-edible animal remains are processed and sold to manufacturers of animal feed, leather, and pharmaceuticals.

Haddon House Food Products is a wholesale grocery distributor that specializes in ethnic food, gourmet ingredients, and organic products. It supplies more than 15,000 items encompassing several different brands, including such in-house names as Asian Gourmet, Jane's Krazy Mixed-Up Seasonings, Medford Farms, and Twin Tree Gardens. Haddon House serves specialty food retailers and other retail grocers nationwide.

Seafood Resources company provides frozen shellfish, including lobster, crayfish, crab, and scallops, as well as some finfish. The seafood importer/exporter sells lobsters from North America and China; crayfish and sea scallops from China; bay scallops from New England; and snow crab, perch, haddock, cod, and pollock from Canada. Its brands include China Blue, Mersey, Royal Fundy, and Seasource.

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