Meat Commodities, Inc. was established in 1974 and began business as a domestic beef brokerage firm. During the 1980's the company expanded to include both brokerage and trading in the U.S. and Canada. In 2003, Meat Commodities, Inc. started a transportation brokerage company, M.C. Transportation, L.L.C. The year 2005 saw the establishment of a Retail Division, including its own featured branded product: "Haywood and Yancey" Fine Foods. Today Meat Commodities, Inc. is a diversified trading company committed to providing the best products, service, and industry expertise available while trading beef, pork, and chicken products.

Founded in 1790, King Arthur Flour claims it is the oldest flour company in the US. The King Arthur Flour Company is 100% employee owned. The King Arthur Flour Company is doing its best to make its sales rise. King Arthur sells its all-natural flours to retailers, bakeries, and foodservice companies nationwide. It also sells its flours, baking ingredients, and equipment at its retail store in Norwich, Vermont; through its website; and its catalogs. To drum up confident new customers, the company sends baking instructors across the US to teach classes and runs a baking school at its Vermont headquarters.

Making, selling, and drinking wine is a family tradition for Raymond Vineyards. Raymond Vineyard & Cellar produces various styles of wines, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot; brandy; and other spirits from its family-owned Napa Valley vineyards. Wines, which are available through the company's Web site, are sold under the Napa Valley Reserve, Raymond Limited Edition, Raymond Estates, and Amberhill labels. Limited Edition wines are produced in low volumes and have their own subcategories based on specific requirements. Raymond Vineyard's products range in price from budget ($8 a bottle) to the pricey ($80 a bottle)

Pacific Coast Producers was founded in 1971 and is based in Lodi, California. It has field stations in Central and Northern California; and distribution centers in Lodi and Palermo, California. Pacific Coast Producers, Inc. operates as a private label packer of canned fruits and tomatoes. Its products include tomatoes, apricots, peaches, pears, grapes, fruit cocktail and chunky mixed fruits, fruit mixes, triple cherry mixed fruits, fruit bowls, mandarin orange fruit bowls, and mandarin oranges in orange gels.

Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas company, a subsidiary of UK ingredient giant Tate & Lyle PLC, is one of a handful of companies that make high-fructose corn syrup -- the sweetener used by virtually all soft-drink manufacturers in the world. Offering more than 350 food and industrial starch products, the company is one of the largest corn refiners in the US. In addition to corn syrup, Tate & Lyle Americas also manufactures food and industrial ingredients such as fat replacers, starches, sweeteners (including sucralose, the main ingredient in SPLENDA), acidulates, citrates, savory flavors, animal-feed ingredients, and ethanol.

The family-owned business was founded in 1976 by brothers, Tom and Bob Nunes. The Nunes Company wants to be known as the foxy lady of the produce industry. The Nunes company markets fresh vegetables under the Foxy label. Its products include heads of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and celery, as well as bags or party trays of fresh-cut vegetables, salad mixes, and stir-fry vegetables. Nunes also provides some organic produce. The Nunes company operates more than 20,000 acres of cropland, as well as processing and shipping facilities in Arizona and California.

The ingredients First Spice Mixing Co., Inc. was founded by German immigrant Felix Epstein in 1940 and is operated by his descendants. First Spice Mixing company makes a full array of spice blends, seasonings, sauces, marinades, breading, soup bases, and other food ingredients for its North American foodservice and grocery retailing customers. It also provides research, product development, batching, and packaging services. First Spice Mixing boasts facilities in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Albert's Organics is the nation’s leading distributor of quality organically grown produce and perishable items. We deliver to all major metropolitan cities, most regions in the continental U.S., and to many areas in Canada. We have the largest effective distribution coverage of any organic produce supplier in the country.Albert's Organics is the first Certified Organic Distributor with nationwide coverage. This gives us the ability to trace any product sold through our distribution channels back to its source. We are inspected annually by Quality Assurance International (QAI) to maintain our Certified Organic status. Albert’s Organics is also Primus Certified in all of our distribution centers. The Primus Labs program gives us the ability to have a 3rd party certification agency come in and audit our program to verify that our program is working and to validate our own internal audits of our food safety program. The program audit creates a comprehensive and detailed report that we can use to focus on potential areas of improvement as well as producing a score that we use to set and measure our goals for the program.Albert's Organics maintains an in-stock status of over 300 seasonal fruits and vegetables and other organic perishables in our distribution centers providing product to 5000 natural food stores, supermarkets and restaurants across America.

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.

In business since 1978, Seabrook Brothers & Sons, Inc. is still run by the founding Seabrook family. Seabrook Brothers and Sons almost has an alphabet of products. From asparagus to water chestnuts, seabrook company grows, processes, and freezes a harvest of vegetables. In addition to producing items for retail sale under its Seabrook Farms label, seabrook company supplies vegetables to customers in the industrial ingredients, foodservice, and private-label retail sectors. It serves customers throughout the US, as well as in internationally in Canada, Chile, Israel, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. Seabrook also makes such value-added products as frozen skillet meals, creamed spinach, and butter and cheese sauces.

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