Four Seasons Produce company packages and supplies a full line organic and traditionally-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. It serves retail and wholesale food sectors, as well as foodservice operators and export customers. Another subsidiary, Four Seasons Logistics, offers nationwide freight shipping and inventory-management services. The Four Seasons Trading division provides grower representation, logistics management, and importing services. In addition to its name-sake Four Season brand, the company offers private-label services.

Five Star was formed in 1993 to acquire AA Food Services based in Dalton, Georgia. It is a portfolio company of Atlanta-based Navigation Capital Partners. Five Star Food Service is a leading operator and supplier of vending machines and related supplies, with more than 18,500 machines in the Southeast, mostly in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Five Star Food Service company also offers office coffee and beverage services and operates about 80 corporate dining cafeterias. It is a franchisee of Canteen Vending Services, a unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Friendship Dairies originated over 90 years ago in the small town of Friendship, located in upstate NY, where its founder first crafted an Old World Style Cheese called Farmer Cheese. This All Natural cheese was produced all week long then transported by railway to be sold on the streets of New York City. Today, Friendship is a leading producer of "All Natural" cultured and pasteurized dairy products, processing more than a million pounds of Grade A milk a day at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility still located in Friendship, NY. The milk is delivered fresh and used within hours of its arrival to make a wide variety of All Natural dairy products including Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream, Farmer Cheese, Buttermilk and select Yogurt products. The same care and attention to quality that have been the cornerstone of the Friendship Brand since its inception, is still adhered to this day. And Farmer Cheese, still in high demand, continues to be produced in a way that maintains its tradition of "homemade" excellence. Friendship has received much praise for the taste, consistency, and overall quality of its products. All Friendship dairy products conform to Vegetarian Diet Standards and, with the exception of Toasted Onion Flavored Sour Cream, are Gluten Free.

Massimo Zanetti founded Segafredo Zanetti. Initially he developed the business within Italy, where it soon became a leader in the licensed and public premises market. The company then extended into the consumer market and large scale retail trade, before going on to conquer the international markets. Segafredo Zanetti is now the leading Espresso producer in Italy and throughout the world, with more than 70,000 clients and 50 million cups of espresso drunk each day. Its mission is to spread the taste, the culture and preparation method of the true Italian Espresso to the whole world.

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen knows that the egg probably came first, but it's chicks that sell best. Comprised of two units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys. Its chicken brands include Arbor Acres, L.I.R., and Ross; its turkey brands are Nicholas and British United Turkeys (B.U.T.) The company also offers biosecurity programs for poultry operations that designed to keep pathogens out of the food chain. Aviagen has customers worldwide and is owned by the privately owned German holding company, the EW GROUP.

Chef Paul Prudhomme has propelled the distinctive cuisine of his native Louisiana into the international spotlight and continues to push the limits by creating exciting and new American and international dishes. Chef Paul learned the importance of using the freshest ingredients while cooking at his mother’s side and continues to use only earth’s finest harvests. As the youngest of 13 children, Chef Paul was always adventurous. His strong curiosity of life and cultural customs motivated him to leave Louisiana in his early 20’s and travel across the United States to experience every culinary environment possible. From an Indian reservation all the way to the finest, five-star restaurant, Chef Paul learned to love, appreciate and blend the flavors of his younger years with those of many other cultures.

When mothers intone "eat your veggies," it's music to the ears of Harris Moran. Harris Moran Seed Company, a unit of French seed giant cooperative Groupe Limagrain, serves up an array of vegetable seeds for markets in about 65 countries. The company's seeds are destined for fresh-food and processed-food end uses. With operations in the US and Mexico, the company researches, breeds, and wholesales seeds for such mom-pleasers as beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, corn, lettuce, melons, peppers, pumpkins, squash, and tomatoes. Harris Moran, which was acquired by Limagrain in 1996, traces its roots back more than 140 years. In 2010 the company acquired Mesa Maize, a sweet corn company in Olathe, Colorado.

Alabama Farmers Cooperative, originally the Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Cooperative, was organized in Decatur, Alabama in 1936 by a group of local county co-ops. Upon becoming a single entity, the new cooperative developed a modest plant in Decatur to satisfy the farmers’ need for fairly priced fertilizer.Over the years, AFC acquired or built additional facilities. Today, AFC has storage facilities for both liquid and dry fertilizer throughout the areas that it serves.Alabama Farmers Cooperative (AFC) provides farmers in the Yellowhammer State a full range of agricultural supplies and services, including feed, fertilizer, seed, grain storage, and marketing, along with home-gardening items such as seeds and hardware. The co-op, which boasts 46 member associations, serving members in 49 US states; it owns and operates member-only co-op stores in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AFC owns Bonnie Plants, one of the largest suppliers of vegetable and herb plants for the home gardener in the US, along with BioLogic, which makes forage products for wild game. AFC also operates catfish fish farms and supplies the foodservice industry with whole and value-added catfish.

Bartlett And Company was founded in 1907 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. Bartlett and Company was formerly known as Bartlett Agri Enterprises, Inc. Bartlett And Company engages in the grain merchandising and storage, flour and feed milling, and cattle feeding businesses in the United States. The company produces starches and glutens for making household products, such as vodka and shampoo. It operates flour mills in Kansas and North Carolina; feed stores in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; and cattle feed yards in Texas.

Coffee Holding Co., Inc. (CHC) is a family operated business for over 30 years. The management and operating team at CHC represents three generations of committed, knowledgeable professionals.Coffee Holding Co. brewed up the idea of selling a wide spectrum of raw and roasted Arabica coffee beans to coffee purveyors such as Green Mountain Roasters, as well as private-label coffees to foodservice suppliers. Coffee Holding imports its green coffee beans from Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Kenya, and Uganda. In addition to producing private-label coffees for stores, the company also sells name brands including IL CLASSICO and S&W. Its Cafe Caribe espresso coffee targets the Hispanic market. The company has expanded its offerings through partnerships. The founding Gordon family, including CEO Andrew Gordon, owns about 60% of the company.

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