The family-owned company was started in 1982 by Bernard Mayrsohn and his son, Mark. The Mayrsohn family's roots in the produce business stretch back to the 19th century. Mayrsohn International Trading is a leading importer and exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables with facilities in Miami and New York. It handles a wide array of fresh produce, including apples, onions, and potatoes, as well as Florida grapefruit. The company also imports bananas and plantains from Ecuador.

Fremont is a fourth-generation, family-owned company founded in 1905 by Allen Slessman. Fremont makes canned, jarred, and bagged sauerkraut, as well as sauerkraut juice and various glazes, sauces, and vinaigrettes for retail and foodservice and meat-packing customers. The Fremont company distributes its sauerkraut under the Frank's Quality Kraut and Snowfloss brands, as well as tomato ketchup and sauces under the Mississippi BBQ and Frank's brands throughout the US. In addition, Fremont provides private-label packaging services for tomato-based products.

L&M Companies, Inc. was founded in Raleigh, NC in 1964. Over the years, L&M grew and expanded into farming ventures up and down the East Coast, incorporating L&M Farms in 1983. In addition to its original farms in Georgia and Florida, L&M has continued to expand across the United States, Mexico, Central and South America.Today, L&M Farms and L&M Companies are members of the L&M Family of Companies—a fully integrated year-round supplier of fresh fruits and vegetables. We are growers, packers, shippers and marketers offering a full range of services including warehousing, distribution, transportation, information technology and more. From the beginning, L&M was committed to excellent service, unyielding integrity and long-term relationships. After more than four decades of hard work and growth, we still live by these same values.

Ceres Solutions is a growth business. The agricultural partnership provides farmers in about a dozen Indiana counties with crop farming support services and supplies. It sells, stores, and distributes such goods as fertilizers and fuel (gasoline, propane, home-heating). The company's agronomy services include field mapping, crop and pest management, soil sampling, and yield analysis. Ceres Solutions also offers crop-financing programs, sells crop insurance, and provides marketing services. Its Green Notes newsletter offers the state's farmers market and technical advice and analysis.

Shamrock Foods manufacturers, imports, and distributes shelf-stable, ambient consumer food products throughout Ireland. Along with its Shamrock line of home baking ingredients, rice, dried fruits, nuts, and sugar shamrock company also distributes its Roma line of Italian foods, Odlums baking goods, and Shamrock-brand fruit and nut snack foods. It also offers Shamrock-branded foods for the foodservice trade. Shamrock Foods company sources and provides sales and marketing services for a number of other food manufacturing companies including Ballymaloe, Masterfoods, and Splenda.

Prairie Thyme wants to show its customers' taste buds a good time. Prairie Thyme company produces a variety of unusually flavored fruit salsas, vegetable chutneys, and flavored cooking oils. Its gourmet sauces include Roasted Tomato Chutney, Raspberry Jalapeño Ambrosia, Blackberry Jalapeño, Peach Habañero, and Chocolate Habañero Fudge Sauce. Prairie Thyme company boasts some 1,200 retail customers, operates a shipping facility in Durango, Colorado, and works with two co-packing partners. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Prairie Thyme is owned by president and founder Gary Hall.

Ice cold beverages are the stock and trade of this company. Doing business as Polar Beverages, Polar Corp. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fruit-flavored sodas, ginger ale, mixers, and spring water to customers in New England and upstate New York. It markets beverages under its flagship Polar brand, as well as bottling and distributing national brands such as 7UP, A&W, Izze, Gatorade, AriZona, and Sunkist. The company also offers corporate water services. Privately owned, Polar has two bottling plants, one in New York and another in Massachusetts.

Enrobe yourself! Chocolates à la Carte makes and sells custom-designed chocolates. Among its customers are corporations, cruise ships, resorts, country clubs, airlines, hotels, and restaurants. Founders Rena and Rick Pocrass run the company from its manufacturing plant located in Valencia, California. Chocolate à la Carte's designs include marbleized chocolate seashells, swans, and tulips that customers/chefs can use as the centerpieces of their desserts by adding fruit, mousse, or sauces. Chocolates à ala Carte, Inc. also offers private-label and custom designing and does contract work for other chocolate manufacturers. It has some 5,000 customers.

Mariani Packing was founded in 1906 by Paul Mariani, Sr., grandfather of current company chairman and CEO, Mark Mariani. Mariani Packing company produces dried fruits, which are sold in bulk, under private labels and the Mariani brand to retail food stores and other food manufacturing companies in more than 50 countries worldwide. Its products include dried apples, apricots, cranberries, mangoes, and plums, as well as raisins and sun-dried tomatoes. Mariani Packing company operates five production facilities in California.

Since its listing, with the enthusiasm and support of the Beijing Municipal Government and various sectors in Hong Kong, Beijing Enterprises has successfully adhered to the mission of maximizing shareholders' interests. Leveraging on Beijing's edges and through the convergence of both the resources in Beijing and Hong Kong, we insist in a proactive and steady direction of operation as well as prudent and focused investment strategies. The scale of its businesses and assets are gradually expanding with improving operating results. Our strength as a whole enhanced significantly. Since 2004, Beijing Enterprises actively traces the changes of market orientation, reform in the state-owned assets administration system, and the progress of market-oriented operations for public utilities. We have established the market positioning of "an integrated public utilities company with municipal energy services as the core business segment" and created the overall strategic mission as "the major entity and the investment and financing platform under the Beijing Municipal Government for the operation and administration of infrastructure and public utilities". We have initiated the joint reorganization of Beijing Gas Group, and divested non-core business segments at an extensive scale. Through more than three years of uninterrupted dedication and devotion, Beijing Enterprises preliminarily achieved the strategic transformation from a conglomerate to a professional public utilities company.

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