In 1961, several small glass and related housewares manufacturing companies combined to form Lancaster Colony Corporation. Two years later, the Board of Directors initiated a strategy to reward shareholders through annual dividend increases. Lancaster Colony has paid consecutive quarterly dividends since 1963. Lancaster Colony went public in 1969. That year also saw the company enter the specialty foods business with the purchase of the T. Marzetti Company. In 1972, Lancaster Colony posted sales in excess of $100 million.The company exceeded $1 billion in annual sales for the first time in fiscal 1998. Today, Lancaster Colony is positioned as a diversified marketer and manufacturer in two product groups: Specialty Foods, the largest and fastest growing division and Glassware and Candles. These groups operate autonomously, allowing each to focus on their specific customer base and market opportunities.

Snyder's of Hanover company is the largest pretzel maker in the US (surpassing even snack-making behemoth Frito-Lay). Along with pretzels of all shapes and sizes, family-owned Snyder's produces potato chips, tortilla chips, and the EatSmart brand of low-fat snack foods (soy crisps, veggie crisps, and organic popcorn). Taking advantage of US consumers' new-found love of dark chocolate, snyder company introduced Hershey's dark-chocolate-flavored Dips. Snyder's snacks are sold through supermarkets, drugstores, and mass merchandisers throughout the US. Snyder's and longtime snack food maker Lance plan to merge their operations.

The FGN Group is a leader in plant genetic research and development for global biofuel, forestry and agricultural markets. The Group was formed by the merge of FGN Plc with CBD Technologies and has integrated the abiotic stress platform with the yield enhancement and processability technology from these entities into a powerful new package for the enhancement of biofuel, forestry and agricultural crops. It collaborates with renowned institutional partners worldwide and has thus been able to take an innovative and multi-faceted approach to significantly improve agronomic traits of value in plants. The FGN Group has strategic agreements with leading commercial companies in the forestry and agricultural sectors around the world and continues to actively partner its technologies. The Group has a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio that addresses environmental stresses in plants such as salinity, drought, cold, and heat and protects its developments on the modification of plant cell walls to enhance plant growth rates, yield and processability of plant fiber. FuturaGene technologies, by allowing plants to grow on marginal lands and to produce more usable fiber for industry, are a major contributor to ensuring food security and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture, forest product and biofuel production.

Flagship of China's Dairy Industry Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd. is a dairy enterprise with spirit of innovation and social responsibility. It is the only one of Chinese enterprises which supplies dairy products for the Olympics. Under Yili Group there are five divisions：liquid milk, ice cream, milk powder, yoghurt and raw milk. More than 1,000 series of Yili brand products, such as: popsicle, ice cream, milk powder, milked tea powder, asepsis milk, yoghurt, and cheese are made by 130 affiliated enterprises of Yili Group. In course of the several tens of years' development, Yili has always been devoting to producing 100% safe and 100% healthy dairy products, and spreading concept of nutrition and health for Chinese. Meanwhile, Yili has been serving for the consumers' health and happy life according to the highest worldwide production standards. As the leading enterprise of dairy industry, Yili takes developing China's dairy industry as its mission. After taking the lead completion of the industrial upgrade, Yili began to devote to promoting China’s dairy industry development transfer from "quicker and better" to "better and quicker".

La Flor Spices hopes its flowery array of offerings will please you with its aromas and flavors. La Flor Spices company packages and sells dried spices and herbs, seasoning blends, marinades, and liquid extracts. La Flor Spices also offers dried beans, peas, and lentils, as well as a number of herbal teas. La Flor Spices company's customers include retail and industrial food companies, as well as food distributors and foodservice operators. Its products can also be ordered from la flor spices company's Web site. La Flor products include the fixings used in traditional Mexican, Jamaican, Dominican, and other Hispanic cuisines.

Glory Foods, Inc. was founded in 1989. Glory Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes Southern food products to grocery stores in the United States. Glory Foods company’s product line includes canned vegetables and side dishes, and frozen savory entrees and side dishes, as well as fresh-cut, bagged vegetables, including greens and spinach, peas and beans, yams and sweet potatoes, lower sodium products, hot sauces, cooking bases, and corn bread and muffins. It also offers seasoned cooking base and savory accents cooking base lines.

Sadia is one of the world’s leading producers of chilled and frozen foods.Established in Brazil in 1944, Sadia is today the market leader in all segments in which it is present, and it is also Brazil’s main exporter of meat-based products.Sadia’s brand name has been voted the most important and valuable brand among all Brazil’s food brands.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC, is a leading sheller and processor of peanuts and peanut products with headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia. Golden Peanut's primary product lines include raw shelled and inshell peanuts, peanut flours, peanut extracts, roasted aromatic and refined various peanut oils, and peanut seed. Golden Peanut serves peanut growers and operates plants in all major peanut growing areas of the United States and Argentina. Golden Peanut are proud to be a leading supplier of peanut products to manufacturers worldwide.

Coffee Bean International, Inc. are as passionate about the coffee we roast as the service we deliver to you. From the farms to the roaster to the retailer to the cup, we strive for perfection every step of the way. Founded in 1972 as a tiny storefront operation, we are now one of the biggest and most respected specialty coffee roasters in the nation. But no matter how big we grow, we’ll never forget our roots. Its the one-on-one relationships with the people who buy, sell, and drink our coffee that matter most. Coffee Bean International, Inc. take enormous pride in helping you become a Coffee Destination. From working with you to create coffee that’s uniquely yours to providing marketing, training, and customer service support, Coffee Bean International is proud to be your partner every step of the way.

Calbee Foods Co., Ltd. was founded in 1949. Calbee Foods Company sells a line of potato chips under the Calbee brand and other snack foods such as SAYA snow pea crisps, Vegetaberu vegetable snacks, Yakimorokoshi corn puffs, breakfast cereal, and the very popular Kappa Ebissen shrimp-flavored potato sticks and crackers. It also produces limited-edition regional-flavored chips and snacks in curry, kimchee, and even Caesar salad. Besides Japan, Calbee has operations in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the US (as Calbee America).

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