The Peanut Roaster business had its beginnings in 1949, when the Monahan family began roasting and selling peanuts at their restaurant; eventually, the restaurant closed and the business morphed into its current Peanut Roaster form; the Monahans still own and manage it. The Peanut Roaster offers a variety of nutty snack foods. The Peanut Roaster company's products include raw, roasted, honey-roasted, gourmet, and chocolate-covered peanuts; whole cashews; frosted pecans; pistachios; almonds; and nut mixes. Through its Web site, The Peanut Roaster sells nuts packaged in tubs, gift boxes, and collectable tins. The company also operates three retail stores in North Carolina and also sells through mail-order.

Cranberries Limited rode a different wave to get its fruit to market. Started by former Ocean Spray members, the company made a splash with its 100% fruit juice blends (versus Ocean Spray's sweetened cranberry cocktails). In 2005 it sold its juice division to independent juice company Apple & Eve for sbout $11 million. The purchase included the company's Northland, TreeSweet, and Awake brands, as well as its Seneca brand license. Cranberries Limited continues to manage its 17 Wisconsin cranberry growing operations. It supplies cranberry concentrate to Apple & Eve and Ocean Spray.

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.

Awrey Bakeries, LLC company manufactures more than 125 pre-packaged baked products, including breads, biscuits, cakes, Danish pastries, donuts, muffins, and pastries. Awrey Bakeries specializes in providing contract, private-label, and industrial baked goods, including cheesecakes, layer cakes and brownies for the food service industry, national restaurant chains and large retail customers. Its retail and food service customers include convenience stores, schools, and the US military. Awrey's baked goods are available throughout the US.

Bridgford Foods Corporation traces its roots back seventy-eight years to February 1932. Hugh H. Bridgford (1908-1992) opened a retail meat market in San Diego, California. The business evolved first into several retail meat markets, then meat wholesaling to hotels and restaurants, frozen food distribution, meat packing and processing and frozen food manufacturing. The Company is now headquartered in Anaheim, California about four miles from Disneyland. In addition to meat processing and bakery operations in Anaheim the Company has four additional factories, two in Dallas, Texas, one in Chicago, Illinois and one in Statesville, North Carolina.

Cooper Farms' poultry products fly far from the coop. The company raises turkeys (180 million pounds of live bird per year) on its Ohio farm and supplies pre-cooked (oven-roasted, smoked, and cured breasts and deli meats) and ready-to-cook turkey products to retail and foodservice customers in the US and Mexico. Cooper Farms also provides private-label packaging services for other food manufacturers. Additional items produced by the company include eggs (400 million a year), weaned pigs (90 million live pounds per year), poults (baby turkeys) (14 million per year), and animal feed (400,000 tons per year). Cooper makes feed for diary and beef cattle, as well as for swine.

Nissin founder, Momofuku Ando, has always instilled a sense of commitment and quality in Nissin products. Today, Nissin's corporate philosophy inspires this same commitment to taste, convenience, and quality. Mr. Ando began the company as part of a humble family operation back in 1948. Faced with sparse food sources after World War II, Mr. Ando realized that a quality, convenient ramen product would help to feed the masses. His goal was to create a satisfying ramen that could be eaten anywhere, anytime. In 1958, Nissin introduced "Chicken Ramen", the first instant ramen. Ironically, it was considered a luxury item, since Japanese grocery stores sold fresh Japanese noodles (udon) at one-sixth the cost of Mr. Ando's new food concept.

Grupo Bimbo was established in Mexico in 1945, today it is one of the most important baking companies in brand and trademark positioning, sales, and production volume around the world. In Mexico and Latin America it is an undisputed leader in its area, with presence in 17 countries in the United States, Latin America and Asia encompassing over 7,000 products and has more than 150 prestigious brands. Since 1980, Grupo Bimbo has been traded in the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores). It comprises six organizations and a corporate department that operates companies in the baking industry and in general, in the food industry.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably because Seara Alimentos packed it up and shipped it there. One of Brazil's largest meat processors, Seara Alimentos produces frozen, refrigerated, pre-cooked, and processed chicken and pork for the worldwide retail and wholesale food and foodservice markets. Its products include whole chickens, chicken cuts, sausage, pork smoked ham, cold cuts, salami, hot dogs, and frozen entrees. Founded in 1956, the company also operates a port terminal that has refrigerated-meat warehousing capacity. The US's Cargill, which had owned Seara since 2005, sold it to the large Brazilian beef processor, Marfrig, in 2010 for $900 in cash and debt assumption.

It all began in 1927 when Andrew Peller first arrived in Canada from Hungary. Having owned a series of successful businesses, he came here to finally pursue his dream. He envisioned a day when Canadians, like Europeans, would come to appreciate premium quality wines and enjoy sharing them with family and friends. The Company's award-winning premium and ultra-premium brands include Peller Estates, Trius, Hillebrand, Thirty Bench, Sandhill, Copper Moon, Calona Vineyards Artist Series VQA wines and Red Rooster.Complementing these premium brands are a number of popular priced products including Hochtaler, Domaine D'Or, Schloss Laderheim, Royal and Sommet.

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