San Francisco-based Diamond Foods is a high-growth innovative packaged food company focused on building, acquiring and energizing brands including, Kettle Chips, Emerald snack nuts, Pop Secret popcorn, and Diamond of California snack and culinary nuts. The Company's strategy is to build brands from the ground up as well as identify opportunities in under-developed brands and then add value by making a relevant connection to the contemporary consumer. Diamond's products are distributed globally in stores where snacks and culinary nuts are sold.Founded in 1912 with a strong heritage in the walnut market under the Diamond of California brand, Diamond Foods completed its initial public offering in July, 2005. The Company has approximately 1,700 year-round employees and its stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol DMND.

Thanks to this company, you don't need a royal decree to get processed meats. King's Command Foods is a leading supplier of processed beef and pork products focused on the public school market. It offers low-cost food items including hamburgers, chicken patties, and taco meat filling to its education customers by using donated commodity meat. King's Command also makes beef, pork, and chicken products for other foodservice operators. In addition, the company markets fully-cooked burgers, meatballs, and other products to consumers under the Just-A-Minute brand. Harvey Baer started the family-owned business as King's Command Meats in 1966.

Shafer Vineyards traces its beginnings to 1972 when John Shafer left a 23-year career in the publishing industry and, with his family, moved to the Napa Valley to pursue a second career in wine. After purchasing a 210-acre estate in Napa Valley's Stags Leap District, the Shafer family faced the arduous task of replanting the existing vineyards, which dated to the 1920s, and terracing the steep and rocky hillsides, eventually expanding vineyard acreage to its current 50 acres.Evolving from grape growers to vintners, the Shafers crushed their first Cabernet grapes in 1978 and began construction on their winery a year later.The first Shafer Cabernet became a benchmark, winning the acclaimed San Francisco Vintners Club taste-off upon release and, over a decade later taking first place in an international blind tasting held in Germany, where it outranked such wines as Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour and Chateau Palmer.Doug Shafer became winemaker in 1983 after graduating from the University of California at Davis with a degree in enology and viticulture. A year later Elias Fernandez joined the winery as assistant winemaker. Together Doug and Elias have worked closely to forge the Shafer style of quality, consistency and elegance.

At Hornell Brewing (which does business as Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons) image is everything. Colorful, arty bottle and can designs distinguish the company's beverages -- including AriZona iced teas, energy drinks, and fruit drinks -- from the competition. The company's beverages are top sellers in the ready-to-drink iced tea sector in the US. Flavors include Green Tea with Ginseng, Pomegranate Green Tea, and Blueberry White Tea. Its other products include energy and sports drinks, juice, and smoothies. In addition to tea, Hornell Brewing makes and sells malt liquor and beer (Crazy Stallion, Mississippi Mud) and bottled water. Co-founders John Ferolito and Don Vultaggio own and run the company.

Idaho Supreme Potatoes, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is based in Firth, Idaho. Idaho Supreme Potatoes, Inc. produces potato based products. It offers dehydrated potato flakes for snack food market, as well as snowflakes for the movie and television industries. The company also provides sliced and diced potatoes for food service, retail, and industrial customers. In addition, it packages private labels for chain store accounts and wholesalers in the United States and internationally, as well as offers packaged pasta dinners. Further, the company wholesales preserved berry and preserved pome fruits, preserved drupe or stone fruits, citrus fruit purees, berry fruit purees, tropical fruit purees, melon purees, prepared and preserved foods, prepared soups and stews, and desserts and dessert toppings. It serves schools, and businesses and government facilities.

California Vegetable Specialties is a specialty farming company dedicated to the consistent production of highest-quality California Endive. With growing fields throughout Northern California, the company is headquartered in the town of Rio Vista, in the historically rich agricultural region of the Sacramento River Delta. We produce white and red endive, as well as several specialty products for chefs, Endigia and Pissenlit.Richard Collins, a Sacramento native and graduate of the Agricultural and Managerial Economics program at the University of California, Davis, founded the company in 1983 as Rebel Farms. He chose the name in response to the many naysayers who deemed him foolish for trying to grow endive for the U.S. market. Today, California Vegetable Specialties is the only U.S. producer of endive, and dominates the market west of the Mississippi, selling nearly 4 million pounds of endive each year. Since 1987, California Vegetable Specialties has been a part of the French-based Darome Group of International Companies. The Darome Group operates in three business sectors: specialized agricultural production, food processing, and trade. Darome began working with CVS in 1985, and the "technology transfer" of endive production methods from Europe to California has been instrumental in the success of the California Endive.

Donegal Creameries is one of Ireland's biggest food and agriculture businesses. The company is involved in the production of milk and milk products. In the ag sector, it grows mushrooms and provides animal foods, sells seed potatoes and mushroom compost. The company and its subsidiaries have operations in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland. It also owns 76% interest in Irish candy company, Oatfield Confectionery, as well as properties, including The Grianan Estate, one of the largest farms in Ireland.

For twenty-five years, Old Orchard has been making apple interesting. That means we use only the finest ingredients. We carefully craft our juices to make sure they not only beat our expectations, but yours as well. Located at the center of an old apple orchard in the heart of West Michigan, Old Orchard started out as a small, friendly, privately-owned business and has remained just that. We've always worked with the best growers from around the world, to ensure we get the best fruits to craft our juices. And we're constantly experimenting — trying out new combinations of flavors — earning us the nickname: "the blend experts."

Smith Dairy Products Company makes and distributes dairy products and beverages, marketed mainly under its Ruggles (ice cream), SMITH'S (fluid milk, ice cream, cottage cheese, and sour cream) brands. Smith Dairy also offers teas, juices, punches, and dips. Its customers include food retailers and foodservice businesses in Indiana and Ohio. Founded in 1909 by John and Peter Schmid, the family-owned and -operated dairy is known for its bright yellow plastic milk jugs, which it claims block out light rays which break down milk's vitamins and minerals and affect its flavor. The company also owns Wayne Dairy in Richmond, Indiana, and Pacific Valley Dairy in Pacific, Missouri.

At House of Raeford Farms, a turkey can become a meatloaf, a pot roast, or a ham; a chicken can be transformed into fajitas, lunch meat, or a breaded dog-on-a-stick. The vertically-integrated North Carolina poultry processor supplies fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken and turkey products to retail food, in-store deli, and foodservice operators. It offers whole, cut-up, ground, boneless and bone-in meat, ready-to-heat entrees, as well as poultry sausage and smoked and breaded poultry products. Its brands include House of Raeford and Lakewood Plantation and are available throughout the US. Raeford has eight facilitates located in eight facilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan.

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