Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. is America's favorite candy company, manufacturing and selling some of the world's most popular confectionary brands. Beginning in a modest New York candy store with the Tootsie Roll's introduction in 1896, the Chicago-based company has grown to become one of the country's largest candy companies, with operations throughout North America and with distribution channels in more than 75 countries. Tootsie's brands include some of the most familiar candy names: Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop, Charms Blow Pop, Mason Dots, Andes, Sugar Daddy, Charleston Chew, Dubble Bubble, Razzles, Caramel Apple Pop, Junior Mints, Cella's Chocolate-Covered Cherries, and Nik-L-Nip. They're sold in a wide variety of venues, including supermarkets, warehouse and membership stores, vending machines, dollar stores, drug stores, and convenience stores.

Groupe CEMOI is just the thing for French chocolate groupies. Groupe CEMOI is one of France's leading makers of chocolate confections. The company also makes molded and panned chocolates, cocoa powder, cookies and wafers, sugar confectioneries, fruit jellies, sugared almonds, marshmallow, meringues, and industrial and semi-finished food ingredients. Its products are available in supermarkets and to the foodservice and food-manufacturing industries. The company has more than a dozen production plants. CEMOI is run by the family of founder Georges Poirrier.

Deschutes Brewery, located in Central Oregon along the banks of the wild and scenic Deschutes River, has brewed a family of handcrafted ales since 1988. Starting out as a small brewpub in the heart of downtown Bend, Deschutes’ first beers were Black Butte Porter, Bachelor Bitter and Cascade Golden Ale. In 1993, Deschutes moved into its current brewing facility and has continued expanding and improving the facilities. With a 50-barrel traditional gravity brew house and a new one-of-a-kind 131-barrel Huppmann brew system from Germany, Deschutes now creates and experiments with specialty batches of limited beers like The Abyss and Hop Trip while brewing large quantities of everyone’s favorites like Mirror Pond Pale Ale. Consistently producing the highest quality beers is always Deschutes’ number one priority and commitment.

Bel specializes in developing and manufacturing quality, brand name cheeses enjoyed around the world and affordable to all. The Group adapts its strategy to develop its brands and build its leadership in accordance with the country and by carefully studying eating habits. The success of Bel brands, of which there are over 30 in the world, is based on their healthy and fun nature as well as being tasty and enjoyable to share with others. The five core brands - The Laughing Cow®, Mini Babybel®, Kiri®, Leerdammer®, Boursin® - are distributed on each of the five continents and coexist with over 20 leading local brands, for example, Apericube® in France and Japan, Régal Picon® in Africa and the Middle East, Shotska® in Ukraine and Maredsous® in Belgium.

Paradise Brands Brings You a Rich Tradition of Delectable Confections…. For nearly three-quarters of a century, Paradise, Inc., has produced, packed and distributed its brands of Candied Fruit, which have been the favorites of homemakers and commercial bakers throughout North America. Paradise Inc. began as a subsidiary of a diversified corporation soon after WW II, but shortly thereafter, Candied Fruit became the focus of its business and other operations were either sold or closed. In 1961, current ownership purchased the company, and the name Paradise Fruit Company was adopted and later incorporated in 1965 as Paradise Fruit Company, Inc. Through ever increasing diversification and a number of acquisitions of related entities, the company’s name was changed in 1993, to Paradise, Inc.

All those University of Wisconsin sports fans have a place to buy meat. Badgerland Meat and Provisions stores, wholesales, and distributes beef, pork, and poultry products in its home state, as well as parts of Illinois and Michigan. It sells to grocery chains, meat markets, restaurants and warehouses stores. The company gets its meat from producers such as American Foods, Excel, Farmland Foods, Gold Kist, and Iowa Turkey. Badgerland also operates a case-ready business for which the company cuts, packs, and distributes more than 300,000 pounds of pre-packaged and pre-priced pork products every week.

Westbridge Research Group wants to survive for another thousand years or so, and its products will make sure the planet will be here as well. The company manufactures environmentally safe agricultural chemicals for agriculture (fruits and vegetables), gardens, lawn, and turf. Its offerings include bioremediation (sewage treatment) products, fertilizers, and plant-growth regulators, all safe for consumers, workers, and the environment. The company's brands include TRIGGRR (plant-growth regulator) and BIOLINK (fertilizer). Westbridge Research also develops formulations for private-labels clients. The company was founded in 1982.

Van Drunen Farms company manufactures air-, sun-, freeze- and drum-dried organic and conventional food ingredients made from fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Van Drunen company also offers sugar-infused, individually-quick-frozen, and fire-roasted products. It grows herbs on its farms in Illinois and California and also procures produce from growers throughout the US and in Europe. Van Drunen company's also processes grains, legumes, dairy, and specialty food ingredients, such as freeze-dried cheeses, miso, surimi, and tofu. Van Drunen's products are sold wholesale to other food processors and packers. Van Drunen company is owned and operated by the Van Drunen family.

The Real Good Food Company has made a successful meal out of what larger food companies pushed off their plates. The Real Good Food company has been built up by the acquisition of smaller manufacturers that belonged to high-end convenience food makers who sold them off since they were no longer considered "core operations" -- some six since 2003. It's been a sweet tasty ride. Real Good Food's sugar products are made by subsidiary Renshawnapier. Its baking ingredients operations are under the purview of its Haydens Bakeries subsidiary, which makes yeast-dough products. Real Good's large retail customers include Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.

Nordzucker AG was formerly known as Zuckerverbund Nord AG and changed its name in 1998. Nordzucker AG is based in Braunschweig, Germany. Nordzucker AG produces and sells sugar made from beet in Europe. Its products include industrial and household sugar; sugar by-products, including sugar beet pellets; molasses that is used to enhance the nutritional content of feed, as well as used in yeast and alcohol industry, or by feed manufacturers; and bee feed for honey producers. Nordzucker AG also produces bioethanol from sugar beet. It offers its products to the food processing industry, chemical or pharmaceutical industries, retailers, and end users.

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