Venus Wafers hopes consumers will think its crackers are out of this world. The company manufactures and sells specialty crackers, breads, pizza crusts, and breadsticks under such labels as Haute Cuisine, Sunflower, CaPeachio's, and Nejaimes Lavasch. Its products are sold through gourmet food shops and online. Venus Wafers was founded in 1930 by Napolean Barkmakian; the Barkmakian family still owns and operates the business.

You could say that the Young Pecan Company is a shell company but in a good way. Relieving some 100 million pounds of pecans of their shells every year, the company is one of the largest pecan processors in the world. It has state-of-the-art laser shelling operations in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Florence, South Carolina; and Zaragosa, Mexico, as well as buying operations and storage facilities in Albany, Georgia. Farming no nut orchards of its own, Young Pecan purchases pecans from growers located near its plants. It sells its shelled pecan products to mainly domestic and international food manufacturing companies, with some distribution in retail food outlets. The company was purchased by the King Ranch in 2006.

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.

Bengard Marketing serves as a sales agent between produce growers, packers, and distributors. Bengard Marketing Company purchases fresh fruit from California growers, as well as produce from other US and international growers, and markets it to retail and wholesale customers. Bengard Marketing's products include grapes and pears. Bengard Marketing company is operated by the Bengard family.

More than 600 employees of Advance Brands, L.L.C. create the delicious, convenient chicken, beef and pork products known nationwide as Fast Fixin'. The company's mission is the driving force behind the high quality and convenience of our products: to exceed our customers' expectations and to enable our employees and shareholders to flourish and prosper.Advance Brands knows its customers have precious little time. That's why it spends its time manufacturing more than 150 fully-cooked, frozen, convenience meat products for hurried, harried, and hungry customers. Its Fast Fixin', Fast Fixin' Restaurant Style, and Steak-EZE brands of value-added meat items are made using beef, chicken, pork, turkey and veal. Varieties include breakfast sausage links, sausage patties, and sausage biscuits with gravy. Advance's brands are available at food retailers throughout the US. The company is a privately owned joint venture between Cargill's Excel division and Advance Food.

In 1980, Eastern Foods launched the Naturally Fresh® brand, consisting of all-natural salad dressings, sauces, dips, oils, and vinegars. The company later developed the Jackaroo® line of meat sauce products. Naturally Fresh company was known as Eastern Foods until 2002 when it became Naturally Fresh, Inc. The change was made to recognize the company's strongest brand and to emphasize our commitment to providing only the freshest, highest quality products.Since the introduction of Naturally Fresh® products, Naturally Fresh has handled production, including research and development, product preparation, packaging, and delivery in company owned and operated refrigerated trucks. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, Naturally Fresh expanded its retail business into leading supermarkets and increased its market penetration into quick serve, casual, and fine dining restaurants. Today Naturally Fresh remains competitive by constantly introducing new products.

One of the leading meat processors in Finland, Atria Group supplies meat and poultry products and value-added convenience foods. The group, through flagship subsidiary Atria Oy and several other subsidiaries, provides packaged beef and pork products, ready-to-cook steaks, and chicken and turkey products in Finland and the Baltic region. It also offers pre-made meals, fresh salads, and restaurant and catering products. The group, founded as a co-op in 1903, manufactures under brand names such as Atria, Forssan, Arboga, Maks & Moorits, and Sibylla. Its primary subsidiaries include AB Sardus, Liha-Pouttu Oy, and OOO Pit-Product.

The Dannon Company, Inc., sells and produces six million cups of yogurt a day in almost 100 flavors, styles and sizes. The top-selling brand of yogurt worldwide, Dannon® is sold under the names Dannon and Danone. Danone, parent company of Dannon, is the worldwide leader in water and fresh dairy products.

For meat eaters who delight in dining on swine, Pederson's Natural Farms produces fresh and processed natural pork products. The company's upscale uncured bacon ham, and smoked pork sausages (jalapeno, kielbasa, and sweet German) are sold at natural food and specialty food retailers, as well as through its Web site. Pederson's also offers beef hot dogs, chicken sausage, andouille, bratwurst, and bulk breakfast sausage. It also offers processesd bison meat. Headquartered in Hamilton, Texas, Pederson's Natural Farms was founded in 1992.

Whole Harvest is the nation's first naturally processed line of No Trans-fat commercial cooking oil produced without the use of blends or harsh chemicals. In addition to being all-natural, the Whole Harvest line of oils are non-hydrogenated, the process that creates harmful Trans-fats that have been shown to play a key role in the development of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.The line of Whole Harvest Oils can now be found in numerous restaurants and institutions across the country and includes Whole Harvest Soy and Whole Harvest Canola (commercial cooking oils), Whole Harvest Culinary Oil (salads, sautéing and baking), and Whole Harvest SmartCoat® (non-stick pan spray).To manufacture natural food oil based products, utilizing patented manufacturing processes providing new consumer food values through development and marketing of proprietary food products in consumer, foodservice and food processor market channels.

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