In the first year of business, Joseph used every spare moment to perfect his shortbread recipe, and it was time well spent. Soon, shooting parties from the local estates were making detours to Joseph's bakery.As his fame spread, and demand increased for his quality shortbread, Joseph took the first steps to expanding the business by moving to a larger shop in the Speyside village of Aberlour and investing in a horse and cart to deliver his baking further afield. With its crisply traditional red-and-black tartan packaging, Walkers Shortbread has taken Scottish shortbread from the Isles to the world. The family-run company manufactures packaged biscuits, cakes, fruitcakes, meringues, oatcakes, shortbreads, and mincemeat tarts, all sporting the Walkers brand. The company also produces cookies and biscuits under the Weight Watchers label in the UK, and organic oat biscuits for Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall label. Walkers' customers include food retailers and foodservice operators worldwide. They can also be ordered through the company's Web site.

Vincor Canada is the largest producer and marketer of wine and related products in Canada. The Company's leading wine brands include Jackson-Triggs, Sawmill Creek and Inniskillin, maker of the world's leading Icewine. The Company's products are produced at a family of estate wineries located in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick. These wineries are supported by a national distribution network and dedicated sales and marketing team. The Company's wine brands are complemented by a variety of popular priced wines, wine kits (RJ Spagnols) and refreshment products.Vincor Canada has a history that dates back to 1874. Its founding vision has been, and remains, to further the reputation and sales of Canadian wines in the premium, super-premium and ultra-premium categories, not simply at home but, as importantly, in the international marketplace. With an emphasis on quality grapes, the Company has worked consistently to develop vineyards with the most sophisticated viticultural technologies, not to mention research capabilities.

Do you have an oh-so-bad craving for something chewy? Oberto Sausage Company has the answer: Its Oh Boy! meat snacks. The company manufactures more than 400 varieties of dried meat products, such as jerky (in beef, pork, and turkey versions), snack sausages. All these goodies are sold under the brand names Lowrey's Meat Snacks, Oh Boy! Oberto, Pacific Gold, and Smoke Craft. Oberto's products are available across the US and Canada in supermarkets, club and convenience stores. In 2009 the company ended its 10-year distribution agreement with Frito-Lay.

Azuma Foods International assumes the task of producing a variety of value-added, packaged specialty seafood products. Primarily serving the food service industry, the California company specializes in Japanese cuisine and offers pre-made sushi, sashimi, salads, and appetizers. One of its newer products is frozen shrimp sheets, which can be used to make pasta, wrap sushi, or fried and served as an appetizer. Azuma also offers foods indigenous to other Pacific Rim countries, including Hawaii.

Hardie's was established in 1943 by the father of the owner, chairman and CEO of the company, David Hardie. For 67 years, Hardie’s has provided fresh fruits and vegetables to foodservice and retail businesses in Texas and Louisiana. Hardie’s Fruit & Vegetable is headquartered in the Dallas Metroplex area with additional facilities located in Austin, San Antonio and McAllen, Texas. With a fleet of 78 trucks making 5,000 deliveries per week, covering a 600 mile swath of territory, Hardie’s is dedicated to exceeding the customer’s expectations each time an order is placed. To serve Hardie's Fruit & Vegetable customer's needs with the highest quality products and best service possible while exceeding the standards of business integrity that people have grown to expect from us.

Oakshire Mushroom Farm has the right to dole out Dole products. The company is the exclusive grower of Dole's fresh mushrooms. Its mushroom varieties include white, portobello, and shiitake. Its subsidiary Oakshire Mushroom Sales markets and distributes the products to customers in the retail food and foodservice distribution sectors, as well as to food-manufacturing companies. Its other subsidiary, Golden Oak Spawn, produces a line of hybrid mushroom spawn for other commercial mushroom growers; it also offers shiitake home-growing kits for people perhaps looking for a new hobby. Oakshire Mushroom Farm was founded and is owned by president Gary Schroeder.

Two Rivers FS provides cooperative farming support (such as finance, feed, fuels, and seed) to its members in Adams, Brown , Pike, and Schuyler counties, as well as portions of Fulton County, in west central Illinois. The co-op has service centers in Astoria, Camden, Ipava, Kinderhook, Kingston, Milton, Mt. Sterling, Paloma, Payson, Pittsfield, Pleasant Hill, Rushville, and Ursa.

Columbia Grain markets the harvest. It processes, stores, and ships the pulses and grains grown by farmers in the Western US. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company has grain elevators with a total storage capacity of more than 1 million tons in Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington. Columbia Grain ships its bulk and bagged products worldwide from its Portland Terminal 5, located near the joining of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. In addition to grain handling, it provides customers with crop seed for wheat, barley, pulses, and canola and works with researchers to develop new varieties. The company is a subsidiary of Japan's Marubeni Corporation.

Dagar's of Austin is a caterer that has served the Austin, Texas, area since 1952. In addition to providing food for everything from bar mitzvahs to luaus, Dagar's of Austin Caterers company also helps coordinate other services, such as audio and video recording and flowers. Dagar's has been family owned and operated by three generations of the Dagar family. It was founded by Freddie Dagar who launched his business by selling barbecue to customers throughout Central Texas.

Kraft Food Ingredients Corp. manufactures and supplies food ingredients for food manufacturers. Kraft Food company offers cheese solutions, such as pasteurized process, soft, and restricted melt cheeses, as well as cheese powders, dairy flavors, and cheese sauces; savory solutions, including pan dripping, roast, fried, sautéed, rotisserie, meat, and vegetarian flavors; and dessert and baked goods solutions comprising marshmallows, caramel, granolas, and crackers. Kraft Food also provides enhancers, such as barbeque sauces, mustards, and steak sauces, as well as salad dressings; and other ingredient solutions, including cereals, tapioca, meals, fat replacers, and non-fat dry milk alternates.

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