Sea Pearl Seafood Co., Inc. is a family-owned and -operated business and was founded in 1966. Sea Pearl Seafood's favorite gem is the shrimp. The Louisiana-headquartered company processes and packages fresh and frozen shrimp procured from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico under the Sea Pearl, Bayou La Batre, and Neptune brand names. Its farm-raised and wild shrimp products include peeled, headless, head-on, rock, royal red, and individually quick-frozen shrimp. Sea Pearl Seafood also offers its customers custom and private-label packaging.

Sterling Foods was founded in 1971 and acquired by TGF Management at the end of 2008. TGF is joined by private equity firm Austin Ventures and members of Sterling's management team as part owners. Sterling Foods, LLC company produces a variety of specialty baked goods for national restaurant and supermarket chains, weight-management companies, the US military, and K-12 schools. Its products include gourmet cakes, loaf cakes and muffins, biscuits and bread, and cookies and brownies. Olive Garden and Red Lobster are among its customers; it is also the largest supplier of shelf-stable baked goods to the US Department of Defense.

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.

Link Snacks wants to forge a link to your adventurous side. The company, which does business as Jack Link's Beef Jerky, makes meat snacks such as beef jerky, turkey jerky, beef sticks, meat and cheese packs, kippered beefsteaks, sausages, and beefsteak nuggets. Its other products include spicy pickled sausage and lean-sliced barbecued pork, beef, and chicken. Its products can be found at retail outlets worldwide; items can also be ordered through the company's Web site. The company has four manufacturing and distribution operations in the US and one in New Zealand. Link Snacks was founded in 1985 by president Jack Link and is owned by the Link family.

We are a world leader in premium- quality cheese manufacturing and the largest U.S. exporter of whey products. Leprino mozzarella cheese, cheese blends, and pizza cheese are made specially for pizzeria and foodservice operators, frozen food manufacturers and private label cheese packagers. Our premium mozzarella cheese is the uniform source of our high-quality sweet whey, whey proteins, and lactose products. No one has invested more in dairy manufacturing facilities than Leprino Foods over the past 10 years. Leprino Foods has some of the largest, most modern and technologically advanced plants in the world. Our customers benefit from the innovation and economies of scale we provide. Our facilities are designed and maintained with the upmost care to produce quality, wholesome, safe cheese, whey and dairy ingredients for our customers.

Paramount Farms earns more than peanuts in the market -- it is the world's largest grower and processor of almonds and pistachios in the world. Paramount's nuts are sold to consumers under the Sunkist brand name (licensed from Sunkist Growers), as well as its own brand, everybody's NUTS! Paramount company also offers private-label products and services and sells nut products to food manufacturers and foodservice customers across the US and around the world. Paramount offers in-shell and shelled pistachios, along with various almond products, including whole, sliced, slivered, or diced, all of which which can be supplied in raw, roasted, blanched, and flavored forms. Paramount is owned by Roll International.

Founded in 1999, Original Juan Specialty Foods, Inc. distributes its products worldwide. Original Juan Specialty Foods' creative product names include Pain is Good, Da' Bomb, Screamin' Wings, and the ever popular, Old Fart Baked Beans. In addition to fiery hot sauces and salsas, the company produces a large variety of other sauces, dips, and snack foods, including condiments, barbecue sauces, pasta sauces, salad dressings, drink mixes, microwave popcorn, and Amaretto-flavored or chocolate-flavored cheesecake-in-a-jar. Its most popular salsas and dips are sold under the Fiesta label. Original Juan's products are sold in retail stores and can also be ordered through the company's Web site.

The family-owned General Produce Co., Ltd. was started by Tai Oy Chan in 1933. General Produce is a leading wholesale distributor of fresh produce serving both retail and foodservice customers in Northern California and parts of Oregon and Nevada. It supplies a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to supermarket chains and independent grocers, as well as restaurants, schools, and institutional foodservice operators. In addition to fresh produce, General Produce distributes such specialty products as flowers, ethic food items, and organic produce.

As one of the world's largest sausage-casing makers, Devro helps its customers get more banger for their buck, and sees them through the wurst of times. But it doesn't take extra guts to get the job done as Devro makes casings from animal collagen. The company's collagen casings and films are sold worldwide under the Coria, Cutisin, and Devro brands to food and meat processors to hold together ham, hot dogs, sausage, and other processed meats. The company also supplies products for use in the healthcare and cosmetics industry. Devro's products are sold in the Americas, the Asia/Pacific, and Europe.

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.

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