Shanghai Bright Dairy & Food (Bright Dairy) is one of China's largest dairy producers. It has the largest pasture in the East Asia and a 500,000 ton annual production capacity. Bright Dairy churns out a variety of dairy products including disinfected milk, fresh milk, yogurt, pasteurized milk, and milk powder. It also operates a number of urban fresh milk mills in the cities of Xi'an, Beijing, Wuhan, Wuxi, and Nanjing. Bright Dairy is majority-owned by Shaghai Industrial Holdings Ltd., whose shares are traded in Hong Kong. Shanghai Milk (controlled by Shanghai Nong Gong Shang) owns almost 31% of Bright Dairy. Groupe Danone sold its interest in the company in 2008.

Think of Tyson Foods as a 600-pound chicken with a bullish attitude. One of the largest US chicken producers, Tyson's Fresh Meats division makes it a giant in the beef and pork sectors as well. In addition to fresh meats, the company offers value-added processed and pre-cooked meats, and refrigerated and frozen prepared foods. Its chicken operations are vertically integrated -- the company hatches the eggs, supplies contract growers with the chicks and feed, and brings them back for processing when ready. Tyson processes 41 million chickens, 393,000 head of pork, and 139,000 head of beef every week. Its customers include retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers in the US and more than 90 other countries.

Quantum Foods doesn't need physics to portion out its products. The company, founded in 1990, processes beef into individual steaks which are then sold to customers in the foodservice industry, such as restaurant chains, airlines, and the US military, as well as to retail outlets including supermarkets, general merchandisers, and convenience stores. Its products include ribeye, T-bone, skirt, strip, tenderloin, and porterhouse steaks. The company also provides fully cooked chicken-breast entrees. Its brands include Quantum Steakhouse (beef) and Simply Gourmet (chicken).

Appropriately enough given its market presence in Europe, "kraft" is German for "strong" -- although the company actually derives its name from its American founder, James Lewis Kraft, who started the company that became global food giant Kraft Foods when he set up his cheese business in Chicago in 1903. Kraft Foods Deutschland markets Kraft's world-famous brands, including Maxwell House coffee, Miracle Whip salad dressing and Philadelphia cream cheese, as well as brands with specifically German roots, including Jacobs and Kaffee HAG coffees. Through its production sites in Germany, Kraft produces cheese, ketchup, coffee, chocolate, and other comestibles.

While homemakers are busy making chapati, roti, and pooris, Food Corporation of India (FCI) stays busy managing India's grain supplies. FCI buys and markets wheat and rice for the Indian government, purchasing both domestically grown and imported grains, keeping the stockpiles in its own warehouses. Through periodic sales, FCI controls and manages the domestic grain supply, regulating the market prices for those commodities. It also provides some of its stores of grain to government-subsidized food programs, and it builds up buffer stocks to meet any food crisis. One of Asia's largest companies, FCI operates under the direction of the Indian government's Food Ministry. It was founded in 1965.

Chelan Fresh Marketing was established in August 2004 as a result of mergers and acquisitions and holds the sales and marketing responsibilities for Gebbers Farms and Chelan Fruit Cooperative.Today, Chelan Fresh has grown to become one of Washington state's largest marketers of fresh fruit with an estimated annual sale of ten million boxes of apples, one million pears, two million cherries, and 350 thousand boxes of stone fruit. Through volume and diversity of product offerings, Chelan Fresh continues to effectively provide quality fruit, outstanding levels of service and appropriate technology that results in consistency every day of the year at competitive prices to retailers and consumers. While serving as the link between the growers and the retailers to move fresh fruit; Chelan Fresh Marketing provides the vehicle for 419 plus growers to market their fresh products under one roof.As a result of the original merger, Chelan Fresh Marketing, shares roots with the oldest operating apple businesses in Washington State part of Gebbers Farms 4000 acre orchard near Brewster, WA.

Victory Brewing Company makes European-style craft beers. The company's colorfully named brands -- among them HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Golden Monkey, St. Boisterous, and Old Horizontal -- are also sold in taverns and retail outlets in its home state, Pennsylvania, as well as in about a dozen other states. It also operates an onsite brewpub that serves up sandwiches, salads, pizza -- and Victory's beers. Boyhood friends Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet founded the company in 1996.

Setton International Foods, Inc., based in Commack, New York, is a full service provider of nuts, dried fruit, edible seed, chocolate and yogurt panned items and candies to the snack industry. We currently carry over 1,000 products, some of which are imported from over twenty countries. Setton offers a variety of consumer and bulk packaging for its customers as well as custom packaging options. Setton Pistachio based in Terra Bella, California is the second largest pistachio processor in the United States. We export our premium California pistachios to over thirty foreign markets. Our many years of experience allow us to react daily to changing market conditions, enabling us to maximize returns to our pistachio growers and provide competitive pricing to our customers. Setton Farms is our premium brand, as well as the corporate identity of our numerous pistachio orchards. You might say this company is nuts about pistachios. A leading producer of nuts, edible seeds, and other snacks, Setton International Foods is one of the largest pistachio processors in the US, with more than 5,000 acres of orchards it either owns or farms. The company sells pistachios and more than 1,000 other snack products (candies, chocolate-covered nuts and fruits, dried fruits) to retail customers under the Setton Farms brand; it also supplies goods to customers in the food manufacturing industry. Joshua and Morris Setton founded the family-owned business in 1971.

Icelandic® USA, Inc. is a U.S. corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Icelandic Group, hf. http://www.icelandic.is in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company is the largest importer of frozen groundfish for the foodservice industry in the U.S., best known for Icelandic® and Samband® Brand products, which are served in restaurants throughout the U.S. and Canada.Icelandic® Brand seafood is regarded throughout the industry as the world's highest-quality, freshest-tasting fish. Quality and product consistency are rigorously monitored for texture, color, and shape to ensure that restaurant patrons will never have a disappointing dining experience.Icelandic® has a modern processing plant in Newport News, Virginia which provide state-of-the-art secondary processing for mainly breaded, battered, and grill-marked portions cut from fillets and blocks. Cod, Haddock, North Atlantic Pollock, Alaska Pollock, Crab, and Salmon are our most popular species. Corporate offices are headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. The company maintains a cold storage facility at their Mixing Center in Newport News, Virginia. A national dedicated sales network of service-oriented, seafood-trained brokers represents the company throughout the United States.

Springfield Creamery, Inc makes and markets organic cultured dairy and soy products under the Nancy's brand name. Springfield Creamery sells its natural yogurt, cottage cheese, kefir, sour cream, cream cheese, and other products through natural foods retailers such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats, nationwide. President Chuck Kesey and his wife Sue started the family-run company in 1960.

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