McKee acquired Blue Planet in 1974. Blue Planet Foods provides the food-manufacturing industry with cereal blends, granola-bar bases, grain-based extruded products, and ingredients for bread bases, as well as donut and dessert toppings, and ready-bake pie crusts. Its bulk products include bulgur wheat, granola, granola cereals, oat bran, and steel-cut oats. Blue Planet Foods also makes breakfast cereals and pie crusts for retail sale under the brand name Heartland, as well as pie crusts under the Hearty Life label. It offers private-label manufacturing and co-packing services to its customers.

SSP America is a leading contract foodservices provider that operates food courts and concession facilities at more than 40 airports in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Most of its eateries operate under national chain brands licensed from such fast-food companies as Arby's, Chick-fil-a, and Quiznos. It also partners with some independent and local restaurant operators, and it has proprietary brands such as bakery cafe Upper Crust. SSP America is a regional operating unit of global foodservice contractor SSP Group.

Symms Fruit Ranch, Inc. was founded in 1914 as an 80 acre homestead with 8 acres of fruit trees has today become the 4,500 acre family owned and operated Symms Fruit Ranch, Inc. Now in the fourth generation of active family management, the fruit ranch, located in Sunny Slope 30 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho produces over 25 varieties of apples, cherries, peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, pears, wine grapes, asparagus, onions and potatoes. Our orchards are planted on rich volcanic soil on the hills overlooking the Snake River. Our products are sold both domestically and internationally; all with the purpose of delivering the best quality and flavored fruit to our customers. Symms Fruit Ranch is one of the nations Top 100 Fruit Growers and Packers listed in the Fruit Growers Magazine.

Mayfield Dairy Farms, LLC Founded in 1912, Mayfield Dairy Farms produces and distributes milk (including buttermilk, chocolate milk, half-and-half, and egg nog), ice-cream, and other cultured dairy products such as cottage cheese, whipping and sour cream, and dips. The company also offers beverages such as lemonade, orange juice, and bottled sweet tea. Mayfield Dairy serves nine southeastern US states from its Athens, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Braselton, Georgia, plants. The company is a subsidiary of Dean Foods and is run by CEO Scottie Mayfield, grandson of founder T.B. Mayfield.

Wolverine Packing was founded by the late Al Bonahoom who operated exclusively as a lamb and veal processor until the early 1960’s. During this time, the company went through many transitions and eventually evolved into one the leaders in the lamb and veal slaughter business. Wolverine Packing was a pioneer in the development of fresh vacuum-packed lamb and veal, which today is the industry standard.If Mary lost her little lamb anywhere near Detroit, it probably ended up at Wolverine Packing. The company is a leading packing plant that slaughters and processes lamb, along with veal, beef, pork, and poultry. Its offers boxed meat and portion control products, along with such value-added meat products as breaded veal patties. Wolverine Packing serves both food retailers and foodservice customers nationwide, as well as private-label customers. The family-owned meat packing business was started by the late Al Bonahoom.

Domingo Ghirardelli immigrates to the United States from his homeland of Italy, he has dreams of striking it rich in the California Gold Rush. After trying his hand and failing at mining, he settles on opening a tent-store in nearby Stockton, CA, selling various supplies and confections to fellow miners. With his new business proving successful, Domingo decides to open a store and hotel in San Francisco. After a major fire in 1851 destroys his businesses, he begins to rebuild. In 1852, he forms a new confectionary company that is to become the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company. Today, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has built on its signature taste and time-honored manufacturing processes to become America’s premium chocolate company.

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.

Graceland Fruit, Inc. was founded in 1973 by president and CEO Donald Nugent. Graceland Fruit makes dried, refrigerated, and frozen fruit and vegetable ingredients for the food-manufacturing industry. Its product lines include infused dried fruit, infused dried vegetables, Soft-N-Frozen fruit, and Fridg-N-Fresh vegetables. Graceland Fruit has also expanded into the fruit juice concentrate industry through a partnership with Milne Fruit Products.

Harry L. Brown owned a small confectionery store and enjoyed experimenting with chocolate and sugar candies. J. C. Haley, worked for Shilling and Company, a spice company, and had a flair for sales and advertising. Together J.C. and Harry created confections known world-wide, and the enterprise we have the honor of carrying forward today. After beginning to work together in 1912, they incorporated their candy manufacturing business in 1914. By 1916, Brown & Haley was marketing a full line of candy products, including a chocolate and nut confection with a vanilla-cream center called Mt. Tacoma Bar, later known as MOUNTAIN® Bar.

A simple desire to build a family-based produce business through hard work and commitment to quality, was the seed that grew into one of the world's largest agricultural organizations. That seed was planted by "Papa Joe" Giumarra over 70 years ago. Today, The Giumarra Companies is recognized for setting standards of excellence in the world of agribusiness. We are privately owned and operated by members of the Giumarra family.Giumarra works hard with its international network of growers to make sure its wide variety of products are available to retailers throughout the year. Giumarra's association with the finest international produce brands guarantee the highest quality fruits and vegetables arrive on time at their destinations.

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