F&S Produce Company, Inc. is owned by president Sam Pipitone, who founded F&S in 1981. F&S Produce Company is a supplier of processed fresh produce, including chunked, diced, and sliced fruits and vegetables and prepared fruit and vegetable salads and trays; it also makes brined and pickled products. Customers include food processors, food service distributors, and chain account representatives. F&S processes more than 75 million pounds of produce annually. Affiliate Pipco Transportation distributes F&S company's products through a fleet of approximately 30 trucks and 50 refrigerated trailers.

Indalco Food Corp. company manufactures a milk and caramel spread called dulce de leche (literally "milk candy") that is a familiar product in Central and South America. Indalco has brought this traditional food product to the US. The spread can be used in a variety of ways, such as a dessert topping or filling, or in baked goods such as cheesecake. Indalco Food company's customers include bakeries, donut shops (Dunkin' Donuts), restaurants (McDonald's), ice cream makers (Heagen-Dazs), and confectioners (Mars), as well as retail food stores. Indalco's dulce de leche is sold under the Del Campo label.

Hostess Brands is one of the largest wholesale bakers and distributors of fresh delivered bread and snack cakes in the United States. Hostess Brands are the maker of the breads and cakes that have treated America for over a century – Twinkies, Ding Dongs, HoHos, Sno Balls, Donettes, WonderBread, Hostess Fruit Pies, and many more. Recently Hostess Brands launched Nature’s Pride, a 100-percent all-natural, no preservatives, line of premium and traditional breads.Hostess Brands company operates 39 bakeries throughout the United States and employs approximately 21,000 people. Known for our outstanding brands and product quality, the employees of Hostess Brands deliver the products you love to the stores you like to shop on approximately 6,000 delivery routes. Hostess Brands is based in Dallas, Texas, with an operations center in Kansas City, MO. Hostess Brands also has approximately 700 bakery outlet stores.

The family-owned and -operated The Musco Family Olive Co. was founded by Nicolo Musco, who immigrated to the US from Italy in the 1920s to start a food-distribution company. The Musco Family Olive Co. is the leading maker of canned and brined olives in the US. The Musco Family Olive company sells its products primarily under its flagship Pearls brand. It also sells olives under the Early California brand, as well as offering private-label services. Musco's products, which include black, green, and Mediterranean olives in sliced, chopped, pitted, and whole varieties, are sold through retail food outlets, as well as to restaurants and other foodservice providers across the nation.

Barth-Haas Group pulls out all the hops. The group grows, processes, stores, and trades hops -- one of the ingredients essential to the brewing of beer. It has customers worldwide, which it serves from its operations in Australia, China, Germany, the US, and the UK. Barth-Haas owns and operates hop farms, processing plants, cold-storage warehouses, CO2-extraction facilities, and development and testing laboratories. The group's flagship German subsidiary, Joh. Barth & Sohn, accounts for more than 50% of the group's total sales.

Founded in 1987, the family-owned Montalvan's Sales, Inc. is licensed by the USDA to produce various meat products. Montalvan's Sales company imports ethnic foods from the Caribbean, Polynesia, and Central and South American countries, which it supplies to food merchants throughout the western US. Its product list includes canned meats, fresh produce, snack foods, condiments, and spices, and its labels include Arnott's, Bijol, Pilon, El Ebro, Colombiana, Lizano, Pony, Pan Pa' Ya!', and Riquitas.

BOCM PAULS helps farmers with many mouths to feed. The company is one of the largest animal feed makers in the UK. Its Feedex Nutrition business produces pig feed; its Farmgate unit produces feed for cattle, poultry, and other livestock. Its Hickstead Feeds unit manufactures feed for horses, and its Marsdens Feeds produces specialty feeds for game birds and sport dogs. The company operates 16 feed mills. BOCM PAULS was founded in 1992 as a result of the the merger of BOCM Silcock and Pauls Agriculture. Management owns a majority of the company.

Encore Fruit Marketing, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is owned by president Greg Kaiser and vice president Lisa Coberg. Encore Fruit Marketing company markets and sources fruit juices and purees, as well as dried and frozen fruits and vegetables. It sells ingredient products to food and beverage manufacturers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Encore Fruit Marketing's services include technology and product development, processing, sales and marketing, distribution, and logistics.

There's no slowin' down at Sloan Implement. The company provides the tools of trade for farmers in Illinois. Headquartered in Assumption, Illinois, Sloan is an authorized dealer of John Deere equipment and new and used parts. Founded in 1931, the company sells and services new and used Deere equipment, including combines, tractors, manure spreaders, tillers, earth moving and lawn machinery, and grain-handling equipment at five locations in Wisconsin and at 11 locations in Illinois; it also ships products nationwide and to international customers.

Ventura Foods, LLC is a joint venture between CHS and Mitsui & Co. that was formed in 1995. Ventura Foods is one slick company. Its branded and private-label products include salad oils, shortenings, margarine, butter and butter blends, pan coatings, liquid butter alternatives, mayonnaises, salad dressings, fruit glazes and more. Ventura Foods company also makes soup and flavor bases and concession items such as popcorn popping oil. It sells its products to foodservice operators, other food manufacturers, and retail food stores in the US and abroad. Ventura's consumer brands include Marie's Dressing, Dean's Dip, Gold 'n Soft margarine, and LouAna Oils.

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