Hi. I'm Tito Beveridge and I'm the founder and owner of Titos Handmade Vodka. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I went to Vanderbilt for a year then to UT, University of Texas at Austin. I graduated with degrees in geology and geophysics. I got into the oil and gas business and did that in Texas and then down in Venezuela and Colombia and ran heli-portable dynamite seismic crews down there and came back and started a drilling company in Houston, got tired of chasing the buck and decided to move back to Austin, Tx.I did ground water geology here and got in the mortgage business and it was when i was in the mortgage business that i started making flavored vodka for my friends for christmas presents. That was in about i guess '92, '93. I was at a party one time and a stranger came up to me and said 'Hey you're the vodka guy' and i was like no, contraire, i am the mortgage guy. And that's when i kinda started thinking that this guy's telling me i need to go sell my flavored vodkas and this was the first time i really started thinking seriously about it.

PinguinLutosa is a Belgium-based company that specializes in the development, production and sale of frozen vegetables, potato products and ready-to-use culinary preparations. The Group also produces and sells fresh pre-cooked potato products. The Company's activities are divided into two operating segments: the potato division, accounting for 47.99 % of total revenue in 2009, and the frozen vegetables division, accounting for 52.01 % of total revenue. The Company has six vegetable production sites situated in agricultural areas in Europe (West- Flanders, Southern France, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) and two production sites in Belgium (Leuze-en-Hainaut and St. Eloois-Vijve), with three production companies located at these sites. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Austria and Brasil, among others.

Ruggiero Seafood is not squeamish when it comes to squid. The New Jersey has company processed and distributed some 300 million pounds of domestic calamari (squid) since its beginnings in 1938. Along with squid, Ruggiero offers other shellfish under its own Fisherman's Pride and other, imported brand names. Its products, available throughout the US, include calamari, squid ink, mussels, clams, conch, and seafood salads, all of which it delivers directly to customers using its own fleet of refrigerated trucks. Ruggiero Seafood was founded by Andrew Ruggiero and is owned and operated by his nephew and company president, Rocco Ruggiero.

Birds Eye Foods, Inc. manufactures and markets processed foods. Birds Eye Foods offers flavors and toppings, frozen and fresh vegetables, pie fillings and toppings, snacks, chips, soups, chili and chili ingredients, and salad dressings. Birds Eye Foods company also provides popcorn, pretzels, pickled beets, tortillas, pork rinds, cookies, meat snacks, nuts, meals, side dishes, mayonnaise, chip dips, canned foods, and other condiments. Birds Eye Foods offers its products through grocers and supermarkets.

Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes refrigerated food products to the grocery and food service industries. Its products include organic foods, such as burritos, salsas, and side dishes; Mexican foods, such as meals, snacks, and tortillas; entrées, original cuts, seasoned cuts, pastas, and sauces; salads, such as pasta, broccoli, apple, Caesar, Chinese chicken noodle, crunchy pea, and cheesy baked potato; potatoes; desserts, dips and spreads, and meats; foodservice products, such as refrigerated potatoes, entrée salads, Italian salads, salad kits, dressings, salsas and dips, and desserts; recipes; and smoked meats and sausages.

Turning a delicious but odd-shaped fruit into a household favorite wasn’t in the plan when a group of grower-hobbyists banded together in 1924 to form the California Avocado Growers Exchange. And two more years would pass before Rudolph Hass of La Habra, California, would plant the state’s first Hass avocado tree.At the time, avocado growers had no quality standards, no distribution channels, and only one facility, a packinghouse in Vernon, California. During that first year, the Growers Exchange packed 18,000 pounds of avocados from that packinghouse and, in doing so, launched an industry.Though the Vernon packinghouse has long since closed, the company that sprang from that Growers’ Exchange - now known as Calavo Growers, Inc. - is still going strong some 81 years later. In 2005, this publicly traded, diversified, global agribusiness packed approximately 35 percent of the California avocado crop, nearly double the market share of its closest competitor. Three modern packinghouses - strategically located in Santa Paula and Temecula, California, and Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico - teem with productivity and thrive on volume, packing approximately 200 million pounds per year. The company is now headquartered in Santa Paula, California and employs more than 500 people.

Seaboard Foods is one big pork project, but taxpayers should take heart -- the government has nothing to do with it. A subsidiary of Seaboard Corporation, the company produces and supplies fresh and frozen pork products to food processors, foodservice operators, and distributors across the US. It raises about 4 million hogs at facilities in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas; Seaboard Foods has processing plants Montana, Oklahoma, and Utah. It sells bulk products mostly to processors to make such items as bacon, lunchmeats, and sausage; Seaboard Foods also sells processed pork under such brands as Daily's and Prairie Fresh. In addition, the company supplies private-label products for other customers.

Founded in 1947 by Stuart Hanan, a research chemist, Hanan Products Company Inc. has developed into a leading manufacturer of a broad line of whipped toppings used for baking and food service. With an overwhelming interest in quality, and a very active research and development staff, we have created products for every aspect of the industry. These products include; kosher dairy and parve, ready to use and concentrates, along with whippable and pre-whipped icings and fillings. With our newly expanded facility in Hicksville, New York, we are proud of our ability to develop and manufacture products that have attained the highest level of acceptance both domestically and throughout many international markets, including Europe, Asia, and South America. Our frozen storage capacity allows us to meet the most demanding requirements of all of our customers. In addition, our manufacturing approach remains agile and responsive.

What would hash browns and eggs over easy be without North Side Foods? An incomplete meal, that's what. North Side Foods supplies pre-cooked pork and turkey sausage products (links, patties, crumbles) to major US and Canadian restaurant chains, as well as schools and other foodservice customers. It is a major sausage supplier for McDonald's. The company's meats are marketed under the Ember Farms brand name. Founded in 1909 and a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods since 1998, North Side Foods is headquartered in Arnold, Pennsylvania, and has manufacturing facilities in Cumming, Georgia.

Alaska has a rich history of brewing. From the explorers of the 1700s through the Gold Rush, many a thirsty Alaskan has been able to enjoy locally made beers. In 1986, 28-year-olds Marcy and Geoff Larson reignited that tradition when they opened the Alaskan Brewing Company, the 67th brewery in the country and the first brewery in Juneau since Prohibition. Alaskan beers reflect many of the same characteristics of beers that were brewed here during the gold rush era. From the historically based Alaskan Amber recipe to alder-smoked malts and Sitka spruce tips, Alaskan beers reflect Juneau's local brewing history and innovation.

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