McCormick Distilling is best known for its imported Tequila Rose, a strawberry-flavored liqueur, used as a mixer with tequila. The company also makes and imports a variety of other distilled spirits, including vodka, gin, rum, bourbon, and whiskey. It also makes ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages like the scarily named Tarantula margaritas. McCormick operates a tasting room and gift shop at its headquarters in its hometown of Weston, Missouri. The company, which was founded in 1856, touts its distillery as the oldest, continuously operated distillery in the US.

Battle Creek Farmers Coop N/S, is a locally owned farm supply and marketing cooperative. It was established in Battle Creek, Nebraska as a Creamery in 1929. Today the company is controlled by approximately 900 agricultural producers throughout a 10 county area in Northeast Nebraska. A base of approximately 5200 customers indicates a strong presence in the area.Facilities include two sites in Battle Creek, Pierce, Plainview, Bloomfield, Osmond, Ewing, Neligh, Oakdale, Orchard, Newman Grove, and Madison. There are approximately 100 full-time and part-time employees. Despite the wide range of facilities, the company maintains local pride in each facility. Customers are assured that their location manager has the tools and authority to exceed expected customer satisfaction. The company has primarily 5 business units: Grain, Feed, Agronomy, Energy, and Transportation.

Tony the Tiger may have gobbled up Ernie the Elf when Kellogg took over Keebler in 2001, but Kellogg's successful US snacks business is proof that cookies continue to please. Part of cereal giant Kellogg, it is the #2 cookie and cracker maker in the nation (behind Kraft's Nabisco). Its Keebler and Sunshine labels include leading brands such as Fudge Shoppe cookies and Sandies shortbread. The company also makes Cheez-It snack crackers, as well as Famous Amos cookies and Ready Crust piecrusts. Beyond cookies and crackers, Kellogg stocks food retailers' shelves with cereals-turned-into-snacks, including products such as Rice Krispies Treats and Nutri-Grain Bars.

Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

Sunfresh Foods was founded in 1986 by president Rick Cosgrave, vice president Jill Morganpage, and Reed Hadley. Sunfresh Foods spreads jam to freezers throughout the US. Sunfresh Foods company makes its freezer jams and fruit sauces under the name Freezerves. Its customers include restaurants, supermarkets, and large foodservice distributors such as SYSCO, U.S. Foodservice, and Rinehart Foodservice. Its retail customers include such as Quality Food Centers, Larry's Market , Thriftway, and Albertsons; items can also be ordered via the company's Web site.

American Home Food Products, Inc now active in the marketing of private-label foods. In 2007 it acquired specialty food company Artisanal Premium Cheese for about $4.5 million. At the same time, the company sold its building material assets for approximately $1 million. Artisanal Cheese markets and sells specialty and handmade cheeses to upscale restaurants and retailers. In addition to wholesale and foodservice distribution, the company sells products in supermarkets, through catalogs, and on its Web site.

Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. is a Japanese dairy company. Familiarly known as Meg Milk, its products include fluid milk, yogurt, cream, margarine, fruit juices, and frozen desserts. The company also offers home milk delivery services. In 2009 the company merged with Japan Milk Community by means of a stock swap. Snow Brand Milk and Japan Milk were merged into the company now known as Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. The move reflects the consolidation in Japan's dairy industry, which is due, in part, to rising raw ingredient costs and weak consumer demand. Later that year, Tadashi Idota was appointed president of the company.

Kantner Group, Inc. makes cheese-making ingredients, such as milk proteins and replacers, rennet, whey, cheese powders and analogues, and starter media. Its other products include ice cream and shake mixes. The company also offers private-label and custom-blending, and -packaging services. Kantner owns cheese-manufacturing companies Blue Valley Foods and Chianti Cheese. Chianti makes Italian specialty cheeses; Blue Valley also makes Italian cheeses, plus Cheddar and Jack. Kantner's customers include food retailers and manufacturers and foodservice providers. The firm was founded by CEO Doug Kantner in 1999.

Tongaat Hulett is an agri-processing business which includes integrated components of land management, property development and agriculture. Through its sugar and starch operations in Southern Africa, Tongaat Hulett produces a range of refined carbohydrate products from sugar cane and maize. It has considerable expertise in downstream agricultural products, biofuel production and electricity cogeneration. Competition for water and alternative land usages is an ongoing dynamic. Tongaat Hulett balances the operational requirement for cane supplies to its sugar cane processing operations with the transition of agricultural land to other uses at the appropriate times. It is well positioned to benefit from the changing world of agriculture and agri-processing.Over the past century, Tongaat Hulett has established itself as a leading large scale agri-processing business which has its base firmly established in Southern Africa. Demand for food products is increasing worldwide, renewable energy has introduced a new dimension to agriculture and agricultural trade regimes are changing, with Africa and the European Union moving closer as a trade bloc. Further opportunities for expansion and growth in Africa are thus emerging. Tongaat Hulett has the established business platform and size to capitalise on these opportunities.

Established in 1956, TableMark company is a Japanese manufacturer of frozen and processed foods and beverages. Products include seafood, rice and noodles, bottled water, and alcoholic beverages. The firm also has interests in real estate, hotels, restaurants, and entertainment facilities. In addition, TableMark makes medical, cosmetic, and veterinary products. TableMark company operates about a dozen offices in Japan, as well as a factory network that extends into China and Southeast Asia. It changed its name to TableMark in 2010. Japan Tobacco acquired TableMark company in 2008 and made it a wholly owned subsidiary.

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