M.P. Evans Group PLC (incorporated in England & Wales) is listed on AIM. The Group's assets consist of oil-palm plantations (both majority and minority held) in Indonesia and Malaysia, the latter with property-development value, and beef-cattle interests in Australia. It is the board's intention to increase its total Indonesian areas under oil palm to some 70,000 hectares of environmentally-sustainable oil palm. This, in turn, will ultimately lead to an increase in the Group's equivalent annual palm-oil production from the current 60,000 tonnes to around 400,000 tonnes. Demand for palm oil is strong in its traditional use as a food, and additionally as a feedstock for the bio-fuel industry. In addition to the expansion in Indonesia, the board's policy is to expand the Group's Australian beef-cattle interests so that, ultimately, approximately 70% of the Group's assets will be in Indonesian oil-palm plantations and 30% in Australian beef cattle.

Hickman's Family Farms has been family-owned and operated in Arizona since 1944. In its early days, Hickman's entered the Arizona food service market by providing fresh, locally produced eggs direct to small independent restaurants, and directly to consumers. Every afternoon, one little refrigerated panel truck was sufficient to deliver the day's production to coffee shops in Glendale and to Carnation Restaurant in the big city of Phoenix. Bill and Gertie Hickman displayed the entrepreneurial insight that has kept Hickman's competitive for decades. By 1993, Hickman's was left standing as the only Arizona egg producer with chickens and a USDA-inspected processing plant. Despite the challenges of the egg industry, the Glendale operation continued to expand. In the late 1990s a new operation opened in Buckeye with laying houses that are each called home by 130,000 hens.

Wes Pak Sales packs up peaches, plums, and other plump produce. Wes Pak Sales, Inc. formed in 1980 by a consortium of family-owned California growers and packers, is a worldwide wholesale marketer of fresh fruit, including cherries, apricots, and grapes, under the WESPAK label. Affiliate Enns Packing grows, stores, and packages produce in California. Wes Pak Sales also offers scholarships for high school students attending two- and four-year colleges. Blair Richardson was named to the newly created post of CEO of Wes Pak and Enns Packing in 2009; Jim Stewart remained as president.

The Hirzel Canning Company is a can-do kind of business. Located in Toledo, Ohio, the firm packs and distributes canned tomato and sauerkraut products under the brand names Dei Fratelli (tomatoes, salsas, pasta, pizza, and sloppy Joe sauces, and tomato soup and juice). To top your brats, Hirzel also makes Silver Fleece brand sauerkraut. Its products are sold through grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the Midwestern, Central, and Southeastern US states. The family-owned business was founded in 1923 by Carl R. Hirzel, who started out selling sauerkraut from wooden barrels. Today Hirzel's food products are sold in cans, glass, and flexible packaging.

French agri-food empire Societe Cooperative Agricole et Agro-Alimentaire, or Agrial, provides a rich crop of agricultural products as one of the country's largest food cooperatives. Created in 2000 from the merger of three co-ops -- Agralco, Orcal, and Coop Can -- Agrial grows, processes, and markets vegetables, cereals, beef, pork, poultry, and dairy products, selling its products in France and in other European countries. It also mills flour, and operates hardware stores and nursery and garden centers under the Point Vert and Magasin Vert names. Subsidiaries include Valtero, and Socopa. Agrial and Coopagri Bretagne cooperate in a pig-production venture, Gie Capig.

SK Food Group company makes sandwiches, wraps, hoagies, subs, panini, burgers, and a breakfast sandwich that looks very much like an Egg McMuffin (made by the Golden Arches folks) which SK sells under the Oven Pride label. Its products, which are aimed at busy consumers, are sold to big box retail operations, conveniences stores, and vending machines. SK Food company also offers custom private-label products for restaurants, eatery franchises, and high-end food retailers. Headquartered in Seattle, its production facilities are located in Reno, Nevada.

Privately owned and operated, Nielsen-Massey was established in 1907 as a provider of aromas for the cleaning industry. Nielsen-Massey Vanillas company produces vanilla extracts, powders, and bean pastes, as well as whole vanilla beans. It also offers other liquid extracts, including coffee, chocolate, almond, orange, and lemon. With US headquarters in Waukegan, Illinois, and an international office in The Netherlands, Nielsen-Massey supplies organic and conventional vanilla and other flavoring products to customers Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, and Central, North, and South America.

Absolutely no nibbling goes on at this place. They keep the rabbits under control at Peter Rabbit Farms in order to deliver an abundant and year-round supply of fresh fruits and vegetables to the customer. Peter Rabbit Farms is company a fruit and vegetable grower, packer, and supplier headquartered in Coachella, California. The company's major crop, if you haven't already guessed, is carrots (it offers about 10 different varieties, including those irresistible fresh-peeled baby carrots), although it also raises green, red, and yellow sweet bell peppers, squash, green beans, eggplant, seedless table grapes, sweet corn, green onions, leaf and romaine lettuce, and other produce.

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.

Fossil Farms is a family-owned and operated business. Our corporate office is now located in Boonton, NJ (we moved in February 2010) and our farm is in Sussex County, NJ. Fossil Farms opened its doors for business in 1997 with our primary line - Ostrich. Over the years, Fossil Farms has grown to include other farm-raised game & all natural meats such as: Alligator, Antelope, Buffalo, Duck, Elk, Rabbit, Guinea Hens, Poussin, Squab, Venison, Wild Boar, Piedmontese Beef, , Quail, Pheasant and Caribou (just to name a few). Fossil Farms is national recognized by some of the country's top 5 star chefs. Chefs, food service distributors and home cooks can count on Fossil Farms to provide the highest quality meats delivered to your door. Now what you can have at a restaurant, you can have at home!

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