The PepsiCo challenge (to keep up with archrival The Coca-Cola Company) never ends for the world's #2 carbonated soft-drink maker. Its soft drinks include Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Mug. Cola is not the company's only beverage: Pepsi sells Tropicana orange juice brands, Gatorade sports drink, SoBe tea, and Aquafina water. The company also owns Frito-Lay, the world's #1 snack maker with offerings such (Lay's, Ruffles Doritos, Fritos). Its Quaker Foods unit offers breakfast cereals (Life, Quaker Oats), rice (Rice-A-Roni), and side dishes (Near East). Pepsi's products are available in some 200 countries. In 2010 the company acquired its two largest bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

Main Street Ingredients, LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes functional food ingredients for dairy, nutritional, and food industries in North America. It offers dairy ingredients, such as buttermilk, lactose, milk proteins, whole milk, whey, whey proteins, nonfat dry milk, and casein and caseinates. The company also provides non-dairy proteins, including wheat gluten, wheat protein isolates, soy protein concentrates, and soy protein isolates. In addition, it offers specialty powders, such as non-dairy creamers, shortening powders, cheese powders, cream powders, cultured buttermilks, yogurt powders, sour cream powders, and whipped topping bases, as well as gums. Further, the company provides sports nutrition products, including smoothie mixes, sports drinks, amino acid fortified drinks, ready-to-drink formulations, and creatine drinks. Furthermore, it offers products for healthy living, such as weight-loss beverages, colon health, fiber and cleanse products, greens, antioxidants, immunity products, non-GMO formulas, and organic formulations.

ABL Management, Inc. is a professional food service management organization headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The owners and executives of ABL Management, Inc. have over one hundred combined years of experience in contract food services. They have worked at all management levels from assistant director through top management of national companies. This expertise, along with a talented and dedicated staff, insures our clients of a professional and economically managed operation. ABL Management, Inc. was formed to provide comprehensive and superior food services management to both public and private sector markets.

Enstrom Candies, Inc. handmade process uses almonds, butter, sugar, and chocolate to make the toffee, which comes in dark or milk chocolate varieties. It also makes other confections, including chocolates, truffles, caramels, toffee popcorn, and ice cream. But toffee is Enstrom's "bread and butter" -- it turns out 500,000 pounds of toffee every year. Enstrom Candies, Inc. confections are shipped to customers in the US and internationally. It also operates five retail candy stores in Colorado. Chet Enstrom started the company in 1960; his granddaughter Jamee, and her husband Doug Simons now oversee the company.

Miss Meringue is the leading company in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia for over 12 years. We've been in business since 1997 with a manufacturing facility in San Marcos, California and 15 restaurants stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. We pride ourselves on producing the most delicious and authentic French inspired desserts. From Meringue Cookies, Specialty Cookies, Madeleines, and Food Service Desserts, we manufacture for all major U.S retailers, club stores, restaurants, hotel chains and key accounts.

The Carlsberg beer portfolio includes more than 500 brands. They vary significantly in volume, price, target audience and geographic penetration. The brand portfolio includes the well-known international premium brands Carlsberg, Tuborg, Baltika and 1664, and strong local brands such as Ringnes (Norway), Feldschlösschen (Switzerland), Lav (Serbia) and Wusu (Western China). The strength of the Group’s brand portfolio is highlighted by the fact that Baltika, Carlsberg and Tuborg are among the six biggest brands in Europe, with Baltika ranked as number one. Our French brand, Kronenbourg, holds a tenth position in Europe.

Agrow Fresh Produce Co, Inc. is a quality oriented grower, packer and shipper of all types and sizes of fresh potatoes and onions, specializing in Red and Yukon Gold and customer designed mini bags of potatoes and onions.Our management team has over 150 years of experience in the produce industry and is proud to be a member of PMA, Five-A-day for Better Health Foundation, Red Book and Blue Book Rating Services. We are also a strong supporter of America's Second Harvest.

From piglets to poults and hogs to hens, Murphy-Brown supervises a growth industry. As the livestock production subsidiary of pork-processing giant Smithfield Foods, it is the world's largest hog producer and a leading US turkey producer as well. Through partnerships with contract farmers and its own farms, Murphy-Brown maintains about 1 million breeding sows and produces more than 17 million market hogs annually. Its turkey operations produce about 10 million turkeys a year. Along with its own animal production facilities, the company contracts with about 1,700 US farmers, who supply the company with hogs and turkeys.

Louis Dreyfus Group is banking on agriculture, energy, and properties. The conglomerate has operations around the globe and is engaged in processing, trading, and merchandising a range of agricultural commodities, including wheat, oilseeds, cocoa, coffee, cotton, meat, rice, sugar, and ethyl alcohol. Its citrus division is one of the world's largest producers of orange juice. Other activities include petroleum product refining and marketing, property development, forestry management, electricity distribution, and renewable energy projects. The group is owned by Louis Dreyfus SAS, which in turn is a subsidiary of Florentz, the chief holding company for Louis Dreyfus.

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