Puratos Group N.V. got its start in 1919 selling ice cream and confectionery mixes in Brussels. Puratos doesn't make baked goods -- it makes them better. Its menu of bakery ingredients, such as bread improvers, flavorings, enzymes, emulsifiers, and yeast, are used by commercial bakers the world over. Puratos also concocts specialty ingredients used in patisserie (pastry) making, including custards, fruit and cream fillings, glazes, marzipan, meringues, and icings. Through its Belcolade subsidiary, it is a leading Belgian chocolate maker, serving professional chocolatiers. With approximately 60 production plants in 40 countries, Puratos sells its products to some 200,000 customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc., is one of the largest seafood companies in the Pacific Northwest. Yet Ocean Beauty customers and influence within the seafood industry span the globe. Ocean Beauty has company-owned processing, distribution and sales outlets in Alaska, throughout the continental United States, and Japan. A worldwide sourcing network coupled with processing and distribution enables us to deliver our diverse line of premium quality products and value-added services virtually anywhere seafood is consumed.

Mar-Jac Poultry, Incorporated is a poultry production firm located in Gainesville, Georgia, U.S.A., approximately 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. Our company was established in 1954 and has been supplying high quality poultry products ever since. We ship our poultry product worldwide with an emphasis on the domestic foodservice industry.

Blendex Company produces custom-made breading, batters, coatings, marinades, pizza crusts, sauce and seasoning mixes, flavored sugars, dry rubs and beverage mixes for commercial and private-label food manufacturers. It manufactures more than 200 products and provides custom formulation, packaging, storage, and shipping services as well. Blendex was founded in 1975 and was acquired by the late Eugene Pottinger, father of CEO Ronald Pottinger, in 1981.

Whittard operates 135 coffee and tea retail shops in Great Britain and 30 more worldwide. The company also distributes its products to businesses throughout the world, including in the US, Japan, and Australia. Whittard, which was founded some 120 years ago in London, sells more than 60 varieties of tea and some 20 types of Arabica coffee. Its other products include hot chocolate, and tea brewing equipment, china and ceramics, and espresso brewing machines. Whittard was a unit of Iceland-based Baugur. With the collapse of Baugur in 2009, its assets were sold off and Wittard was acquired by London-based EPIC Private Equity.

L&H Packing Company disassembles beef. The company's San Antonio, Texas, facilities produce boneless beef, preserved hides, tripe and other offal products, rendered blood and bone meal, as well as tallow for wholesale distribution. It has the capacity to process more than 260,000 cows per year. L&H Packing was founded in 1963 by Al Leonard and Dwayne Harral and is still owned and operated by the Leonard family. In business since 1979, L&H's sister company, Surlean Foods, provides chicken, pork, and beef entrees along with soups, sauces, marinades, and rubs to the foodservice industry.

Nordzucker AG was formerly known as Zuckerverbund Nord AG and changed its name in 1998. Nordzucker AG is based in Braunschweig, Germany. Nordzucker AG produces and sells sugar made from beet in Europe. Its products include industrial and household sugar; sugar by-products, including sugar beet pellets; molasses that is used to enhance the nutritional content of feed, as well as used in yeast and alcohol industry, or by feed manufacturers; and bee feed for honey producers. Nordzucker AG also produces bioethanol from sugar beet. It offers its products to the food processing industry, chemical or pharmaceutical industries, retailers, and end users.

At The Western Sugar Cooperative, company primary product is refined sugar. Sugar is nature’s sweetener – pure and simple, with nothing artificial added. Also known as sucrose, sugar is an important source of carbohydrates for humans and is the main carbohydrate stored by the sugar beet.The sugar beet crop is planted in the early spring and reaches its peak sugar content in the fall. The Western Sugar Cooperative growing areas provide a high quality raw material due to the long summer days, cool nights and excellent agronomic conditions. In early fall the beets are harvested over a six-week period and stored in large field piles for processing. During the four-to-five month processing period, the plants operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week, producing pure granulated sugar from the sugar beet. The refined sugar and beet by-products are stored for year-round shipment.

Sweet Green Fields isn’t just a place, but an idea: that food can be both nutritious and fulfilling, that it can give energy and pleasure, and can be both calorie-friendly and body-friendly. Sweet Green Fields combined nutrition prowess from a top Australian health food company with the cultivation expertise and old world knowledge of one of Hawaii’s most historic agricultural companies. The result? Healthy, natural products that taste great!

Van Drunen Farms company manufactures air-, sun-, freeze- and drum-dried organic and conventional food ingredients made from fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Van Drunen company also offers sugar-infused, individually-quick-frozen, and fire-roasted products. It grows herbs on its farms in Illinois and California and also procures produce from growers throughout the US and in Europe. Van Drunen company's also processes grains, legumes, dairy, and specialty food ingredients, such as freeze-dried cheeses, miso, surimi, and tofu. Van Drunen's products are sold wholesale to other food processors and packers. Van Drunen company is owned and operated by the Van Drunen family.

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