Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is an international franchisor, confectionery manufacturer and retail operator in the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The Company is based in the charming old-west town of Durango located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. From its 53,000 square foot factory, the Company manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products to supply its many franchise locations, delivered fresh by its fleet of refrigerated trucks. The factory typically produces approximately 300 chocolate candies and other confectionery products, using proprietary recipes developed primarily by its master candy maker. These products include many varieties of clusters, caramels, creams, meltaways, truffles and molded chocolates. Individual stores prepare a variety of caramel and candy apples, fudge, chocolate items and confections in full view of the customer using traditional cooking utensils such as copper kettles on gas-fired stoves and marble slab cooling tables.

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.

The Allen family counts its chickens before and after they're hatched. Allen Family Foods is a vertically-integrated poultry operation that includes breeding, hatching, feed milling, and processing of its chickens. The Delaware-headquartered company operates its 28 of its own "growout" farms and contracts with more than 500 independent farmers, who raise the rest of the company's chickens. Allen offers whole frying, roasting, and rotisserie chickens, chicken parts, and tray packs It sells 600 million pounds of chicken a year to food retailers in the US and throughout the rest of the world. The company's fresh and frozen chicken is distributed in the US by Allen's 400-vehicle truck fleet.

Val Verde Vegetable Co. is a leading grower and packager of fresh produce that sources products primarily from farms in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The company ships such fresh produce as cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes, as well as a variety of melons. In addition to US growers, Val Verde Vegetable also sources fresh produce from Mexico. The family-owned company was started by president Frank Schuster in 1987.

Ridley keeps Canadian cows happy. And other barnyard animals as well. The company is a leading maker of animal feed, premixes, feed ingredients, animal-healthcare products, and nutritional supplements for cattle, hogs, poultry, and other animals. It also manufactures animal-care and livestock handling equipment. The company's customers include cattle ranchers and dairy and poultry farmers in Canada and the US. Its brand names include Feed-Rite and Hubbard feeds, Ridley Feed Ingredients, and Sweetlix feed supplements. The investment company, Fairfax Financial Holdings, owns approximately 70% of Ridley.

Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. is America's favorite candy company, manufacturing and selling some of the world's most popular confectionary brands. Beginning in a modest New York candy store with the Tootsie Roll's introduction in 1896, the Chicago-based company has grown to become one of the country's largest candy companies, with operations throughout North America and with distribution channels in more than 75 countries. Tootsie's brands include some of the most familiar candy names: Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop, Charms Blow Pop, Mason Dots, Andes, Sugar Daddy, Charleston Chew, Dubble Bubble, Razzles, Caramel Apple Pop, Junior Mints, Cella's Chocolate-Covered Cherries, and Nik-L-Nip. They're sold in a wide variety of venues, including supermarkets, warehouse and membership stores, vending machines, dollar stores, drug stores, and convenience stores.

R&H Hall is Irelands biggest importer and supplier of animal feed ingredients for feed manufacturing through its extensive trading, purchasing, shipping and storage capability. The deficit in native cereal and protein production must be supplemented by the importation of animal feed ingredients. IAWS purchased two small feed trading businesses between 1988-1989 called Unigrain and James Allen. Another feed trading company R&H Hall plc was purchased by IAWS in September 1990 and at that time was a major acquisition doubling the size of the overall organisation. Founded in Cork in 1839 and quoted on the stock exchange since 1967, R&H Hall had a long established and well acknowledged record of service to Irish Agribusiness. All three companies were merged under the name R&H Hall, as this was the best known of the names.

BOCM PAULS helps farmers with many mouths to feed. The company is one of the largest animal feed makers in the UK. Its Feedex Nutrition business produces pig feed; its Farmgate unit produces feed for cattle, poultry, and other livestock. Its Hickstead Feeds unit manufactures feed for horses, and its Marsdens Feeds produces specialty feeds for game birds and sport dogs. The company operates 16 feed mills. BOCM PAULS was founded in 1992 as a result of the the merger of BOCM Silcock and Pauls Agriculture. Management owns a majority of the company.

The family-owned business was founded in 1952 by Guy Shropshire and is controlled by the Shropshire family. G. S. Shropshire Holdings, which operates as G's Marketing, is a leading grower and supplier of private-label fresh vegetables in the UK. The company produces and distributes beetroot, celery, onions, and whole head lettuce, as well as potatoes, broccoli, garlic, and leeks. It also packages prepared salads and vegetables. Customers include retail supermarket chains and independent retailers, as well as caterers, restaurants, and other foodservice operators. G's Marketing has a 12,500-acre farm in the UK and a 10,000-acre farm in Spain.

Pacific Coast Producers was founded in 1971 and is based in Lodi, California. It has field stations in Central and Northern California; and distribution centers in Lodi and Palermo, California. Pacific Coast Producers, Inc. operates as a private label packer of canned fruits and tomatoes. Its products include tomatoes, apricots, peaches, pears, grapes, fruit cocktail and chunky mixed fruits, fruit mixes, triple cherry mixed fruits, fruit bowls, mandarin orange fruit bowls, and mandarin oranges in orange gels.

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