Wellness Foods makes its living without the use of artificial flavorings, colorings, or preservatives. Wellness Foods manages a group of businesses that manufacture fresh and healthy breakfast, snack, and drink products for consumers in the UK and Ireland. Its key businesses include Orchard House (fruit juices), Stream Foods (Fruit Bowl brand fruit snacks), Grove Fresh (fruit juices and smoothies), Dorset Cereals (muesli cereal), and Rowse Honey. Wellness Foods which produces its products at facilities located around the UK, sells its products through such major UK grocers as Asda, Sainsbury, Morrison, Tesco, and Waitrose. Wellness Foods is owned by Irish horseracing tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier.

The largest dairy producer in Mexico is now the second largest in the US after it bought National Dairy Holdings and Farmland Dairies in 2009. Lala makes milk (pasteurized and ultra high temperature), cheese, yogurt, cream, butter, juice, and packaged desserts such as gelatin and flan under about a dozen brands in Mexico. In the US, operating as Lala Foods Inc., it offers milk, cheese, sour cream, and yogurt under the Lala and Vive brands, as well as a kids' line called Yomi. Lala operates more than 35 manufacturing plants and 160 distribution centers in Mexico, Central America, and the US. It was founded in 1949 as a dairy collective in Mexico.

Victoria Packing was founded by Pelligrino Aquilina in 1929 and is a family-owned business. Victoria Packing Corporation company manufactures more than 300 mostly Italian food products, including canned vegetables, edible oils, sauces, condiments, spices, and dips for sale in grocery stores and warehouse clubs, and to foodservice companies throughout the US. Victoria has operations in New York, the Midwest, and New England. Victoria Packing Corporation company also provides private-label and co-packing services for more than 50 firms.

At AIPC we are passionate about our pasta. As North America's largest producer of dry pasta, we are a proud provider of quality pasta food products.Founded in 1988 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, AIPC has grown to include plants in Columbia, South Carolina, Tolleson, Arizona and Verolanuova, Italy. With over 600 employees, AIPC produces pasta for consumption in the United States and abroad. We take pride in our facilities, and quality of products we produce.Our customers are some of the largest food retailers in the world. We provide our own branded pasta, and we provide pasta to the retail food distribution channel under a variety of private label programs. In addition, we provide much of the pasta consumed by the food service industry, including restaurants and cafeterias, schools, business and industry.

IBR has developed a unique environmental technology, which efficiently digests organic waste materials and produces biological fertility products that have revolutionary and far-reaching potential in commercial agriculture.On the one hand, IBR offers municipalities and generators of biodegradable waste a profitable alternative to landfill disposal, composting and/or incineration, while reducing toxic leachate, greenhouse gas emissions and noxious odours. On the other hand, by converting biodegradable waste into products beneficial to soil fertility and plant health, IBR is stemming the current one-way flow of nutrients and organic matter from the soil by providing food producers with the means to reverse their increasing dependence on chemical inputs.

Tampico Beverages manufactures refrigerated juice drinks and punches under the Tampico brand name. They are available in a variety of serving sizes and an array of fruit flavors, including mango, kiwi-strawberry, and peach. It offers bottled water flavored to appeal to Hispanic taste buds (pi�a colada, mamey-mango and grapefruit-tangerine). The company's beverages are distributed throughout the US and more than 50 other countries. Tampico (formerly known as Marbo) began making its juice products in the early 1980s and claims to be the #1 refrigerated juice drink in the US. It was acquired by food retailer, Houchens Industries, in 2008.

For over 70 years, Grady Auvil led Auvil Fruit Company to be one of the pioneers in the growing and merchandising of apples in the Pacific Northwest. Best known among growers for his innovative production practices, much of Grady's success rested on a shrewd sense of market opportunities.For instance, noting the vast amount of red apples on the market, Grady introduced the Granny Smith to Washington State. The result was history. In all of Grady's ventures the company was guided by a basic policy: to deliver superior dessert quality fruit to consumers. With boundless enthusiasm, Grady encouraged his fellow growers to adopt this policy. What distinguished Grady was that he saw this goal in terms of the whole process of production and marketing, from selecting varieties to the check-out counter. In doing so he moved the entire Washington apple industry one step closer to perfection.

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.

Gorton's Inc. offers frozen seafood products in the United States and Canada. It offers fish sticks; breaded fillets, including garlic and herb, potato crunch, breaded tilapia, and lemon herb breaded fillets; and battered fillets, such as beer and lemon pepper battered fillets. The company also provides grilled fillets, which include lemon pepper, garlic butter, lemon butter, cajun blackened, Italian herb, and char grilled fillets; salmon grilled fillets; and fish tenders, such as batter, crunchy, and beer batter tenders. In addition, Gorton's offers shrimps, lobster, steak, crab, shellfish, gourmet fish, chowder and bisque, and appetizers/desserts; and gift certificates, gift baskets, gift selections, and business gifts.

Dakota Growers Pasta Company is trying to put an al dente in the noodle market. It is a supplier of branded and private-label pasta products and flours to retail, food service, and food ingredient companies in North America. Its mills have an annual capacity to grind more than 12 million bushes of grain; its production facilities can produce 500 million pound of pasta (and makes more than 100 different shapes). Brand names include Dreamfields, Pasta Growers, Pasta Sanita, Primo Piatto, and Zia Briosa. Under license, the company distributes Ronzoni, Prince, Creamette, and Mrs. Weiss pasta brands to the foodservice sector.

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