Nonpareil Corporation company grows and ships fresh potatoes and manufactures value-added potato products such as hash browns, mashed potatoes, and potato flakes, which it distributes to US foodservice operators. Nonpareil also supplies ingredients, including flavor additives made from potatoes, to other food manufacturers. Nonpareil company's potatoes are grown on a 10,000 acres in Nebraska and 3,000 acres in Idaho. The Nonpareil Corporation was founded in 1946 by Harold and Robert Abend; it continues to be owned and managed by members of the Abend family.

The primary mission at Utz is to maintain Utz Quality Foods hard-earned reputation as the premier snack food company in Utz Quality Foods expanding market area. Utz Quality Foods will constantly strive to improve Utz Quality Foods leadership position and grow through the hallmarks of superior quality and service. Utz Quality Foods specific goal — to manufacture and merchandise the best possible products with a commitment to customer satisfaction that is second to none — must never be jeopardized by Utz Quality Foods goals for growth.

Founded in 1943 by John and Rosellen Griffin, Griffin Industries is one of the largest independent, privately-owned animal and bakery by-product recycling company in North America. Headquartered in Cold Spring, Kentucky, the company continues to grow with the development of new products and services as well as expanding geographic markets. From agriculture-based recycling operations to bakery services, Griffin’s products include fats, oils, proteins, bakery by-products, alternative fuels, methyl esters, leather goods and organic fertilizers. As an innovative leader, these products are synonymous with quality in the pet food, animal feed, industrial/chemical, petroleum, leather and turf industries.

Bell-Carter Foods, Inc. was founded in 1912. Bell-Carter Foods, Inc. engages in the production, sale, and marketing of olives in the United States. The company’s retail, food service, and industrial products include ripe, Spanish, stuffed, Kalamata, and Silican olives, as well as onions, pimientos, tapanade, olive oil, and peppers. It also offers stuffed olives, pimientos, cocktail onions, and capers. In addition, the company provides a range of packaging solutions, including design conceptualization and component outsourcing services, such as UPC bar-code printing, gift pack programs, bag filling, product sorting, sampling, re-packaging, labeling, stripping, stamping, shrink-wrap packaging, bundling, collation, and fulfillment.

Turning a delicious but odd-shaped fruit into a household favorite wasn’t in the plan when a group of grower-hobbyists banded together in 1924 to form the California Avocado Growers Exchange. And two more years would pass before Rudolph Hass of La Habra, California, would plant the state’s first Hass avocado tree.At the time, avocado growers had no quality standards, no distribution channels, and only one facility, a packinghouse in Vernon, California. During that first year, the Growers Exchange packed 18,000 pounds of avocados from that packinghouse and, in doing so, launched an industry.Though the Vernon packinghouse has long since closed, the company that sprang from that Growers’ Exchange - now known as Calavo Growers, Inc. - is still going strong some 81 years later. In 2005, this publicly traded, diversified, global agribusiness packed approximately 35 percent of the California avocado crop, nearly double the market share of its closest competitor. Three modern packinghouses - strategically located in Santa Paula and Temecula, California, and Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico - teem with productivity and thrive on volume, packing approximately 200 million pounds per year. The company is now headquartered in Santa Paula, California and employs more than 500 people.

Marker 29 plants its "Carrots for Sale" signpost in the southeastern region of the US. Marker 29 Produce company is an agent and broker for the fresh produce industry. Its primary product is carrots; Marker 29 also offers a variety of other fruits and vegetables. Marker 29 Produce company's principal partner is Coggins Farms & Produce, which has produce growing and packing operations in Georgia. Marker 29 provides storage, packing, and delivery services and offers private-label packaging. Its products can be found in retail stores such as Albertson's, SUPERVALU, and Winn Dixie.

Chelan Fresh Marketing was established in August 2004 as a result of mergers and acquisitions and holds the sales and marketing responsibilities for Gebbers Farms and Chelan Fruit Cooperative.Today, Chelan Fresh has grown to become one of Washington state's largest marketers of fresh fruit with an estimated annual sale of ten million boxes of apples, one million pears, two million cherries, and 350 thousand boxes of stone fruit. Through volume and diversity of product offerings, Chelan Fresh continues to effectively provide quality fruit, outstanding levels of service and appropriate technology that results in consistency every day of the year at competitive prices to retailers and consumers. While serving as the link between the growers and the retailers to move fresh fruit; Chelan Fresh Marketing provides the vehicle for 419 plus growers to market their fresh products under one roof.As a result of the original merger, Chelan Fresh Marketing, shares roots with the oldest operating apple businesses in Washington State part of Gebbers Farms 4000 acre orchard near Brewster, WA.

We at Old Home Foods® strive to earn the trust of our consumers by providing high quality, great tasting and innovative specialty dairy products. Old Home Foods has been a favorite Minnesota dairy brand since 1925 when Mr. Francis A. Davies founded the company around manufacturing and distributing his legendary cottage cheese. Over the last 80 years, Old Home has also a strong reputation for other dependable and delicious products like cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, dips and more.

Spicy is on the menu at Manda Packing Company. Doing business as Manda Fine Meats, the company processes and distributes a variety of meats, including Cajun-flavored deli meats such as ham, roast beef, turkey breast and smoked sausage. Its specialty products include hog cracklings, head cheese, and andouille and boudin sausage. Manda Fine Meats sells its products in more than 40 US states under brands names such as Cajun Prize, Four Star, and Manda. The Louisana company was founded in 1947 by brothers Bennie, John, and Vincent Manda; today it is run by third-generation family members, Vincent Manda's grandsons -- Bobby, Steve, and Tommy Yarborough.

Southern FS has been cultivating farmers since 1931. That's when the predecessor companies to this locally-owned agricultural co-op began sowing the seeds of support for Illinois producers. It has operations in Alexander, Franklin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, and Williamson counties in Illinois. Southern FS offers farmers a wide variety of products and services, from landscape planning to livestock feed and tractor fuel.

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