Nutreco tames the hunger of both man and beast. Its agriculture division breeds and processes poultry in Spain though its Sada operations, where it is the #1 poultry producer. The company's Trouw Nutrition International division is one of Europe's largest animal-feed makers and also sells feed in Asia and North America. Its Skretting fish feed business offers feed for some 50 species of farmed fish. Founded in 1994, the Netherlands-based company has grown on a steady diet of acquisitions in Europe and abroad. Its focus is on animal-nutrition products, offering premixes and compound and specialty feeds.

As one of the world's largest poultry-breeding operations, Aviagen knows that the egg probably came first, but it's chicks that sell best. Comprised of two units (broiler/breeder and turkey), Aviagen sells day-old parent and grandparent chicks for the production of commercial chicken broilers and turkeys. Its chicken brands include Arbor Acres, L.I.R., and Ross; its turkey brands are Nicholas and British United Turkeys (B.U.T.) The company also offers biosecurity programs for poultry operations that designed to keep pathogens out of the food chain. Aviagen has customers worldwide and is owned by the privately owned German holding company, the EW GROUP.

Gate Gourmet began in 1992 as the catering arm of Swissair; it is now part of the publicly traded gategroup. The foodservice company is one of the world's largest in-flight caterers, alongside rival LSG Sky Chefs. Gate Gourmet prepares more than 200 million meals a year for travelers from its 100 flight kitchens in more than 25 countries. Gate Gourmet company contracts for about 250 airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Thai Airways. Gate Gourmet also offers consulting on menu and service design, cost monitoring, and logistics.

Five Star was formed in 1993 to acquire AA Food Services based in Dalton, Georgia. It is a portfolio company of Atlanta-based Navigation Capital Partners. Five Star Food Service is a leading operator and supplier of vending machines and related supplies, with more than 18,500 machines in the Southeast, mostly in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Five Star Food Service company also offers office coffee and beverage services and operates about 80 corporate dining cafeterias. It is a franchisee of Canteen Vending Services, a unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Owned and operated by the Rodriguez family, La India Packing Company was founded in 1924. Located in Laredo, Texas, la india packing company sells authentic Hispanic herbs, spices, and teas. It offers tejano and fajita seasoning, pica rico (for seasoning fruits), Mexican chocolate and more. Its products are sold in bulk, boxed, and bagged. They are available online at La India's Web site and at la india packing company's store in Laredo, where the owners also operate a small restaurant called the Tasting Room Cafe. La India's spices are also carried by such retail outlets in Texas as Albertsons, H.E.B, Kmart, and Wal-mart.

Dole Food Company, Inc. was founded in 1851. Dole Food Company, Inc. (Dole) is a producer, marketer and distributor of fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Company operates in three business segments: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and packaged foods. The fresh fruit segment contains operating divisions that produce and market fresh fruit to wholesale, retail and institutional customers worldwide. The fresh vegetables segment produces and markets fresh-packed and value-added vegetables and salads to wholesale, retail and institutional customers, primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. The packaged foods segment contains several operating divisions that produce and market packaged foods including fruit, juices, frozen fruit and healthy snack foods.

Australian creatures of legal drinking age. Through its Little Creatures Brewing subsidiary, Little World Beverages makes the Little Creatures line of craft beers. The company's award-winning varieties -- all of which sport its trademark cherub logo -- are Little Creatures Pale Ale, the amber Rogers' Beer, and Little Creatures Pilsner. It exports its beers to New Zealand and the UK. Big Australian brewer Lion Nathan owns more than a third of Little World Beverages, which was founded in 2000 by a group that included directors Howard Cearns, Adrian Fini, and Nic Trimboli.

National Beef exists to take care of its own flesh and blood. The company is the holding company for National Beef Packing Company, one of the largest beef processing companies in the US. The processor produces a variety of beef products and sells to hundreds of retailers, food service companies, and processed meat product companies; its brands include Black Canyon, Certified Premium Beef, Naturewell, and Imperial Valley Premium Beef. National Beef was formed in 2009 to manage National Beef Packing Company's operations; it had planned to file an initial public offering (IPO) in 2009 but postponed it.

In China pigs fly and chickens cross the road to get to People's Food Holdings. At its processing plants located throughout China, People's Food produces and sells various high- and low-temperature meat products made from pork and poultry under the Jinluo brand name. The company supplies wholesalers and retailers nationally with sausages, fresh and frozen meats, and a selection of animal by-products used in other industries including food production, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Company chairman Ming Kam Sing owns a controlling interest in People's Food Holdings.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

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