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.

Ruiz Foods company produces some 200 frozen Mexican foods under the El Monterey and Tornados brand names, including burritos, taquitos, enchiladas, and tamales. Its value-added convenience products can be found in grocery stores throughout the US; it also serves foodservice clients. Ruiz Foods manufactures its products at its main 300,000-sq.-ft. facility in Dinuba, California, and, in order to meet the demand for its products in the eastern and midwestern US, two more in Texas. In a move to provide healthy food products, in 2006 the company removed all trans fats from its El Monterey brand products.

WhiteWave Foods is a leading producer of dairy and dairy-related products, including coffee creamers, dairy toppings, and yogurt. The unit of Dean Foods is best known for its Silk brand milk-substitute soy beverages, as well as organic dairy products sold under the Horizon Organic label. It also makes International Delight coffee creamers and Rachel's yogurt products, in addition to LAND O' LAKES-branded coffee creamers and dessert toppings (sold under license from dairy co-op Land O'Lakes). WhiteWave's products are sold through natural food and grocery stores, as well as at major food chains across the US and Canada.

That sweet smell of success might be coming from the ovens at Bahlsen. One of Germany's leading manufacturers of biscuits (or as Americans call them, cookies), the company makes Leibniz butter biscuits, a favorite among consumers since it was introduced in 1891. Bahlsen also makes upscale products such as chocolate-dipped Pick Up! snack bars. With five production facilities in Europe, the company exports products to about 80 countries and offers private-label production services. The family of founder Hermann Bahlsen, led by his grandson Werner Bahlsen, continues to control the company.

French champagne producer Laurent-Perrier toasts its place as one of the world's largest champagne producers. The company's middle market to high-end bubbly, incuding lables such as Laurent-Perrier, Champagne de Castellane, Salon, Delamotte, Jeanmaire, Oudinot, and Beaumet, is distributed primarily by controlled company channels in more than 120 countries through direct sales to restaurants, retailers, bars, and hotels. The company concentrates on sales in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier went public in 1999 by selling a little more than one-quarter of the company's shares. The de Nonancourt family controls the company.

From the very beginning, Unibroue has carved out a special niche in the beer world with top quality products and a brand rooted deep in Quebec culture. It made history by becoming the first North American beer maker to use a brewing method inspired by the two-centuries-old tradition developed by Trappist monks in Europe—particularly in Belgium. Over the years, Unibroue has remained faithful to its origins even as it has grown to become an icon of the brewing world. Unibroue products take you on a journey filled with legends and fabulous tales.

Pamlico Packing Co. Inc. was founded in 1941 and is owned and operated by the Cross family. Pamlico Packing company sells fresh and frozen fish and other seafood items to more than 200 wholesalers, restaurants, hotels, and retail food outlets in the US's mid-Atlantic region. Pamlico's products include shellfish and fin fish. Much of its seafood is harvested from the Pamlico Sound off the shores of North Carolina; more exotic species are brought in from Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, and Vietnam.

AVANI Oxygen Water Corporation, of Vancouver, Canada, was formed for the purpose of propagating the Company's technology of producing supercharged oxygenated water that is remarkably smooth, incredible taste and extremely pure. AVANI's exclusive seven stages oxygen PURIFICATION PROCESS is the ONLY process currently that duplicates the natural cycle of rain water purification. The ONLY extra ingredient added is the vital OXYGEN! AVANI's water is richer in oxygen content than ordinary tap water of Vancouver, Canada, which is already rich in oxygen content. AVANI's technology re-energizes water like it was millions of years ago, when the oxygen content in the atmosphere and in the water was extremely high. The incredibly lush growth of the plants and the enormous size of the animals on our planet at that time attested to the very high life force of the oxygen rich water. Paleontologists (people who study dinosaurs) have estimated that a big dinosaur would only live a few days in our atmosphere before it would die of oxygen starvation. This is true because our present atmosphere and water now contains low levels of oxygen. There was also no pollution to contaminate the water. AVANI's supercharged oxygenated water, with its high content of dissolved oxygen, is the closest thing there is to water of prehistoric time: a water that had a very high content of life giving oxygen.

In 1903, the Yakima Valley was already established as a premiere growing region for many fruits and vegetables, but the system of getting the crops to market was outdated. At the time, truckers traveled from farm to farm negotiating with individual farmers to set a price for their fruit. The farmers knew they needed a better system so they banded together to form the Yakima County Horticultural Union and Yakima Valley Growers Association cooperatives. These groups centralized packing, selling and distribution of the crops and opened channels for shipping to markets such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and beyond. In 1965 the two cooperatives merged together and took on the name Snokist Growers.Today, Snokist is still a grower-owned cooperative with more than 150 active members. Our growers range from multi-generation family farms that are steeped in tradition to young, innovative farmers setting a new standard in agriculture with organic production and integrated pest management. We employ more than 700 people to provide food products for retail, food service and industrial use customers. The Snokist cannery packs in a variety of containers from cans, glass and totes to single serve bowls and cups. We've joined forces with Pacific Coast Producers to give our customers a one-stop shopping choice for the majority of products you find in the grocery fruit aisle, including apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, prunes and fruit cocktail.

Sara Lee mixes it up. And we're talking more than Ms. Lee's cheesecake recipe here. The parent company underwent a major restructuring in 2005 and one result was the creation of Sara Lee International Beverage and Sara Lee International Bakery. The operations oversee the non-US coffee, tea, and bakery business (bread, buns, rolls, specialty breads, refrigerated doughs, and frozen desserts) of Sara Lee in Australia, Brazil, and Europe. Its major beverage brands include Douwe Egberts, Senseo, and Caf� do Ponto; its top bakery brands are Ortiz, BonGateaux, and Sara Lee.

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