Atkinson Candy Company has a family tradition of making candy since 1932. Located in Lufkin, Texas, the company is known worldwide for its fine quality candy, including some of the best peanut butter and peppermint candies available. "Naturally, we're Texas proud," says President Eric Atkinson, "but our candy is sold all over the world." Each piece bears our family name, so we take pride in its quality and never compromise when it comes to our products. Our candy is made using only the finest ingredients, and we work diligently to ensure it reaches you at the peak of perfection.

At House of Raeford Farms, a turkey can become a meatloaf, a pot roast, or a ham; a chicken can be transformed into fajitas, lunch meat, or a breaded dog-on-a-stick. The vertically-integrated North Carolina poultry processor supplies fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken and turkey products to retail food, in-store deli, and foodservice operators. It offers whole, cut-up, ground, boneless and bone-in meat, ready-to-heat entrees, as well as poultry sausage and smoked and breaded poultry products. Its brands include House of Raeford and Lakewood Plantation and are available throughout the US. Raeford has eight facilitates located in eight facilities in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Company founded in 1755 in Bordeaux.The brand, created by Marie Brizard in Bordeaux, a region renowned throughout the world for its tradition of quality wines, is one of the world's most venerable producers of liqueurs and drinks based on plants, fruits and spices.Originally, the firm made its name with the aniseed liqueur that was later to become the Marie Brizard anisette, but its real growth period came when it branched out into a wide range of cocktail-based liqueurs, spirits, syrops, and more recently wines.The group sells some 230 million bottles, via two distribution subsidiaries (France and Spain) and exports to over 120 countries. The Marie Brizard brand of liqueurs has a reputation and a know-how that are unrivalled anywhere in the world.

That wonderful aroma you smell as you pass through Pennsylvania Dutch country is no baloney, it's bologna. And part of the reason is Palmyra Bologna. The company, which does business as Seltzer's Smokehouse Meats, makes cured beef bologna sausage in five varieties (Beef Lebanon Bologna, Double Smoked Sweet Bologna, Lower-Sodium Lebanon Bologna, Smoke 'n Honey Beef Roll, and Sweet Lebanon Bologna) all under the Seltzer's brand name. Eschewing modernization, the company, located in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, cures its products by smoking spiced, aged beef over hand-tended fires in old-fashioned wooden smokehouses. Palmyra's products are available in US supermarkets and other retail food outlets.

Kettle Foods, Inc. which was founded in 1978, was acquired by snack foods maker Diamond Foods in 2010. Kettle Foods company produces all-natural, hand-cooked chips. Kettle firm also manufactures and sells tortilla chips, roasted nuts, trail mixes, and nut butter spreads. Whereas in the past, Kettle Foods' products were only available in natural food stores, Kettle Foods company has extended its market reach in recent years by moving into mainstream supermarkets. Kettle's products are available throughout North America, as well as in Asia and Western Europe.

Nonni's Food Company is the leading domestic marketer, manufacturer and distributor of premium branded biscotti, Bagel Crisps®, pita chips, flatbreads, melba toast, filled croissants and bread crumbs. We market products under the Nonni's®, New York Style®, Old London® and 7Days™ brand names.The company produces high quality products in the rapidly growing specialty cookie, snack crackers and chip categories. The trend toward great tasting, healthier snacking provides consistent growth and significant opportunity. In each of the company's branded product categories, Nonni's Food Company is a leader in terms of product innovation and offerings.Year after year, more consumers are drawn to our brands because of their great taste, natural baked goodness and favorable nutritional content vs. most alternatives. A long heritage combined with established, trusted brand names has resulted in strong consumer loyalty.Nonni's Food Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivartia SA, a Greek food company and global leader operating in over 34 countries.

Icicle Seafoods is hard at work even when icicles are forming outside. The fishery and seafood-processing company catches, processes, and distributes fresh, canned, and frozen fish including cod, herring, pollock, halibut, salmon, crab, and trout. Its customers include retail food, industrial, wholesale and foodservice operations worldwide. It maintains floating seafood processing plants, shoreline plants, and other facilities in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. Its Alaskan cannery has been in operation since 1899. Icicle Seafoods, Inc. is owned by private investment firm Paine & Partners.

Steinbeck County Produce is owned and operated by the Huntington Family. The Huntington’s family’s roots run deep in the Salinas Valley soil, and Steinbeck company is one of the few remaining family-run agricultural businesses in the Salinas Valley. In 1949 Lou Huntington, Sr. began farming tomatoes, potatoes, sugar beets and onions in Soledad, CA. His son, Lou Jr. joined him in 1963 after graduating from California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo with a degree in Ag Business. The business grew and the products grown changed, with asparagus, lettuce and mixed vegetables added to the deal. Land along the Salinas River from Salinas to Soledad was acquired over time, and the third generation of Huntington’s graduated from college and began working for the company.

PEZ Candy wants its treats heads above the rest. The US division makes tiny brick-shaped candies and imports the zany dispensers for them that are popular with kids and adult collectors. PEZ makes its colorful candies in the US; its dispensers, which feature a figurehead, are made in Hungary and China. PEZ's products are available through US retailers, including Wal-Martand Target, and in more than 60 other countries worldwide. The firm's product has spawned a number of lively Web sites, avid collectors' clubs, and brisk dispenser sales on eBay. PEZ originated in Austria in 1927 as a small peppermint candy and arrived in the US in the 1950s; the parent company, PEZ International, is still located in Austria.

You might say this company is the biggest Cheesehead in Wisconsin. Sargento Foods is one of the largest cheese manufacturers in the US, offering a variety of block cheese and such value-added products as shredded cheese blends and sliced cheeses for sandwiches. the company markets its cheese through supermarkets and other retail grocery stores nationwide. Sargento is also a leading supplier of custom cheese products to restaurant operators and other foodservice operators; its food ingredients division makes cheese products for other food manufacturers. The family-owned business was started in 1953 by Leonard Gentine, Sr., and his business partner Joseph Sartori.

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