The Ashers really love to smother things in chocolate. Asher's Chocolates manufactures chocolate and confections, including chocolate-covered pretzels potato chips, and graham crackers. Asher's Chocolates, Inc. also produces boxed assortments (including truffles, chews, nuts, cordials, and creams) and gift baskets, fudge, pecan-caramel patties, almond bark, and sugar-free assortments. Asher's Chocolates sells its products through its own retail store (in Souderton, Pennsylvania -- near Philadelphia), by mail- order, and online on its Web site. The family-owned company was founded in 1892.

How does Del Monte's garden grow? Very well indeed. It is one of the US's largest manufacturers of branded canned fruit, vegetables, and soups and broths. Its flagship products (canned corn, green beans, peas, peaches, pears, and pineapples) are purchased mostly from US growers. The company makes tomato-based foods such as ketchup and tomato sauce. Its retail brands include College Inn, Del Monte, and Contadina. Del Monte makes pets grow too, with a stable of pet-food and -treat brands, including 9Lives, Gravy Train, Milk-Bone, and Meow Mix. The company also makes private-label products and food ingredients for other food manufacturers, and offers products to foodservice operators.

MGP Ingredients puts the proof in the bottle and the texture in most everything else. The company processes wheat flour into food ingredients, such as wheat proteins and wheat starches used by other manufacturers. By-products from this process are mixed with corn and made into a variety of alcohol products that are used in distilled beverages, foods, and fuels. MGP also makes plant-based polymers for use in place of petroleum-based plastic items, such as disposable cutlery and CD cases, and a wood-composite resin used to make decking material. MGP is in the process of changing itself from a commodities provider to a maker of value-added food and non-food ingredients. It has operations in Kansas and Illinois.

Young and Co.'s Brewery, P.L.C. is a public limited company that began life in 1890.Its principal activities comprise the management and operation of its pub estate (including its hotel division) and the selling of food and drink through it. As at 29 March 2010, it had 121 managed pubs and 99 tenanted ones, principally located in London and the South East. It also has a 40% shareholding and interest in a brewing and distribution joint venture, Wells & Young's Brewing Company Limited. Its shares are admitted to trading on AIM and you should click on the "Companies Act and AIM Rule compliance" page in the investors section of youngs.co.uk for the information about Young's that is required to be mentioned or disclosed under the Companies Act 2006 and the AIM Rules.

Sanimax is North America’s leading BioReturn™ company. From our 15 locations in Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, we serve customers across the continent and around the globe.BioReturn™ is in our blood. It’s something we’ve been doing since 1881, when the Green Bay Soap Company first set up shop, transforming unwanted tallow into an essential household product.The Sanimax brand itself was born in 2005, thanks to the merger of three major industry players. By bringing together the regional expertise of Quebec-based Sanimal, the Wisconsin-based Anamax Group, and Ontario-based bi-pro marketing limited, we established an enterprise that is truly borderless.

Lucas Bols BV is the oldest Dutch company still active, and the oldest distillery brand in the world. Since April 2006 it is back in Dutch hands thanks to a buy-out by the management and investor AAC Capital Partners. Lucas Bols has returned to the city where it all began in 1575: Amsterdam. Bols has mastered the art of mixing and blending; with old recipes and new flavors. Liqueur, genever, Corenwijn and gin. Both pure or as part of an exciting range of cocktails.Lucas Bols might best be described as an old soul making new spirits. The company, founded by its namesake, Lucas Bols, in 1575, makes Genevers (the national liquor of Holland, which is also called Dutch Gin), Damrak gin, Bols vodka, and a variety of Bols liqueurs. It also offers the Italian liqueur, Galliano and the green-colored, banana-flavored liqueur, Pisang Ambon. The Dutch distiller's products are distributed in more than 110 countries across the globe. French spirits maker R�my Cointreau acquired Bols in 2000; in 2006 the company returned to Dutch ownership as the result of a buyout by its management and ABN AMRO Capital.

Compass Group is the world's largest contract foodservices provider with operations in more than 50 countries. It provides hospitality and foodservice for a variety of businesses and such public-sector clients as cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools. It also offers vending, catering, and concessions services for a number of events and sports venues. Its foodservice brands include Chartwells, Crothall, and Levy Restaurants. In addition, Compass is a franchisee of such well-known chains as Burger King and Starbucks.

StarKist Co. is a leading producer, distributor and marketer of shelf-stable seafood products in the United States. A category leader in innovation, StarKist was the first brand to introduce the StarKist Flavor Fresh Pouch®; StarKist Tuna Creations®, a line of lightly marinated tuna; and, a dolphin-safe policy. As America’s favorite tuna, StarKist represents a 65-year tradition of quality, innovation and consumer trust and is well known for its charismatic brand icon, Charlie® the Tuna, who swam into the hearts of tuna fans in 1961 and is still a fan favorite today. StarKist Co. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dongwon Group.

Advanced BioNutrition Corp. was founded in 2001, having as its roots technology developed at Martek Biosciences Corporation (NASDQ:MATK) many years earlier by a co-founder of Martek and the founder of Advanced BioNutrition.The growing importance of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) in human infant and maternal nutrition was seen by the imaginative scientists that started ABN to be a path to be paralleled in the animal field. The team focused initially on aquaculture, which was utilizing 65% of all fishmeal and 80% of all fish oil produced as sources of DHA to fuel the unprecedented growth of that industry. ABN believed that there was an impending crisis in the overfishing of this resource and focused on a program to produce an environmentally responsible, sustainable alternative using algae, not fish.Squeeze a handful of algae and you'll usually just get mush. However, Advanced BioNutrition (ABN) has figured out a way to wring docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), arachidonic acid (ARA), and other essential fatty acids from specific algae for use as nutritional ingredients in aquaculture (i.e., fish farming) and domestic farm animal feeds. The company markets these long-chain fatty acids under the AquaGrow brand. ABN also develops oral and injectable vaccines to treat various aquatic animal diseases, which adversely affect the aquaculture industry's profits. ABN offers vaccines for treating diseases in salmon and shrimp, two of the most commercially farmed seafoods.

Since the mid 1920’s, Silver Springs Citrus has been a leader in the quality processing of oranges and grapefruit in Central Florida. We have grown from a small neighborhood operation to one of the largest retail packers of single-strength citrus juice in the United States. Through the individual focus of each employee, Silver Springs Citrus continues to be recognized for superior quality, reliable service and continuity. Our efforts afforded us the reputation of being a leader in the U.S. and International citrus markets. Silver Springs Citrus is one of the largest private label producers of premium orange and grapefruit juices. Our consistent quality and superior service have made us the hallmark by which other producers are judged.

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