The French Gourmet has served San Diego with what many consider this city's finest full-service catering since 1979. Besides its large catering and wholesale division The French Gourmet is well known for its showcase French restaurant and bakery. The founder and owner of The French Gourmet Inc. is Michel Malécot, a professional French Chef and astute businessman known throughout San Diego County both for his expertise as a Chef and as a firm believer in the quality control of his product.

At Hornell Brewing (which does business as Ferolito, Vultaggio & Sons) image is everything. Colorful, arty bottle and can designs distinguish the company's beverages -- including AriZona iced teas, energy drinks, and fruit drinks -- from the competition. The company's beverages are top sellers in the ready-to-drink iced tea sector in the US. Flavors include Green Tea with Ginseng, Pomegranate Green Tea, and Blueberry White Tea. Its other products include energy and sports drinks, juice, and smoothies. In addition to tea, Hornell Brewing makes and sells malt liquor and beer (Crazy Stallion, Mississippi Mud) and bottled water. Co-founders John Ferolito and Don Vultaggio own and run the company.

Fredericksburg Lockers is a leading regional meat processor and supplier in central Texas. Doing business as Opa's Smoked Meats ("Opa" is German for grandfather), the company sells traditional German sausages such as bratwursts and knackwursts. It also sells hams, jerky, smoked poultry, and a variety of other sausages. Opa's sells its meat products through grocery stores and supermarkets (Albertson's, HEB), as well as direct to consumers through its retail store and Web site; it also supplies concessions operators. The company was founded in 1947.

As one of the few small public companies in the global beverage alcohol industry, our mission is to develop and grow our current portfolio of premium brands and to complement these brands through a combination of acquisitions, agency relationships and new product development. We position our brands in the high-end segments of leading internationally recognized product categories.Castle Brands Inc. engages in the development, import, marketing, and sale of spirit brands of vodka, rum, whiskey, liqueurs, and tequila in the United States and internationally. The company markets its products primarily under the Boru Vodka, Gosling's Rum, Pallini Limoncello, Raspicello and Peachcello, Knappogue Castle Whiskey, Clontarf Irish Whiskey, Jefferson's, Jefferson's Presidential Select and Jefferson's Reserve Bourbon, Betts & Scholl wines, Celtic Crossing liqueur, Brady's Irish Cream, and Tierras tequila brand names. Castle Brands Inc. offers its products through wholesale distributors and beverage alcohol control agencies in the United States; and directly to retail establishments, including liquor stores, chain stores, restaurants, and pubs internationally. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York.

The current Stock Spirits Group was established in 2007 from the combination of Stock and Polmos Lublin, under the control of Oaktree Capital Management. Our beginnings, however, date back to the 19th century, in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Stock up the liquor cabinet with bottles from Stock Spirits Group. The company sells almost 40 brands of vodka, brandy, and liqueur in Central and Eastern Europe and the US. Vodka brands include Czysta de Luxe, Kegelvich, Orzel, and Poland's most popular brand, W�dka Zoladkowa Gorzka. Brandy and vermouth are sold under the Stock brand, while Limonc� limoncello and the orange liqueur GranGala are popular liqueurs. Stock Spirits Group has distilleries in the Czech Republic, Italy, and Poland, and distributes its brands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the UK. In the US it does business as Heritage Brands, Inc. Stock Spirits Group is owned by Oaktree Capital Management.

Access Organics, Inc. is a sales and marketing agent for certified organic produce farmers, primarily located in Montana. It specializes in peppers, onions, winter and summer squash, spinach, greens, tomatoes, and berries. The company's products are available to food wholesalers, distributors, and retailers throughout the US and Canada. Access Organics is owned by president Bonnie Campbell Poux.

Stirling Foods® began with a simple mission: To produce the highest-quality flavoring syrup possible and sell it at a competitive price to retailers in the Seattle and Tacoma area of Washington State. But . . . a funny thing happened on the way to the market! In spite of minimal advertising and no sales staff, Stirling Gourmet Flavors® were soon in demand throughout the Northwest. The company grew rapidly as orders poured in from across the country. Stirling® is now one of the top flavoring syrup manufacturers in North America, shipping products across the nation and around the world.Was it luck? Was it timing? Clearly, Stirling® brought a quality product to the right market at the right time. Today Stirling® is an industry leader because we offer the highest quality gourmet flavoring syrups available, at a reasonable price, with customer service that knocks the socks off our competitors. Stirling syrups are used in specialty coffee beverages and teas, iced non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, baked goods and culinary creations. Stirling's customers include independent specialty coffee shops, gourmet product retailers, high-end restaurants, and at-home consumers.In addition to this tremendous growth, Stirling Gourmet Flavors® has been honored with multiple American Tasting Institute Gold Medal Awards for product excellence. These awards are given by an independent panel of chefs from across the nation, and they provide even more proof that Stirling Gourmet Flavors® are "Simply The Very Best".

Japanese pro baseball fans know the Nippon Ham Fighters, the team owned by Nippon Meat Packers (NMP). NMP, in turn, knows meat. The company is one of Japan's top beef-, pork-, and chicken-processing firms. Its meat business comprises all stages of production, from raising the animals and making their feed to processing the meat to delivering it to customers. In addition to fresh meat, NMP makes ham, sausage and deli meat; it offers dairy foods (including Luna brand yogurt and foodservice cheese) and ramen noodles. Its marine farming activities supply toppings and fillings for foodservice sushi. NMP makes probiotic beverages and a health drink, called Celeb no Jikan, made from pig placenta.

Wilkinson-Cooper Produce, Inc. is a fresh vegetable wholesaler and shipper. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce products include corn, cucumbers, endives, green beans, parsley, peppers, radishes, squash, watercress, and zucchinis. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce ship wholesale mixed vegetables from Florida between November and May, and from Georgia in June and July, fall October and November. Wilkinson-Cooper Produce company has been shipping vegetables across the continental US, as well as Canada and Europe, since 1965.

Ralcorp Holdings reminds us that you can't judge food by its cover. The company is a top US maker of private-label or "store-brand" ready-to-eat and hot breakfast cereals. Ralcorp has also stocked its pantry with a variety of private-label cookies, crackers, peanut butter, ketchup, snack nuts, candy, and breakfast cereal. In addition, the company makes branded products: Ralston Hot Cereal, Post dry cereals, Ry Krisp crackers, and Rippin' Good cookies. Its Carriage House unit produces private-label dressings, syrups, jellies, and sauces, and its Lofthouse and Parco businesses offer frozen cookies to in-store bakeries. In 2010 Ralcorp announced an offer to acquire American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC).

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