CEO William Mann and president William Huggins formed Pretzels, Inc. in 1978. Pretzels, Inc., is a leading regional snack food maker that manufactures pretzels and other extruded snacks products mostly under the Harvest Road brand. Its products include cheese balls, cheese curls, and corn puffs in addition to several varieties of pretzels. Pretzels company also makes private label snacks for third-parties.

North Pacific Seafoods company catches, processes and distributes fish and seafood products, including salmon, tuna, halibut, pollock, cod, rockfish, flatfish, shellfish (crab and shrimp), and caviar and roe. It also offers specialty seafood such as octopus, squid, and sea cucumbers. North Pacific Seafoods company has headquarters in Seattle and operates four Alaskan shore-based processing plants in Sitka, Kodiak, Togiak, and Pederson Point. North Pacific Processors is a subsidiary of the Japanese seafood giant, Marubeni Corporation.

Tate & Lyle -- one of the world's largest makers of white and raw cane sugar -- will soon have to look elsewhere. Headquartered in London, Tate & Lyle makes sugar by-products such as molasses used in animal feed, and sugar and high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and starches used in foodstuffs. It is a top supplier of sucralose, the no-calorie sweetener sold in some 50 countries worldwide under the brand name SPLENDA. Serving multiple sectors, Tate & Lyle's customers include manufacturers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, industrial, and animal-feed industries. The firm is exiting the Sugars business to focus on value-added Specialty Food Ingredients.

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.

Morgan Foods, Inc. was founded in 1899 by Joseph Morgan and his partners; the firm is in its fourth generation of Morgan-family ownership and management. Morgan Foods aims to warm up tummies with a hot bowl of soup. Morgan company makes private-label condensed and ready-to-serve soups and broths, baked and refried beans, and chilies, as well as a line of gravies and sauces for retail food outlets. It offers such services as consumer-preference testing, regulatory auditing, competitor and sensory and product-assortment analysis, promotional and marketing plans, and label development.

Raisio plc makes grain-based foods for people and feed for animals. It also produces malt for beverage makers and starch-based ingredients for food companies. While strong in Finland, the company's food business has grown in Russia and Poland, where it sells pasta and porridges. In 2007 Raisio sold its food diagnostics business, which accounted for only 2% of sales, to Ciba Specialty Chemicals (Ciba bought Raisio's chemical business in 2004.) Focusing on its grain-based products, in 2009 Raisio sold its margarine business to Bunge for E80 million ($109 million). In keeping with this focus, Raisio bought UK snack and candy maker Glisten in 2010.

Marvin and Linda Brown and their partners Ronnie and Pam Young, established BBI Produce, Inc. in 1990. Production of high quality strawberries and outstanding customer service have made them leaders in the Florida marketplace. With over 40 years of growing experience combined, BBI uses many innovations in production, packaging and shipping, thus allowing the company to remain on the leading edge. Under the "Berry Boss" brand, BBI delivers strawberries that have the look and taste customers demand.BBI Produce, Inc. sells and ships strawberries from Brown's and Young's own 425 acres, plus the fruit from selected independent growers in the Dover, Florida area, located near Plant City, the "Winter Strawberry Capital" of the world. Their customers appreciate the dedication and care given to all phases of production from planting in the field to final delivery.

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.

Shelton's Poultry teaches its chickens to "Just Say No!" The company raises its poultry under strict house rules: no drugs, no enhancers, no artificial ingredients. The firm produces and markets more than 50 fresh and processed chicken, turkey, and duck products under the Shelton's brand through natural food stores and conventional grocery retailers. Its processed products include frozen pot pies, meat snacks, turkey franks and burgers, and canned soups and broths. Shelton's is owned by the Flanagan family, which oversees its operations. The company was founded in 1924 by the Shelton family and was purchased by the Flanagans in 1969.

Founded in 1948, Crown Prince also offers a line of natural products that contain no preservatives. Crown Prince hopes to ascend the throne as king of the specialty canned seafood industry. Crown Prince company's products include canned abalone, anchovies, clam juice, clams, crab meat, kipper snacks, mackerel, oysters, salmon, sardines, and shrimp. Crown Prince imports seafood from Canada, Mexico, and Scotland, as well as South American and Middle Eastern countries. Crown Prince's seafood is available in the US and Mexico through natural food retailers such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats, as well as at major US food retailers, including Wal-Mart.

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