Heinz North America Consumer Products business segment of H. J. Heinz, it makes the US and Canada's top-selling ketchup (60% market share in the US, 80% in Canada). Other products include mustard and barbecue and pasta sauces with brand names like Heinz 57, Jack Daniels, Classico, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. The unit also offers Heinz's frozen-food products such as entrees, pasta, pizza, potato products, and snacks. Its brands include Bagel Bites, Boston Market meals, Ore-Ida, Tater Tots, T.G.I. Friday's products, Weight Watchers meals, and more. It also makes Heinz baby food (#1 in Canada), as well as Nurture infant formula.

Prairie Thyme wants to show its customers' taste buds a good time. Prairie Thyme company produces a variety of unusually flavored fruit salsas, vegetable chutneys, and flavored cooking oils. Its gourmet sauces include Roasted Tomato Chutney, Raspberry Jalapeño Ambrosia, Blackberry Jalapeño, Peach Habañero, and Chocolate Habañero Fudge Sauce. Prairie Thyme company boasts some 1,200 retail customers, operates a shipping facility in Durango, Colorado, and works with two co-packing partners. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Prairie Thyme is owned by president and founder Gary Hall.

Frieda Caplan started the family-owned Frieda's, Inc. in 1962. Frieda's is a leading supplier of fresh specialty produce that serves supermarkets, foodservice customers, and wholesale distributors throughout the US. It distributes a wide variety of gourmet and ethnic produce, including black garlic, bok choy, cactus pads, and edible flowers. Other products include dried fruits and vegetables, onions, potatoes, and squash. Known for its commitment to quality products, the company sources its fresh produce primarily from a network of small growers.

Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. is a Japanese dairy company. Familiarly known as Meg Milk, its products include fluid milk, yogurt, cream, margarine, fruit juices, and frozen desserts. The company also offers home milk delivery services. In 2009 the company merged with Japan Milk Community by means of a stock swap. Snow Brand Milk and Japan Milk were merged into the company now known as Meg Snow Brand Milk Co. The move reflects the consolidation in Japan's dairy industry, which is due, in part, to rising raw ingredient costs and weak consumer demand. Later that year, Tadashi Idota was appointed president of the company.

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.

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.

American Home Food Products, Inc now active in the marketing of private-label foods. In 2007 it acquired specialty food company Artisanal Premium Cheese for about $4.5 million. At the same time, the company sold its building material assets for approximately $1 million. Artisanal Cheese markets and sells specialty and handmade cheeses to upscale restaurants and retailers. In addition to wholesale and foodservice distribution, the company sells products in supermarkets, through catalogs, and on its Web site.

The family-owned and -operated Joe Granato, Incorporated was founded by its namesake, the late Joe Granato, in 1964. Joe Granato is a fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaler. The Salt Lake City company purchases produce from farmers in Arizona and California and distributes it to customers in Utah and neighboring states through a partnership with Pride Transport. It also imports produce from overseas. They partner with such companies as Taylor Farms, Sunkist Growers, Growers Express and Bolthouse Farms.

The ingredients First Spice Mixing Co., Inc. was founded by German immigrant Felix Epstein in 1940 and is operated by his descendants. First Spice Mixing company makes a full array of spice blends, seasonings, sauces, marinades, breading, soup bases, and other food ingredients for its North American foodservice and grocery retailing customers. It also provides research, product development, batching, and packaging services. First Spice Mixing boasts facilities in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Royal Unibrew produces, markets, sells and distributes quality beverages focusing on branded products within beer, malt and soft drinks, including carbonated soft drinks, water and fruit juices. Royal Unibrew operates as a regional player in a number of markets in Western and Eastern Europe and in the international markets for malt drinks. The Company’s main markets in Western Europe are Denmark, Italy and Germany, including the cross-border trade between Denmark and Germany. The Eastern European markets comprise Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. The international markets for malt drinks cover a range of countries in the Caribbean and Africa as well as cities in Europe and North America with a high concentration of inhabitants from the Caribbean and Africa, where malt drinks are popular.

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