Hickory Foods produces pre-formed, frozen BUBBA Burgers and BUBBA Hickory Smoked Bacon for retail grocery customers. Best known in the southeastern portion of the US, the company's products are available throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, as well as worldwide through the US military commissary system. BUBBA Burgers come in a range of styles and tastes, including jalapeno, reduced fat, sweet onion, and Texas-shaped varieties. Walter "Bubba" Eaves founded the company in the 1990s and continues to oversee burger production, although he sold the company to partners and executives, William Morris and Steven Coon in 2000.

Groupe Limagrain has its feet planted securely in success. The French cooperative is a European leader in the breeding and production of corn and wheat seeds for professional growers. Its field seed brands include Advanta, LG, and Nickerson. Limagrain's subsidiary, Vilmorin Clause & Cie, is a world leader in the same seeds for the home garden. Vilmorin's home-gardening brands such as Harris Moran, Oxadis, Suttons, and Top Green. Limagrain also produces cereal ingredients (brands include Ulice and WestHove). Rising to even further success, its Jacquet bakery division, which makes the popular brand, Pains Jacquet, is one of the top industrial bakeries in France.

Kenneth Lee and Caryl Levine started Lotus Foods, Inc. in 1995. Lotus Foods is a leading importer and distributor of organic and specialty rice. Lotus Foods company purchases rice primarily from family farms overseas; its products include such varieties as Organic Jasmine, Bhutanese Red, and Cassava Sesame. Lotus Foods distributes rice to specialty gourmet and natural food stores and to restaurants. It also sells rice and rice cooking products to consumers online.

Richelieu Foods, Inc. was founded in 1862. Richelieu Foods, Inc., a contract packaging manufacturer, provides food products to food retail and food manufacturing companies. It offers pizzas, pizza crust, meal solutions, desserts, bagel spreads, salad dressings, salsa, sauces, dips, marinades, and canned fruits and vegetables. Richelieu Foods company also offers deli salads, salad bases and kits, desserts, appetizers, and dips and bagel spreads. In addition, Richelieu provides marketing services and sells various types of retail accounts, including small chains, specialty food distributors, regional wholesalers, club stores, mass merchandisers, and hypermarkets. It serves retail, corporate brands, and contract packing customers.

CEO Glynn Lloyd and two partners started the company in 1994 offering take-out lunch service. City Fresh Foods is a leading food service contractor serving institutional clients primarily in the Boston metropolitan area. It offers meals for day care centers, school lunch programs, and other educational programs throughout the city. City Fresh Foods also provides meals to such senior assistance programs as Meals on Wheels.

C&F Foods, Inc. was founded in 1975. C & F Foods, Inc. originates, packs, distributes, and exports dried beans, peas, rice, and popcorn. It offers dehydrated beans, instant rice, rice mixes, beans and peas, organic products, and recipes, as well as contract packaging services. C&F Foods also offers double cleaned, triple cleaned, and pre-washed products to distributors, regional distributors, and restaurant chains. It offers its products and services to retail, food service, canning, and frozen food manufacturing industries internationally.

The V&S Group has absolute power -- er, make that "Absolut" power. The company is Sweden's top supplier of wine and spirits, but it is best known for its Absolut vodka, which is sold in 126 markets. The group is comprised of three business units: V&S Absolut Spirits, V&S Distillers, and V&S Wine. V&S has a long-term agreement with Maxxium Worldwide, a spirits distribution consortium, for distribution of its beverages outside the Nordic countries and the US. In 2008 the company was auctioned off to Pernod Ricard by its owner, the Swedish government.

Just five miles from the Pacific Ocean, Edna Valley Vineyard has one of the longest and coolest growing seasons in California. Its location in one of the state's few east/west-oriented valleys allows nighttime coastal fog to move inland, cooling the grapes after a long day in the sunlight, so that they slowly mature while retaining sufficient acidity. The vineyard's unique site consists of layers of clay and volcanic rock over ancient ocean subsoil. We are a partnership between Paragon Vineyard Company, which is owned by the Niven family, and Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines. The Niven's planted Paragon, our estate vineyard, in the early 1970s and the Chalone Wine Group joined with the family to establish a partnership as Edna Valley Vineyard in 1980.Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines purchased the Chalone Wine Group in 2005.

Founded in 2003, DS Waters has grown through the acquisition of regional brands and is owned by private investment fund Kelso & Co. The largest water-cooler delivery company in the US, the company delivers to homes and offices, owning some 25 manufacturing sites across some 40 US states. Regional brands offered by DS waters of america company include Alhambra, Belmont Springs, Crystal Springs, Hinckley Springs, Kentwood Springs, Nursery, Sierra Springs, and Sparkletts. The company also operates a national coffee and tea delivery service under the Roast2Coast banner and sells water filtration systems.

Belvedere delivers velvety vodka. The company was founded after the fall of the Berlin Wall to promote the virtues of premium vodka made in Eastern European countries. Belvedere no longer makes its original namesake brand, which it named in honor of the presidential palace in Warsaw; it sold the rights to the brand in 2001. The company's flagship vodka is the rye-based Sobieski. Belvedere makes and sells Sobieski and other spirits, including William Peel whiskey, in frosted-glass bottles designed to emphasize their luxury quality. The company also distributes wine and spirits in the US, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. In 2009 Belvedere filed for bankruptcy protection and emerged from it the same year.

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