Ridley keeps Canadian cows happy. And other barnyard animals as well. The company is a leading maker of animal feed, premixes, feed ingredients, animal-healthcare products, and nutritional supplements for cattle, hogs, poultry, and other animals. It also manufactures animal-care and livestock handling equipment. The company's customers include cattle ranchers and dairy and poultry farmers in Canada and the US. Its brand names include Feed-Rite and Hubbard feeds, Ridley Feed Ingredients, and Sweetlix feed supplements. The investment company, Fairfax Financial Holdings, owns approximately 70% of Ridley.

Founded in 1946 by Sol Friend, On-Cor is now owned by his son and company president, Howard Friend. On-Cor Frozen Foods company's Redi-Serve and On-Cor frozen products run the gamut from down-home comfort foods like macaroni and cheese or Salisbury steak to more fancy fare such as breaded veal Parmigiana. Its more than 20 different On-Cor-branded meals come in two-pound sizes to feed a family of four. The Redi-Serve line offers ready-to-eat meat items including beef patties and chicken strips. On-Cor Frozen Foods company's products are available at food retailers and to foodservice suppliers throughout the US.

Nordzucker AG was formerly known as Zuckerverbund Nord AG and changed its name in 1998. Nordzucker AG is based in Braunschweig, Germany. Nordzucker AG produces and sells sugar made from beet in Europe. Its products include industrial and household sugar; sugar by-products, including sugar beet pellets; molasses that is used to enhance the nutritional content of feed, as well as used in yeast and alcohol industry, or by feed manufacturers; and bee feed for honey producers. Nordzucker AG also produces bioethanol from sugar beet. It offers its products to the food processing industry, chemical or pharmaceutical industries, retailers, and end users.

Alfesca has enjoyed year-on-year success resulting from an original business model, according to which complementary sales cycles and a differential exposure to raw material variations enable the company to operate a balanced portfolio of activities across several European food markets.Alfesca runs a market driven food business and is an acknowledged leader in its field, supplying markets where taste, quality, freshness and convenience are valued. Alfesca’s business is aligned with changes in consumers’ behaviour and its strength is reflected in a strong portfolio of market-leading brands such as Labeyrie, Blini, Delpierre, Michel Adrien and Skandia. At the same time, Alfesca is also one of the most efficient and successful producers of retailer or private label brands in Europe.Alfesca runs 15 well-equipped factories in Europe with high level of certification and employs around 3600 people on average.

Calbee America markets and distributes healthful snack foods, including a variety of chip products. Its offerings, including Snapea Crisps (dried green peas coated with corn oil, powdered rice, and salt), Saya (snow-pea crisps), and Shrimp Flavored Chips, are supplied to retailers throughout the US. If you are a die-hard junk-food junkie, Calbee does make regular potato chips and corn chips (Grill-A Corn). Calbee America company is a subsidiary of Japan-based Calbee Foods.

Victory Brewing Company makes European-style craft beers. The company's colorfully named brands -- among them HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Golden Monkey, St. Boisterous, and Old Horizontal -- are also sold in taverns and retail outlets in its home state, Pennsylvania, as well as in about a dozen other states. It also operates an onsite brewpub that serves up sandwiches, salads, pizza -- and Victory's beers. Boyhood friends Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet founded the company in 1996.

Sourced and bottled on Viti Levu, the largest of the Republic of Fiji's islands, the water has garnered the attention of celebrity chefs and also made its way to the set of many popular television programs and movies, including ABC's soapy dramedy. In real life, the premium water, which comes from an artesian aquifer at the edge of a rainforest, is available at retail food merchants and in luxury hotels, spas, and restaurants worldwide. The company, which sells genuine silver sleeves for the water bottles on its Web site, also offers home delivery of its water throughout the continental US. FIJI Water is part of Roll International's holdings.

With 25 years of industry expertise, Bud's Salads continue to supply fresh, quality-controlled cut produce to a vast array of foodservice distributions and produce companies across the southern region of the United States. Bud's Salads prides itself on tailoring a fresh-cut program perfectly suited to meet your needs - giving you a clear picture of bud's salads commitment to excellence for fresh-cut fruits and vegetables. Bud's Salads goal is to deliver the freshest value added produce while maintaining the highest good safety standards in the industry. From Sales to Production to Delivery you will find a knowledgeable and friendly staff to help tailor a fresh-cut program to suit your needs.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... the sprawling King Ranch, to be exact. Founded in 1853, King Ranch's operations extend beyond its original 825,000 Texan cattle-raising acres. The ranch is still home to cattle and horses, of course. However, King Ranch oversees considerable farming interests in its home state and elsewhere (cotton, sorghum, sod, citrus, pecans, vegetables, and cane sugar). It also has varied retail operations (hardware, designer saddles and other leather goods, publishing and printing). In addition, King Ranch also beefs up revenues with tourist dollars from birdwatchers, hunters, and sightseers who visit its Texas ranch lands. The descendants of founder Richard King own King Ranch.

Trident Seafoods Corporation engages in harvesting, processing, and marketing seafood products. Its products include salmon, herring, shellfish, and groundfish products; flounder fillets, cornmeal pollock strips, burger, and tuna steak; frozen halibut steaks and fancy king crabs; canned sockeye salmon and frozen Bristol Bay sockeye; halibut, cod, pollock, rockfish and Pacific ocean perch, and flounder and sole. It serves foodservice and retail distribution markets. Trident Seafoods Corporation company offers its products through specialty retail shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, and cruise ships, as well as online stores.

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