Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

Icelandic Group company has operations in other countries through local subsidiaries. Three-quarters of its seafood products are sold frozen to retail and foodservice distributors. Although it sells unprocessed fish, the company adds some additional value to about 70% of its products in the form of breading or marinating. In the UK it owns Coldwater Seafood (value-added frozen seafood products) and Seachill. In the US, Icelandic Group company operates a seafood-processing plant and the shellfish exporter, Ocean to Ocean. Icelandic Group company has netted much of its growth through acquisitions around the world.

Grupo Modelo,, founded in 1925, is the leader in Mexico in beer production, distribution and marketing, with 63.3% of the total (domestic and export) market share, as of December 31, 2009. It has a total annual installed capacity of 60 million hectoliters.Currently, it brews and distributes 13 brands, including Corona Extra, the number one Mexican beer sold in the world, Modelo Especial, Victoria, Pacífico and Negra Modelo. It exports five brands and is present in 160 countries. It is the importer of Anheuser-Busch InBev's products in Mexico, including Budweiser, Bud Light and O'Doul's. It also imports the Chinese Tsingtao brand and the Danish beer Carlsberg.

Natures Way Foods Ltd. company was founded in 1994 when Tesco asked farmer, David Langmead, to produce a salad product it required. Langmead's brother, Robert, a former food consultant to Unilever, joined him and together they created the Natures Way as a sister company to Langmead Farms. Once simply a lettuce farm, the company now prepares and packages ready-made salads, and watercress for sale through major UK grocery retailers and restaurants; it also provides bagged ready-to-eat fresh fruit.

Located in Franklin Park, Illinois, Sterling Extract is a family-owned company founded in 1947. Sterling Extract is bent on setting a sterling example in the flavoring industry. Sterling Extract company makes wholesale flavoring extracts and concentrates for the US ice cream, yogurt, bakery item, and confection industries. Its products include natural and artificial vanilla extract, fruit flavors, amaretto, mint, butter, rum, and nut flavors, and other natural and artificial concentrates and flavorings.

When my grandfather, Frank Vignieri, borrowed $35 from my grandmother’s cookie jar to start a meat packing company in 1936, he couldn’t have imagined what that investment would turn into. The company, known as Kenosha Beef, quickly grew its Midwest customer base thanks to a reputation built on customer satisfaction, high quality standards, innovative ideas, and exceptional tasting food.For more than seven decades, Birchwood Foods has been a leader in providing quality beef for the foodservice and retail industries. My father, Charles Vignieri (pictured), continued to successfully grow the company while never losing sight of the traditions and family values it was founded on.

Premier Ag is consistently serving the community by ensuring a dependable source of agricultural supplies, services, and marketing Grain at competitive prices. Our Grain department works hard at finding new markets for your grain, adding value to your grain bids. Our Crops department is the leading seed supplier of SE Indiana, supplying you not only with a complete line of fertilizer, but application expertise as well. We are constantly asking ourselves what we can do to better serve you. We pride ourselves in our customer focused success. It truly is more than you expected.

Founded in 1987, the family-owned Montalvan's Sales, Inc. is licensed by the USDA to produce various meat products. Montalvan's Sales company imports ethnic foods from the Caribbean, Polynesia, and Central and South American countries, which it supplies to food merchants throughout the western US. Its product list includes canned meats, fresh produce, snack foods, condiments, and spices, and its labels include Arnott's, Bijol, Pilon, El Ebro, Colombiana, Lizano, Pony, Pan Pa' Ya!', and Riquitas.

Founded in 1886, Gonnella Baking makes fresh Italian- and French-style specialty breads for grocers and restaurants in the Midwest. The Chicago-based company also makes frozen dough and fresh baked frozen bread for in-store bakeries and restaurants. Gonnella rolls out a variety of bread crumbs, rolls, and breadsticks for retail sale. From its frozen dough plant in Schaumburg, Illinois, Gonnella ships its in-store bakery and foodservice products throughout the US. Gonnella Baking company has six production facilities total. The Gonnella and Marcucci families own Gonnella Baking.

Grupo Cerveceria Nacional de Panama beer brands include Atlas and Balboa but it also distributes the Miller and Corona brands. Through its subsidiaries, Cervecer�a makes and distributes Pepsi, 7 UP, Canada Dry, Orange Crush, Squirt, as well as Brisa bottled water and La Chircana shelf-stable milk products. Founded in 1909 as the Panama Brewing & Refrigerating Company by five local businessmen, Cervecer�a Nacional has grown to become one of the leading brewers in Panama. It is a subsidiary of SABMiller.

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