Rogers Foods was founded in 1951 by farmers Alfred and Pauline Rogers, who started the business when neighbors and local food stores began asking them to grind local grains into flour. Real growth for Rogers Foods began under the guidance of Alfred's son Stan. Today, Rogers Foods sells its products in Western Canada and exports to the Pacific Rim; it buys grain in Alberta and British Columbia to produce branded and private-label flour, wheat germ, bran, cereals, and granola. Since 1989, the company has been majority-owned by Nisshin Flour Milling, a subsidiary of Japan's Nisshin Seifun Group.

L. Carroll Cole started Cole's Quality Foods, Inc. as a bakery in 1943. Cole's is controlled by the family of chairman W. Scott Devon.Cole's Quality Foods is a leading manufacturer of frozen bread products including breadsticks, cheese bread, garlic bread, and Texas toast. It has two manufacturing facilities in Michigan and one in Iowa. The products are marketed under the Cole's brand through grocery, warehouse, and convenience stores nationwide; Cole's also supplies frozen bread to customers in the foodservice industry.

California Dairies, Inc. is the number one dairy cooperative in the number one dairy state in the United States. California Dairies, Inc. is the result of a successful 1999 merger of three of California's most financially successful cooperatives; California Milk Producers, Danish Creamery and San Joaquin Valley Dairymen. All three cooperatives were rich in tradition and established their roots back near the turn of the 20th century. California Dairies, Inc. is owned by 620 California dairymen who ship over 18 billion pounds of milk to be sold and processed annually. These members have over $130 million of equity invested in the Company. The Company has sales of $3.5 Billion in all 50 states and 52 foreign countries. The owners have dairies located from San Diego County in the south to Marin County in the north. Most of the milk supply is located in the San Joaquin Valley from Kern County to San Joaquin County.

Charlie's Enterprises was started by Charles Matoian in 1950, and today it is led by the family's third generation. Charlie's Enterprises aims to be A-OK with its wholesale produce customers. Charlie's Enterprises does business as OK Produce, a family-run fresh fruit and vegetable supplier to retail stores and foodservice companies. The company operates a fleet of about 30 tractor-trailers delivering a variety of fresh produce to customers in California, Arizona, and Nevada. OK Produce also offers ripening services and runs merchandising programs for retailers.

The current Stock Spirits Group was established in 2007 from the combination of Stock and Polmos Lublin, under the control of Oaktree Capital Management. Our beginnings, however, date back to the 19th century, in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Stock up the liquor cabinet with bottles from Stock Spirits Group. The company sells almost 40 brands of vodka, brandy, and liqueur in Central and Eastern Europe and the US. Vodka brands include Czysta de Luxe, Kegelvich, Orzel, and Poland's most popular brand, W�dka Zoladkowa Gorzka. Brandy and vermouth are sold under the Stock brand, while Limonc� limoncello and the orange liqueur GranGala are popular liqueurs. Stock Spirits Group has distilleries in the Czech Republic, Italy, and Poland, and distributes its brands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the UK. In the US it does business as Heritage Brands, Inc. Stock Spirits Group is owned by Oaktree Capital Management.

Farmers Rice Milling was founded in 1917 and is owned by The Powell Group, an investment firm with interests in communications, real estate, and timber. Farmers Rice Milling Company operates rice milling, drying, and storage facilities. It also manages rice farms and operates a rice-hull power plant that supplies all of the company's electricity. Farmers Rice processes 800 million pounds of long- and medium-grain rice per year at its southewestern Louisiana mill. It sells its products domestically, and it exports rice to more than 40 countries worldwide.

This company's chickens have roads in three states to cross. (Why is the perennial eight-year-old's question, not answered here.) Mountaire Farms operates poultry hatcheries and processing plants in Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina. The vertically integrated company produces fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products for wholesale, foodservice, and private-label food customers. It sells its chicken products throughout the US and overseas. The company owns feed mills for its own use in North Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware, and operates full-service grain elevators in Maryland and Delaware, which handle corn, soybeans, wheat, and barley from local farmers.

Cygnet Food was founded in 1996. Cygnet Foods keeps itself busy feeding more than 30,000 people every day. Cygnet company's main business is Cygnet Foods which produces and delivers fresh foods to institutional customers. Its production facility prepares individual and multi-portion sandwiches, entries, salads, desserts, and beverages, which are then distributed through its refrigerated truck fleet. Compact and Cygnet Catering are offshoots which offer in-house contract catering services. Compact's customers include nursing homes and business workplaces, while Cygnet caters to the education industry.

Perfetti Van Melle S.p.A. internationally known brands include Alpenliebe, Daygum, Golia, Happydent, Mentos (the Freshmaker!), and Vivident, as well as the Airheads brand of candy in the US. In 2006 it acquired Spanish candy company Chupa Chups. Founded by brothers Ambrogio and Egidio Perfetti in 1946, Perfetti now has some 30 manufacturing sites and sells its products in more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the US.

Founded in 1947 by Stuart Hanan, a research chemist, Hanan Products Company Inc. has developed into a leading manufacturer of a broad line of whipped toppings used for baking and food service. With an overwhelming interest in quality, and a very active research and development staff, we have created products for every aspect of the industry. These products include; kosher dairy and parve, ready to use and concentrates, along with whippable and pre-whipped icings and fillings. With our newly expanded facility in Hicksville, New York, we are proud of our ability to develop and manufacture products that have attained the highest level of acceptance both domestically and throughout many international markets, including Europe, Asia, and South America. Our frozen storage capacity allows us to meet the most demanding requirements of all of our customers. In addition, our manufacturing approach remains agile and responsive.

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