Vita Food Products, Inc. engages in the processing and sale of herring, cured, and smoked salmon products and other complementary specialty food products primarily in the United States. The company’s products include pickled herring in cream and wine based sauces, as well as lox and nova salmon. It also provides other specialty food products, such as cream cheese with salmon, shrimp cocktail, horseradish, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauces, as well as refrigerated seafood. Vita Food Products markets its seafood products under the Vita, Elf, and Grand Isle brand names. The company, through its subsidiary, Vita Specialty Foods, Inc., manufactures and distributes honey and Vidalia onion-based salad dressings under the Virginia Brand name. In addition, it offers gourmet salad dressings and beverages under the Oak Hill Farms brand name; and hot sauce-based products under the Scorned Woman brand name. Further, the company provides rubs and spices, condiments, dressings, gifts, dessert toppings and syrup, marinades, snacks, tea concentrates, and wing sauces. It offers products through a national distribution network of food brokers to supermarket chains and wholesale clubs, as well as to institutional/food service operations, such as restaurant chains, hotels, country clubs, cruise lines, and other bulk purchasers.

Here it is in a nutshell -- BALSU USA specializes in nuts from faraway places. The company processes hazelnuts in its temperature-controlled factory and storage facilities in Turkey and ships them to the US for distribution. (Turkey is a world-leading supplier of hazelnuts, also known as filberts.) BALSU USA was founded in 1993 to serve the North American market. The company's regular and organic hazelnuts are available in the following forms -- natural, dry-roasted, blanched, and diced kernels, as well as in paste and meal form. Headquartered in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, BALSU USA is part of the Turkish hazelnut company, Balsu Gida Sanayii A.S.

Bernard Matthews is the top turkey processor in the UK. The company produces fresh, chilled, and frozen turkey and value-added turkey products under the Bernard Matthews and Golden Norfolk brand names. It operates 56 turkey farms in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire. It expanded in Lincolnshire with its purchase of free-range and fresh turkey provider Lincs Turkeys in 2010. Founder and chairman Bernard Matthews started the company in 1950 with just 20 turkey eggs and a used incubator and grew the business by coaxing consumers into thinking of turkey as a year-round meat by introducing value-added products. After nearly 30 years as a public company, Matthews and his family took the company private in 2000.

Anna Olvera-Ullrich and Jim Ullrich started the business in early 1997 by selling jars of Ana's Salsa to neighbors, friends, and co-workers. It's public unveiling occurred in August 1998 at the 8th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival where Ana's Salsa took first place, People's Choice Award, Red Salsa Commercial category. The salsa has been awarded 20 awards, including the Golden Chile Pepper at the Fiery Food Challenge for Fresh Salsa in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Ana's Salsa Pico de Gallo was awarded its first place award in its debut at the 2005 Chile Pepper's Fiery Food Challenge. Ana's Herbs was added to Anna's Unlimited, Inc. gourmet food lineup at the 3rd Annual Texas Fiery Foods Show, August 1999. It has already won a number of first place awards, including the prestigious 2001 and 2002 Scovie Award for Table Seasonings.Anna's latest creation are her serrano pepper jellies that are 'sweet with a little heat'. These are available in strawberry, peach and original serrano.

Wolverine Packing was founded by the late Al Bonahoom who operated exclusively as a lamb and veal processor until the early 1960’s. During this time, the company went through many transitions and eventually evolved into one the leaders in the lamb and veal slaughter business. Wolverine Packing was a pioneer in the development of fresh vacuum-packed lamb and veal, which today is the industry standard.If Mary lost her little lamb anywhere near Detroit, it probably ended up at Wolverine Packing. The company is a leading packing plant that slaughters and processes lamb, along with veal, beef, pork, and poultry. Its offers boxed meat and portion control products, along with such value-added meat products as breaded veal patties. Wolverine Packing serves both food retailers and foodservice customers nationwide, as well as private-label customers. The family-owned meat packing business was started by the late Al Bonahoom.

Pilgrim's Pride couldn't be blamed if it spread its tail feathers and did a barnyard strut. As the world's #1 chicken processor, Pilgrim's operations entail breeding, hatching, raising, processing, and distributing of chicken. Prepared poultry products are sold under the Pilgrim's Pride and EatWellStayHealthy labels to retail food outlets and foodservice operators. The company sells fresh and refrigerated whole and cut-up poultry, value-added prepared chicken, and deli products. It also produces table eggs as well as chicken byproducts for use as animal feed. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008; it emerged from it in late 2009 and was acquired by Brazil's JBS.

China Mengniu and its subsidiaries produce and distribute dairy products in China, Hong Kong, and Macao. The company's full line of offerings include liquid dairy products, such as pasteurized milk, yogurt, milk beverages, and ice cream. Its other products include aseptically packaged milk, milk powder, and cheese. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the dairy has some 20 manufacturing sites located throughout China. Mengniu Dairy has a production capacity of 5.5 million tons of milk products per year.

It's a grind, and at the Scoular Company, that's a good thing. The company is best known for buying, selling, storing, handling, and transporting agricultural products (mainly grains) worldwide. It deals in the mainstays of farming -- corn, hay, millet, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat -- and gets them where they need to go. It transports these products via rail, truck, barge, and seagoing container vessels. The company's other divisions offer fishmeal products for farm-animal, pet, and aquaculture feeds, ingredients for food manufacturers, renewable fuels, and truck freight brokering. Scoular has customers in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.

Two Rivers FS provides cooperative farming support (such as finance, feed, fuels, and seed) to its members in Adams, Brown , Pike, and Schuyler counties, as well as portions of Fulton County, in west central Illinois. The co-op has service centers in Astoria, Camden, Ipava, Kinderhook, Kingston, Milton, Mt. Sterling, Paloma, Payson, Pittsfield, Pleasant Hill, Rushville, and Ursa.

S. J. McCullagh imports, roasts, and wholesales coffee and related products in the US and Canada. It sells both Arabica and Robusta coffee at different grinds, grades, and roasts. The company also markets tea, cocoa, and sugar. S. J. McCullagh traces its roots to the 19th century when Samuel McCullagh and his brother founded the New York Tea Company.

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