Our mission is to be the world's premier consumer products company focused on convenient foods and beverages. We seek to produce financial rewards to investors as we provide opportunities for growth and enrichment to our employees, our business partners and the communities in which we operate. And in everything we do, we strive for honesty, fairness and integrity. "PepsiCo's responsibility is to continually improve all aspects of the world in which we operate - environment, social, economic - creating a better tomorrow than today." Our vision is put into action through programs and a focus on environmental stewardship, activities to benefit society, and a commitment to build shareholder value by making PepsiCo a truly sustainable company.

In 1971, our parents were a young couple and received the news of a lifetime. Unlike the joy brought by babies and weddings, their happy news came in the form of a visa to the United States. Within one month they arrived – one young couple with three small children and a fourth on the way, with one suitcase each in hand and a great deal of faith. By 1973, our Father was busy working hard to provide for his family. By happenstance, he saw the opportunity to create a product that he was closely acquainted with, but was not yet available in the Los Angeles marketplace – high quality fresh cheese, also known as, queso fresco. After several late night kitchen table discussions, our parents decided to take a gigantic leap of faith with their hard-earned savings of $1,500 and began the journey of a lifetime. In 1973, they founded our company and named it Cacique. In Latin America, the name represents the chief of a tribe, the ultimate authority, the very best, and the pinnacle of experience. During those early years, Dad taught Mom how to make cheese and he sold and delivered the fruits of their labor with us pitching in after school and in summer. Our first year was hard but well worth it and soon we hired our first employees and the dream began to take root.

Fleury Michon provides a full menu. The company offers processed meats, ready-made meals, and other convenience food products for the supermarket and the foodservice sectors. In addition to hams, poultry, roasts, and charcuterie (deli meats), it also makes surimi (imitation crab). Fleury operates the Graine d'App�tit chain of restaurants and vending kiosks. France accounts for most of the company's sales but it also sells ready-meals in Canada, Italy, Spain, and the US. Star chef and company culinary advisor, Jo�l Robuchon, develops many Fleury Michon recipes. While publicly traded since 2000, the majority of Fleury Michon stock is held by chairman Yves Gonnord.

Castle & Cooke, Inc. and Dole Food Company, Inc. are privately held companies owned by David H. Murdock, who also serves as chairman and chief executive officer of both companies since 1985. Castle & Cooke and Dole Food Company (formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange), were acquired by Mr. Murdock in 2000 and 2003, respectively. The food-related businesses operate as Dole Food Company, and all other businesses operate as Castle & Cooke.Mr. Murdock's combined companies make up one of the largest privately-held companies in America, with approximately 63,000 employees operating in more than 90 countries around the world. This website focuses on the collection of assets under the Castle & Cooke umbrella of companies. Among Castle & Cooke's greatest assets are its plentiful land and real estate holdings, much of which can be traced back more than 150 years to when Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke began their business partnership by operating a general store in Hawai'i. The spirit, vision, integrity and perseverance of these two men sparked the formation of a company that grew to global proportions over the years.The company’s diversified businesses have operations in over 24 states and include the development and ownership of real estate, leasing of transportation equipment, manufacture of brick and building materials, oil and gas holdings, aviation services, and ownership of public warehouses. In Hawai'i the company also owns 98% of the 90,000 acre island of Lana’i and two award winning Four Seasons Hotels.

In 1931, two brothers, Israel and Max Garelick, borrowed $10,000 to buy their first farm in rural Franklin, Massachusetts. Today, the original Garelick Brothers farmstead is New England’s largest dairy. And Garelick Farms supports over 1,000 local farms throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and upstate New York. While the Garelick Farms family has grown from two brothers to over 1,600 employees, one thing has never changed, and that’s our unwavering commitment to providing the best products to meet your family’s needs.

Wilmar International Limited, founded in 1991, is Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar International Limited, an investment holding company, operates as an agribusiness company in Asia. Wilmar International company’s business activities include oil palm cultivation, edible oils refining, oilseeds crushing, consumer pack edible oils processing and merchandising, specialty fats, oleochemicals and biodiesel manufacturing, and grains processing and merchandising. Wilmar International company’s operations are located in approximately 20 countries across four continents, with a primary focus on Indonesia, Malaysia, China, India and Europe. Its products are sold to approximately 50 countries worldwide. Merchandising & Processing - Palm & Laurics Wilmar International company is a processor and merchandiser of palm and lauric oils, with a distribution network spanning approximately 50 countries. Its products include RBD (refined, bleached, and deodorised) palm oil, RBD palm olein, RBD palm stearin, RBD palm kernel oil, RBD palm kernel olein, RBD palm kernel stearin, crude palm oil (CPO), specialty fats, oleochemicals, and biodiesel. Wilmar International company owns processing plants in palm producing countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as in consuming countries, such as China, The Netherlands, Germany and Vietnam.

Cabo Wabo Tequila was born in 1996 on the backroads of Guadalajara by legendary musician and tequila aficionado, Sammy Hagar. After searching for a tequila exceptional enough to serve inside his cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Sammy partnered with a tequila-making family with over 80 years of experience. Today, the agave used to make Cabo Wabo Tequila is grown, cultivated and harvested by this same family.

Look down. Candy-colored sails skim the Columbia like swarms of graffittied dragonflies. Look out. Snow-topped volcanic peaks descend into wildflower meadows, merge into evergreen forests, then abruptly stop at vertical basalt cliffs punctuated by pencil-thin waterfalls. Look up. Dry blue skies deliver the scent of ponderosas baking in the summer sun. Sitting on the deck of the brewery here in Hood River on a brilliant August day never ceases to make us eternally grateful for every moment we get to spend in this amazing place. A little town full of blossoming fruit orchards and postcard-quality roadside stands, where every summer a landlocked surf town magically emerges from its winter ski-village cocoon.

Dairy is our life's work and our strategy is to lead in dairy. We've built strong partnerships with other leading global dairy companies and we are co-operatively owned by 11,000 New Zealand dairy farmers. Find out more about what makes us tick.

J. R. Simplot Company was founded in 1923. J. R. Simplot Company engages in food processing, fertilizer manufacturing, agriculture, and related businesses in the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, and Australia. Its products include animal feed, feed ingredients, agricultural fertilizers, turf fertilizers, herbicides and combinations, spreaders, tees, greens, seeds, and grass. J.R. Simplot company offers food products, such as avocado, fruits, potatoes, vegetables, vegetable blends, French fries, and potato products; and industrial products, which include sulfuric acids, phosphoric acids, anhydrous ammonia, nitric acid, and sulfate, as well as silica. Its services also include animal health and nutritional programs, construction, and crop support and consulting services; and cattle feeding and beef-cattle production.

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