Five Star was formed in 1993 to acquire AA Food Services based in Dalton, Georgia. It is a portfolio company of Atlanta-based Navigation Capital Partners. Five Star Food Service is a leading operator and supplier of vending machines and related supplies, with more than 18,500 machines in the Southeast, mostly in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Five Star Food Service company also offers office coffee and beverage services and operates about 80 corporate dining cafeterias. It is a franchisee of Canteen Vending Services, a unit of UK-based contract foodservices provider Compass Group.

Athenix is a leader in agricultural and industrial biotechnology. We are a company of highly motivated, uniquely skilled people. We have rapidly built the infrastructure necessary to discover new genes and to develop them into products that meet real customer needs.Athenix is committed to improving crop productivity, to delivering innovative products to farmers and to securing a sufficient supply of food, feed, fiber and biofuel for a growing world population.Saying a type of corn is transgenic doesn't mean that it likes to dress up as a soybean, but Athenix can explain all that later. The company develops enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes. It produces genes and proteins with traits such as insect and nematode resistance and herbicide tolerance, as well as developing transgenic plants for increased crop production. Athenix sells its genes, proteins, transgenic organisms, and other biological goodies to scientists involved in other life-sciences sectors, including those who develop agricultural and specialty chemicals, feed and seed, and energy production. The company was acquired by Bayer CropScience in 2009.

Tropics Frozen Cocktails, which does business as Tropics Frozen Beverages, offers a variety of nonalcoholic fruit and dairy smoothie and cocktail mixes sold under the Tropics name. Mixes are flash pasteurized. In addition to its mixes, the company also offers promotional signs, menus, and chalkboards as well as the mixing and blending equipment needed to serve frozen drinks.

Cal Citrus Packing Company traces its origin back to 1958 when H.A. Luallen founded Luallen Soil Service and began purchasing an initial base of investor ranches, which soon grew to 1,500 acres. The company continued to grow and by 1969 the next logical step was to purchase a packing house, thereby establishing Cal Citrus Packing Company. This original packing house is now known as the “East” house and is located along the railroad tracks on Valencia Street in Lindsay, Ca.Cal Citrus Packing Company has a grower base of approximately 4,000 acres and packs and ships an average of 2.5 million cartons of fresh citrus yearly. The company maintains an employee base of 150 to 200 local people, many of whom have been with the company since the beginning, and share their vast experience with the sharp new team members hired to meet the demands of today’s business technology. Cal Citrus is proud of its Central California “Lindsay Citrus Belt” heritage and is committed to maintaining our reputation of quality and integrity.

The Ashers really love to smother things in chocolate. Asher's Chocolates manufactures chocolate and confections, including chocolate-covered pretzels potato chips, and graham crackers. Asher's Chocolates, Inc. also produces boxed assortments (including truffles, chews, nuts, cordials, and creams) and gift baskets, fudge, pecan-caramel patties, almond bark, and sugar-free assortments. Asher's Chocolates sells its products through its own retail store (in Souderton, Pennsylvania -- near Philadelphia), by mail- order, and online on its Web site. The family-owned company was founded in 1892.

PinguinLutosa is a Belgium-based company that specializes in the development, production and sale of frozen vegetables, potato products and ready-to-use culinary preparations. The Group also produces and sells fresh pre-cooked potato products. The Company's activities are divided into two operating segments: the potato division, accounting for 47.99 % of total revenue in 2009, and the frozen vegetables division, accounting for 52.01 % of total revenue. The Company has six vegetable production sites situated in agricultural areas in Europe (West- Flanders, Southern France, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) and two production sites in Belgium (Leuze-en-Hainaut and St. Eloois-Vijve), with three production companies located at these sites. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Japan, Austria and Brasil, among others.

Northampton Growers, formed in 1959, is operated by a fourth generation of the Battaglia family. Northampton Growers Produce Sales grows and distributes fresh vegetables to chain stores and wholesale and terminal markets throughout the East Coast of the US. Northampton Growers company has office, packing, and warehousing facilities in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, and it operates a fleet of refrigerated delivery trucks. Its products, which it grows and purchases from other growers, include beans, corn, peppers, onions, squash, cabbage, cucumbers, eggplant, and field greens.

At Country Pure Foods, juice is our business. As one of the top independent juice processors in the country, it is our mission to deliver a fresh assortment of healthy, refreshing beverages to juice lovers everywhere. We distribute our products to the Foodservice, Retail, Convenience Store and Co-Pack markets through our company’s brands of Ardmore Farms®, Natural Country® and Glacier Valley®, and also provide contract packing for some of the nation’s best-known juice companies. We can target a nationwide customer base with our broad line of products and packaging alternatives. Country Pure Foods was formed by joining three outstanding companies: Natural Country Farms of Ellington, Connecticut, Ohio Pure Foods of Akron, Ohio, and Ardmore Farms of DeLand, Florida. Combined, we have over 150 years of experience providing fresh juice, packaging and distribution solutions. These three manufacturing locations enable us to service our customers with an impressive 99.5% order fill rate. To ensure the complete satisfaction of our customers, we support our innovative product line with a strong brand, national distribution, superior customer service and the highest quality manufacturing in the nation.

Berkeley Farms, Inc produces milk, ice cream, and other dairy products that are sold in northern and central California. Berkeley Farms is one of the largest producers of bovine growth hormone (BGH)-free milk on the West Coast. Its other products include butter, buttermilk, eggnog, cottage cheese, eggs, juice, and sour and whipping cream. The dairy's foodservice division that, along with dairy other products, offers a full line of cheeses including mozzarella, ricotta, Parmesan, Cheddar, Jack, Swiss, and American varieties. Berkeley Farms is a subsidiary of US dairy giant, Dean Foods.

The late Vincent Charles Ferachi started the family-owned business in the 1940s. Capitol City Produce is a fresh fruits and vegetables supplier in the capitol city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as in the surrounding region. Capitol City Produce company provides products to food service and retail operations in the southeastern US. It specializes in fresh produce and herbs, as well as frozen vegetables and processed items. Capitol City Produce operates a refrigerated storage facility and a delivery fleet of 50 trucks.

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