Lakeside Foods company specializes in the production of private-label canned and frozen vegetables and beans. Lakeside's customers are retail food industry companies in the Midwest, including Roundy's and IGA. The food manufacturer also offers other food items, such as canned meat and stews; jams, jellies, and preserves; frozen and shelf-stable meals; salsa and other sauces; and whipped toppings. Lakeside Foods company operates 15 plants and nearly 10 distribution centers in Minnesota and Wisconsin; it exports its food products to nearly 15 countries overseas.

Bellying up to a PowerBar won't slake your thirst, but it might boost your energy. A leader in the world of high-carbohydrate snacks, PowerBar originally designed its energy bars for athletes. However, its products are now available in a variety of flavors and are just as likely to be pulled out of purses and desk drawers and eaten as meal replacements. PowerBar also markets a sport drinks called Endurance and a carbohydrate gel that comes in chocolate, vanilla, double latte, and various fruit flavors. The company, a unit of Nestle, sells its products in supermarkets and at health-food and sports retailers throughout the world.

Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc. was founded in 1983 when the company became the owner of 28 acres of land, the artesian springs, eleven wells, water rights, a bottling plant, a warehouse, the resort pool and numerous other homes and buildings in Eldorado Springs, CO. Continuous growth over the years necessitated expansion and in 2001 Eldorado built a new 38,000 sq. foot state of the art bottling and distribution facility (see picture). The company relocated headquarters and operations to this new facility in August of 2001.

Sara Lee mixes it up. And we're talking more than Ms. Lee's cheesecake recipe here. The parent company underwent a major restructuring in 2005 and one result was the creation of Sara Lee International Beverage and Sara Lee International Bakery. The operations oversee the non-US coffee, tea, and bakery business (bread, buns, rolls, specialty breads, refrigerated doughs, and frozen desserts) of Sara Lee in Australia, Brazil, and Europe. Its major beverage brands include Douwe Egberts, Senseo, and Caf� do Ponto; its top bakery brands are Ortiz, BonGateaux, and Sara Lee.

Zacky Farms really likes to talk turkey. It also likes to raise and process them. The company works at hatching, raising, and processing turkeys and creating turkey-based deli products ( turkey franks, turkey bologna, turkey ham, and yes, turkey salami). The vertically integrated company works from five locations in Southern California, producing its own feed and operating a distribution fleet. In addition to products from traditionally raised birds, Zacky Farms offers "100% natural," free-range turkey products. In addition to retail grocery outlets, the company makes items for companies in the foodservice sector.

"Where's the beef?" In Brazil, if you're Marfrig. The company, through its GJ brand, is a top South American beef producer. Marfrig Frigor�ficos processes and exports (about 50% of sales) premium beef cuts and frozen cooked parts -- from tongues to shanks -- to consumer markets in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. It also supplies lamb, pork, and poultry, and other food products. It runs about 10 processing centers throughout South America, where it has a slaughter production capacity of about 10,000 animals per day, as well as a central storage facility. Marfrig is expanding internationally and has agreed to acquire US-based Keystone Foods for about $1.2 billion.

Where's the beef? It's in Argentina -- at Cresud, one of Argentina's largest agricultural companies. It raises beef and dairy cattle and cultivates grains, including corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat. Cresud, an agricultural REIT (real estate investment trust), is also one of Argentina's largest landowners (some 330,000 hectares). In addition, the company farms and ranches on leased lands. Cresud is in partnership with Tyson Foods and Cactus Feeders of Texas to raise cattle in feedlots. It also has a 70% holding in the agricultural Web portal, fyo.com.

Clement Pappas leads the industry in producing the finest fruit juices, fruit drinks and cranberry sauces, while providing the best solutions for our customers’ businesses. Our leadership is the result of our steadfast commitment to our core principles of quality, integrity, accomplishment and innovation. These are the standards by which we build our business every day – and the assurance for our customers that they can always expect superior products, service and support. At Clement Pappas, our more than 60-year history and our focus on the future unite to create a company uniquely positioned to meet the challenges of today as well as in the years to come.

Goya Foods, Inc., a Hispanic-owned food company, manufactures, packages, and distributes various Caribbean, Mexican, and South and Central American food products. Its products include condiments, including adobo, sazon and bouillon, olives and capers, olive oil, marinades and cookingtomatoes ingredients, sauces, salsas, and hot spices; and beverages, such as espresso, cappuccino, regular coffee, non-alcoholic soft drinks, tropical fruit juices, nectars, and coconut water. Goya Foods company offers mango nectar, bitter orange marinade, canned and dry beans, refried and volteados, basic and organic rice, and seasoned rice mix, as well as tamarind, mandarin, and guava refresco. It also offers frozen foods, entrees, vegetables, fruit pulps, and discos; and flours, pastas, snacks and cookies, confectioneries, canned products, cooking oils, and tomatoes, as well as various recipes. Goya Foods company offers its products online through eStore.

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative was founded in 1972 and is based in Renville, Minnesota. Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative manufactures refined sugar, liquid sugar, pulp pellets, molasses, and separator molasses solubles from sugar beets. It also offers baker's sugar, granulated sugar, fruit sugar, liquid sucrose, beet pulp shreds, and raffinates. The company also produces dried beet pulp; beet molasses used for the production of yeast, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and mixed cattle feeds; and separator molasses solubles used primarily in liquid feed manufacturing, as well as in specialty processes, such as road de-icing and as tire ballast. It offers its products in the North American markets, as well as exports its dried beet pulp to Europe.

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