Family owned and operated Mother Murphy's Laboratories was founded in 1945 by Kermit Murphy, Sr., who named the company after his mother. Murphy died in 2008. Mother Murphy does her cooking in an industrial-strength kitchen. Mother Murphy's Laboratories develops and manufactures dry and liquid, natural and synthetic flavorings and extracts for the bakery, beverage, dairy, tobacco, confectionery, pharmaceutical, tobacco, pet product, confectionery, and snack food industries. Mother Murphy's company specializes in vanilla and vanilla variations, offering a wide array of product types of everyone's favorite baking flavoring.

Do you have an oh-so-bad craving for something chewy? Oberto Sausage Company has the answer: Its Oh Boy! meat snacks. The company manufactures more than 400 varieties of dried meat products, such as jerky (in beef, pork, and turkey versions), snack sausages. All these goodies are sold under the brand names Lowrey's Meat Snacks, Oh Boy! Oberto, Pacific Gold, and Smoke Craft. Oberto's products are available across the US and Canada in supermarkets, club and convenience stores. In 2009 the company ended its 10-year distribution agreement with Frito-Lay.

The country's largest brewery, it makes the popular Kingfisher Beer, which is exported to more than 50 countries around the world. UBL also brews London Pilsner, Kalyani Black Label, Premium Ice, and UB Export. Altogether, its brands account for half of India's beer market. The company sells about 75 million cases (900 million bottles) per year, both domestically and abroad. UBL traces its roots back to 1857, when a Scotsman began brewing beer in India for British troops stationed there. The brewery is a subsidiary of the UB Group, a conglomerate chaired by billionaire Vijay Mallya, who is also a member of India's parliament.

Viskase Companies forces hot dogs, sausages, and salami to shape up and ship out. The company is one of the world's leading producers of non-edible cellulose casings used to manufacture sausage and hot dogs. Viskase's casings are sold under brand names such as NOJAX (skinless hot dogs have "no jackets"), VISFLEX, and VISMAX. The company also produces SEALFLEX SILVER heat-shrinkable plastic bags for the meat poultry, and cheese industries. In the non-food arena, Viskase makes MEMBRA-CEL for use in dialysis. Viskase has production facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, and the US. Billionaire and corporate raider Carl Icahn owns about 72% of Viskase.

Founded in 1999, Original Juan Specialty Foods, Inc. distributes its products worldwide. Original Juan Specialty Foods' creative product names include Pain is Good, Da' Bomb, Screamin' Wings, and the ever popular, Old Fart Baked Beans. In addition to fiery hot sauces and salsas, the company produces a large variety of other sauces, dips, and snack foods, including condiments, barbecue sauces, pasta sauces, salad dressings, drink mixes, microwave popcorn, and Amaretto-flavored or chocolate-flavored cheesecake-in-a-jar. Its most popular salsas and dips are sold under the Fiesta label. Original Juan's products are sold in retail stores and can also be ordered through the company's Web site.

Icelandic Group company has operations in other countries through local subsidiaries. Three-quarters of its seafood products are sold frozen to retail and foodservice distributors. Although it sells unprocessed fish, the company adds some additional value to about 70% of its products in the form of breading or marinating. In the UK it owns Coldwater Seafood (value-added frozen seafood products) and Seachill. In the US, Icelandic Group company operates a seafood-processing plant and the shellfish exporter, Ocean to Ocean. Icelandic Group company has netted much of its growth through acquisitions around the world.

Jack Joyce, Bob Woodell (past U of O fraternity brothers), and another friend, Rob Strasser, were approached by Jeff Schultz, Bob's accountant, and an avid home brewer.Construction began in June of 1988 in Ashland along a very scenic little stream called Lithia Creek. The 10 bbl brew system was set up in a basement with a 60 seat Pub above. The first brews were Amber and Gold. The Brewery and Pub opened in October 1988. While the Brew Pub was located in a very pretty and scenic location, had a beautiful deck and enjoyed moderate success and the beer was great, Ashland was not to be Rogue's only adventure. Ashland was basically land locked, and frankly we were losing our butts in Ashland, trying to sell our hand-crafted ales. Rogue needed room to grow and grow we did. So Jack set off in search of greener pastures.

This company offers more than just the flavor of the month. It has more than enough flavors for not only the month, but for the day, the hour, and the minute. As the world's #1 spice maker, McCormick & Company offers a tasty assortment of herbs, spices, seasonings, marinades, flavorings, sauces, and extracts. The company distributes its own products, which are sold to consumers under brands including Club House, Ducros, McCormick, and Schwartz, as well as private labels. Its customers include food retailers, the foodservice industry, and industrial food-processors worldwide. McCormick has operations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

SIPEF (Societe Internationale de Plantations et de Finance) focuses on the tropical plantation business. Starting in business in 1919, the Belgium-based company produces and trades a variety of agricultural products, such as palm oil, rubber, tea, tropical fruits, spices and ornamental plants. The company owns some 62,000 hecatares of planted land. It has operations worldwide. SIPEF also provides insurance and management and consulting services for the agriculture industry.

Technically, in the beginning there was heaven and earth, but Origin Enterprises knows that agriculture and food weren't far behind. The company's agri-nutrition division includes operations devoted to feed ingredients, fertilizer blending and distribution, integrated on-farm agronomy, and marine proteins and oils (such as fishmeal and fish oil manufacturing and distribution). Agri-nutrition subsidiaries include Goulding Chemicals (fertilizer production) and R&H Hall (animal feed). Its food business includes the Odlums, Shamrock, and Roma brands, which specialize in home baking, snacking, and Italian food ingredients. Origin Enterprises is 70% owned by ARYZTA, a European maker of specialty baked products.

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