Began operations in 1890 with the founding of our brewery in Monterrey, Mexico. Hoy, un siglo más tarde, crecimos de una cervecera a una compañía de consumo con la integración de refrescos, bebidas de jugo, agua embotellada y operación de tiendas. Today, a century later, we grew from a brewery to a company with the integration of consumption of soft drinks, juice drinks, bottled water and retail operations. On April 30, 2010, FEMSA announced the closing of the transaction by which FEMSA agreed to exchange 100% of its beer operations by a 20% shareholding in the Heineken Group. A través de esta transacción, incrementaremos nuestra escala y alcance geográfico para competir efectivamente. Through this transaction, we increase our scale and geographic reach to compete effectively.

SAPEC began decades ago in search of fool's gold, but its work since has been anything but daft. The family-run company was founded in 1926 to exploit pyrite (fool's gold) mines in Portugal. SAPEC gradually expanded into the production and commercialization of agriculture products, and today is an investment holding company with interests in all of the above. It conducts activities mainly in Portugal, but increasingly in Spain. SAPEC operates six main sectors: agrochemical, micronutrients, chemical distribution, food processing distribution, logistics, and energy. It also has holdings in real estate and information technology.

Continental Grain Company (CGC) is all over the food chain. The agribusiness company trades grain worldwide through subsidiaries including ContiAsia and ContiLatin. That grain is fed to chickens at subsidiary Wayne Farms, a major US poultry processor with 11 facilities and a capacity to process almost 2 billion pounds of poultry a year. CGC also has partnerships with Seaboard Corporation (called ContiSea), Charoen Pokphand, and Overseas Shipholding Group. In 2008 CGC formed Arlon, a private investment firm that manages three separate portfolios made up of diverse holdings. Chairman and CEO Paul Fribourg (a descendant of company founder Simon Fribourg) and his family own CGC.

Pendleton Grain Growers (PGG) gets the pendulum swinging faster for farmers wanting to take their harvests to market. The agricultural cooperative provides its member-farmers with a full range of farm products and services. PGG offers its approximately 2,400 members crop-processing, marketing, agronomy, and irrigation services, along with hardware, farm equipment, and fuel. It operates about 30 grain-storage facilities and a fleet of nearly 15 storage-to-terminal delivery trucks. PGG was founded in 1930 to create bulk handling, transportation, and storage services for wheat farmers in the Pendleton, Oregon, area.

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.

Onions might make people cry, but at Gills Onions they smile right through their tears. The company is one of the world's largest fresh onion processors that makes packaged products for the retail and foodservice markets. Its products include diced, sliced, slivered, and pureed red and yellow onions. Its packaged goods are sold through grocery outlets under the Gills Onions brand. The onion grower, formed by the Gill family in 1983, offers bulk products for foodservice customers and food manufacturers. In 2010 Gills Onions was awarded a Green California Leadership Award for helping to pilot an Advanced Energy Recovery System that transforms some 300,000 pounds of onion peels each day into biogas.

Blue Diamond® Growers is the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. Founded in 1910, the cooperative is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. Blue Diamond® led the development of California's almond industry from a minor domestic specialty crop to the world leader in almond production and marketing. We continue to build markets and create new products, new uses, and new opportunities for members of Blue Diamond® Growers. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, approximately 3000 California almond growers deliver California almonds annually to their cooperative. The crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, and the sixth largest U.S. food export. The California crop is valued annually at over $2 billion dollars.

Founded in 1911 by brothers Lloyd and Paul Skinner, James Skinner Baking Company is still family owned by president James Skinner. James Skinner Baking Company is that it supplies more than 200 million Danish pastries and batter products per year to customers throughout the US. Cinnamon rolls, sweet rolls, and coffee and crumb cakes are among the products manufactured and frozen at its Nebraska facility. Its baked goods are offered under the Skinner brand and other branded and private-label names to store bakeries, foodservice companies, and distributors. James Skinner Baking company also specializes in co-packing for contract food manufacturers. Skinner products are sold through a direct sales force and a national broker network.

granoVita UK company supplies vegetarian and vegan organic food products to UK health food retailers. granoVita company's products include edible and essential oils, breakfast cereals, cookies, energy bars, household cleaners, soy drinks, and vegetable pat's. Many of its products are also nut, wheat, dairy, and/or gluten-free and, increasingly, organic and free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Most of granoVita's products are manufactured by the German food company De-Vau-Ge Gesundkostwerk GmbH, founded and owned by the Seventh-Day Adventist church. CEO Dr. Nigel Phillips started granoVita in 1991.

Founded as C.V. Finer Foods in 1990, World Harbors was a unit of spirits producer Angostura Holdings until 2010, when it was sold to Mizkan Americas, the US operations of Japanese food company, the Mizkan Group. World Harbors is a leading maker of cooking sauces and marinades. Its products include Australian-style barbeque sauce (Bar-B Sauce), Asian- and Mediterranean-inspired sauces, steak sauces, and Buffalo-style wing sauce. It also makes mixers and sauces under the Angostura brand, as well as a line of natural products marketed under the banner Acadia Naturals.

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