Chew 'em up or spit 'em out -- Dahlgren & Company processes and sells raw, roasted, shelled, and unshelled sunflower seeds. It offers standard, non-GMO, certified organic and certified kosher seeds. The company also provides custom processing (hulling, shelling), flavoring, and packaging services. Dalghren's customers include snack, baking, cereal, and food-ingredient manufacturers in the US and Canada, as well as in more than 30 other countries throughout the world. It also processes soy nuts, flax, and millet, as well as packaging sunflower seeds and chips for birdseed suppliers. The company operates four production sites. Founded in 1955, Dahlgren & Company is a family-owned business.

Shearer's Foods' potato chips are Shearer perfection. Using Grandma Shearer's "hand-cooked" kettle recipe, the snacks company produces more than 30 million pounds of potato chips each year. Shearer's also makes and markets tortilla chips, cheese curls, corn puffs, pretzels, and pork rinds, as well as dips and salsa. The food maker's products are sold around the country and in the Shearer's Marketplace Factory Outlet store across the street from its headquarters in Brewster, Ohio. In addition to the Shearer brand, the firm makes a variety of snacks for private-label customers. Shearer's produces kettle-cooked potato chips for snack-food giant Frito-Lay.

Northwest Naturals makes the ingredients that give juice, cereal, smoothies, sorbets, and sherbet their natural flavor. Northwest Naturals company's fruit-based ingredients include all-natural juice concentrates, bases, essences, flavorings, purees, and sweeteners in an exhaustive list of selections. (Ever heard of aroniaberry? Me neither. But sure enough, Northwest has a concentrate for it.) Northwest Naturals company, which was founded in 1981 in Seattle, maintains a technical staff to research new ways to provide its customers with flavor and color using 100% natural ingredients. Northwest Naturals company is a subsidiary of juice maker, Tree Top.

An industry leader in the manufacturing of extruded and panned candy products, the American Licorice Company is one of the original licorice manufacturers in the U.S. candy industry. Since its establishment in 1914, American Licorice has brought happiness to consumers with their Red Vines®, Snaps®, Sour Punch®, and Super Ropes® candy and now, American Licorice Company brings more happiness with Natural Vines® premium all natural licorice and Extinguisher® chewy sour candy. American Licorice makes candy concoctions using one of America's favorite flavorings -- licorice. The company manufactures licorice twists, pieces, and ropes in various flavors (including original red, original black, strawberry, and cherry). It also makes sour hard candies. American's brand names include Red Vines, Snaps, Super Ropes, and Sour Punch.

Interior Alaska Fish Processors company, which does business as Santa's Smokehouse, specializes in wild Alaskan salmon items. It processes and packages salmon in smoked, canned, and frozen forms. Other products include frozen crab legs, caviar, and halibut. Interior Alaska Fish Processors company's offerings are sold through distributors in the continental US and can also be purchased at interior alaska fish company's retail store in Fairbanks, Alaska, or ordered through its Web site and catalog. Santa's Smokehouse also provides custom seafood and game processing for hunters and fishermen. Interior Alaska Fish Processors, Inc. is owned and operated by the Umphenour family.

A fan of smoked meats? Roger that! Meat processor Roger Wood Foods produces more than a half million pounds a week of smoked sausage and other smoked meats, which it distributes to six Southeast US states (North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Virginia). Its products, which also include hot dogs and chorizo, are offered under brand names such as Roger Wood Lumberjack, Redwood, and Santana. The company ships its products to regional and national deli and grocery retailers, including Wal-Mart, Kroger, Food Lion, and Publix. The Solana family owns and operates the company their grandfather, Roger Wood, founded in 1946.

In 1932, Karl Ehmer started his first butcher shop on 46th Street and Second Avenue in New York City, NY. Due to the depression, Mr. Ehmer was forced to make product at night and work a full time job uptown during the day. Mrs. Ehmer ran the shop during the daylight hours. In the 1940's, as times improved, Mr. Ehmer began to look for a larger manufacturing facility and found one in a German community in Queens, called Ridgewood. From this facility he manufactured products for six stores.Karl Ehmer is where you expect the wurst, and you'll get it. The company specializes in traditional German sausages and other meats, selling its wares at retail stores and to wholesale customers. Karl Ehmer's started with a single butcher's shop in Manhattan in 1932, then later moved to a German-American community in Queens, where its headquarters remains. The retail chain has dwindled to about 10 stores (five of which are in New York), but the company has stepped up its sales to regional distributors, high-end food emporiums like Dean & DeLuca, and other grocers, while also selling through its Web site. Brothers Mark and Alan Hanssler, grandsons of Karl Ehmer himself, acquired the company in 1993.

The quality and taste you’ll find in a Plymouth Beef Hamburger is the same today as it was over 40 years ago when we first started grinding our special formula in New York City’s famous 14th Street Market.Today, Plymouth Beef is still a family-owned firm and operates in a brand new state-of-the-art facility in the Hunts Point Market, Bronx, New York. This is the largest food distribution center in the world. Amidst the corporate giants, prudent decision-making and innovative ideas have allowed us to grow without losing sight of our original goal: to deliver the best available beef products to the marketplace, and to do it better than anyone else. We have grown into one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of all-beef hamburger patties, ground beef products and other fabricated beef cuts.

Victory Brewing Company makes European-style craft beers. The company's colorfully named brands -- among them HopDevil, Hop Wallop, Golden Monkey, St. Boisterous, and Old Horizontal -- are also sold in taverns and retail outlets in its home state, Pennsylvania, as well as in about a dozen other states. It also operates an onsite brewpub that serves up sandwiches, salads, pizza -- and Victory's beers. Boyhood friends Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet founded the company in 1996.

Chef Ken Coley started San Diego Catering Concepts in 1997. San Diego Catering Concepts is a contract catering company that specializes in weddings, tailgate parties, picnics, and corporate events. In addition to catering, it offers event planning services, party equipment, and other related party and consulting services throughout the San Diego area.

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