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.

Mercian Corporation produces and distributes alcoholic beverages, including wine, sake, mirin, and shochu (a liquor distilled from sweet potatoes or rice). Its best known label is Chateau Mercian. The company's feedstuff division makes fish food from the by-products of its alcohol production. Mercian produces antibiotics, veterinary drugs, fine chemicals, and food additives through its pharmaceutical division. Kirin Brewery owns a majority interest in Mercian.

Alabama Farmers Cooperative, originally the Tennessee Valley Fertilizer Cooperative, was organized in Decatur, Alabama in 1936 by a group of local county co-ops. Upon becoming a single entity, the new cooperative developed a modest plant in Decatur to satisfy the farmers’ need for fairly priced fertilizer.Over the years, AFC acquired or built additional facilities. Today, AFC has storage facilities for both liquid and dry fertilizer throughout the areas that it serves.Alabama Farmers Cooperative (AFC) provides farmers in the Yellowhammer State a full range of agricultural supplies and services, including feed, fertilizer, seed, grain storage, and marketing, along with home-gardening items such as seeds and hardware. The co-op, which boasts 46 member associations, serving members in 49 US states; it owns and operates member-only co-op stores in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. AFC owns Bonnie Plants, one of the largest suppliers of vegetable and herb plants for the home gardener in the US, along with BioLogic, which makes forage products for wild game. AFC also operates catfish fish farms and supplies the foodservice industry with whole and value-added catfish.

Newman's Own started as a joke among friends -- and the fun has spread to grocery aisles, refrigerators, pantries, and dining tables. The late Oscar-winning actor Paul Newman's namesake company is best known for salad dressing. However, it makes more than 100 different food products, including lemonade, wine, pasta sauce, marinades, microwave popcorn, salsa, and steak sauce. Manufactured using natural ingredients, Newman's Own foods are sold in the US and abroad at major food retailers. All after-tax profits (more than $280 million since 1982) are donated to charities, including Habitat for Humanity.

Icelandic® USA, Inc. is a U.S. corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Icelandic Group, hf. http://www.icelandic.is in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company is the largest importer of frozen groundfish for the foodservice industry in the U.S., best known for Icelandic® and Samband® Brand products, which are served in restaurants throughout the U.S. and Canada.Icelandic® Brand seafood is regarded throughout the industry as the world's highest-quality, freshest-tasting fish. Quality and product consistency are rigorously monitored for texture, color, and shape to ensure that restaurant patrons will never have a disappointing dining experience.Icelandic® has a modern processing plant in Newport News, Virginia which provide state-of-the-art secondary processing for mainly breaded, battered, and grill-marked portions cut from fillets and blocks. Cod, Haddock, North Atlantic Pollock, Alaska Pollock, Crab, and Salmon are our most popular species. Corporate offices are headquartered in Newport News, Virginia. The company maintains a cold storage facility at their Mixing Center in Newport News, Virginia. A national dedicated sales network of service-oriented, seafood-trained brokers represents the company throughout the United States.

Begun in 1914 when seven Missouri farmers got together to buy binder twine, the agricultural cooperative MFA today ties together 45,000 farmers in Missouri and adjacent states. It is one of the US's oldest regional co-ops, supplying its member/owners with agronomy, distribution, financing, and purchasing services. It runs some 100 retail farm supply centers and works with independent dealers. MFA supplies animal feeds, seed, fertilizer, and crop protection products. In addition to feed, fertilizer, and seed, the co-op also provides its members with agronomy services, animal-health products, and farm supplies. It also offers marketing services, and is the publisher of Today's Farmer.

Founded in 1851 as a small grocery store, William Jackson and Son today offers a line of bakery goods through its Jackson's Bakery business; and sells oriental food products under the Kwoks Foods brand. Other businesses include Tryton Foods, which sells Aunt Bessies Yorkshire Pudding batters, potatoes, and sausage balls. In mid-2004 the UK's #3 grocery chain, J Sainsbury, acquired the company's 114-store Jacksons Stores chain of convenience stores. William Jackson and Son is a family-owned business, which is headed by chairman Christoper Oughtred, the founder's great grandson.

Healthy Foods, Healthy Families, Healthy Business.Just as milk grows healthy bodies and families, Dean Foods nourishes a strong and vibrant dairy industry. A dynamic company with an entrepreneurial spirit, we are the country's largest processor and distributor of dairy products giving us a unique responsibility. Our thousands of customer-focused employees take great pride in delivering fresh, nourishing and quality products to American families - pure and simple. Our products are only a refrigerator door away - delicious healthy foods and beverages for the entire family.

Kontos Foods manufactures and markets Greek and Middle Eastern bakery products including more than 22 varieties of flatbread, including as pita and hand-stretched (not die-cut) fillo dough. Kontos Foods company also provides Mediterranean specialty foods such as gyro meats, feta cheese, grape leaves, and kalamata olives. Kontos sells its products wholesale to US supermarkets, ethnic grocers, specialty food stores, restaurants, and foodservice distributors. Kontos Foods also exports to Canada and other countries.

United Sugars Corporation company is a marketing cooperative of Midwestern beet and sugar cane producers, and it provides a distribution system to help its member companies get their products to food manufacturers and retailers. In addition, United Sugars offers information for sugar users about the different forms sugar takes (granulated, powdered, brown, and liquid) and identifies which types of sugar work best in industries such as baking, beverages, and prepared foods. United Sugars is made up of American Crystal Sugar, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, and U.S. Sugar.

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