Florida Crystals Corporation unit of Flo-Sun, grows sugar cane and rice on its 180,000 acres. It operates two sugar mills, a rice mill, a refinery, a packaging and distribution center, and a renewable energy facility. Florida Crystals company's sugar products include granulated, baking, powdered, and large- and fine-grain, organic, and regular sugars under the C&H, Florida Crystals, Redpath, and Jack Frost brand names. With the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (SCGC), Florida Crystals jointly owns American Sugar Refining, the owner and producer of the Domino brand sugar.

North Pacific Seafoods company catches, processes and distributes fish and seafood products, including salmon, tuna, halibut, pollock, cod, rockfish, flatfish, shellfish (crab and shrimp), and caviar and roe. It also offers specialty seafood such as octopus, squid, and sea cucumbers. North Pacific Seafoods company has headquarters in Seattle and operates four Alaskan shore-based processing plants in Sitka, Kodiak, Togiak, and Pederson Point. North Pacific Processors is a subsidiary of the Japanese seafood giant, Marubeni Corporation.

PEZ Candy wants its treats heads above the rest. The US division makes tiny brick-shaped candies and imports the zany dispensers for them that are popular with kids and adult collectors. PEZ makes its colorful candies in the US; its dispensers, which feature a figurehead, are made in Hungary and China. PEZ's products are available through US retailers, including Wal-Martand Target, and in more than 60 other countries worldwide. The firm's product has spawned a number of lively Web sites, avid collectors' clubs, and brisk dispenser sales on eBay. PEZ originated in Austria in 1927 as a small peppermint candy and arrived in the US in the 1950s; the parent company, PEZ International, is still located in Austria.

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative walks the beat for the sugar beet. Minn-Dak serves sugar beet growers in the Red River Valley of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Located in Wahpeton, North Dakota, the co-op processes the sugar beets into sugar and products such as molasses and beet pulp pellets (used in animal feed); the products are then marketed through agents worldwide. The co-op's Minn-Dak Yeast segment produces fresh bakers' yeast. Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is owned by its farmer/members, a group of some 480 sugar beet growers.

Whether it's simmered for hours using grandmere's recipe or popped in a microwave, Group Doux hopes chicken will be on tonight's dinner table. The company is among the largest poultry processors in Europe, serving both the retail grocery sector and the foodservice and food-manufacturing industries. Along with chicken and turkey, the company also processes rooster, duck, guinea fowl, quail, rabbit, goat, and kid. Its products include fresh meats and further-processed frozen entries, snacks, and sausages sold under the Doux, LeBon, Pure Dodu, and Frangosul brands. With operations in Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, and the UK, Group Doux markets its products in more than 130 countries around the world.

Founded by Warren Winiarski and his family in 1970.Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is best known for our estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignons—CASK 23, S.L.V., and FAY. Over the years, these wines have become some of the most highly regarded and collected wines worldwide. They are fashioned to express classic elegance, structure, and ageability, and to reflect the place in which they are grown.

JBS USA Holdings is big beef, prodigious pork, and lord of lamb. The company, a subsidiary of Brazil's JBS (the world's #1 beef processor and exporter), operates beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities in the US and Australia. Its holdings include JBS Swift (12 processing plants) and JBS Packerland (boxed and ground beef production), both in the US, and Australia's Tasman Group (10 beef, pork, sheep, and lamb processing facilities and five feedlots). JBS USA also owns JBS Five Rivers, which operates 11 feedlots. Other businesses include a tannery, seven distribution centers, and two grease-production facilities; JBS USA exports to 60 countries. It filed to go public in 2009.

Grapette International, Inc. began as part of the original Grapette Company in Camden, Arkansas in 1939. The company gained national prominence with its flagship Grapette and Orangette sodas, which are now sold exclusively in Wal-Mart stores nationwide under the Sam's Choice brand. Grapette International has evolved into a full-service flavor manufacturer. We provide customized flavors, ingredients, and value-added products to customers in the United States and around the world. Centrally located in Malvern, Arkansas, the company produces the flavors for Grapette and Orangette sodas as well as a spectrum of flavors used in brands throughout North America, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia.

River Ranch Fresh Foods is a leading supplier of packaged salads to the retail food and foodservice industries. River Ranch Fresh Foods company produces salad mixes and fresh cut vegetables to supermarkets and other grocery stores under the labels Popeye Fresh (through a licensing agreement with King Features) and River Ranch. It also offers private-label services with a range of products including salad kits and premium salad blends. In addition, River Ranch supplies restaurants and other foodservice operators with spinach, lettuce, and mixed salads. River Ranch Fresh Foods company was acquired in mid-2010 by competitor Taylor Fresh Foods, which is also based in Salinas, California.

Alaskan Leader Fisheries, LLC, located in Lynden, Washington and Anchorage, Alaska is owned by the Alaskan Leader Group (ALG) and Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC). Each of these groups consist of individuals who are lifelong fishing families that currently own and operate various fishing vessels in the salmon, longline and pot fisheries of Alaska. Alaskan Leader Fisheries manages three fishing vessels, the F/V Alaskan Leader, F/V Bristol Leader and the F/V Bering Leader, which are 50% owned by ALG and 50% by BBEDC.Each of the ALG members started in the 70's and 80's as crewmen in the Alaskan fishing industry and have independently worked their way up the ladder from deck, to wheelhouse, to eventually owning their own vessels.

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