With 2009 sales of nearly $13 billion, Kellogg Company is the world's leading producer of cereal and a leading producer of convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. The Company's brands include Kellogg's®, Keebler®, Pop-Tarts®, Eggo®, Cheez-It®, All-Bran®, Mini-Wheats®, Nutri-Grain®, Rice Krispies®, Special K®, Chips Deluxe®, Famous Amos®, Sandies®, Austin®, Club®, Murray®, Kashi®, Bear Naked®, Morningstar Farm®, Gardenburger® and Stretch Island®.

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.

Meridian Nut Growers is the sales and marketing arm for a group of California growers and processors of almonds, walnuts, pistachios as well as a variety of other nuts and dried fruits. In addition, we work with South African growers and processors to supply the highest quality Macadamia nuts in the world.We supply large volumes of high quality nuts and dried fruit products to customers worldwide for use in the snacking, baking, confectionery and manufacturing industries. We understand the needs of customers and match that need with the right product and the right supplier. No matter what the customer's needs; from Hong Kong to Hamburg, Meridian Nut Growers is here to serve them. Our primary focus is on users that need the services of a major nut producer but like a more personal touch. We also specialize in high quality specifications and use every tool at our disposal to give the customer the product they desire.We strive to be the bridge between growers and users of dried fruits and nuts. While we are customer oriented, we never forget that without growers, we would not exist. We believe that while looking out for our customers, we can look out for our growers best interests as well.

At Vitasoy, our aim is to promote quality of life through a wide range of great-tasting and nutritional products. In fact, consumer well being is our first and most important priority. We are also a forward-looking, innovative company, a reliable employer and a responsible corporate citizen.

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.

Exelixis Plant Sciences operates millions of small solar-powered factories -- i.e., plants. A subsidiary of cancer-drug-development company, Exelixis, Inc., it focuses on plant genomics (identifying plant DNA sequences and identifying specific genes and their functions) in order to produce natural flavors and colorants for food, health and wellness, and cosmetics manufacturers. In addition, the company's gene technology provides improvement in areas such as plant-disease resistance and improved crop yield. Since 2007 it has partnered with Dow AgroSciences to do research focused on the development of new tools for gene discovery and the validation of novel crop traits.

Grupo Minsa SAB de CV (Minsa) is a Mexico-based company that is principally engaged in the production and sale of corn flour and related products. It owns and operates six corn flour plants four located in Mexico and two plants in the United States. Its product portfolio includes all types of corn flour, such as blue, yellow, white and high fiber flour. Minsa distributes its products to the manufacturers of corn-based products, as well as to the Mexican government, retailers, wholesale supply markets, supermarket chains and food service clients. Minsa is a parent of such entities as Minsa SA de CV, Maiz Industrializado de Occidente SA de CV, Servicios Corporativos Minsa SA de CV, Seradim SA de CV, Osamin SA de CV and Agroinsumos Quirarte SA de CV, among others.

Northern Pride helps northern US turkey farmers take pride in their efforts. The agricultural cooperative processes some 20,000 turkeys a day (or 40 million live pounds of turkey a year) and sells whole bird, bone-in breast, and turkey parts (drums, wings, necks, gizzards, tails, and thighs) under the Snowland, Northern Pride, Harvest Gold, and Premium Specialty brand names throughout the US and in several foreign countries. It also sells a line of free-range and antibiotic turkeys; and offers private-label services. Northern Pride's customers include food retailers, foodservice operators, and food manufacturers.

Bright Harvest was founded in 1967 in Clarksville, Arkansas. Its products were marketed under the Kim's, Chef Francisco, and Ore-Ida labels as part of the Heinz company until 1999, when CEO Don Kerr acquired the company through Kerr Industries. Bright Harvest Sweet Potato manufactures and sells frozen sweet potatoes and value-added sweet potato products under the Bright Harvest brand name. It is the top processor of sweet potatoes in the US and supplies the USDA.) The company's offerings include center cut, candied patties, and mashed sweet potatoes, as well as sweet potato casserole.

Denali Flavors -- maker of more than more than 40 flavors for the dairy industry under the Alaskan Classics brand name, including its trademark Moose Tracks vanilla flavor. Denali Flavors company's other Alaskan-themed flavors include Bear Foot Browner, Caramel Caribou, Mother Lode, and Otter Paws. Ice creams using Denali flavors are produced by 85 regional and local dairies throughout the US and are sold at major US food retailers, including Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Aldi, Sav-A-Lot, Food 4 Less, Giant, Hannaford, Meijer, Safeway, and Winn Dixie.

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