Compass Group Canada is a regional operating unit of global contract foodservices provider Compass Group offering catering, corporate dining, and vending services throughout Canada. Its operating units include Canteen (vending services), Eurest Dining (corporate dining and catering), Morrison (health care foodservices), Eurest Services (building maintenance and security services), and The Hurley Group (janitorial services and facilities management). Compass Group Canada also runs concessions for sports facilities and museums and provides foodservices in remote locations, such as mines and offshore drilling rigs. In French-speaking Quebec, the company operates through Groupe Compass Quebec.

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.

Owned by Bill Ramsey and the family of late chairman Don Nucci, Mann Packing Co., Inc. was founded in 1939 by H.W. "Cy" Mann. Mann Packing is one of the world's largest suppliers of fresh broccoli and a leading shipper of cut vegetables. In addition to the vitamin-filled and not-presidentially-preferred florets, Mann's packages a variety of other fresh vegetables such as carrots, cauliflower, romaine lettuce, and snow peas. It serves both grocery and produce retailers, as well as customers in the foodservice industry.

Sunsweet Growers Inc. is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits including cranberries, apricots and prunes. A grower-owned marketing cooperative representing more than one-third of the prune market worldwide, Sunsweet processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes a year.Founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association, the cooperative served as a marketing agent to offer the crops of its members - under the brand name "Sunsweet" - to consumers at better prices than were offered by individual growers.Today, Sunsweet processes and markets the dried fruit production of more than 400 grower-members with orchard holdings primarily in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. After nearly nine decades, Sunsweet boasts an enviable brand recognition of 85 percent in American households, placing it in the very top rank of long-standing successful American products.

DUDA has been around the block -- er, the vegetable chopping block. In business for some 80 years, A. Duda & Sons (DUDA) grows and markets fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as value-added produce products. The company sells its produce to retail and foodservice customers through it shipping and import/export operations. Its main offerings include celery (DUDA is one of the world's largest celery producers), radishes, lettuce, onions, and sweet corn, as well as citrus fruits, all sold under the DANDY label. DUDA also grows and processes sugarcane and sod and has cattle operations. Its Viera division develops and manages commercial and residential properties in Florida.

Adams Extract & Spice LLC makes food flavorings, powdered and liquid extracts, pure spices and spice blends, and food colorings for the retail food market worldwide. Its most well-known product is vanilla extract (Adams Best). Adams supplies food retailers, including Albertson's, H-E-B, and Wal-Mart stores in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The firm also offers bulk products to foodservice operators under the brand names CTI, Flavor a la Carte, Neustra Casa, and Rex. The founding Adams family sold the company in 2002 to CEO Danny Janecka, whose family operates the J & B Sausage Company of Waelder, Texas.

Hillside Candy is our company’s corporate umbrella name for three brands of candy. The brands are Golightly Sugar Free Candy, in business since 1980 (though the business started many years earlier), Hillside Sweets, a line of sugar-based hard candy, and GoNaturally, a line of USDA certified organic candy. These 3 Made-in-America lines are sold in drug store chains, mass merchandisers, grocery chains, supermarkets, gourmet stores, rebaggers, gift basket companies and other businesses. Each of Hillside’s lines offers quality, consistency and delicious taste. Moses Rubinstein founded Moru Industries Company. Unlike its competitors, the company did not mass-produce candy; it cooked only one product (a simple honey drop candy) individually wrapped. After many years in business, Moses turned the company over to his nephew Mike Fisher, a candy chemist by trade. Mike continued the business, but by 1980, became fed up.

Colavita USA is a leading importer and distributor of Italian foods, notably olive oil, pastas, sauces, and vinegars sold under the Colavita label. It supplies products to retail grocery store chains, specialty food stores, and wholesale distributors, as well as restaurants, caterers, and other foodservice operators. Colavita USA, L.L.C. was started by John J. Profaci, who struck a distribution agreement with Italy's Colavita family in 1978. Rome-based Colavita S.p.A owns 80% of the US importer.

Ellen Straus, matriarch of a pioneering organic dairy family and co-founder of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), America's first agricultural land trust, died at her home in Marshall, Calif. on November 30. She was 75. Few have done more to preserve the land and culture of western Marin County (San Francisco Bay Area), where she settled to start a family in 1950. She will be particularly remembered by fellow farmers and environmentalists as a determined optimist who brought opposing parties together to protect and revitalize the region's agricultural greenbelt.Ellen Tirza Lotte Prins was born February 21, 1927 in Amsterdam Holland. In February 1940, Ellen and her family fled to New York, just ahead of the Nazi invasion.

Valley Fruit and Produce was founded in 1920. Val-Pro is a leading supplier of California fresh fruits and vegetables to customers. Doing business as Valley Fruit and Produce, it packages and ships a variety of fresh produce including apples, bananas, lettuce, and melons to retail and foodservice customers. Val-Pro company has a 92,000 square-foot warehouse facility in Los Angeles, as well as space in the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. Its dispatch office is equipped with a fleet computer system to track the company's more than 30 delivery trucks.

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