The Dean's story begins in 1975 at the heart of Helen Dean's kitchen, in the small town of Huntly, North East Scotland.It was here that Helen first created her delicious traditional shortbread. First baking for friends and family who loved the ‘melt in the mouth’ sensation. Her husband Bill, a Drum Major, thought it was so delicious he decided to use Helen’s baking to help raise funds for the local Huntly pipe band. Their touring helped to spread her shortbread's fame far and wide. Soon the aroma of home baking would fill the town as Helen established her own small bakery to meet demand.

When Chicago needs meat, it turns to an authority. Chicago Meat Authority (CMA) processes beef and pork into a variety of sizes and cuts and sells its products not only in Chicago, but worldwide. The company's fresh and frozen meats are specially cut for a range of customers including food retailers, ethnic markets, further processors (such as sausage makers), healthcare providers, restaurants, and broadline distributors. It also offers services such as aging, custom cutting and trimming, marinating, and precooking, as well as a variety of packaging options. Headquartered in the historic Chicago Stockyards, Chicago Meat Authority was founded in 1990.

Fact Corporation, through its subsidiary, Food and Culinary Technology Group Inc., operates in the functional food industry. The company engages in the development, licensing, and supply of functional bake mixes to customers who manufacture, distribute, and market bakery and pasta products to consumers through various conventional and alternative channels, including retail, food service, and specialty markets. The company also develops home-use retail baking mixes under its Nutrition First brand for cookies, brownies, and other products. Functional Food Business FACT Group holds the rights to certain formulations for the production of dough and batter based functional food products ranging from breads, bagels, pastas, and pizza shells, to sweet baked goods, snack bars and confectionery, and other foods derived from a dough, batter or mix. FACT Group sells its Nutrition First premixes and products to manufacturers, distributors and food service clients, who incorporate the premix into finished products to market and sell to the end consumer under their own retail brand/label. FACT Group’s premixes enable customers to make claims on their end products pertaining to various market positions, including, a reduction in refined carbohydrates, increased fiber, low or no sugar, organic and natural positioning, weight management benefits, and other tangible benefits.

Eberly Poultry knows a fair amount about fowl. The Pennsylvania company processes and markets certified organic, free-range, naturally raised chicken, turkey, and Cornish game hen. The birds are raised on area Amish, Mennonite and other family-owned farms. Eberly processes and sells them under the Eberly, Guinta's, Koch's, and John F. Martin brands to mainly eastern US food wholesalers and retailers. The company also offers specialty poultry, including duck, pheasant, and quail. Eberly owns and operates an outlet store adjacent to its Stevens, Pennsylvania, headquarters. The founding Eberly family has been in the poultry business since the 1940s.

Arla Foods has given Scandinavian dairy farmers a firm grip on Europe's milk business. The 7,800-member cooperative's consumer products include fluid milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, and cream. Its major milk brands are Lactofree and Cravendale; its butter and spreads include Anchor and Lurpak brands; and Apetina, Buko, and Denmark's Finest are among its cheese brands. Arla offers dairy ingredients and bacterial cultures for food manufacturers and agricultural use and supplies powdered milk and cheese products to markets across Europe, as well as in the UK, the US, Asia, and the Middle East. Sales outside Denmark and Sweden make up 60% of Arla Foods' sales.

They pack it away at Rose. The suburban Chicago meat-packing business processes fresh, frozen, and smoked pork, beef, and turkey products retail food outlets and foodservice suppliers. The Rose Packing Company's meat products include Canadian bacon, sausage (turkey, pork, bratwurst, Polish, Italian, chorizo), ham, pizza toppings, meatballs, various pork cuts, and boneless turkey breasts, all of which are sold under the Rose brand name. The Barrington, Illinois-based company, founded by Louis Rose in 1924, is owned and operated by the fourth and fifth generations of the Rose family.

French champagne producer Laurent-Perrier toasts its place as one of the world's largest champagne producers. The company's middle market to high-end bubbly, incuding lables such as Laurent-Perrier, Champagne de Castellane, Salon, Delamotte, Jeanmaire, Oudinot, and Beaumet, is distributed primarily by controlled company channels in more than 120 countries through direct sales to restaurants, retailers, bars, and hotels. The company concentrates on sales in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Founded in 1812, Laurent-Perrier went public in 1999 by selling a little more than one-quarter of the company's shares. The de Nonancourt family controls the company.

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.

Sakata Seed started out in 1913 with a few sacks of seeds; over the last 90 or so years it has sprouted an empire of growth. The company produces, distributes, and sells vegetable seeds (for both agriculture and home gardens), flower seeds, grass seeds, bulbs, vegetable seedlings, tree seedlings, garden trees, fruit tree seedlings, lilies, house plants, roses, cacti, gardening materials, agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, gardening literature, and landscaping materials such as sod. It also has a division that researches cultivation and horticultural engineering. Sakasta's products are distributed from production centers in more than 20 countries.

Cranswick was formed by farmers in the early 1970's to produce pig feed. In 1988 the Board embarked on a strategy to broaden the base of the Company's activities and to seek opportunities to develop into related areas offering greater scope to add value to the Company's processes. Activities have since been extended from this agricultural base into the food sector.The business is focused predominantly on the supply of fresh and processed food to the UK food retail, food manufacturing and food service categories.

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