Mr. R. William "Bill" Becker owns Peace River Citrus Products, Inc., which owns two processing plants with a total processing capacity of 18 to 20 million boxes. The Arcadia plant started production in November 1994 and the Bartow plant began production in November 2003. After selling his part of a family citrus business in 1991, Mr. Becker began studying the future of the Florida citrus industry. This study indicated a lack of citrus processing facilities in the new citrus growing region of Florida.The Peace River Citrus Products, Inc. Arcadia plant was built in the town of Arcadia, Desoto County, Florida. Arcadia was chosen because it was positioned in the center of the new growing region and there were no processing plants within 50 miles. Mr. Becker furthered his position in the citrus processing industry with the purchase of the plant in Bartow, Polk County, Florida in October 2002. The plant in Bartow will process both oranges and grapefruit (white and red) while the plant in Arcadia will primarily be dedicated to processing oranges. The mission of Peace River Citrus Products, Inc. is to produce the highest quality citrus products, market them at competitive prices, provide superior customer service, and maximize returns to Florida citrus growers. With this mission in mind, Mr. Becker maintains his processing facility with state of the art equipment utilizing a cost efficient layout.

Duck Delivery Produce, founded by a graduate of the University of Oregon (the Oregon Ducks), is a leading supplier of custom-cut fresh fruits and vegetables serving restaurants and other foodservice operators, as well as some retail customers in Washington and Oregon. It also distributes such specialty products as fruit shortcakes, vegetable trays, nacho trays, packaged salads, and watermelon boats. Duck Delivery company has processing and distribution centers in Portland, Oregon and in Sumner, Washington. Duck Delivery Produce is owned by United Salad Co., a wholesale supplier of fruits and vegetables.

Cantine Giorgio Lungarotti is always "wining." With its 700-acre estate in Torgiano, the company is a leading Italian vintner. More than half of its wines, which range from aperitif to dessert and sparkling to fortified, are exported to 35 countries across the globe. The company, founded in 1962 by Giorgio Lungarotti, is owned and operated by Teresa Severini and Chiara Lungarotti, daughters of the founder and the first women in Italy to control a major winery. Lungarotti also produces olive oil and operates a hotel/restaurant (Le Tre Vaselle), a vacation rental property (Poggio alle Vigne), the Lungarotti Wine Museum, and an Olive and Olive Oil Museum.

Natural Selection Foods took root on a three-acre raspberry farm. Today it's a leading supplier of packaged organic salads to retailers and foodservice operators nationwide. Natural Selection Foods company's more than 100 different products, which also include organic fruits and vegetables, juice, cookies, and granola, are sold in 75% of US grocery stores under the Earthbound Farm brand name. Natural Selection's growers operate some 33,000 certified organic acres in the US (Arizona, California, Colorado, and Washington), Canada, Mexico, and New Zealand. In 2006 the California company recalled its fresh spinach and salad mixes containing spinach, which were the subject of an FDA nationwide recall due to an outbreak of E. coli.

Korbel produces champagnes and other wines from the fruit of its its vineyards and the products of its winery and distillery along California's Russian River in western Sonoma County. Long noted for its premium champagne and less expensive versions of the sparkling wine, Korbel also bottles a cabernet sauvignon from grapes grown in the nearby Alexander Valley, and a chardonnay. Korbel diversified by buying three wineries in Sonoma County; and a line of beer and ale -- Russian River Brewing -- which was eventually sold to its head brewmaster.

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative was founded in 1972 and is based in Renville, Minnesota. Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative manufactures refined sugar, liquid sugar, pulp pellets, molasses, and separator molasses solubles from sugar beets. It also offers baker's sugar, granulated sugar, fruit sugar, liquid sucrose, beet pulp shreds, and raffinates. The company also produces dried beet pulp; beet molasses used for the production of yeast, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and mixed cattle feeds; and separator molasses solubles used primarily in liquid feed manufacturing, as well as in specialty processes, such as road de-icing and as tire ballast. It offers its products in the North American markets, as well as exports its dried beet pulp to Europe.

Koninklijke FrieslandCampina N.V. provide people around the world with all the good things milk has to offer, with products that play an important role in people’s nutrition and well-being. Together with our member dairy farmers, we are milk experts who are continually expanding our knowledge of the applications of milk.

Ovations Food Services, L.P. was founded in 1996 and is based in Lutz, Florida. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Ovations Food Services, L.P. operates as a food service contractor. It provides professional food, beverage, and related services to sports and recreational facilities in North America. Ovations Food Services company specializes in serving sit-down dinners, company picnics, family birthday parties, and private moonlit dinners. Ovations also offers professional, multi-disciplined, and merchandise management services. Its clients include convention and exposition centers, fairs and entertainment centers, and sports centers.

Mercer Landmark Inc. is a locally owned farm cooperative located in West Central Ohio with 18 facilities in Mercer, Darke, Van Wert, Paulding and Defiance counties. Mercer Landmark is a landmark for farmers and other residents of rural west and central Ohio, and not just because you can see the company's grain elevators from miles away. The company stores and markets corn, soybeans, and wheat; it also offers agronomy services and sells animal feed, seed, poultry litter, diesel, gasoline, propane, and crop insurance. Mercer Landmark operates more than a dozen facilities. It also operates Mercer Soy, a processor of soybeans into high-protein meal and oil for use as animal feed. Mercer Landmark hs been in business since 1933.

Shearer's Foods' potato chips are Shearer perfection. Using Grandma Shearer's "hand-cooked" kettle recipe, the snacks company produces more than 30 million pounds of potato chips each year. Shearer's also makes and markets tortilla chips, cheese curls, corn puffs, pretzels, and pork rinds, as well as dips and salsa. The food maker's products are sold around the country and in the Shearer's Marketplace Factory Outlet store across the street from its headquarters in Brewster, Ohio. In addition to the Shearer brand, the firm makes a variety of snacks for private-label customers. Shearer's produces kettle-cooked potato chips for snack-food giant Frito-Lay.

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