Sterling Foods was founded in 1971 and acquired by TGF Management at the end of 2008. TGF is joined by private equity firm Austin Ventures and members of Sterling's management team as part owners. Sterling Foods, LLC company produces a variety of specialty baked goods for national restaurant and supermarket chains, weight-management companies, the US military, and K-12 schools. Its products include gourmet cakes, loaf cakes and muffins, biscuits and bread, and cookies and brownies. Olive Garden and Red Lobster are among its customers; it is also the largest supplier of shelf-stable baked goods to the US Department of Defense.

Wes Pak Sales packs up peaches, plums, and other plump produce. Wes Pak Sales, Inc. formed in 1980 by a consortium of family-owned California growers and packers, is a worldwide wholesale marketer of fresh fruit, including cherries, apricots, and grapes, under the WESPAK label. Affiliate Enns Packing grows, stores, and packages produce in California. Wes Pak Sales also offers scholarships for high school students attending two- and four-year colleges. Blair Richardson was named to the newly created post of CEO of Wes Pak and Enns Packing in 2009; Jim Stewart remained as president.

We understand the needs of hard-working egg producers, we exceed the expectations of demanding retail operations and we can respond rapidly to changing consumer tastes. We are Stonegate. Every day we move millions of eggs from hen houses across the country to the shelves of the UK's leading supermarkets, and into the shopping trolleys of Britains' consumers. And that's no mean feat. It means working closely and supportively with at least 250 egg producers to collect, grade and package the most fragile of food products. It means working in genuine collaboration with top retailers to identify and satisfy new and changing tastes. It means supplying first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

They've got an awful lot of coffee in Florida, home of Rowland Coffee Roasters, one of North America's largest privately-owned producers of coffee products in the US. If espresso is your thing, you're likely drinking a blend of coffee from Rowland, which roasts 80% of all espresso coffee sold in the US and owns the two top espresso brands, Bustelo and Pilon. The company also sells European blends (Caffe Signore, Medaglia D'Oro) and Cabana blends (Estrellla, El Pico, and Oquendo). The family-run company was established in Cuba in 1865. The founder's son, Jose Angel "Pepe" Souto, died in 2007. His children continue to oversee the business.

California’s first commercial cotton sprouted in 1862 in what would later become Kern County (where Calcot is headquartered today), but the San Joaquin Valley didn’t earn its reputation as a producer of “white gold” until the next century, after World War I, when the federal government wanted extra long staple cotton for military applications. The homegrown group began as the San Joaquin Cotton Growers in Delano in 1927 and has been headquartered in Bakersfield since 1931. The co-op grew out of a Delano grower’s frustration over the middlemen in the cotton industry.In 1926, Capt. Frank E. Green had a lunch meeting in a Delano hotel, where he pitched the idea of a growers’ cooperative to his peers. The grape and cotton farmer had been mulling the idea since 1922, when the Capper-Volstead Act passed, allowing farmers to form cooperative groups without violating anti-trust laws.

Riviana Foods puts woks to work in the US. With its Carolina, Riceland, Mahatma, and Success brands, the company is one of the largest sellers of rice, and, the seller of many of the country's most well-known rice brands. Its offerings include wild, long-grain, short-grain, parboiled, and boil-in-a-bag rices. In addition to manufacturing rice products for consumers, Riviana Foods company also supplies foodservice and industrial customers throughout the world. Its industrial ingredients include white and brown rice flour, broken rice, and rice hulls. Riviana Foods company is a subsidiary of Spanish company, Ebro Puleva.

Goulding Chemicals Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Origin Enterprises plc and has been in existence since 1856.Goulding Chemicals Ltd supply a wide range of Agricultural Fertilisers and Industrial Chemicals to the Irish market - North and South. Goulding Chemicals supplies Irish farmers with agricultural fertilizers and industrial chemicals such as sodium and potassium hydroxide and sulphuric, hydrochloric, and nitric acids. The company has operations in Ardee, Askeaton, Athenry, Cork, Derry, and New Ross. The company distributes its products by the bag, in bulk, or by the tank load to the Irish agricultural market. It also provides technical consultation to farmers. Goulding brand garden care products have been moved over to its sister company Power Seeds and Hardware. Goulding is owned by agri-business Origin Enterprises.

Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. was founded in 1971. Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. grows, ships, and markets mushrooms in the United States. It also produces and sells mushroom spawn and nutritional growing supplements, and activators to mushroom growers in North America, Europe, and internationally. Monterey Mushrooms company provides canned and jarred mushroom products, bagged packs, gourmet white mushrooms, gourmet portabella mushrooms, baby bellas/brown mushrooms, gourmet specialty mushrooms, dried mushrooms, and organic mushrooms. It offers canned stems and pieces mushrooms, canned marinated mushrooms, jarred marinated mushrooms, frozen sauces, refrigerated quick blanched mushrooms, and services/product development/private label products. Monterey Mushrooms company supplies products for sale to supermarkets, foodservice and ingredient manufacture operations, and for the preparation of processed, canned, and frozen mushroom products.

At Kayem, they make 'em -- one of the top-selling hot dogs in New England. Kayem Foods rolls out some one million dogs daily. In addition to hot dogs, the company makes traditional Italian sausages, deli meats, spiral hams, and fresh gourmet chicken sausage under such well known brands as Al Fresco, Bratwrship, Genoa, Kayem, McKenzie, Meisterchef, Schonland's, and Triple M. Kayem's meats are available throughout the US. The company's US retail food customers include Hannaford, Price Chopper, Kroger, and Town & Country. U.S. Foodservice and SYSCO are among its foodservice accounts.

Vilmorin & Cie wants to fill farms fields with bounteous crops. As one of the world's oldest (its roots date back to 1742) and largest producers and marketers of crop and vegetable seeds, the company supplies professional growers in France and overseas. Its crop seeds include those for corn, wheat, barley, canola and sunflower seed, amenity grasses, cotton, and beets. Vilmorin vegetable seeds for more than 30 of the world's most consumed vegetables, including tomatoes, melons, carrots, sweet peppers, cauliflower, squash, onions, watermelon, and cucumbers.

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