Dole Food Company, Inc. was founded in 1851. Dole Food Company, Inc. (Dole) is a producer, marketer and distributor of fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. The Company operates in three business segments: fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and packaged foods. The fresh fruit segment contains operating divisions that produce and market fresh fruit to wholesale, retail and institutional customers worldwide. The fresh vegetables segment produces and markets fresh-packed and value-added vegetables and salads to wholesale, retail and institutional customers, primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. The packaged foods segment contains several operating divisions that produce and market packaged foods including fruit, juices, frozen fruit and healthy snack foods.

John Keeler & Co., Inc. was established in 1995 by president and CEO John Keeler. John Keeler & Co. is crabby but not in the way you're thinking. In fact, Mr. Keeler and his company, which does business as Blue Star Food Products, are more than happy to import blue swimming crabs from the South China Sea (in the waters around southeastern China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, and Vietnam) and sell them to customers in the US. The Miami-based company processes the crabs and offers crabmeat in cans or resealable pouches or as value-added prepared products such as crabcakes, to foodservice vendors throughout the US. Its brands include Blue Star and Oceanica.

Mott's LLP is a leading US producer of branded applesauce and apple juice. Its products are available in family-sized and single-serve varieties. The firm's products include Mott's for Tots, single-serving, vitamin-C-enhanced, reduced-sugar juice drinks in four flavors -- apple, apple white grape, fruit punch, and strawberry banana. In order to better serve the adult sector, Mott's offers a "plus light" vitamin-fortified apple-juice beverage sweetened with Splenda. Mott's LLP company's products are available throughout North America. Mott's is part of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

Golden Agri-Resources Ltd. engages in cultivating and harvesting oil palm trees, and processing fruit bunches into crude palm oil and palm kernel in Indonesia and internationally. Golden Agri-Resources company owns, operates, and manages oil palm plantations and mills and refineries, as well as operates an integrated deep sea port and storage facilities. It produces a range of domestic and international refined branded products, such as cooking oil, margarine, butter oil substitute, shortening and fats for end-customers, restaurants, hotels and cafes, as well as industrial markets. As of December 31, 2008, golden agri resources company had a total planted area of approximately 392,000 hectares, 3 refineries, and 5 kernel crushing plants. Acquisitions In 2008, golden agri resources company acquired Eco Investment Limited and PT Soci Mas.

Heinz North America Consumer Products business segment of H. J. Heinz, it makes the US and Canada's top-selling ketchup (60% market share in the US, 80% in Canada). Other products include mustard and barbecue and pasta sauces with brand names like Heinz 57, Jack Daniels, Classico, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. The unit also offers Heinz's frozen-food products such as entrees, pasta, pizza, potato products, and snacks. Its brands include Bagel Bites, Boston Market meals, Ore-Ida, Tater Tots, T.G.I. Friday's products, Weight Watchers meals, and more. It also makes Heinz baby food (#1 in Canada), as well as Nurture infant formula.

United Biscuits (UB), the market-leading UK biscuit (cookies to all you Yanks) maker. UB's cake brands include such stalwarts as Jacob's Cream Crackers, Jaffa Cakes, and, probably the company's biggest bite, McVitie's Digestive Biscuits (it sells some 71 million packet of them a year). Catering to savory flavor lovers, the company's salty snack brands include McCoy's, and Hula Hoops. In addition to its name brands, United Biscuits produces private-label biscuits and snacks for food retailers. Beyond the UK, the company is also a leading biscuit and snack maker in Western Europe. It is jointly owned investment firms, The Blackstone Group and PAI.

Alpha Baking Company was formed in 1979 when it bought Mary Ann Baking Company in Chicago. Founded in 1935, Mary Ann was the originator of the Chicago-style poppy seed hot dog bun which Alpha continues to bake for not only the Chicago market, but also for those selling Chicago-style hot dogs across the United States. In 1981, Alpha purchased the S. Rosen's Baking Company, a Chicago staple of Jewish hearth rye breads and variety rolls since 1909. Through the years, Alpha has continued to grow through the acquisition of Kreamo Bakers in South Bend, Ind., Natural Oven's in Manitowoc, WI. and National Baking Company in Chicago. Alpha Baking Company currently sells its products under the S. Rosen's, Mary Ann, Kreamo, Golden Hearth, and Natural Ovens brand names.

Founded in 1884, Ottens Flavors develops and manufactures flavors and food additives for beverage, meat, dairy, bakery-product, and confectionary producers. In addition to basic flavors, the firm offers Ottens Plus, formulations designed to replace up a portion of the sugar content in products. Ottens Flavors offers non-sweet flavorings (SavoryPlus) that reproduces the just-cooked taste and feel of meat; flavorings for chocolate (Sweet Reaction); and salt replacement/enhancement flavors. Increasing its presence in Central and South America, in 2006 Ottens acquired Mexican company MK Flavors and changed its name to MK Ottens Flavors.

Pacific Choice Brands has been owned by its officers since 1980. Pacific Choice Brands knows how to round out a meal. At its certified kosher and organic facilities, Pacific Choice Brands company offers contract packaging for a variety of food products, including condiments such as maraschino cherries, garlic, capers, sun-dried tomatoes, grape leaves, peppers, olives, salsa, salad dressings, and pasta and barbecue sauces. Pacific Choice Brands company also provides other food processors with custom support services such as new product development, reformulation or existing products, technical and nutritional assistance, plant production trials, raw material sourcing, product labeling and wrapping, and warehousing and shipping.

Robert Wiseman Dairies was established in 1947. It’s come a long way and the small milk run from the family farm in East Kilbride is now a major milk company, providing 30% of the fresh milk consumed in Britain every day.

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