Manufacturers

  • JBS Swift and Company

    JBS Swift and Company

    JBS Swift and Company is considered one of the world’s largest processors of animal protein. The company has global operations and is headquartered in Colorado, USA. History In 1855, Gustavus Swift founded a company primarily known as a meat packing business, but also selling a variety of grocery items and dairy products. These items included…

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  • AG Processing Inc.

    AG Processing Inc.

    AG Processing Incorporated is considered one of the world’s largest soybean processors. This farmer-owned cooperative is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. History AG Processing Incorporated was founded in 1983 with the combined efforts of three US-based soybean processing companies: Land O’Lakes, Farmland Industries and Boone Valley. Farmland and Land O’Lakes combined their soybean processing facilities in…

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  • Cargill Inc

    Cargill Inc

    Cargill Incorporated is a multi-national marketer and producer of agricultural, industrial and food products. It is also engaged in providing industrial and financial services. History Cargill’s history began in 1865 when William W. Cargill became a flat house proprietor. Two years later, William and his brother Sam, became partners and started a lumberyard. In 1868,…

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  • Bob’s Red Mill

    Bob’s Red Mill

    Bob’s Red Mill is a food processing company engaged in the production of natural and all-organic food products, focusing on milled, whole grain foods. The company operates in Canada and the United States and is headquartered in Milwaukie, Oregon. History Bob’s Red Mill® was founded by husband and wife Bob and Charlee Moore in 1978.…

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  • Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.

    Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.

    Maple Leaf Food Incorporated is a leading food company headquartered in Canada and with operations in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. History MFI was founded in the year 1927 and was originally named Canada Packers. The company was formed through the merger of a number of meat packing companies in Toronto, Canada.…

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  • Fortune Brands, Incorporated

    Fortune Brands, Incorporated

    Fortune Brands, Incorporated is a company engaged in the production and distribution of premium spirits worldwide. The company is headquartered in Illinois, USA. History Fortune Brands, Incorporated was founded under the name American Brands in 1969. The company was able to acquire the holding company ACCO in 1987. Among ACCO’s subsidiary brands was Swingline. In…

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  • Brown-Forman Corporation

    Brown-Forman Corporation

    Brown-Forman Co. is a company engaged in producing a variety of popular alcoholic beverages. One of the company’s flagship brands is the internationally popular Jack Daniel’s® whiskey. History Brown-Forman was founded by George G. Brown in 1870. Brown, who was then a pharmaceuticals salesman, came up with the idea of marketing top-grade whiskey packed in…

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  • Seneca Foods Corporation

    Seneca Foods Corporation

    Seneca Foods Corporation is a company known for producing and distributing low cost food products. The company is headquartered in New York, USA. History Seneca Foods Co. was started by Arthur Wolcott in 1949. A year after its foundation, Seneca Foods made a contract with the company Minute Maid in order to become a co-packer…

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