| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Kathy Persian |
Chief Information Officer | Profile |
At Florida Crystals, we know that what begins at our farm ends at your table. This is why we are committed to a corporate eco-vision, which includes the practice of sustainable agriculture, along with various proactive efforts for protecting our natural resources. In turn, we can proudly offer consumers eco-friendly organic and natural sugars. Florida Crystals is America’s first and only producer of certified organic sugar, grown and harvested in the United States, and the first sugar certified CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org. We also operate a renewable energy facility which is the largest of its kind in North America and provides clean energy that powers our sugar operations along with tens of thousands of area homes. These efforts help us reduce our use of fossil fuels.
What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Or better yet, what if you weren`t afraid to know where the meat in your hot dog came from? These questions were the inspiration behind Applegate. I grew up in the meat and potatoes era of the 1950s, when a meal wasn`t a meal without meat. However, when I went away to college in the `70`s, my ideas about food expanded. There, I was exposed to vegetarianism, macrobiotics, and food gurus. In the co-op I belonged to, we bought granola, yogurt, and grains in bulk, and ate them with local fruits and vegetables. While I appreciated the quality and health benefits of these foods, I still craved meat. While shopping one day, I saw nitrite-free bacon and had an epiphany: I could feel good about eating meat if it didn`t contain ingredients I knew were bad for me. Meat and I were reunited. In my 20s I tried my hand at a number of different jobs, none of which satisfied my desire to build something from the ground up. I started looking for a business to grow and stumbled upon Jugtown Smokehouse through a combination of intuition and serendipity. At the time, Jugtown was a family owned business specializing in nitrite-free bacon (de ja-vu!). While it bore no resemblance to what Applegate is today, I could see its potential. I also knew there had to be more people out there who would appreciate healthy meat products, and decided to buy the business. As it turns out, countless people have a love/hate relationship with meat and are thrilled to find products they can finally feel good about eating. People like you have helped build Applegate over the last 25 years. With that support, you`ve helped preserve the nearly 1,000 farms that supply us with humanely raised meat that is free from antibiotics or hormones. So…What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Like me, you`d feel better about eating them, and serving them to your family. That simple idea has always been, and will continue to be, what drives Applegate. From our table to yours, thank you for joining the movement.
At Glanbia Nutritionals our purpose is to deliver better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. We achieve this through our diverse portfolio of both dairy and non-dairy nutritional ingredients. Glanbia Nutritionals sells a total of 400,000 tonnes of cheese per annum and are the leader in the American-style cheese market. Along with this, Glanbia Nutritionals is the number one provider of whey based nutritional solutions and the number two producer of premixes in the world. Nutrition is at the core of Glanbia Nutritionals’ business, whether it’s in the form of 640lb blocks of natural cheese, specialised value-added protein systems or micronutrient premixes. Nutrition has never been more relevant to the global market than it is today. As a large global provider of ingredient solutions, this provides huge opportunity for Glanbia Nutritionals. Our protein systems have transformed the bar and beverage categories over several years facilitating increased levels of protein, cleaner labels and greater product functionality. Glanbia Nutritionals aim is to ensure that Glanbia continues to leverage both dairy and non-dairy capabilities to meet the ever evolving demands of customers and end consumers across the globe. Glanbia Nutritionals has a truly global reach serving 83 countries. Our 2000 employees are based across 11 state of the art production facilities in the U.S, Germany and China, 38 sales offices and 3 innovation centres. Our 2015 revenue was €1.2bn. To everything we touch we add the perfect ingredient, building better nutrition for people everywhere… Just add Glanbia.
Williams Foods, Inc. is one of the leading companies in the Manufacturing sector.
Maple Leaf Foods is a leading consumer packaged food company, headquartered in Toronto with operations across Canada and in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia and Mexico. We make high quality, great tasting, nutritious and innovative food products and are proud to have our leading, national brands such as Maple Leaf, Schneiders™, and Dempster’s™ in the cupboards and refrigerators of our consumers. People also know us by our well-known and trusted national household brands such as Maple Leaf Prime Naturally™, Villaggio™, and Tenderflake™, as well as other brands including POM™, Shopsy’s™, Mitchell’s Gourmet Foods™, Ben’s™, Bon Matin™, Burns™, Chevalier™ and Hygrade™, and the New York Bakery Co. ™ in the United Kingdom.