LiDestri Food & Drink has grown from our roots as a pasta sauce and salsa manufacturer to become an R&D engine, formulating and then producing innovative food and beverage for national and retailer brand partners. A family-run company based in Rochester, NY, LiDestri employs more than 1,200 people at five U.S. locations. We have decades-long partnerships with some of the most respected consumer packaged goods (CPG) and the most highly inventive retailer brands. In food, LiDestri has deep experience in making pasta sauces, salsas, dips and spreads, and in the beverage category, we manufacture juices, energy drinks, and milk products. We offer state-of-the-art processing, which is key to unlocking growth in the healthy and natural beverage market, including high pressure processing (HPP), cold fill aseptic and hot fill. Customers tell us they appreciate our commitment to creating the highest quality products using efficient state-of-the-art facilities and equipment and following the best manufacturing practices. Our Innovation Center provides our national brand and private label partners with the facilities, equipment, and expertise necessary to develop products from scratch in an environment that accurately simulates full-scale production. Our product development connoisseurs, certified tasters, process improvement experts, and packaging designers help our partners improve their existing products to craft and produce some amazing original offerings.

Creating Smiles for More Than 100 Years! From our humble beginnings in 1918, using hand cranks and horse-drawn delivery wagons, Perry’s Ice Cream has evolved to be one of the most modern production facilities in the country. Although we’re continuing to grow — with over 400 employees and distribution in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New England and Virginia — we’re still committed to the old-fashioned values that helped us achieve success. From our slow-cooking process where we make ice cream one batch at a time to supporting our community and neighbors, the Perry’s family is dedicated to making life better for generations to come. Interested in working for Perry's? Check out our openings at https://www.perrysicecream.com/careers/

BALDWIN RICHARDSON FOODS (BRF) is a leading custom ingredients manufacturer for the food and beverage industry. We combine our formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to supply high quality ingredient solutions for our customers within the consumer packaged goods and foodservice channels. Additionally, we manufacture finished goods for the private label sector as well as having our own retail brands, Mrs. Richardson’s dessert sauces and Nance’s mustards/condiments. Our formulation strengths include controlled water activity fillings, dessert sauces and fruit preparations as well as beverage syrups and savory sauces. And, with our state-of-the-art Innovation & Culinary Center focused on innovation to our award-winning commercialization process, we truly are a full development partner. We are headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, IL and our Innovation & Culinary Center is a few miles away in Westmont, IL. Our manufacturing facilities are located in Macedon and Williamson, NY.

O-AT-KA Milk Products is an innovative contract manufacturer of dairy ingredients and value-added products such as dairy based beverages. We offer co-packing, R&D and new product development expertise for RTD (ready-to-drink) beverages such as coffee drinks, tea lattes, protein & nutritional drinks. O-AT-KA’s continuously expanding facility combined with our highly qualified team of experts is dedicated to producing the best tasting, highest quality dairy products available worldwide.

The story of Vie de France began in 1971. At that time, four people, discussing the need for quality European breads in America, committed themselves to the business of making authentic French bread. Soon they discovered what countless others before them had discovered: domestic flours and conventional baking methods could not duplicate the French product. Determined to succeed, they recruited master French bakers, laboratory analysts and technical staff. An extensive research and development process ultimately identified the proprietary Vie de France formula for flour. Over the decades, Vie de France evolved into more than the nation's premier baker of authentic French bakery products. Through the acquisition of Country Epicure®, a New York-based maker of European cakes and pastries, Vie de France strengthened its position in the industry. Additionally, in 1978, Vie de France embarked on a project to develop a chain of retail establishments around the country. This project has resulted in many Vie de France Bakery/Café shops in several major cities throughout the U.S. On June 27, 1991, a milestone in Vie de France history was achieved when Yamazaki Baking Company, Ltd. of Tokyo purchased the Vie de France Bakery division. Later, on May 27, 1994, Yamazaki Baking also purchased the Vie de France Restaurant division and formed what is today - Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Yamazaki Baking Company, Ltd. of Tokyo. Our parent company, Yamazaki Baking, is one of Japan's largest baking companies with 22 manufacturing facilities throughout Japan. Yamazaki has been involved in the bread baking business since 1948. Today, our parent company employs nearly 20,000 people in Japan. These employees are critical to the daily production of a variety of products including croissants, French breads, white breads, pastries and snack foods.

For the Bonduelle Group, inspiring the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people’s well-being and planet health means being an agro-industrial player with a positive impact on its ecosystem. We are a French family-owned company with 12,100 employees and we have been innovating with our farming partners since 1853. Our plant-rich food products are grown on 70,000 hectares and marketed in 100 countries, with revenues of €2,203 M. Our 4 brands are: Bonduelle, Cassegrain, Globus, Ready Pac Bistro. Creating a positive work environment and actively contributing to the well-being of our employees, partners, and local communities is at the heart of what we do. We also believe that transitioning to a plant-based diet is crucial for the wellbeing of future generations and we are committed to impacting this change. Our company offers you the opportunity to work on environmentally friendly missions that also provide millions of consumers around the world with healthy plant-based products. Our B! Pact outlines our commitments to the planet, food and people through specific and measurable plans. We promote responsible farming practices worldwide, always working to find new ways of growing, preparing and selling our products without harming the environment. We strive every day to make plant-based food affordable for everyone and to promote a delicious and healthier diet. We want to become a 100% B Corp certified company by 2025.

The story of Ford Gum began in 1913. Ford Mason, a 20-year-old roofing salesman spent spring, summer and early fall traveling by horse and buggy over the winding country roads of western New York State. He was idle during the winter because nobody repaired barn roofs in cold weather. Looking for work that winter, Ford met a man engaged in the business of operating chewing gum vending machines. The first machine had been invented only a few years before, and just a handful of entrepreneurs had ventured into the business. Ford was impressed. He borrowed the money to lease 102 machines and placed them in stores and shops in western New York communities. Ford spent the winter collecting pennies and restocking machines. Ford quit the roofing business and devoted all his energy to selling gum. Today, Ford Gum is a leader in the manufacture and distribution of gum and confectionary products. Ford Gum’s signature brand is Big League Chew®, the iconic shredded bubble gum brand loved by all since 1980. It is the #1 shredded bubble gum brand in the world, with over 800 million pouches sold. We have a modern manufacturing facility located in Akron NY, and offices in the Chicago suburbs.

Birkett Mills is one of the largest buckwheat and soft red wheat flour mills in North America.

Brothers International Food Holdings, LLC. is based in Rochester, New York with offices in Ft. Lauderdale & Tampa, Florida, and Shanghai (China). The company was founded in 2000 by brothers Travis and Matthew Betters, whose family have been passionately involved in the processed fruit and vegetable industry for more than 70 years. Even though Matthew is no longer in the business, Travis has continued on to lead brothers as CEO for more than 22 years. Brothers International Ingredients Division is a full-service direct importer, distributor, and supplier of bulk packaged ingredients for the food and beverage industry. In addition to supplying top-quality fruit and fruit juices, Brothers International is the parent company of Brothers-All-Natural, a leading Freeze-Dried Snack brand. Both Branded and Private label products can be found in retailers nationwide. In 2020, Benford Capital recapitalized Brothers International. BCP and Brothers outlined a plan to continue investing in sales, marketing, and new product development to support growth, both in the ingredients and Brothers All Natural divisions. In addition, BCP and management are actively pursuing add-on acquisitions of related healthy snack and food ingredients companies. In 2021, Brothers International acquired Dennick FruitSource. The combination has allowed these two leading B2B ingredients companies to significantly expand their diversified product portfolio to better serve their customer base as a global supplier. In 2023, Brothers International acquired Hosh International LLC. Hosh is a value-added supplier of fruit and vegetable juice concentrates and purees to global CPG companies, operating a similar business model to Brothers’ B2B fruit ingredients division. For more information, visit: www.brothersinternational.com

Sweeteners Plus is a distributor and manufacturer of liquid and dry sweeteners for food and non-food applications. These include white and brown sugar, organic and kosher products, fructose, maltitol, corn syrup, and invert syrups. Additional services include bottling, custom blending, and liquid fondants. Sweeteners are available in bulk, pails, drums, and liquid totes. Sweeteners Plus ships product long haul by rail and short haul by its own fleet of trucks. The company is located in the Finger Lakes region in Lakeville, NY.

We create the highest quality of full flavored cheeses, each packed with big, bold flavor. Yancey’s Fancy is Your Trusted House of Flavor™ and we are here for all of your snacking and entertaining occasions.

Since 1986 ANKOM Technology has been Helping to Feed the World with Innovative Analytical Instruments. ANKOM Technology Corporation has a reputation for quality and innovation. Constantly seeking to develop better methods for time consuming analytical methods, ANKOM Technology focuses on customer needs. We offer equipment, instruments, chemicals and other ancillary products to support fiber studies, accelerated solvent, crude and total fat extractions, in vitro and in situ research, anaerobic digestion and more. We work hard to minimize costs and maximize quality. There are laboratories in over 120 countries that rely on ANKOM products to reduce costs and increase accuracy and precision. ANKOM Technology developed Filter Bag Technology to provide a state of the art, low cost, high volume alternative system for determining conventional fiber analysis. Unlike most conventional methods, Filter Bag Technology allows for batch extraction and precise control. ANKOM has advanced products for fat analysis that can rapidly perform extractions using solvents such as, Petroleum Ether, Hexane, or Ethyl Ether. ANKOM has developed the only fully automated instrument for Dietary Fiber available on the market today. Visit www.ankom.com to learn more about our products.