Smithfield Foods is an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. With a diverse brand portfolio and strong relationships with U.S. farmers and customers, we responsibly meet demand for quality protein around the world.

Founded in 1999, TowneBank is a company built on relationships, offering a full range of banking and other financial services, with a mission of serving others and enriching lives. Dedicated to a culture of caring, Towne values all employees and members by embracing their diverse talents, perspectives, and experiences. Today, the bank operates over 40 banking offices throughout Hampton Roads and Central Virginia, as well as Northeastern and Central North Carolina – serving as a local leader in promoting the social, cultural, and economic growth in each community. Towne offers a competitive array of business and personal banking solutions, delivered with only the highest ethical standards. Experienced local bankers providing a higher level of expertise and personal attention with local decision-making are key to the TowneBank strategy. Towne has grown its capabilities beyond banking to provide expertise through its controlled divisions and subsidiaries that include Towne Investment Group, Towne Wealth Management, Towne Insurance Agency, Towne Benefits, TowneBank Mortgage, TowneBank Commercial Mortgage, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Towne Realty, Towne 1031 Exchange, LLC, and Towne Vacations. NOTICE TO CONSUMERS REGARDING MARYLAND LENDER LICENSEES: TowneBank is licensed to engage in business as a Maryland Mortgage Lender and assigned a unique NMLS identifier number: 512138. The NMLS Consumer Access Website is linked here: www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org Interested in joining the Towne Family? Available positions are listed at www.townebank.com/careers. TowneBank and its affiliate companies support a diverse workforce and are Equal Opportunity Employers who do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), genetics, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or other classification protected by law. EOE/M/F/Disability/Vet

Bayview Physicians Group is a premier, multi-specialty, independent physicians group, serving neighborhoods in the Hampton Roads area, including Carrollton, Chesapeake, Franklin, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach. Bayview offers quality medical services with over 300 providers in 72 outpatient care sites, 6 Urgent Care Centers and 5 hospitals. We are proud to offer convenient locations for regular doctor appointments, after hours Urgent Care services and, when needed, inpatient hospitalist services. Over the past 26 years, our group has expanded to provide expert treatment in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Urgent Care and specialties including Cardiology, Dermatology, Ear, Nose & Throat, Endocrinology, General Surgery, Hospital Care, Neurology, OB/GYN, Occupational Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Podiatry, Pulmonary & Critical Care, Rheumatology, and Sleep Medicine. Our team is comprised of many of the finest physicians and medical staff in the area. Bayview has also assembled a top-notch team of physicians dedicated to caring for hospitalized patients. Hospitalists bridge the gap between inpatient and outpatient care and provide consistent and attentive care when the need for hospitalization arises. Our team of hospital physicians provides in-patient services at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Sentara Leigh Hospital, Sentara Obici Hospital, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, and Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. In order to help our patients navigate a myriad of healthcare options, Bayview offers the convenience of electronic medical records and our offices are equipped with state of the art technology. We offer lab services at all locations and x-ray services at select locations, including all of our Urgent Care locations. Our promise is to provide quality healthcare that has value to our patients. Please explore our website to find an office in or near your neighborhood.

Birdsong buys carefully selected peanuts directly from the farmers’ fields. They are then cleaned, shelled, sized and shipped in truckload lots to manufacturers who turn them into many popular food items. Today the company operates five shelling plants throughout the peanut-growing belt comprised of 11 states extending from Virginia to New Mexico. In addition, we operate 85 buying points where we buy and store farmers’ stock. We also own extensive cold storage warehouses which enable us to keep our product in a protected environment until it’s shipped to the customer. Finally, we have extensive farm operations in Florida and in Texas where we grow peanuts on land that is 100% irrigated. If you eat products made from American peanuts, chances are you’ve consumed peanuts from Birdsong.

SUMITOMO MACHINERY CORP OF AME is a company based out of 4200 HOLLAND BLVD, Chesapeake, Virginia, United States.

Fishing and farming isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are. What started as an undying family passion for the sea, passed down from one generation to the next, has been transformed into a global company. Today, the Cooke family of companies produces some of the very best seafood in the world. Our mission is to be a global seafood leader driven by an innovative team that delivers superior products, service, and value to our customers in a safe and environmentally sustainable manner. The Cooke family of companies includes global aquaculture divisions under Cooke Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Cooke Aquaculture Inc. as well as a Canadian aquaculture division operated by its affiliate, Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. Cooke Aquaculture is a vertically-integrated corporation with salmon farming operations in Atlantic Canada, the United States, Chile and Scotland as well as seabass and seabream farming operations in Spain. The company also includes seafood and wild fishery divisions under Cooke Seafood USA, Inc., Icicle Seafoods, Inc., Wanchese Fish Company, Inc. and Omega Protein. Cooke Inc. has earned the #1 spot on the SeafoodSource list of Top 10 North American Seafood Suppliers and our employee loyalty helped reaffirm our place as a Platinum-winning company on the list of Canada’s Best Managed Companies.

We’re a hardworking company with humble farming roots dating back to 1917. Out of our humble beginnings, we’ve steadily built Meherrin into a strong and stable, full service agricultural and chemical supplier. Founded as a family business in 1958, Meherrin continues to operate as a family business with a simple philosophy: Be big enough to serve and small enough to care. Our beginnings are in peanut farming, and today we are a multi-crop supplier and vertically integrated peanut supplier. The peanut farmers that buy our seed and crop inputs rely on us to maximize their yields and we rely on them for the peanuts that we purchase, process and sell to the consumer.

As one of the largest coffee roasters in North America, Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA is Coffee Complete™ providing comprehensive solutions for the home, workplace, and foodservice. Born from an Italian heritage spanning four generations of coffee expertise, our coffee is grown, sourced, milled, processed, exported, traded, and marketed primarily through our alliances with the Zanetti family. Parent Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group is a global leader that further strengthens its position through the design and manufacture of espresso machines and single-serve office coffee brewers and its vast network of espresso café chains known throughout the world. Because of this, MZB-USA is a single resource delivering innovative solutions that include a range of unique blends and single origin coffees with an equally broad array of revolutionary and efficient packaging. • We are one of the largest suppliers of private label coffee in the US, partnering with major retailers to provide specialized store brand solutions ranging from premium and mainstream coffees to instant and single-serve. • Our trusted brands, such as Kauai Coffee®, Chock full o'Nuts®, Segafredo Zanetti®, MJB®, Chase & Sanborn®, Hills Bros.® Coffee, and Hills Bros. Cappuccino®, enjoy a long-standing tradition of exceptional taste. • For the workplace, we offer espresso, tea, and a multitude of coffees with proprietary single-serve brewers and espresso machines designed specifically for the office coffee service channel, with traditional brew options. • Our broad foodservice portfolio consists of espresso, espresso machines, and artisan-roasted coffees crafted to create a memorable culinary experience with merchandising programs designed to turn your business into a profitable coffee destination. We also have franchise opportunities for espresso cafés and coffee shops uniquely positioned for coffee-centric markets. Our business is coffee, that's why we're Coffee Complete!

Now a multi-million dollar business, Colony Tire started out in 1976 with just two gasoline pumps in Rodanthe, NC. Later that year a small oil company in Edenton was purchased. In 1979, Colony purchased a small oil company in Roper, NC and became a Farm Bureau tire dealer there. We began selling Goodyear tires in 1980. Today, Colony Tire is one of the leading tire distributors in North America. 600 associates operate 225 vehicles and 35 locations in North Carolina and Virginia. At Colony Tire our Primary objective is to exceed our customer's expectations for service. We will provide high-quality products and services at reasonable prices in order to develop strong relationships with our customers. By pursuing long-term growth and prosperity for our customers, we will succeed individually and as a company.

Founded in 1982, MEB is one of today's most experienced and respected providers of construction services in the Hampton Roads region, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and throughout the Mid-Atlantic. With nearly 250 employees and over $150 million in annual revenue, MEB has the resources and strength to provide the highest level of service on a broad variety of project types. Our diverse portfolio includes all types of government, industrial, commercial multi-family/hospitality, and heavy civil projects and our ability to self-perform significant aspects of any project gives us a competitive advantage. In our 35 year history, MEB has evolved into a leader among the region's General Contractors and has been recognized as one of the “Top 400” Contractors in the United States by ENR magazine, as well as, one of the “Best Places to Work” by Inside Business magazine. MEB is centrally located in Chesapeake, VA with an additional office in Richmond, VA, and performs work throughout the Mid Atlantic.

Established in 1960, Electric Motor and Contracting remains one of the largest independently owned electric motor and pump repair shops in the U.S. with over 200,000 square feet of facility. Our campus includes a small motor repair facility, a large motor repair facility, precision machine shop, pump repair facility, Nuclear Services Building for radiologically contaminated equipment repairs, a switchgear repair facility, a field services division, and a 43,000 sq/ft climate controlled storage facility with 24/7 monitoring and monthly preventative maintenance. At EMC, we hold ourselves to the highest quality standards. Our Chesapeake location has maintained an ISO 9001 certifed program since 1999. We have a NUPIC audited Safety Related 10CFR50 Appendix B program for the nuclear power industry.

AMADAS Industries is a world-class manufacturer of premium agricultural and industrial equipment for specialized markets. We provide innovative equipment solutions and support for agricultural customers in key peanut and cotton growing areas of the world through our extensive dealer network. The name AMADAS is actually an acronym, composed from three key phrases that are tenets of our company: American Made, Advanced Design, Absolute Service. Our history date back to early 1963, when a successful partnership was formed between Oliver K. Hobbs and J. Carlie Adams, the beginning of Hobbs-Adams Engineering. The enterprise combined engineering, manufacturing, and marketing expertise to produce a new generation of peanut harvesting and processing machinery. During the decades that followed, Hobbs-Adams evolved to become AMADAS Industries, and new products were added to meet the needs of the modern marketplace. Today AMADAS Industries produces equipment in Suffolk, VA, Albany, GA. and Cordoba, Argentina. AMADAS Industries' current product lines include pull-type and self-propelled peanut combines, peanut diggers, crop transporters, Reel Rain® irrigators, cotton stalk puller/choppers, mowers, round cotton module handlers and a line of industrial equipment for both the horticultural and recycling industries. Through a 25+ year partnership with John Deere, AMADAS developed and builds the world’s largest and highest capacity self-propelled peanut combines. Equipment manufactured by AMADAS is at work throughout the United States and in over fifty countries around the globe. We continue to develop innovative products, manufacture those products to the highest quality standards, and support our products with matchless product support.