To provide high quality products and services with integrity by continuously improving on our techniques and know how.

The Illinois Office of Tourism manages industry efforts that result in sustainable and significant economic and quality-of-life benefits for all Illinois residents. Our office promotes Illinois as a premier travel destination for leisure travelers and for meetings, conventions, and special events, attracting domestic and international visitors. We partner with 40 certified Convention and Visitor Bureaus (CVBs) throughout the state to advertise Illinois’ assets and to promote our strengths at tradeshows and events. As a result, our tourism industry welcomes more than 110 million visitors per year, who spend billions of dollars annually. The Illinois Department of Commerce administers grant programs to support local, national, and international marketing and advertising efforts led by certified CVBs.

Seafood Merchants provides Chicagoland and Southeast Wisconsin’s finest chefs, catering services and retail stores with the freshest, highest quality seafood items and gourmet foods available.

Kusel Equipment Co. has a deep and distinguished history that has only continued to grow since its inception in 1849. With humble beginnings as a tinsmith, growing into the leading cheese equipment maker in North America, to starting the stainless steel drain industry in the United States; Kusel Equipment Co. continues to deliver on its promise of quality products coupled with superior customer service. Today, we are proud to continue our rich heritage of designing and manufacturing all of our products where the company was founded, Watertown, Wisconsin. Cheese making equipment is the foundation of Kusel Equipment Co. Whether it’s cheese vats, finishing tables, curd elevators, presses and moulds, or complete cottage cheese systems, Kusel continues to produce the finest cheese making equipment in the dairy industry and it continues to be an integral part of our business. For over 30 years Kusel Equipment Co. has been the leader in stainless steel floor drains and other stainless steel drainage products. Our products continue to be the first choice for many plant locations throughout North America that require a sanitary drain solution. Kusel keeps many of our standard drainage options in stock to minimize lead times. At the same time, we take pride in being a solutions provider that can take any of our existing products and reconfigure them to fit a customer’s specific needs. For 173 years our customers have come to rely on Kusel Equipment Co.’s extensive experience and expertise to provide custom and contract manufacturing of stainless steel fabrications to exceed the requirements of any size job.

As America’s original 100% grass-fed organic dairy, Maple Hill’s mission is to bring healthy, organic, 100% grass-fed dairy products to families nationwide. We only sell grass-fed organic dairy because we believe products produced through these regenerative agricultural processes are healthiest for consumers, and are done in a way that is healthiest for the environment. Maple Hill’s organic grass-fed milk supply starts with the health of the soil, the grass, and the happy healthy cows on the family farms with whom we work. As a result, healthy soil is the cornerstone of everything we do. We work tirelessly within our network of organic 100% grass-fed farmers to develop and implement practices that result in the regeneration of the land through the management of organic grass-fed cows. When managed in harmony with nature, grazing cows are one of the most effective tools on Earth for igniting the life in the soil – which is the foundation of the carbon cycle, soil fertility, economic viability for farmers and the nutrition we receive from our food. As consumers and retailers alike begin to understand the 100% grass-fed organic value proposition, we have grown our Milkshed from two farms to 130+ in 2022. Maple Hill is now one of the fastest-growing dairy brands in the market. What started as a specialty regional yogurt company in 2009 has become a national dairy brand. Consumers can find Maple Hill in 6,000+ retailers across the U.S., including Whole Foods Market, Sprouts, Kroger, Publix, Walmart, Natural Grocers/Vitamin Cottage, and Safeway, and in thousands of independent grocers and specialty retailers. Maple Hill is rooted in our desire to provide the best nutrition for our own families and that idea is still the “heartbeat” of our company. We believe that 100% grass-fed organic dairy farming done right is the pinnacle of organic; it creates the best nutrition for consumers, and leaves the soil better than we found it. It doesn’t get any better than that!

COMPLETE FEED SERVICE, LLC is a dairy company based out of 3 NATURAL WAY, SHARON, Wisconsin, United States.

Calumet Diversified Meats Inc. is a food production company based out of 1800 Reserve Ct, Highland Park, IL, United States.

At DreamPak, we aspire to transform the food & beverage market by liquid mix innovations that make consumers’ lives more efficient, simple and enjoyable. We have stayed true to the idea that liquid concentrates represent the future of the beverage and dietary supplement world. This singular focus has allowed us to expand from a single product contract manufacturing shop into a technology-driven, vertically-integrated operation serving a wide range of Markets and Categories. Our leadership team is relentlessly dedicated to continuing DreamPak’s tradition of breakthrough innovation for the benefit of all our partners and stakeholders. We believe that the market is prime for a major shift from traditional delivery formats such as ready-to-drink and powdered mixes, and we know that consumers in that space are Thirsty for Innovation.

Berres Brothers Coffee Roasters is a small, Midwest-based company. We roasted almost 1 million pounds of coffee a year which was distributed nation-wide on our web page and we are also in grocery stores and gas stations across the Midwest. We offer over 100 varieties of flavored and non-flavored types of coffee, the majority of which are available in decaf and regular. Visit us online at www.BerresBrothers.com or on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/berresbros Stop in to see us, we have a Cafe attached to our production building. They serve a variety of hot and cold drinks, soups, salads, hot and cold wraps and sandwiches. While you are enjoying your coffee (after all, we are a coffee company), lunch, or custom drinks, you can watch our roasting process through a big window. How about a little shopping in our bean hall where you will find a large selection of regular and decaf coffees along with a variety of coffee accessories for your home. Berres Brothers was featured on The Food Network’s “Unwrapped”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0nD-_V61TA Coffee makes a great gift for birthdays, events, weddings, corporate gifts, and so much more! Keywords: coffee, roasting, green beans, roasted coffee, flavored coffee, flavors, baristas, cappuccino, espresso, hot chocolate, brewers, coffee machines, espresso machines, Bunn, french press, k-cups, green initiatives, whole bean coffee, ground coffee, American Metalware, specialty, cafe, origins, home roasting, Kona, Jamaican Blue Mountain, Papa New Guinea, Colombian, Guatemalan, Brazil, Mexican, Ethiopian, Tanzanian Peaberry, Kenya, decaf coffee and regular coffee.

Croissant Etc. is a wholesale bakery company located in Greendale, WI. We are a manufacturer of frozen dough and fully baked laminated dough products for the ISB and foodservice distribution end use markets.

I contact our retailers and personally go to the store and sample our products to the customers. I answer any questions they have about the company or the product. People are always more interested in a product when a person from the company is sampling a product compared to an employee of the store.

Baker’s Quality Pizza Crusts, Inc. is a third generation, family-owned business located in Waukesha, WI. Started as a central commissary in the early 1970’s, we supplied our own group of locally owned, franchised pizza restaurants. That grew into a food distribution business which was eventually sold, as were the restaurants. By 1998 we found our niche as a producer of high quality, hand-crafted pizza crusts and, as the demand for premium crusts has grown, so has Baker’s Quality. The company sells its products through wholesale distributors, mostly in the upper Midwest, though our geographic reach is gradually expanding. We take pride in our commitment to outstanding customer service and food safety and are constantly looking for ways to improve how we operate our business and how we relate to our customers, employees and community.