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BGS: B&G Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture, sale, and distribution of shelf-stable foods in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It offers shelf-stable Mexican food, which includes taco shells, tortillas, seasonings, dinner kits, taco sauces, peppers, refried beans, salsas, and related food products; maple syrups, gourmet salad dressings, sugar free syrups, marinades, fruit syrups, confections, pancake mixes, and organic products; fruit-based spreads and jarred wet spices, such as chopped garlic and oregano; and hot cereals, shelf-stable pickles, peppers, relishes, olives, and other related specialty items. The company also provides enchilada sauce, chili sauce, and various pepper products; baked beans and brown bread; meat spreads, including deviled ham, white-meat chicken, white-meat turkey, roast beef, and liverwurst; flavor enhancer for beef, poultry, fish, and vegetables; a line of pasta sauces, seasonings, cooking stocks, mustards, salsas, pepper sauces, and cooking sprays; and pizza and spaghetti sauces, whole and crushed tomatoes, and tomato puree. In addition, it offers canned beans, such as kidney, chili, and other beans; vinegars and cooking wines for use in the preparation of salad dressings, as well as in various recipe applications, including sauces, marinades, and soups; seasonings; mild and full-flavored molasses products and a blackstrap molasses products; and maple-flavored syrup in regular, sugar-free, and sugar-free butter varieties. B&G Foods distributes its products through a network of independent brokers and distributors to supermarkets, mass merchants, warehouse clubs, wholesalers, food service distributors and direct accounts, specialty food distributors, military commissaries, and non-food outlets. The company was formerly known as B&G Foods Holdings Corp. and changed its name to B&G Foods, Inc. in October 2004. B&G Foods, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.
GLDC: Golden Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiary, Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc., manufactures and distributes snack products in the southeastern United States. It offers a line of salted snack items, such as potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, fried pork skins, baked and fried cheese curls, onion rings, and puff corn. The company also sells canned dips, pretzels, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, dried meat products, and nuts packaged by other manufacturers under the Golden Flake label. It sells its products through its sales organization and independent distributors to commercial establishments, which sell food products in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and South Carolina, as well as parts of Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana, and Texas. The company was formerly known as Golden Flake, Inc. and changed its name to Golden Enterprises, Inc. in January 1977. Golden Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
CAG: ConAgra Foods, Inc. operates as a food company primarily in North America. It operates in two segments, Consumer Foods and Commercial Foods. The Consumer Foods segment provides branded, private label, and customized food products, which are sold in various retail and foodservice channels. It offers products in various categories, such as meals, entrees, condiments, sides, snacks, and desserts in frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable temperature classes. This segment's principal brands include Alexia, ACT II, Banquet, Blue Bonnet, Chef Boyardee, DAVID, Egg Beaters, Healthy Choice, Hebrew National, Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Orville Redenbacher's, PAM, Peter Pan, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, Snack Pack, Swiss Miss, Van Camp's, and Wesson. The Commercial Foods segment provides commercially branded foods and ingredients that are sold to foodservice, food manufacturing, and industrial customers. Its primary products consist of specialty potato products, milled grain ingredients, a range of vegetable products, seasonings, blends, and flavors. This segment sells products under brands, such as ConAgra Mills, Lamb Weston, and Spicetec Flavors & Seasonings. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.