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The Hershey Company, commonly known as Hershey, is an American multinational company and one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world. Over more than a century, The Hershey Company’s iconic brands have been built on a foundation of community investment and connections between people around the world. The company’s principal product groups include chocolate and sugar confectionery products; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings and beverages, and gum and mint refreshment products. It manufactures, markets, sells and distributes its products under more than 80 brand names.

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Leprino Foods Company is a world leader in premium-quality cheese production, the largest producer of mozzarella cheese in the world, the number one producer of lactose in the world, and a leading supplier of whey protein and sweet whey. Leprino Foods’ mozzarella, reduced-fat Monterey jack, provolone, reduced-fat cheddar and various cheese blends are made for pizzeria and foodservice operators, frozen food manufacturers and private label cheese packagers.

No one has invested more in dairy production facilities than Leprino Foods over the past 10 years. Leprino Foods has some of the largest, most modern and technologically advanced production facilities in the world. Their customers benefit from the innovation and economies of scale they provide.

“Accolade is a powerful platform that can support many use cases and corporate portfolios, which has allowed us to extend our initial investment for managing our new product development into other areas including IT project portfolios and electronic lab notebooks (ELNs). Accolade enables these diverse applications in ways that are highly searchable, auditable, and easy for our users to adopt.”

With the creation of the first non-diary topping, Rich's Whip Topping, Robert E. Rich Sr. founded this company in 1945. Rich Products Corporation is a supplier to the foodservice, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces in 100 countries.Today the company makes a variety of products from toppings and desserts to pizzas and breads.

In 1921, 320 dairy farmers met in St. Paul, Minnesota, to form the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. The idea was simple—join together to effectively market and distribute members’ dairy production across the country.

Eight years after establishing Land O’Lakes’ butter marketing organization, they expanded into the agriculture services and feed businesses. Their international journey kicked off 52 years later, as Land O’Lakes began relaying the lessons they'd learned to support local agriculture in developing nations around the world. Those efforts have also helped to expand their commercial business beyond the borders of the United States.

Today, the four businesses give Land O’Lakes a farm-to-fork view of agriculture. Pair this with their farmer ownership and Land O’Lakes is uniquely qualified to fulfill their purpose of feeding human progress around the world, while always delivering on the responsibility to member-owners through their core values.

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Smucker is a leading marketer and manufacturer of fruit spreads, retail packaged coffee, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, sweetened condensed milk, and health and natural foods beverages in North America. Its family of brands includes Smucker's®, Folgers®, Dunkin’ Donuts®, Jif®, Crisco®, Pillsbury®, Eagle Brand®, R.W. Knudsen Family®, Hungry Jack®, Café Bustelo®, Café Pilon®, White Lily® and Martha White® in the United States, along with Robin Hood®, Five Roses®, Carnation® and Bick's® in Canada.