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Golden State Foods is a diversified, $2 billion manufacturer and distributor in the food service industry. Its core businesses include the processing and distribution of liquid products, meat products, produce, bakery and other services. The company provides a variety of networked solutions for the total supply chain spectrum. Golden State Foods began in 1947 as a small meat company providing products to area restaurants and hotels. In 1967, the company became a primary supplier to McDonald's and grew into a large diversified company. The company is comprised of several divisions, including liquid and meat products. The liquid products division manufactures hundreds of various condiments, sauces, dressings, syrups, jams/jellies and toppings. The meat products division produces beef products, including cooked beef, hamburger patties, taco meat, chili and burrito fillings. In 2006, Forbes listed Golden State Foods as the 137th-largest private company. The company has distribution facilities located throughout the U.S., including operations in Phoenix.

More than 25 percent of the world s tortillas are made by Mission Foods Corporation. Roberto Gonzalez established Mission Foods in 1949. The company specialty lies in the manufacture of corn and flour tortillas. Its offerings include a line of taco shells and tostadas, tortilla chips, mission wraps, low-carbohydrate soft taco shells, wheat burritos and fajita wraps. In order to guarantee a fresher product, the company operates seven days a week. Mission Foods Corporation was named Snack Food Wholesale Bakery's 2004 Wholesale Baker of the Year. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas. Mission Foods Corporation has a number of facilities in Europe and the United States, including a location in Tempe, Ariz.

La Canasta Mexican Food Products, founded in 1962 by Richard & Carmen Abril, began its business as a tortilla factory that supplied fresh homemade tortillas to restaurants. By word of mouth, other Mexican Restaurants started requesting La Canasta Flour & Corn Tortillas. In 1974, Richard Abril passed away leaving Mrs. Abril and their seven children all under the age of 23 years old to carry on the business, which continued to prosper and grow prompting the expansion of the Manufacturing Facility in 1979. In 1976, La Canasta began shipping tortillas into the United States Midwest Region. By 1981, La Canasta Tortillas were well known in the Midwest Market, thus prompting another manufacturing expansion into the Minnesota Market. The enterprise continues as a publicly owned company. La Canasta Mexican Food Products, is currently supplying Flour Tortillas, Corn Tortillas, Chips, and Spices to restaurants and grocery stores in Phoenix and Tucson on a daily basis. La Canasta also owns My Nana s Brand, which distributes refrigerated and frozen products throughout the United States.