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Burke Corporation manufactures and markets fully cooked meat products to be used as ingredients in food products for restaurants, food service establishments, frozen manufacturers of entrees and appetizers. Product lines range from traditional pizza meat toppings and meatballs to breakfast meats and Mexican-style meat fillings for foods such as enchiladas. Burke is a family-owned business with a more than 35-year history and a commitment to providing meat products to the food industry. The company is based out of Nevada, Iowa, but has coast-to-coast sales in the United States as well as some international orders in Canada, South America and Central America.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company is a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Enterprises, which distributed two billion cases of beverages in 2004. Coke Bottling is a nonalcoholic distributor of numerous beverages, including traditional carbonated soft drinks, to beverages such as sparkling waters, juices, isotonics, coffee based drinks and teas. Its offerings include five of North America s top 10 soft drink brands, including Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Dasani, Powerade, Dr. Pepper, Minute Maid fruit drinks and juices, Fanta, Dannon, Nestea, Barq s, Mello Yello and Fresca. The company operates in parts of more than 40 states, including Ames, Iowa.