Midwest Surpy Inc

Compass Minerals International is a leading salt and specialty fertilizer company. It operates some of the largest, most productive and longest continually run salt mines in North America and the United Kingdom, with histories that stretch back as far as 1844. The company s product lines include water softener salt, magnesium chloride, animal feed supplements, packaged deicers, salt for highway deicing, consumer deicing, water conditioning, consumer and industrial food preparation, and agriculture and industrial applications. Its sulfate of potash is used in the production of specialty fertilizers to improve the yield and quality of high-value crops and to improve the durability of turf grasses. Compass Minerals International is headquartered in Overland Park, Kan.

PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler, with operations in the United States, central Europe and the Caribbean. The company manufactures, distributes and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in 19 U.S. locations, as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. In total, the company serves a population of more than 122 million people. PepsiCo holds a 41.1 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. PepsiAmericas is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PAS. The company is based in Minneapolis, and it has an additional location in Olathe, Kan.