Schwan's Consumer Brands

McLane Foodservice-Milwaukee employs more than 220 associates and services the quick-service restaurant industry. Its customers total more than 1,200 restaurants, which include Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, Panera Bread Company and Long John Silvers. The company s service area includes Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, northern Indiana, Upper Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota. McLane Foodservice is a division of McLane Company. From its more than 35 grocery and food service distribution centers, McLane services every state and county in the United States. Additionally, it provides third-party logistics, traffic management and control functions in South America. Services provided by the company include grocery distribution, food service distribution, software solutions, retail services, control label products and novelty items. McLane, a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, employs some 14,000 people nationwide. The company is headquartered in Temple, Texas. McLane Foodservice-Milwaukee maintains a location in Sturtevant, Wis.

Birds Eye Foods founder, Clarence Birdseye, became known as the father of frozen food. He used his unique gifts to develop a freezing process that not only preserved food safely, but also preserved its taste and appearance. Although the practice of preserving food by freezing has been traced back to as early as 1626, and the first commercial venture in producing frozen food to 1875, Birdseye is credited with developing, refining, and making the quick freezing process workable. The company brands include Berstein s, Bird Eye, Brooks, Comstock, C & W, Freshlike, Greenwood, Husman s, Mariners Cove, McKenzie s, Nalley, Rivera, Snyder of Berlin, Tim s Cascade Snacks and Wilderness. It items consist of frozen, canned and bottled foods as well as dressings, potato chips and pastas. Birds Eye Foods has locations in Rochester, Oakfield, Brockport, and Fulton, N.Y., Green Bay and Darien, Wis., as well as Watsonville, Calif., and Montezuma, Ga.

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 Beloit, Wis.