101 Best Maryland Food and Beverage Companies and Startups

May 21, 2023
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Maryland based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Maryland Food and Beverage Startups

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Forever Oceans

Forever Oceans

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Forever Oceans is a food company that provides nutritious and delicious recipes straight from the ocean to their kitchen.

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Empowering food and beverage companies to enhance food safety and quality performance

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Mason Dixie Foods

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Mason Dixie Foods is a frozen baked goods company that specializes in biscuits, scones, and rolls.

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Eat the Change

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Eat the Change is a platform to inform and empower consumers to make dietary choices aligned with their concerns around climate and health.

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Mooji Meats

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Mooji Meats is developing Meat 2.0, the next generation of ethical and sustainable meat.

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OrderUp

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OrderUp, a Groupon company, is the most complete food delivery marketplace for restaurants outside of the top metros.

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Zest Tea

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Zest Tea produces high caffeine teas designed for mental clarity and energy.

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Tessemae’s

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Tessemae’s is a flavor-forward food company that makes clean-label, organic products with uncompromising ingredients of the highest quality.

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Everything Legendary

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Everything Legendary specializes in plant-based, gluten-free, and soy-free food.

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Sippd

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Sippd is an A.I.-powered sommelier that provides users with personalized wine recommendations from any restaurant wine list.

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Rethink Water

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Rethink Brands is a solution-based beverage company that is focused on optimizing the products of everyday life.

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Holly Poultry

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Holly Poultry manufactures meat, poultry, and a wide range of commodity proteins, meeting the demands of both customers and suppliers.

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Ovalz

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Ovalz is online shortage and spoilage monitoring software for SMBs.

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HoneyFlower Foods

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HoneyFlower Foods is a grab-and-go food company that supplies retail, grocery, and offices with wholesome prepackaged products.

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Royal Farms

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Royal Farms is a satisfying the mid-Atlantic area’s hunger for real fresh food served real fast.

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Total Wine and More

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Total Wine and More is a company that specializes in selling various wines and accessories.

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Perdue Farms

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Perdue Farms is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for everyone we touch through innovative food and agricultural products

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Filly Foods

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Filly Foods is a food and beverage producer, importer, and wholesaler.

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Food Opportunity

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DC Sweet Potato Cake is a cake shop that sells sweet potato cakes and pies to customers.

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Verus Foods

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Verus Foods is a consumer company that engages in the supply of packaged goods, foodstuff distribution, and wholesale trade.

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Javazen

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Javazen makes coffee healthier–for mind, body and planet.

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Honest Tea

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Honest Tea seeks to create and promote great-tasting, organic beverages.

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Blackwater Distilling

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Blackwater Distilling is a wine and spirits company that offers various kinds of alcoholic beverages.

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Giant Food

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Giant Food operate supermarkets in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and D.C.

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AUI Fine Foods (Albert Uster Imports)

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AUI Fine Foods is a food & beverages company offering dessert, savory, and beverage products.

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Bond Distributing

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Bond Distributing is a beer and beverage distributor.

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MISSION BBQ

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MISSION BBQ is a restaurant chain that offers an authentic American style barbeque.

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Hoop Tea

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Hoop Tea is a handmade alcoholic iced tea infused malt beverage crafted on the beach of Ocean City Maryland at Backshore Brewing Co.

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Encore Sausage Company

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Encore Sausage Company is a food production company.

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FireFly Farms

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FireFly Farms is a food company that provides goat cheese.

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True Citrus

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True Citrus is a market with a line of unique, patented crystallized citrus products that contain only simple and clean ingredients.

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MOM’s Organic Market

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MOM’s Organic Market is a retail company providing groceries.

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Max’s Taphouse

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Max’s Taphouse is a Local pub with a huge rotating selection of draft & bottled beers, plus BBQ & patio seating.

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Wildpack Beverage

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Wildpack is a packaging and production industry partner.

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Log Cabin Candies

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Log Cabin Candies is a Popular chocolate and candy store.

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MoJoe Brewing Company

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MoJoe Brewing Co. is a coffee technology company, providing mobile solutions for coffee lovers on-the-go.

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Vulcan-Hart Corporation

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Vulcan-Hart Corporation manufactures and supplies commercial cooking equipment to the foodservice industry.

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Aarsand Management

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Aarsand Management is a firm that serves as a multi-unit Taco Bell franchisee.

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Coastal Sunbelt Produce

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Coastal Sunbelt Produce is a wholesale company that offers fresh produces and dairy products.

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TIC Gums

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TIC Gums is a global leader in food texturizer and stabilizer solutions.

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PERFORMANCE Foodservice

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See the Performance Foodservice difference

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Ledo Pizza

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Ledo Pizza is restaurant franchise on the East Coast.

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Murry’s

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Murry’s is a food production company that produces frozen foods.

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Maryland Food Bank

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Maryland Food Bank is the movement to end hunger.

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Fuchs North America

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Fuchs North America is a food and beverages company.

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VAYA Pharma, Inc

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VAYA Pharma is a consumer goods company that manufactures nutritional ingredients.

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Celcy

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Celcy goal is to develop the most intelligent kitchen device currently available, one that will alter the way you eat today.

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Restaurant Manager

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Restaurant Manager is point of sale (POS) system for the foodservice and restaurant industry.

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Trilogy Essential Ingredients

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Trilogy Essential Ingredients specializes in creating natural flavors and seasonings for food like paprika, oregano, cheese, and ketchup.

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District Taco

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District Taco serves quality Mexican food that is fresh, simple, and healthy.

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The Chesapeake Spice Company

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The Chesapeake Spice Company is a manufacturer of food products.

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Bakery De France

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Bakery De France is a bread supplier to retailers and restaurants.

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Farmers Restaurant Group

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Farmers Restaurant Group is a restaurant that sources natural farm products for American cuisine.

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Cardinal Distributing

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Cardinal Distributing offers bulk vending, gumball machines, gumballs, and bulk candy.

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Allied International

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Allied International supplies food and beverages, confectionery, wafers, cookies, preserves, spices, syrup, garbage bags, and dried fruits.

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Rams Head Group

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Rams Head Group is a family owned & operated, Annapolis-based restaurant and entertainment company.

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Tulkoff Food Products

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Tulkoff Food Products manufactures condiments, specialty sauces for retail and industrial customers nationwide.

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H&S Bakery

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H&S Bakery is a bakery in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Cloverland / Greenspring Dairy

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Cloverland / Greenspring Dairy is a dairy firm offering milk and dairy products.

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Northeast Foods

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Northeast Foods is a food production and distribution chain company.

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Schmidt old Tyme

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Schmidt old Tyme offers bakery items such as cookies, rolls, doughnuts, croutons, cakes, pies, and other baked goods.

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Michele’s Granola

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Michele’s Granola provides handmade granola.

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Vivanda

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Empowers its customers to deliver frictionless, contextual and personalized experiences to consumers

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A&L Foods

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A&L Foods is a food & beverage based food delivery service firm that delivers bakery, dairy products, meat & groceries.

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Capital Seaboard

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Capital Seaboard is a wholesale distributer of seafood and produce.

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Brutus Broth

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Brutus Broth is a manufacturing company that provides food for pets.

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SAGE Dining Services

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SAGE Dining Services is a provider of sustainable dining services and catering to discerning independent schools and private colleges

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J.J. McDonnell

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J.J. McDonnell is a seafood wholesale company that provides high quality seafood products and services.

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Capital Meat Company

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Capital Meat Company is a meat distribution company that supplies beef, lamb, veal & pork for restaurants, hotels and clubs.

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Pompeian

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Pompeian is a consumer goods company providing selling wine vinegar.

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Elite Spice

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Elite Spice is a spice importer and custom manufacturer.

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Barmetrix

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Barmetrix is a hospitality company specializing in bars and restaurant services.

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Marra Forni

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We supply quality Italian Residential wood burning pizza Brick Rotating ovens.

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Flying Dog Brewery

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Flying Dog Brewery is a food & beverages company specializing in crafted beer.

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The George J. Falter Company

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The George J. Falter Company is a wholesale food distribution firm that offers candy, cigarettes, groceries, snacks, and tobacco products.

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Heartland Home Foods

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Heartland Home Foods offers a wide range of seafood and meat products to choose from.

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LIME Fresh Mexican Grill

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LIME Fresh Mexican Grill is a food chain all over in South Florida specializing in Mexican cuisine.

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Naked Pizza

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NKD Pizza Our pizza is simply an honest diversity of whole food ingredients that taste better and are better for you.

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Mackenzie

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Mackenzie is an eCommerce plat form for foods.

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Triangle Quality Foods

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Triangle Quality Foods provides development, storage, distribution, and marketing of food services.

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Star-K

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Star-K kosher certification is a company that certifies food products and food establishments as kosher.

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FBIX

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Food and Beverage Information Exchange a new dimension in food and beverage ordering.

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Culinary Services Group

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Culinary Services Group is a food & beverages company offering food and beverage management services.

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Eastland Food

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Eastland Food provides delivery of food and beverages through import, export, wholesale, and supply chain management.

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La Pasta

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La Pasta is an artisanal pasta company that specializes in pastas and sauces.

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J.O. Spice Company

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J.O. Spice Company is a manufacturer and distributor of seafood seasonings, spices, and batters.

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East Coast Fresh

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East Coast Fresh provides fresh fruits and vegetables to Eastern seaboard residents with innovative recipes and friendly customer service.

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InReach

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InReach is a vending machine company that offers snacks, drinks, and food services.

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Natural Zing

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Natural Zing sells plant-based foods.

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Saval Foodservice

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Saval Foodservice is a food & beverages company offering food distribution services.

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Sea Watch International, Ltd.

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Sea Watch International is a food production company offering canned, frozen, and seafood.

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Goetze’s Candy Company

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Goetze’s Candy Company is an American confectionery company that manufactures & sells candies & sweets.

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Origen Holistic Spirits

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Origen Holistic Spirits develops a functional spirits brand, Origen Vodka, a patent-pending, plant-powered, holistic vodka.

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Dairy Maid Dairy

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Dairy Maid Dairy offers a wide range of milk products from local farms.

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Cameron’s Seafood Market

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Cameron’s Seafood Market offers quality fresh seafood at an affordable price everyday.

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Heart & Soul

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Heart & Soul is a publishing company providing fitness, food, beauty, and health articles.

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Lift Off Distribution

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Lift Off Distribution is an exhibit supplier, offering an extensive range of Red Bull energy drinks to its clientele.

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Motive Pure

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Motive Pure produces flavored electrolyte hydration.

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ARMED FORCES BREWING COMPANY

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ARMED FORCES BREWING COMPANY is a military tribute craft brewing company that is a tribute to the Army and Air Force.

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Rio Grande Foods

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Rio Grande Foods is a food manufacturing company that provides frozen food, dairy, and snack products.

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Charm City Cakes

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Founded by Chef Duff Goldman in 2002. Our mission is to create the world’s most exquisite cakes.

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