CJB and Associates is a full service food and beverage consulting firm. We have decades of experience going from idea to commercialization and everything in between. We are truly a Chef-to-Shelf™ provider with an extensive network of experts.
Chesapeake Spice
Chesapeake Spice operates BRC certified state-of-the art manufacturing facilities on the East and West Coasts. We direct source our spices allowing control in our process, from the fields to your finished products. New spice processing includes all natural smoking options and infrared roasting. Our R&D department offers rapid sample turnaround and our Regulatory department provides quick responses to document requests. We believe how we do things is just as important as why we do them.
Chem Inventions LLC
We are a specialty food and feed ingredients company having manufacturing facilities in India, as well as warehousing and distribution facilities across United States. Our product range consists of Guar Gum, Fibers, CMC, Dextrose, Sweeteners, Herbal extracts , Spirulina
CENTRIC SOFTWARE INC.
Centric Software® headquartered in Silicon Valley delivers an AI-driven concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers worldwide. Trusted across fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage, cosmetics, personal care and multi-category retail, Centric empowers companies to plan, design, develop, source, price, allocate and sell products with speed and precision. Its portfolio includes Centric PLM™, Centric Planning™, Centric Pricing & Inventory™, Centric Market Intelligence™, Centric Visual Boards™ and Centric PXM™ which drive measurable gains in productivity, margins and time to market. | Centric Software provides the market-leading consumer goods Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, featuring integrated industry best-practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food manufacturers, retailers and food service providers to seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle. Centric PLM streamlines product development to speed time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance. | Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in cosmetics & personal care, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, food & beverage as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, market, sell and replenish products. | From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management platform for cosmetic and personal care manufacturers, brands and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, buy, make, package, assort and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance. Centric PLM features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for cosmetic and personal care manufacturers and retailers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market. Centric Visual Boards are a visually oriented top-down/bottom-up product portfolio optimization tool. Real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems are brought into a singular accessible workspace, creating a new, visual way of working for all teams to ensure robust, curated global/regional product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time. Centric Market Intelligence is an AI-driven platform giving insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point. Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research. Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions. Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Market Intelligence and Centric Visual Boards are Trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
CATALINA FOOD SOLUTIONS SL
Catalina Food Solutions excels in the food industry, offering innovative solutions like natural phosphate substitutes, preservatives, antioxidants, texturizers, and flavors. With over 80 years in the sector, we blend research, additives, and ingredients to create custom formulations. Our commitment to taste, texture, sustainability, and safety is supported by advanced R&D, state-of-the-art laboratories, and a focus on environmental sustainability, positioning us at the forefront of future food innovations.
Caldic
Caldic is a leading ingredient distributor and manufacturer, proudly supporting the bakery industry with customized solutions that help brands stand out in a competitive market. With more than 50 years of experience across the Life Sciences market and strong local operations across the U.S. and Canada, we bring together technical expertise, innovative thinking, and reliable supply to support your product development from concept to shelf. Whether you’re formulating a new product or optimizing a classic, our Customer and Product Development teams work closely with you to tackle challenges and deliver the taste, texture, and performance that today’s consumers expect. From custom blends tailored to your manufacturing requirements to ready-to-use solutions, we help you meet goals across: – Flavor and consumer appeal – Texture and physical performance – Shelf-life management – Health and label requirements – Process efficiency – Sustainable formulations With in-house laboratories, test kitchens, and application specialists, we offer practical, hands-on support to drive successful product launches and reformulations. Our deep market insight and strong supplier partnerships ensure access to high-quality ingredients and the flexibility to adapt quickly in a dynamic marketplace. At Caldic, we believe in co-creating with our customers to bring bakery innovations to life, delivering not just ingredients but real solutions that enhance every bite. | Caldic manufactures a wide range of food ingredients for the North American food industry. Our best-in-class formulation and product support includes: Integrated R&D, regulatory and quality support, an industry leading R&D development center, and on-trend concept development. All performed in our state-of-the-art facilities which are GFSI-SQF Level II, HACCP & Kosher, RSPO certified, organic and NGM Project Verified. We love to delight our customers with | Our maxim, ‘Because we care’ articulates the positive impact we aim to deliver to and through our team members, our business partners, and the communities within which we operate. We have been connecting people, products, and capabilities, since our inception, to deliver on our promise to inspire custom solutions with measurable impact. We have been doing this for several decades now, and we are committed to doing better, every day. We are a leading global distribution solutions partner of specialty chemicals and ingredients for the life science and material science markets. We support our business partners in unlocking value across their supply chain, every day. Our global network of colleagues and facilities enables us to help drive the efficiency and sustainability of the operations of our business partners through solutions backed by outstanding R&D, regulatory support, and market know-how, and tailored to specific needs.
Cache Creek Foods
Our unique mix of specialized expertise, innovation, and scale help brands create something bigger—nut ingredients that fuel better foods, innovative ideas, and healthy futures. Whether it’s seed-to-shelf peanuts, precision tree-nut ingredients, or large-scale tree nut supply.
Butter Buds Inc.
Butter Buds Inc. provides food manufacturers, specialty food companies, and food service institutions with on-trend, better-for-you concentrated dairy flavors and specialty flavor ingredients by perfecting the art and science of concentrated flavor technology. We continue to develop innovative flavor products and customized flavor solutions that respond to market trends including clean label, organic, dairy alternative, and more.
Bunge
At Bunge, our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. Our team of ~37,000 employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Interested in joining our team? View current employment opportunities across our asset network here: https://www.viterra.ca/en/Careers and here: https://jobs.bunge.com/search (filter by location CA) | Bunge is a premier agribusiness solutions company with the talent and technology to advance the industry. We connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential and sustainable food, feed and fuel to the world. We are a community of people addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. We see these challenges — from food security to innovative renewable energy solutions — as opportunities to make a difference. Our integrated, global operations involve purchasing, storing, transporting, processing, selling and distributing agricultural commodities and commodity products to customers around the world. We also provide financial, risk management and logistics services. The commodities we source and market through our network are essential in today’s world. From the grains and seeds that are part of the food supply chain, to the cotton that clothes us and the energy products that power cars and factories, what we do touches many parts of modern life. | Bunge is your trusted lipids and protein partner to help you reimagine the future of food. Working with us you benefit from an unparalleled mix of application expertise and solid market knowledge, coupled with the industry’s most globally integrated and sustainable supply chains for lipids, proteins, and milled ingredients. Our team of experts help you meet your innovation and formulation needs, delivering functionality while satisfying the diverse taste, nutrition, and culinary experience customers look for. | Bunge is a premier agribusiness solutions company with the talent and technology to advance the industry. With our agile workforce, enhanced global footprint, increased access to key markets and diversified agriculture network covering all major crops, Bunge is able to navigate seasonal cycles, weather and other risks, better connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world.With our talented people, decades of experience and diverse capabilities, we offer innovative solutions to open up pathways and create value for customers through our supply chains.Our business covers the whole supply chain from the farm gate to the consumer.We source commodities such as grains, oilseeds, pulses, rice, sugar, cotton and feed ingredients from producers.Using our network of storage facilities, processing plants and transport assets we process, manage and supply these commodities and products to our consumers around the world. Our consumers include the processing industry (food, animal feed and consumer products), local importers and distributors and governments.Through our industry insight, strong relationships and network of assets, we focus on the sustainability, safety, quality and reliability of everything we do.
Bruker
Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper®, the market-leading MALDI-TOF for microbial identification, revolutionized microbiology by providing an identification for over 4000 species in less than 10 minutes starting from culture. Another Bruker innovation, the IR Biotyper®, provides rapid and cost-effective microorganism strain typing using infrared spectroscopy technology to further support proactive infection control. ELITechGroup MDx — a Bruker Company offers a complete portfolio of molecular diagnostics products, including infectious disease reagents and sample-to-result instruments. | Bruker is a performance leader in life science and analytical systems. For over 50 years, Bruker has been driven by a single idea: to provide the best technological solution for each analytical task. Our trusted solutions encompass a wide number of analytical techniques including Mass Spectrometry, Optical and X-Ray Spectroscopy. These market and technology leading products are driving and facilitating success in the food industry. | Bruker is a pioneering scientific solutions provider, advancing the standards in high-performance analytical instruments. We specialize in FT-NIR (Fourier Transform Near-Infrared) spectroscopy for feed and ingredient analysis. Our solutions are designed to help labs improve the quality of their animal feed by providing accurate, real-time data on nutrient content. We use advanced FT-NIR technology to perform comprehensive analysis on a wide range of feeds and raw materials, identifying key nutritional metrics such as protein, fat, moisture, fiber, ash, amino acids, and more. The results from our sophisticated spectroscopy technology enable labs to adjust their feed compositions for optimal animal health and productivity. | Bruker offers advanced solutions to reliably support geologists and mining prospectors on locating and analyzing deposits anytime and anywhere. So it is no wonder that Bruker’s instruments can be found at an altitude of 4,000 meters or in baking hot deserts – reliably delivering high end analysis quickly and on-site. | The performance of any battery, whether in terms of its capacity, lifetime or energy density, is ultimately down to the intrinsic properties of the materials that comprise its anode, cathode, electrolyte and SEI. Bruker has developed a comprehensive suite of characterization techniques to enable scientist to understand and optimize the physical and chemical properties, performance and stability of all battery components and the fully assembled battery cells. | Discover what you can achieve in battery research and manufacturing with a range of advanced technologies. From investigating solutes and electrodes to monitoring battery cell behavior and conducting in situ research on energy storage materials, Bruker scientists will share a wealth of knowledge with you.