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The Grund family and company mission is to spread the joy and excitement of their products. Not only by how beautiful they look, but also by the fact that they are vertically made by a compassionate and loving company. We believe that it is our responsibility to share the success that we have, by working hard together with our employees and community. We are thrilled to be in partnership with you!

Today, the Grund® brand is sold in more than 40 countries and has branch offices in Germany and a newly established office in the United States. By using the top global designers, Grund® has created a unique and innovative collection with an unmistakable style. This competitive edge continues today as Grund remains a major manufacturer in the bathmat industry. The future goal of the company is to bring a textile factory back to the United States, while building the Grund® brand in North America.

The Grund family and company mission is to spread the joy and excitement of their products. Not only by how beautiful they look, but also by the fact that they are vertically made by a compassionate and loving company. We believe that it is our responsibility to share the success that we have, by working hard together with our employees and community. We are thrilled to be in partnership with you!

Happsy is a certified organic mattress company with health, comfort and environmental preservation as our top priorities. We believe in avoiding questionable chemicals while using natural and organic materials wherever possible. This approach is healthier for you, and healthier for the environment.

Happsy features premium materials such as organic cotton, organic latex and organic wool. These materials combine to create the ultimate organic comfort system, providing excellent support and heat dissipation for a cool and comfortable sleep. It contours to your every curve for that feeling of floating pressure-point relief.

Happsy is part of a new breed of companies that sells direct-to-consumer exclusively. This means you get to save tons of money. By leveraging technology and social media, we're able to reach you directly, eliminating the need for costly middlemen and astronomical retail store markups! When you buy a Happsy mattress, you know you're getting great value.

Marylou Marsh and Daniel Sanders met in Brooklyn before it was cool. They each had their own competing companies and decided to join forces, which entailed lugging handcrafted garment iterations up a narrow flight of stairs, since there was no elevator in their Brooklyn loft. “ML Marsh Designs” turned into a worthwhile venture, and they moved to Manhattan, which was an eighties way of declaring, “Success!”

One day, Marylou was nearly bowled over by the smell of formaldehyde coming off the woven fabric being spread on the cutting table. Soon thereafter, while looking over a Greenpeace product catalog, Daniel was struck by how the organization was making great strides with unbleached paper but not addressing their garment manufacturing footprint. Daniel and Marylou’s nascent eco-consciousness therefore found fault with the status quo and the consequences of their own actions. So they resolutely set out with a “build it and they shall come” attitude to help revolutionize the textile industry. Along with a select few key visionaries and stakeholders, they jumpstarted the organic cotton industry by being the first to bring organic cotton through the production pipeline (just ask the organic cotton farmers). While creating their own brand, “Ecosport”, they also made product for major established brands such as: Levis, NIKE, Patagonia, Esprit, and Ralph Lauren, thus helping household names take their own baby steps into sustainability.

Ecosport was sold to a public company in Y2K. After coming out of hibernation in 2005, Daniel and Marylou set out to finish what they started, namely taking textile sustainability to the next level by tightening up the local supply chain. They both feel their knowledge, experience and comfortable perch in Asheville, NC makes Spiritex their best effort yet. Just call and ask them, they love talking about this stuff; you might even hear a corny joke or two from Daniel, or a salient anecdote from Marylou.

Steve Dawson founded the company in 1987 in Albuquerque, NM. Hatch Chile is a branded packaged food company with double digit growth distributing through major retailers throughout the U.S. Hatch is the fastest growing brand in the Hispanic section, and is the market leader in Gluten Free, and Non-GMO products.

Since its founding as a management and strategy development consultancy in 2000, HighQuest Group has grown its business organically and through acquisitions of Soyatech LLC’s publishing and research team (2006) and SJH & Co.’s consulting practice (2010). Today, HighQuest Group’s business mix encompasses strategic advisory services and the production of diverse conferences and media products across the agribusiness sector. HighQuest Group’s core industry focus is the global agricultural and food sectors and the strategic and financial players and public and private investors active in the space.

HighQuest Group is headquartered in Danvers, Mass.

HighQuest Group serves thousands of customers annually through our consulting engagements, annual conferences, publications, and subscribed media products. For more information about HighQuest Group, we invite you to review the tabs on this website, visit our practice, media, and event websites, or to contact us.

Chef Jen started her career working with Alice Waters, renowned chef and proprietor of Chez Panisse. It was there that she became passionate about creating food that incorporates only the freshest, sustainable and locally sourced ingredients. However it was her work in Ann and Gordon Getty’s kitchen as their personal chef that motivated Jen to share her recipes with the world.

Explains co-founder Serafina Palandech, “Part of Jen’s job included cooking meals for all the children attending the school in the Getty’s home. All the kids loved her cooking – especially her chicken fingers!”

This became the inspiration for Hip Chick Farms’ line of artisan, transparently sourced poultry products that are convenient for busy families. “Our chicken products contain no artificial ingredients; it’s like I’m in your kitchen, making it for you fresh,” says Chef Jen.

Our products are kid tested, mother approved.

Green Fin's premium, all-natural soil conditioner Life in a Bottle™ has millions of living beneficial bacteria. Green Fin rejuvenates and fortifies your soil. Experience enhanced nutrient absorption, increased yield, and significantly healthier gardens, crops, lawns and plants with our product.

At Green Fin Amendments, we are committed to advancing scientific knowledge about plants and their ecosystems.

As stewards of the environment, we take our responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint seriously. Green Fin Amendments is committed to sustainable practices.

We believe that conservation is a collaborative effort. Green Fin Amendments works closely with local organizations to protect and restore natural habitats and promote biodiversity in our region.

HUDSON® is a well-established spice importer that specializes in source, process, import, supply chain and logistics of spices from global markets. With years of experience in the industry, we have built a reputation as a reliable and trusted supplier of wholesale spices to the manufacturing trade.

Since 2007, HUDSON® has established a globally-respected reputation as an ethical trade partner with over 100 foreign suppliers in 30+ countries…on every continent where spices grow.

We have a nationwide distribution & manufacturing network ensuring us ready stock of goods, no matter where you are in the US, Mexico or Canada.

For those who wish to use it, our “tech-sperts” have built an industry-leading client interface to deliver sales and contract transparency you can rely on.

We are big enough to service ANY demand, and small enough to make careful, rapid decisions without corporate drag. Our advantage is yours to share.

HUDSON® primarily operates as a spice importer, focusing on sourcing spices from reputable suppliers worldwide. However, we also have the capability to produce our own spices and spice blends, ensuring consistent quality and flavor profiles.

I Was Thinking (IWT) is a food packaging facility specializing in delivering only the highest quality of 100% natural, super and organic foods. We afford solutions for retailers, wholesalers, distributors and organic products. With the help of my mom, family and friends, my dream of providing the best foods Mother Nature can produce became a reality. On August 19, 2014 we started packaging products in our home.

Today I am proud to say that with considerable hard work and passion for my vision we run our business from a certified organic warehouse with a solid IWT product line. Having worked in the food/distribution business for almost 20 years, has made me a more conscience consumer. Our goal is to make 100% natural nutrient dense foods accessible to everyone

Our concept is simple: Deliver the highest quality in 100% natural, super and organic foods. Our product line is sourced from various countries. We take extreme measures to ensure the premium quality of our product line. We do not sacrifice nutrition and quality for dollars. If it’s not good enough for me and my family, then it’s not good enough to package for our clients, you.

I Was Thinking, is a company with the expertise and experience to manufactures and packages foods or similar products for their clients. To market and distribute, I Was Thinking works under contract with the hiring companies to manufacture food as though the products were manufactured directly by those companies.

I Was Thinking’s staff has over 20 years in distribution, logistics, and warehouse operations. With successfully building and improving six distributions centers that range from 8,000 to 1 million square feet. Our staff has completed GFSI approved food safety, food defense, organic, vegan, kosher certifications for manufacturing and distribution centers. This expertise provided the experience required to become south Florida trendsetter for organic food, labeling and distribution.

Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. Headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, Ingevity operates from 31 countries around the world and employs approximately 1,900 people.

Ingevity's Performance Chemicals, Advanced Polymer Technologies and Performance Materials products are used in in a variety of demanding applications, including adhesives, agrochemicals, asphalt paving, bioplastics, coatings, elastomers, lubricants, pavement markings, publication inks, oil exploration and production and automotive components.

Ingevity innovates technologies that purify, protect, and enhance the world. Through a diverse, talented and experienced team, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. We operate in three reporting segments: Performance Chemicals, which includes specialty chemicals and pavement technologies; Advanced Polymer Technologies, which includes biodegradable plastics and polyurethane materials; and Performance Materials, which includes activated carbon. Our products are used in in a variety of demanding applications, including adhesives, agrochemicals, asphalt paving, bioplastics, coatings, elastomers, lubricants, pavement markings, publication inks, oil exploration and production and automotive components that reduce gasoline vapor emissions

The International Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA) is the professional organization of organic inspectors and offers training and networking world-wide for crop, livestock, and processing inspectors. IOIA was founded in 1991 by organic inspectors who recognized the need for uniform inspector processes and protocols to build inspector skills and promote public confidence. IOIA launched the first inspector accreditation program for organic inspectors in 1994. Incorporated in the USA as a nonprofit, IOIA operates globally with nearly 250 inspector members in more than a dozen countries. Supporting membership is open to individuals, businesses, and organizations that support IOIA’s goals.

Intrepid operates three solar evaporation mines in Wendover and Moab, Utah and Carlsbad, New Mexico. Solar evaporation ponds provide one of the safest, lowest cost, environmentally friendly production methods for potash and salt. Our southwestern locations have the advantages of proximity to western markets and an arid climate, ensuring minimal weather-related delivery days by truck or rail.

Intrepid also operates an underground mine in Carlsbad, New Mexico for the extraction of langbeinite, the naturally-occurring mineral we sell as Intrepid Trio. Langbeinite, K2Mg2(SO4)3, is a unique geological material found only in a few places in the world. Highly prized as an all-natural fertilizer with international demand, Intrepid’s mine in Carlsbad sits on one of the world’s largest known reserves of Langbeinite.

We produce fully customized garments, made according to your requirements and your budget, from low-cost to high-end. 20 years experience in production and in servicing demanding clients.