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Gold Sustaining Member Profiles
Flying Food Group (FFG) is a leading, large-scale producer of quality meals and snacks destined
for discerning passengers of the world's leading airlines and for retail partners in the grocery, food
service and specialty markets. FFG produces approximately 300,000 quality meals and snacks daily,
operating from a network of 17 U.S. kitchens that stretches from Honolulu to New York City, plus a
kitchen at Shanghai's Hong Qiao International Airport.
Advanced packaging and preparation technologies, plus FFG's extensive production network,
support maximum shelf life for retail products nationwide. Advanced computerized purchasing and
operations systems add efficiencies.
FFG has over 70 airline customers, primarily international carriers including Air France, Air India,
Alitalia, ANA, Asiana, British Airways, JAL, Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, SWISS and TAM. FFG retail partners
are leading global brands, including Starbucks.
FFG VP of Food Safety & Quality (FS&Q) Dr. Paul Hall and his team maintain close oversight of compliance,
initiatives and procedures. These include Retail ServeSafe Food Safety Management Certification, HACCP Certification
and company-wide training towards BRC Certification - an international Gold Standard of Food Safety.
Diversity is a key driver of the company's success. Creative, multi-ethnic chefs team with airline customers and retail
partners on cuisines ranging from Chinese, French, Italian and Western to Halal, Indian and Middle Eastern. Over 80%
of FFG's nearly 4,000 employees are women or minorities. FFG was ranked one of the top 100 job-creating private
companies in the U.S. by Inc. magazine's 2012 Hire Power Awards. Hire Power also ranked FFG among the top
10 job-generating private companies in the U.S. Food & Beverage industry.
In 2013, FFG marks 30 years of steady growth under the leadership of founder (1983) and CEO Sue Gin. FFG is
ranked by Crain's Chicago Business as the Chicago area's second largest female-owned and second largest minorityowned company for 2012.

The H.J. Heinz Company, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, has grown into a global
company providing a variety of products on six continents. Heinz provides delicious,
nutritious and convenient foods for families in 200 countries worldwide.
Throughout the world, Heinz is synonymous with Ketchup. We sell 650 million
bottles of Heinz ketchup every year and approximately two single-serve packets
of ketchup for every man, woman and child on the planet.
Heinz has a legacy of excellence in quality and food safety and maintains this performance through its Quality Risk
Management Process (QRMP), a risk-based quality management system, and by implementing the Global Food Safety
Initiative (GFSI) throughout the manufacturing network.
Manufacturing excellence is maintained through our global continuous improvement process called the Heinz Global
Performance System (HGPS). This process drives excellence in manufacturing and identifies food safety and quality as
the highest priority.
Sustainability is a priority for Heinz. The Company is on
track to achieve or surpass our goal of reducing greenhouse
gas emissions, solid landfill waste, energy consumption and
water consumption by at least 20% each, by fiscal 2015. Other
sustainability projects are reducing packaging and increasing the
use of renewable energy.
Our non-profit Heinz Micronutrient Campaign is treating irondeficiency anemia in malnourished infants and children
in 15 developing countries while expanding to Africa and Haiti for
the first time.
As the trusted leader in nutrition and wellness, Heinz -
the original Pure Food Company - is dedicated to the sustainable
health of people, the planet and our company.
For more information on Heinz, please visit our
Web site at www.heinz.com.

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